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Building up a 2.8L out of my 1986 Fiero GT. Under the advice of a very trusted friend (BetterThanYou, as he's known here) I picked up Aluminum 3.4L heads. Of course, this also necessitates a few other modifications.
Exhaust: Headers need to be made in order to match the new locations of the exhaust ports. Planning on making equal length shorty headers, which will then have to work through a new exhaust system.
Intake: The stock 3.4L lower intake plenum was grabbed, but I left the upper, as I have some inexplicable desire to keep the engine looking and sounding as close to stock as is humanly possible. So, I'm trying to find a way to get the stock Fiero upper intake to somehow match the bottom (Fiero has a single followed by a pair of ports, or "siamesed". 3.4L are all equally spaced). Thinking of getting an upper intake made somehow.
Ignition: Distributor had to be removed as the new heads are in the way, and instead, a DIS system is taking it's place. An in-pulley crank trigger will be used.
Internals: Here's where the money becomes a problem... Under normal conditions, compression ratio would be 13:1. As such, custom pistons need to be made, which is quire an expensive venture for a student. When I do get them made, I plan to get them as light as I can (Strength isn't as big a concern to me, as I wont be running Forced Induction or Nitrous Oxide) and run a gapless/moly combination for ring.
Other details: Seeing as how the engine is out of the car, was hoping to work with BetterThanYou into making a dry sump system, as well as figuring out some sort of way to run the Fiero's valve covers. No intentions of touching displacement, cam or aspiration set up, and yes, I realize that sounds very counter-productive.
Exhaust: Headers need to be made in order to match the new locations of the exhaust ports. Planning on making equal length shorty headers, which will then have to work through a new exhaust system.
Intake: The stock 3.4L lower intake plenum was grabbed, but I left the upper, as I have some inexplicable desire to keep the engine looking and sounding as close to stock as is humanly possible. So, I'm trying to find a way to get the stock Fiero upper intake to somehow match the bottom (Fiero has a single followed by a pair of ports, or "siamesed". 3.4L are all equally spaced). Thinking of getting an upper intake made somehow.
Ignition: Distributor had to be removed as the new heads are in the way, and instead, a DIS system is taking it's place. An in-pulley crank trigger will be used.
Internals: Here's where the money becomes a problem... Under normal conditions, compression ratio would be 13:1. As such, custom pistons need to be made, which is quire an expensive venture for a student. When I do get them made, I plan to get them as light as I can (Strength isn't as big a concern to me, as I wont be running Forced Induction or Nitrous Oxide) and run a gapless/moly combination for ring.
Other details: Seeing as how the engine is out of the car, was hoping to work with BetterThanYou into making a dry sump system, as well as figuring out some sort of way to run the Fiero's valve covers. No intentions of touching displacement, cam or aspiration set up, and yes, I realize that sounds very counter-productive.
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