Wade Custance's V-8 Fiero
This is Wade Custance's car and some of what he has to say.
Thanks for all the fun your V8 conversion has brought me. I still recall
the time you took to tell me stories of other fieroites that installed 350's n such
in their Fieros. I can't say that at times owning a V8 Fiero hasn't been difficult
at times but it is a labour of luv. People up here in parts of Canada are not up on
these little cars! I can't say how much i enjoy when a mechanic hears my car and i
pop the deck-lid and the guy just sits there with one hand on each rear fender with
his head goin back and forth from one wheel well to the other in total
disbelief.......The the th guys at the garage are goin to calll mmeee nnnaammmes
and laugh at me when i tell em what a seen.
When people see my car. I tend to forget the time that I blew the waterpump
drive drag racing some car that damn near flipped over every time its crank turned.
The guy was pissed there he was sitting at the starting line smoking his tires and
there I was up the track. Ya he beat me in the end of the race, cause my water pump
drive broke but he was pissed off as hell cause I made him look really bad at the
start! O ya it was not your engineering that made the water pump drive malfunction
it was mine! the heads of the bolts on the crank pulley where too close to the
frame rail.... I'd never drag raced before and all that traction made the engine
move those few thousands of an inch to and pewf that was all there was too
that!.......But that water system of yours worked great!!!!! I'm electric waterpump
now. I was having probs getting my Fiero to cool with it, then i met the Vision Doc
on IRC that told me he runs his with out a thermistat cause the electric pump only
produces 19 lbs of pressure and that the water is not circulating properly. Goin to
try this
Your #1 Canadian fan! I'm not a mechanic but i do all my own wrench'n, means some
places scared to touch a beast like mine.