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billspohn

billspohn

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Almost all of my stuff is British, except for a daily driver turbo Fiero
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and a Lamborghini Islero S

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Wow, you don't see Isleros very often!

Welcome to the forum -- what other cars do you have?

Where in BC are you?
 
Nice Lambo. I always like the front engined ones!
 
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Nice Lambo. I always like the front engined ones!

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Me too - and I can't afford any mid-engined ones!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Do you have an interior shot of the Islero?

Are those Campagnolo wheels?
 
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Do you have an interior shot of the Islero?

Are those Campagnolo wheels?

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Those are indeed Campies - and will fit on a British spline! Not much point putting them on an MG, mind you, as they'd probably cost more than the rest of the car (although you can get aluminum replicas for less money now).

Interior:

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Beautiful car! That's really quite a collection you have there.

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I even love the fiero!
 
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I even love the fiero!

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Ah - a man of good taste.

Fieros don't get a lot of respect, but the final iteration of suspension in 1988 made for a balanced car that handled well. I drove my 1988 stock for awhile, then went to a bolt on turbo kit (210 BHP), then pulled the engine and went whole hog with a stroked and bored 3.2 built for turbo use to get it up toward 300 bhp.

With the weight bias over the driving wheels, acceleration is excellent - 0-60 in under 5 secs. and a quarter mile in around 13 secs.

Great fun blowing off things like the Accura NSX (a VERY interesting car, BTW) on the highway.

An under-rated modern mid-engined sports car, IMHO.

My familiarity with the engine lead me to use it in the Jamaican MGA project even though the power output isn't very startling in unblown form.


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yeah. always like Fiero GTs myself. Much better styling than the standard models... plus ithas the v6 in it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I read in one of h carmagzines rght after the Fieros were terminated from production there was rumor of the Olds Quattro(?) motor was tentatively to be an engine option. If I recall correctly, the engine was a 16 valve 4-banger that made some exceptional normally aspirated horse power for its time... I may be a bit off on the name of the engine though.
 
The Quad-4.
When I worked at the GM Proving Ground, Pontiac still had two of the twin turbo Fieros that were built for test. Absolute rocket ships.
Jeff
 
Been thinking of a fiero for my son(new driver) hows is insurance on it?
 
I've heard some horror stories about the quad-4, lotsa noise and vibration mostly. Any truth to those?
 
There's one of those Fiero GT's down the street from me...guy's been trying to get me to buy it for years...price is right but I'm kinda concerned with broken exhaust manifolds....& the biggest Fiero junkyard in the country is just up highway 53 near the Tennessee border so parts isn't the issue....
 
They make a v-8 conversion for those. Stuff a small block in it and go go go go!

Seriously, if I wanted to buy one as a collectors item, a 1988 v-6 GT would be the one to get. Or a Indy Pace car (with the periscope scoop)
 
Kenny - I drove one that had a Cadillac Northstar in it - scared the you-know-what out of me! Same guy had one with a small block chevy in it...I got down on it & turned it sideways in the highway with both tires lit up!

You drove right past the silver one down the street from me
 
They are pretty neat little cars. Probably one of the most interesting things GM came up with in the 80's. Most of the one's left survived this, but on 84/85 models, the engine compartment is known to catch fire from fuel leaks.
 
Quad-4s are among the worst engines ever made in terms of reliablity and warranty costs. The only engine that comes to mind that was known for being worse in terms of percentage of failure was the Crosley CoBra.

They didn't call the Oldsmobile Achieva with the Quad-4 the "UnderAchieva" for nothing!!!
 
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