Finally dynoed my turbo 3.4 dohc....430 rwhp!

[FerrariFan]

Tim, thanks! I am enjoying it but until I put some more miles on it I'm still a little paranoid that something is going to break or go wrong. Hopefully it will hold together and I will be able to enjoy it for many miles.

[FerrariFan]

I added a slightly longer video with improved camera work, less shaky and not zoomed in. Engines still running great with no issues at 12 psi. I'm starting to get used to it though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eviMoavgR7g

[d.o.h.c]

WOW!!!!!. Time to turn it up a notch here as well. Shane we have work to do

Mark

[Cidacious]

To run 12psi did you upgrade the crank, pistons and connecting rods? Also where did you buy the air intake manifold?

[FerrariFan]

To run 12psi did you upgrade the crank, pistons and connecting rods? Also where did you buy the air intake manifold?

Stock internals. Air intake was custom made by Carter Race Engineering in Savannah, GA

[2.8-350TBI]

This thing is a BEAUTY!
Why did you choose to swap a TDC into a ferrari though?

It would never come to my mind, but the end result is glorious.

A v6 ferrari lol

[robertisaar]

hint: it's a fiero with a well-done ferrari body.

[2.8-350TBI]

Makes more sense to me now!
BAD ASS FIERRARI!

[robertisaar]

indeed. interior is miles ahead of the fiero it used to be as well.

[payback]

WOW!! That thing freakn MOOOOVES! That is one hell of a machine man, mucho props.

[FerrariFan]

Thanks! I took it to a huge cruise-in down in Atlanta over Labor day weekend and no one knew it was a Fiero except for the real hard core car guys. They were sure scratching their heads when they looked at the engine compartment. I was too busy checking out the other cars to hang out and talk about my car though. Had a lot of fun with my friend and his Cobra on the drive over there, he couldn't believe how fast my car was. He is contemplating building a turbo Cobra now.

[robertisaar]

i grabbed this from the wikipedia page for the F355...

Max power @ rpm: 380 hp (283 kW) @ 8250*[2]
HP/liter: 109 hp/l
Torque @ rpm: 363 N·m (268 lb·ft) @ 6000[2]
0-60 mp/h: 4.6 s [5]
0–100 km/h: 4.7 s [2]
0–160 km/h: 10.8 s[6]
Quarter Mile: 12.9 s [2]
0–1000 m: 23.7 s [2]
Top speed: 295 km/h (183 mph)

i think you're winning!

[cardot33]

there's no way that was ever a fiero, I don't believe it.

[Lowerd1]

I have seen Fiero kits, they usually look like a 5yr old put them together on the road, and after seeing that car, I would nolonger classify it as a Fiero anymore. Plus usuallly they have an exotic kit on them, and then the interior and engine are all stock and falling apart.

That is my favorite kit though for those cars, it looks and performs so good you would fool most every person.

[BillS]

I have seen Fiero kits, they usually look like a 5yr old put them together on the road, and after seeing that car, I would nolonger classify it as a Fiero anymore. Plus usuallly they have an exotic kit on them, and then the interior and engine are all stock and falling apart.

That is my favorite kit though for those cars, it looks and performs so good you would fool most every person.

I agree. Kit cars got a bad reputation for good reason - they cut corners and tried to give an illusion that thge cars were something other than what they really were. Any number of VW based Canam wannabes attest to that.

The Fiero is well suited to being rebodied - it has a good angle on the windshield that approximates several of the cars you might want to copy, and the body panels come off easily to allow replacements. It is a big let down to see, say a Lamborghini kit (some of which used a real Lambo windshield) left with a stock Fiero interior, but most builders seem to run out of creative juice (or money) when they get to the interior.


Your replica looks very nice and doesn't have the stock Fiero engine, to boot.

I've owned things that were close to being kit cars (raced a 1962 TVR for years) and still own one that is a kit car - a Fibrefab Jamaican body on a 1956 MGA, which I repowered using a 3.4 GM V6, as it happens. Left it at about 200 BHP as the car only weighs 2000 lbs., although thoughts of doing it up as a 300 BHP turbo (as I use in my steet 88 GT) did cross my mind. Like you, I left the car looking as if it could be the real thing - but people wouldn't be too sure just which real thing it was.