262's 85 Fiero SE LX9 F23 swap thread lots of pics

[carbon]

Oh, I wish... I bought a 3400 a few years back to swap in, but kids and pay cuts later no swap had materialized. I then was presented a 3500 and an F23 along with the bits to make it work with OBDII, and being that I am a sucker, I bought it too... But damn it, I am doing the swap this year.

The 2000 3400 I have had an air pump with ports in the exhaust ports in the head... I think it stands for Air Injection Reactor? Secondary air injection? Stupid smog pump.

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[ericjon262]

Oh, I wish... I bought a 3400 a few years back to swap in, but kids and pay cuts later no swap had materialized. I then was presented a 3500 and an F23 along with the bits to make it work with OBDII, and being that I am a sucker, I bought it too... But damn it, I am doing the swap this year.

The 2000 3400 I have had an air pump with ports in the exhaust ports in the head... I think it stands for Air Injection Reactor? Secondary air injection? Stupid smog pump.

oh, ok, I didn't realize there were 3400 heads the specifically made to be used with a smog pump. usually the manufacturers just drill and tap the exhaust manifolds for them.

Let me know if you need any help on your swap, I've taken lots of pictures along the way.

[carbon]

Update?

[ericjon262]

not much, just this

[carbon]

You working on the front tranny mount?

I received that rear bracket on Saturday! Thanks! That thing is huge compared to what I had seen in pics...

[ericjon262]

You working on the front tranny mount?

I received that rear bracket on Saturday! Thanks! That thing is huge compared to what I had seen in pics...

awesome, glad to here you got it in one piece! as for the welding, I was learning to tig weld with my buddy Mark on some scrap from the header project, here's a better pic

[carbon]

You dead?

[ericjon262]

not yet, I'll have some more pictures for you tomorrow, it'll be ok I promise!

[carbon]

I am almost there on parts... I just need to get a clutch master cylinder, the hydraulic line and the slave adapter from Roger Thelin. Just. This shit is expensive. Getting excited to start my swap soon.

Looking forward to pics!

[ericjon262]

here we go...



Most of my new 5x4.75 swap is here now, and I started on the brakes, unfortunately, I have to go back to the machine shop and have some more machine work done...



you can see where the caliper is colliding with the threaded ears for the original minivan brakes, I'm going to have those cut off, and I'll have the upright drilled and tapped further over so the caliper will overlap the whole rotor for better clamping.

The new brakes seen in this picture are from a 1995 Trans Am, they are both larger and vented. the fronts will be updated to 2001 Trans Am front brakes, again, both vented and larger too. I have the weekend off, so there will be progress!