xci_ed6 wrote:
Why not a 2JZ with NAAWWWZZZ!?
xci_ed6 wrote:
Why not a 2JZ with NAAWWWZZZ!?
Well so much for this plan. wheels and valve cover were craked on the car and the b***h took the battery so we didn't get the car. FML
ScottRA21 wrote: In reply to mad_machine: The chassis is the same T-Body. It was also used as a Holden/Isuzu down in Austrailia. And it got the "Opel Kadett" look down in South America where it was still branded as a Chevy Chevette. They all had different engines though of course. No one else got the wheezy, 300lb lead weight North America got...well...maybe South America? Possibly?
Why am I not surprised? From what I have heard over the years.. GM did everything it could to make the chevette all but unsalable. It was a cheap car that they used to draw people into the dealership so they could sell the buyers on something bigger, more xpensive, and seemingly better.
I think somebody here once posted that the reason the chevette had such a HUGE centre console was simply to take up space and make the interior seem smaller than it was...
Well the problem with that argument is the huge numbers of these "unsalable" cars that GM actually sold, from 1976 all the way to 1987. Thirteen years is a long time in the car business, and it's 20 years if you count Brazilian production (according to Wikipedia.)
Exciting cars? No. Basically honest cars? Yes. Durable cars? Well, it sure looks like it. A better idea than the Chevy Citation? Where would you even start counting the ways?
My main beef with the Chevette, is the rear suspension. Of all things, why a torque tube?!
Could they have done something a little bit easier to convert to something stronger/better? Only real options to upgrade are from Opels (Don't even know if we got the RIGHT Opel to steal from here in NA either...), or the Isuzu Impulse Turbo (JR body...), which is about as rare rocking horse excrement! Well, that is, unless you want to break out the welder and start fabbing mounts/doing your own suspension engineering.
The lack of power is easy to fix, you can even fix the dismal front brakes fairly cheap. But the rear axle.../facepalm
Torque tube is not that bad.. if it is designed right. Usually they are very simple designs with not a lot of geometry changes. However, if you do not design it right, they tend to break the tube off at the axle itself.
I wonder if an early rx7 solid rear would fit?
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