On warming up your bike before riding.

[Aaron]

Where are you getting your information? You know some cars with not let you shift into over drive when cold. How would you limit rpm then? What is you live right off the highway? Then your choices are sit and let idle or run down the highway at high rpm without over drive

You're not going to find this as reliable information because I'm not an ASE certified oil changer, but it's a hobby of mine. My only hobby. I've built more engines than I can count, and do engine swaps when I feel like it. My current car is a Fiero with a 3.4 DOHC turbo making 487hp on the stock block. I'll give you details, but this isn't your ordinary Fiero.

Oil temperature is the most crucial thing to longevity there is. Used Wal Mart brand 5w30 protects better at operating temp than any cold synthetic out there.

In that case, I'd honestly take the highway still. What car do you have that doesn't have an OD gear? My aforementioned Fiero even has OD!

[matt2778]

You're not going to find this as reliable information because I'm not an ASE certified oil changer, but it's a hobby of mine. My only hobby. I've built more engines than I can count, and do engine swaps when I feel like it. My current car is a Fiero with a 3.4 DOHC turbo making 487hp on the stock block. I'll give you details, but this isn't your ordinary Fiero.

Oil temperature is the most crucial thing to longevity there is. Used Wal Mart brand 5w30 protects better at operating temp than any cold synthetic out there.

In that case, I'd honestly take the highway still. What car do you have that doesn't have an OD gear? My aforementioned Fiero even has OD!

I did not say I do not have overdrive. I said the car will not allow shift into overdrive until operating temp is met. So on a cold day it could take 5-15 minutes of idling to reach this or drive without overdrive until operating temp is met. Therefore you theory of not having a long idle or high rpm is out the window.

[3point5]

My current car is a Fiero with a 3.4 DOHC turbo making 487hp on the stock block.

Not something to brag about...

My current car is a Fiero with a 3.4 DOHC turbo making 487hp on the stock block

Enough said...

[gsxridiot]

Not something to brag about...



Enough said...

??? sounds like a sick ride to me
500hp in a fiero? holy shnikies!

[3point5]

??? sounds like a sick ride to me
500hp in a fiero? holy shnikies!

serious, I'll act like you didnt just say that!? In my opinion, there is nothing appealing of a pontiac fiero - if Aaron wants to put his time & money into a pontiac, more power to him. 500whp is a feat, sure - but there are honda civics that can make 500hp…I'm nuts deep in a 350z build, I'd like to think I'll see 600whp…out of a similar 3.5 liter twin turbo…

http://my350z.com/forum/forced-induc...win-build.html'

sorry for hijacking the thread...

[Aaron]

serious, I'll act like you didnt just say that!? In my opinion, there is nothing appealing of a pontiac fiero - if Aaron wants to put his time & money into a pontiac, more power to him. 500whp is a feat, sure - but there are honda civics that can make 500hp…I'm nuts deep in a 350z build, I'd like to think I'll see 600whp…out of a similar 3.5 liter twin turbo…

http://my350z.com/forum/forced-induc...win-build.html'

sorry for hijacking the thread...

Wow you can buy parts made for the car and bolt them together. Mad skills right there. Let me know when you make 2 1/2 times stock power on 8.7psi. That's when my build impresses. And the fact that the Fiero never came with a 3.4L.

The engine came out of a 1995 Monte Carlo Z34, stock is 180whp through an automatic. I built my own motor mounts (5-point mounted), built my own fuel lines, built my own wiring harness, built my own coolant lines, and mixed and matched intake manifolds to get the best one. I had the heads ported and polished (278int 225exh at 500 lift), 48g lightened lifters, a 75mm throttle body with a 3" intake arm I built. I built the headers, 1.75" mandrel bent with tuned equal length primaries. I built the Y-pipe, again equal length 2.5". I built the down pipe, 3" with a circulating waste gate. And I built the entire exhaust system. Again, only mandrel bent pipes. I then built the cold side myself, mandrel bends only, and it's air/water intercooled.

The engine actually didn't come from a donor car, it was a brand new crate engine. Forgot to add it also has an aluminum flywheel, a deep sump oil pan I built (8 qt oil changes ya baby), and probably a few other things I forgot to mention.

[JKOL]

serious, I'll act like you didnt just say that!? In my opinion, there is nothing appealing of a pontiac fiero -

I have the same feeling about a 350Z.

Back on track....I don't warm up my bikes any longer than it takes to get my helmet and gloves on. I just keep the RPMs down until the temp comes up.

[Ghosty]

My current car is a Fiero with a 3.4 DOHC turbo making 487hp on the stock block. I'll give you details, but this isn't your ordinary Fiero.

Badass! What was the donor car for that 3.4 motor?

Not something to brag about...

Why not?

Enough said...

How so?

Honda Civic, LOL! Prodution numbers: five-hundred-gazillion. I know there are a few really fast Civics in Denver, but IT'S STILL A FUCKING CIVIC. Enough said...

[Drano]

Badass! What was the donor car for that 3.4 motor?

I believe it was from a 1995 Monte Carlo Z34.