novaderrik wrote: i like the Chevette idea, but make sure you find the plainest, most boring 4 door you can find... preferably brown...
It really seems like they were all brown
novaderrik wrote: i like the Chevette idea, but make sure you find the plainest, most boring 4 door you can find... preferably brown...
It really seems like they were all brown
Some time ago I ran across a thread where a Turbo Solstice drive line was going into a Chevette. Sadly lost track, the guy seemed to know what he was doing. It was a clean early Chevette too.
You could buy my Opel Manta and swap it in.
Id vote for chevy luv truck.
With custom fabbed suspension and box flares.
nepa03focus wrote:novaderrik wrote: i like the Chevette idea, but make sure you find the plainest, most boring 4 door you can find... preferably brown...It really seems like they were all brown
i've seen them in red, blue, and yellow in addition to the various shades of brown that most of them had..
Dusterbd13 wrote: Id vote for chevy luv truck. With custom fabbed suspension and box flares.
Chevy Luv with a flare side box.. You could widen it and people would never notice
Because we're all enablers here. http://www.pro-touring.com/threads/35479-Project-Chevette-Turbocharged-Ecotec
I would put it in a locust or another small kit car.
I'd go Locost. There are better things to stuff into a chevette.
G_Body_Man wrote: I'd go Locost. There are better things to stuff into a chevette.
Everyone stuffs a smallblock in them. Hell since my friends 4 door didnt sell hes stuffing a gen3 350 in it sometime this winter.
Similar to the Chevette idea, but I say Vega. Almost every one I see is a V8 converted roller with no engine so perfect for the swap. Panaports and go.
Two pages in and no one said Locost? The world is changing.
In reply to Type Q:
4th post on the 1st page mentioned Locost.
dropstep wrote:G_Body_Man wrote: I'd go Locost. There are better things to stuff into a chevette.Everyone stuffs a smallblock in them. Hell since my friends 4 door didnt sell hes stuffing a gen3 350 in it sometime this winter.
gen3 350?
And a turbo!
novaderrik wrote:dropstep wrote:gen3 350?G_Body_Man wrote: I'd go Locost. There are better things to stuff into a chevette.Everyone stuffs a smallblock in them. Hell since my friends 4 door didnt sell hes stuffing a gen3 350 in it sometime this winter.
98 vortec 5.7, im no chevy guy but i thought that was gen 3.
Or just sell it to me cheap. I now have 4 Chevettes and one needs a drivetrain.
The Opel GT idea is as far as this post needed to go, at least until a build thread is started.
I don't know how anybody could dislike those motors. 200/200 stock, ridiculous HP potential - and they stay together.
Would be nice in a clean first gen S10
dropstep wrote:novaderrik wrote:98 vortec 5.7, im no chevy guy but i thought that was gen 3.dropstep wrote:gen3 350?G_Body_Man wrote: I'd go Locost. There are better things to stuff into a chevette.Everyone stuffs a smallblock in them. Hell since my friends 4 door didnt sell hes stuffing a gen3 350 in it sometime this winter.
more like a gen 1.5 since they are just a regular '87 and newer roller cam small block with better heads and a goofy fuel injection setup, with the LT1/LT4/L99 engines that came out in the 92 Vatte being gen 2 since they had reverse cooling with a timing chain driven water pump and cam driven front mounted distributor..
yeah, they came out in the wrong order, but none of this silly "gen whatever" stuff took hold until the GM marketing people needed a label for the new family of small block replacement engines that were coming out in the all new "C5" Corvette in '97, which is also where the naming scheme for the generations of Corvettes came from and got retroactively applied to the older cars..
the gen 3 and gen 4 are most commonly known as the "LS" engine family, with the new direct injected engines that came out a couple of years ago being the gen 5..
Zomby Woof wrote: I don't know how anybody could dislike those motors. 200/200 stock, ridiculous HP potential - and they stay together. Would be nice in a clean first gen S10
The LE5 was only 173hp and 164lb-ft in this application. And the GM Ecotec 4-cylinders don't hold together that well. Most of the 2.4Ls require timing chains by 50K miles (They get rattling like crazy, engine runs poor, break the tensioners, throw CELs), pistons and rings by 70K miles (Start burning oil like they are a 2-stroke) and then usually need timing chains again at 100K miles, despite GM saying that the timing chains are good for life.
I think you're confused.
In reply to Zomby Woof:
Me? No, I work at a GM dealership. And there is at least one 2.4L in every week getting timing chains and/or pistons and rings. There's even bulletins out about the oil consumption.
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EvanB wrote: You could buy my Opel Manta and swap it in.
That.
NickD wrote: In reply to Zomby Woof: Me? No, I work at a GM dealership. And there is at least one 2.4L in every week getting timing chains and/or pistons and rings. There's even bulletins out about the oil consumption.
The only time I see that is with people who forget to to get oil changes done. Typically if the engine is over 5k since the last oil change, the oil filter is collapsed in on itself, wasp-waisted. Change the damn oil regularly and they go 200k easily without opening the engine. 5k+ service intervals are wasteful in that they make good cars get scrapped before their time.
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