[Shotimes] Re: Fiero (was Cooling Issues???????)

[Ron Nottingham]

No, it didn't use the 4.3L from theSyclone/Typhoon.  It used a modified 3.8L
from the Buick GNX.

Ron N. - Dalton, GA
90 SHO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>


> Weren't there two Turbo T/As out over time? One being the 301 motor back
in
> the '70s-early '80s sometime, and the other being the '89 with the 4.3
turbo
> that was the same as the Syclone/Typhoon?
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:46 PM
> To: twright@one-eleven.net
> Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: Fiero (was Cooling Issues???????)
>
>
> Tim,
>
> When I said earlier POS I meant the earlier turbo Trans Am,
> not the ones with only "motor".  I do agree, I would save
> the Buick (with different heads on the Pontiac) motored
> Turbo TA and also save the last year (2002?)
>
> Don Mallinson
>
> Timothy Wright wrote:
>
> > Now we are going to have a fight, (j/k),
> >
> > If you have enough displacement you don't need a turbo. The two valve
> covers
> > were not evn in the same county.
> >
> > I know, I would not have to look far to find a big block hidden in your
> > garage, and you would never trade that for a 301 CID turbo in your Tin
> > Injun.
> > I wish I had a clean original 455 SD.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Back in 1989, at the Pontiac national convention, the top
> >>Pontiac historian was asked which Pontiacs of modern vintage
> >>(to that point of course) he would save for history/value/fun.
> >>
> >>He chose the Turbo Trans-Am, the one with the high HP Buick
> >>turbo, not the earlier POS.
> >>
> >>
> >>Don Mallinson
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