1988 Pontiac Fiero T-Top Widebody VR6 Turbo
VR6 Fiero - The First Year of the VR6
To say we love the VR6 at Schwa MotorSports would be an understatement. I have an adapter plate to install one in a subaru, the W8 in my Lotus, and the 12v turbo in my rabbit. To say we are picky would be another understatement. As talked about, in my Lotus W8 build, one of the things that makes the VR motors so known and loved is the intake growl when you get some rpms on the motor. Sadly lowering compression hurts that sound, changing the exhaust set up hurts the sound, and of course shortening the runners hurts the...
VR6 Fiero - The Primer Year
You will notice a trend with this car, it fights me, and i haven't even gotten to some of the problems. The car went back to the painter and had the body fitted. With custom fiberglass builds it's always nice to give the fiberglass and filler time to shrink up and settle before painting. Having owned the car in Red, Red/Silver, Red, White, and bare frame the car was to be painted Lotus Laser Blue. To get an idea while the body mods settled some blue was added to the primer and we had this:
The hood...
VR6 Fiero - The Skeleton Year
Four years pass and I've finished a few other projects and my new painter tells me he wants to get the Ttop back on the road. Wanting my old car back and having just finished the 3900 Fiero I struck a deal with him to get me the car back and him the 3900 swapped coupe. Ever since having the 3800sc swap, and maybe from having it when I was young and impressionable, I have felt that it sounded horrible. They sound great at idle but through the rev range they just get rough sounding. Even with a set of...
VR6 Fiero Introduction - The Early Years
This is the car where it all began for me and Schwa MotorSports. This was the first car I bought back in 2006 when my first Fiero was totaled. It was a base model Fiero coupe with the 3 speed automatic and the 4 cylinder engine with the only options being air conditioning and TTops:
All was well and good with the car but it didn't last by the summer of 2007 the car had developed a small coolant leak from the water pump and it was decided; engine swap time! Like most people in the Fiero...