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Yeah I used your "Diagnostics" on the top of the page to look them up. What was interesting to me is that every time the E041 would trip then so would the 27 and 28 codes. Then when I cleaned up the connection to stop the 41 code that also stopped the 27 and 28 codes. They have yet to reappear...

I highly recommend that you purchase a '91 Reatta & Riviera Factory Service Manual. They are available on eBay...worth every penny. The most likely issue you have with the ABS warning light staying on is that one (or both) of the front wheel speed sensors is bad. Unfortunately, these front sensors are a one-year-only 1991 design. The end of the lead (the sensor part) is made of black bake o' light type plastic with a small round metal probe protruding from the center (vs. an aluminum canister in previous years). Daves89 or Jim Finn or Marck Barker of eastcoastreattaparts might have or be able to help find them for you. The hydraulic modulator (located in engine compartment drivers side), or its contained relays (2 of them), or the EBCM very rarely go bad (if ever). IMO I'd concentrate on the front wheel speed sensors.

Lol when i saw your previous comment I thought to myself he must have mistyped that. Then I thought maybe he is right? Lol and i double checked to make sure i had them right...... Again lol. And fun fact after all this I was driving it and it started missing at lower rpm. I was like what now? Lol turns out the air flow meter decided to stop working. ? good thing I learned how to access the trouble codes lol. Needless to say its been replaced now too lol.

Just remember the bolt is left hand thread if you aren't familiar with the assembly.

Uh, there are only six cylinders and all the even numbers hide in the back? The good thing is he has a '90 which doesn't have the big harness in the way across the firewall, so it's almost as good as being on the front?

I'll be darned, I found my photos of under the hood of the Fiero. Details are listed on the car show placard. I was sorta close?

Don't mean to hijack this thread but am curious about your last name, Satterlee. Turns out my dad, career Navy, served on the USS Satterlee DD-626, a tin can destroyer, during WWII...1943 convoy duty in the Atlantic along with Henry Fonda on board...dad being a Chief Gunners Mate and Henry being a LT JG.

I saw a Corvair with a V8 in it at the dragstrip once but they didn't do a very good job. The way the body sat on the frame made it look like a 4 wheel drive truck with a body lift. The Corvair in your photo looks good.

I happened to have a couple pics on this computer. Underhood shot of the Corvair and another staging for the dragstrip. The Fiero to the left, is Ryan, aka GM Tuners or Sinister Performance, a very good source for all things related to engine swaps and tuning. Photos are 13 years old.

X2 on this being thought about before, and the factory did a rwd prototype back in the late '80's along with a couple of fwd turbo, high and low boost. Pretty sure the rwd used a GN drivetrain and a Corvette style rear end. Personally I have toyed with the idea of locating the fwd drivetrain to the rear, but have never pursued it. Over the decades there have been variations of fwd GM cars that people had located a second fwd drive at the rear so it was twin engine. All that aside, the most practical way to do a rwd conversion is to find an existing rwd vehicle with a reasonably close wheelbase, or one that could be modified, and imbed that into the underside of a Reatta body. Along the same lines, one of my all time favorite cars I have seen several times at the GS Nationals in Bowling Green KY, is a bright yellow later model Corvair with a 455 Buick engine up front. It runs consistent 10.x 1/4 miles, is quiet and extremely stealthy. So well done you would swear it was factory. It was done by putting a different chassis under the Corvair body. Just my $0.02

You wouldn't be the first to try as I know of at least 4 guys who have started and never finished. Good luck. Maybe go the way of a Fiero [mid engine]. Might find more support there [Fiero Forum].

Welcome to the forum! I don't think you will find anyone against what you want to do here. Most of us believe in making a Reatta your own. If RWD is your thing go for it. Please feel free to document your work here by posting photos and details of what you are doing. You are probably going to have a hard time getting ideas on how to do it. I've heard of a lot of people talk about doing it but never heard of anyone who has actually done it. Good luck.