The buick 3800 series is a pretty common swap for fiero guys, and it's damn cheap in comparison to any of these swaps here. surprisingly the 3800SC seems to be a pretty good engine, powerful, fairly efficient, and quite reliable too. As far as I know it bolts on to the fiero transaxle.
so call me dumb but that sounds pretty good if you ask me. i'd rather have an asian engine, but at under $1000 for a donor car, $200 for the tranny + axles etc, sounds pretty good to me. the engine is already transverse mounted and the fiero is MR so no fiddling with the tranny needed. it's also a couple inches wider so it would push out the rear wheels out a bit with no spacers
so call me dumb but that sounds pretty good if you ask me. i'd rather have an asian engine, but at under $1000 for a donor car, $200 for the tranny + axles etc, sounds pretty good to me. the engine is already transverse mounted and the fiero is MR so no fiddling with the tranny needed. it's also a couple inches wider so it would push out the rear wheels out a bit with no spacers