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While my opinion may not matter, I’m an old fart. It’s a car! Driving for me is a pleasure! Concentrating on driving & it’s enjoyment when it’s for pleasure enhanced by a quality HU + an amp & speakers that are quality! That’s all lost in the digital world! A cassette tape, especially one recorded from vinyl trumps a CD! A CD is the next best. After that it’s just all 1&0! They can not replicate harmonic sound. They can be played loud. You can pump up the thump! But there is no separation, no nuance definition. Just blah ramblings. I have one particular song that has some very crisp detail that progressively becomes more & more muted & almost completely lost as you move up the line of supposed improvement! All transferred from the same original source, vinyl! Newer not always better! My two cents!

A timing light can tell you that there "is" a spark, and would give a false-negative if the spark plug is fouled. WAY more effective to use a spark-tester calibrated for HEI which also tells you that the spark is strong enough while removing the vehicle spark plugs from the test protocol. There's multiple vendors, and various styles. My preferred style is like this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003WZXAWK/?coliid=I3S98D7T1J0RLJ&colid=2VLYZKC3HBBDO

I'll have to dig through my old phone to see if I took pictures, but the bar itself mounts where it needs to, It's just too wide. There are large collars circling the bar where it would meet up with the stock rear bushings on the knuckle for the Monte, if you grind those down or cut a notch in the bushing you can make it work. My car has been using it for years but I don't know if it made a difference. Next time I have the rear wheels off I'll show a picture, but it isn't pretty lol. Edit: The 1.5 bar really is the exact same shape as the first gen one, you just need the monte carlo bushings. If it was a slight amount narrower it would be a perfect fit.

For once I condone a thread being resurrected 22 years after the fact.

It took me 22 years but I finally did do that manual swap

.. BXX i know this is an older thread but do you have or still offer swapping harnesses??.. i have a 1989 GPSE with a 3.1 and i also have a complete 3.8 series II out of a 2000 GPGT .. i've already had the engine installed mechanically and it was mint but i got burned on a harness..so i pulled it and stuffed in a stock 3.1.. but i really wanna finish the 3.8 swap if i can find a harness..let me know

yup thats me... I havent finished tidding up the wiring yet but its in and runs, you all can see it here... Eng swaps arent something new to me, I just wish I had better access to tool sto make new cross members and eng mounts like GM design team does (droul droul) ~ http://home.comcast.net/~jimbutterfield/Grandamprojectcar.htm

The wiring is different. There is only one wire that stays in the same place, and 2 need to be added for the Euro/Z34 cluster to work. I did the pinouts back some time ago, they are still on here somewhere but I'm too lazy to search for them right now. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll see if I can find it.

well, theres always the ASG 5.0 that fits under our hoods..........the fiero peeps dont seem to have troble making excessive hp w/3.4s :?