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Ive seen this in person. Its tight as hell in there. The exhaust will be a challange.

yeah umm no. that is one of the worst diesels of all time.

I had a feeling you where gonna say something like replace the locks. I just spent 20 bucks to have a key made. blah. oh well. My latches are actually not stickey at all. They came pre lubed when I bought it.

So I just had a key made off of the code on my lock because the car didnt come with a key for the door. The key works in the lock and locks the door and turns the opposite direction to unlock the door but doesnt actually unlock the door. Anyone have an idea of what would cause this?

Then its not really a limited slip. It is now a spool which is great for drag racing but not much else.

Ok so update on my problem. It was the BCDD valve. The valve is actually working correctly as far as I can tell. What seems to be malfunctioning is whatever sends it the 12V signal to close it. At idle it has 12V going to it but once I start moving and its warmed up it doesnt have power untill I come to a stop. So I found if I hook a constant 12V source up to it the idle problem goes away because the valve stays closed.

I have one I can barrow out of my Camaro.

I never drove a duke powered car but I could see how at 90hp it could ruin the image of the car. I will admit that I never really liked the 84 or 85 cars looks. Out of the 3 front bumpers the aero front nose used on the Indy GT and SE was by far the best looking. The mini vette nose was alright and the the pointy nose and the 1'st 2 model years never thrilled me. The biggest handling issue that the Fiero has is drop throttle over steer. Which is when your in the car and your pushing really hard and you suddenly let off the throttle the car will very suddenly spin around on you and there is almost no way to save it. Basicly you have to go against instinct and keep your foot in it. Other then that its typical production car that pushes when you drive it hard. It would make an absolutly terrible drift car if someone ever thought about it.

That is badass. Looks awsome

There is almost nothing on the fiero that is hard to work on. Between the 2 that I have had I have taken apart almost everything on the car and it is much easier to got to things then on most modern cars. Hell to remove the engine and trans its just 10 bolts then disconect hoses and wires. Trust me just because it has the front suspension of a citation doesnt make it a rwd citation. I have a friend who has an 80 citation and it is one of the weakest looking unibody i have ever seen. The Fiero on the other hand has what is called a space frame is GM used it to prove the technology for the vette. Yes headlight gearboxes are prone to failure but there are rebuild kits that are about $50 so its a fairly inexspensive fix. As to it not being a mid engine sports car because other people who own mid engine sports cars is just rediculous. Most mid engine sports cars are ultra high dollar cars owned buy stuck up people who think if it doesnt have a prancing horse or a raging bull on the front its not a proper sports car. These people would call a ZR1 or Z06 vette crap even tho it would beat their ultra expensive and finicky sports car.

I actually have the Acewell 3993b that you have pictured on my 84 Honda Nighthawk S. Never was much of a fan of digital tachs but didnt have much of a choice considering a used gauge cluster for the bike can go for $3-400 with gauges known to commit suicide or NOS gauges that are $500 each. But anyway it is a nice all in one unit that works quite well and is weather proof and easy to read and can display a bunch of diff parameters.

Is say that looks pretty sweet. So whos gonna do it?

The S30 headlights arent exactly stellar for being aerodynamic either and with a drag coefficient of .34 its miles ahead of the i believe .467 an S30 is or even the .385 the 280zx is. Its was designed for style either you like em or you dont and allot of people did. No the suspension isnt the most sophisticated but it was one of the few affordable cars with independant suspension on all 4 corners and it did its job rather well. Cornering g's of .84 was considered quite good in the 80's. And since when do you buy a mid engine sports car for usable space and functionality. Your not buying a station wagon or a hatchback its a 2 passenger sports car.

Almost all cars in the 80's had bad interiors and I never thought the fieros was all that bad. Thats just a matter of opinion. If the cars you drove were bad in the rain blame the tires because Ive had 2 and 4 diff set of tires and the only time it sucked was on the bald tires that my first car came with. How are the headlights dumb? Because they had pop up lights? Lots of cars have done that. And since when is 46/54% weight distribution horrible. Most people would consider that rather good. I beat a few porsche 944's and 80's rx7's with my stock 2.8 in autocross. Ill give you that it had some blind spots but they arnt huge. They arnt really any larger then say a miata or solstice with the top up.

Thanks for the info. Ill look into both of those but it sounds like the bcdd valve. Anone have any ideas about my tach from what it does in the vid? Im assuming its dead but not 100% sure.