87 GT

[lacelles]

Remember this tread
http://www.fierodrivers.com/forum/index.php?topic=1961.0

I was happy 

But last Thursday night I went for a ride, and after having a friend look at the car, it seems like a connecting rod broke.    .  I will park the car in the garage, and look at doing and engine swap.  Any advice on what type of engine I should put, I saw some people putting a 4.3 Cadillac engine...

[WillEV]

Wow! you just got that car.
That sucks.

[GoFast88]

Not even 2 months. damm.
You you want to get it on the road fast, I have a spare 2.8 for sale cheap.

[aaron88]

If you’re looking for a bigger badder motor there are a few here, to look at and maybe get a ride in to help you make your decision.

What it’s probably going to come down to for you is cost and reliability.  I like my swap but it cost big bucks, there are some more economical swaps around.

What you want to do is talk with me and with Dan and maybe a few others, like Nick, Tyler or well I’m sure there are more but I can’t think of any others in Ottawa right now.  The reason I say that you should talk to us is because we did swaps ourselves and have a lot of info for you, but its much too cumbersome to type it all out, so we must talk about it.

Maybe you should come out to a meeting, but make sure one of the builders are there, it’ll save you a lot of time.

You could also go to PFF in the tech section and do a search for “engine swap” I’m sure you get a lot to read about the, including lots of answers to your specific question.

Aaron

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[lacelles]

Hi

Any one you ever use the v-8 archie conversion kit.

www.v8archie.com

[Rob]

Sounds like you have my luck when it comes to fieros! but I keep going too! be sure to research your swap carefully, there are many engines to choose from! Archie seems like a good guy, I priced out one of his kits a while back came to around $3500 canadian after all was said and done!

Good Luck;

[aaron88]

I haven't used his kit but I do think it's the best V8 kit that I've seen.  He does do a few things that I don't like but it's still a good kit, and the best for the price.  Although I realy recomend against using the Isuzu transmission, use the getrag if you want manual.


Aaron

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