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ULEV catalytic converter

Damn, I wish I had your level of skill/equipment/bravery

Lucky wrote:Damn, I wish I had your level of skill/equipment/bravery

Such a compliment makes me feel like a hack. I get nervous before trying something new, I'm worried as I try my idea, I do too many hours of online research, then whatever it is I'm trying is nearly done.
And the number of interesting cars I've ruined along the way is shameful. A few Mustangs, a few Camaros, some rice, even a Fiero, and now I'm in my late 30s just getting comfortable with going way beyond bolt-ons.
Adapting a Nissan FS5W71C to a SBC, I could make and sell good-enough copies if there was any demand, but if someone asked me to make and ship a kit to bolt an L36 into an FB with an FC crossmember, I couldn't do it.
Don't regret your high praise, just realize it's trial and error by a guy with no disposable income and a willingness to destroy salvage-yard scores as the cost of my own learning. Now that I can sort of weld, most any mistake in metal can be undone or replaced. And all this stuff I'm trying on this RX-7, I would never seriously think to try on a genuine Ferrari, though butchering a Porsche wouldn't even make me hesitate.
Much of what it may seem I've finished with on this RX-7 will be revisited before this July. I just planned the work, revised the plan, and began going as seems necessary.
I post all I do in hopes of eventually getting others to pay me to do stuff to their cars, for pay, but it really helps to know that guys are following my thread. I guess I need to leave more positive comments in all the other threads I follow.
Thanks.

Oh, and most of my equipment is hand tools and cheap power tools, all of which come from Harbor Freight.

We may not be commenting but we are all watching so keep the posts coming, as for butchering a Fiero..........Good Man I say

I doubt Lucky would agree, I know there's a "Lucky" on the Fiero forums. If it is the same guy, then he may be trying to figure out which one I was.

Lol, I've never driven (or even seen in real life) a Fiero, but I gather they have a reputation for being really quite bad.

Isn't it a Fiero in the excellent Mythbusters "Skipping a car across water" episode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VjP4SjK2O0

The '88 Fieros have potential, but I wasn't so lucky. I swapped the cradle and a couple of V8s, plus different manual transaxles but never was comfortable in the car, so I never addressed everything else such a build really should get.