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i run my beater fiero atleast 3 times a week, decided to take it for a spin after some hooligan put a pot hole in the road and my fiero found it



the car needed some refitting anyway, tires are starting to wear and the pinion gear has become a sawblade

I think you need a new skill saw blade, er.. uh.. I mean pinion.

I can honestly say that I have never worn out a pinion gear before.

well they are brass and it was used to begin with but that still makes me proud... i think?

ive done it to much harder pinions too (rrp 48p steel) and im normaly spot on with my meshing. the rrp i can explain tho, for one thing they are crap imo and the dirt oval track i race at is dry and the resulting fine dust is like sand paper between those gears.

im thinking of going to a plastic gear to preserve the teeth on the diff, i know kershaw designs sells plastic ones, just hope they are 32p

edit: they do not, but i emailed him on the off chance he does

There's a reptile on your car. Probably going to call you and try to sell you auto insurance. Just saying...

It was definitely meant as a compliment.

ill take it as one either way

the lizard is my thang, bread them with my mom when i was younger (1:1 scale living ones) and the glueing them to my car thing has just been something ive done since day 1

It's great to see another Fiero on here, you don't see them very often.


If you pick up a steel 32 pitch pinion, you'll never chew one up again.

It's been so long since I ran mine, I forgot how much fun they were.

I dig the rubber rear tires, what are they off of?

yes! another fiero owner (i thought i was the only one here)

the tires are the (discontinued) proline mini-t road rages, i cat the bead out and glue heavily without it wicking up into the foams

the fronts were nip ae rc12 rings