If I May Introduce Myself....

I said I'd post a pic when I picked it up and here she is. The newest member of the fleet. We're all quite excited.

Excellent choice of LeMon, stop by Apocalyptic Racing pit if you make it to Gingerman and say hi.

So the 2.8?

Ignore everyone else, its a good engine as long as you understand what is was meant to do.  Just find out all the quirks with the Fiero cooling system and how to flush it properly and what to do to get the air not to stall in front of the radiator.

If you mean the recall for the engines catching fire, that was the 84's. Different engine, different layout for the cooking systems. If you are not talking about that then I am confused.

As a former owner of that fine automobile I can say the engines don't like to be revved.  Keep it cool.  Be nice to it.  Find an expert cage builder as it isn't as simple as a typical sedan.   

There are lots of teams that have run this car, so I'm sure someone will chime in on better specifics.

Good luck!!!!

Not only does it not like to be reved, there really isn't any reason to over rev it since its power band is in the lower rpm anyway.

Seriously though take the time to find out how to burp the coolant system since from what I read it is a pain and if you don't do it right you will have large pockets of air.  Plus there should be some simple mods to improve airflow through the radiator.  If I recall the design from gm has the spare tire well or something right behind the radiator so the air doesn't like going through the radiator.  Both things that probably wouldn't be horrible on a drag car since they don't run that long but will kill any engine other than an air cooled one in Lemons.

I had not heard this song before. Now I can never unhear it. Thanks a bunch for that....

How long have you been living under that rock???? 

EDIT: I added the smiley ( ) to imply humor ,so as to not start a religious war.....

Careful with that quote attribution, I don't wanna get dragged into a religious war over something somebody else said!

This is also a good choice. In fact, I can hear the mashup now...

I like to rhyme, I like my beats funky,
I'm spunky. I like my oatmeal lumpy.
I rode a tank, held a general's rank,
When the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank!

We are firm believers is just having a full subframe for front wheel drive cars...in your case it is just a slighly modified Citation assembly moved back so the same thing applies.

On the Saturn we could swap a subframe (frame, engine, transmision, knuckles and all wiring) faster than most Honda teams could swap a head gasket.  Anything worse than a blown axle...swap the whole thing and fix what you broke at your leisure.  The van is lot slower just because everything is so much less accessible and twice as heavy but I would be with more practice we could have it down to less that two hours (Saturn was 50-70 minutes).

It also is VERY convenient for transport as it is all in one (very heavy) package.

Do spare parts not count towards the $500 limit?

If you break, you aren't winning anyway. And Judge Phil would have given you a low residual value to let you fix your heap after the race so just fast forward the process and try to get back out there.