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I’m all about that junkyard speed, found a few gems at the JY on the cheapo beepo to take home to upgrade the Cavalier.
#1- An internal solid rear sway bar from a 1990 Chevy Beretta GTZ to cram into my car’s solid twist beam to stiffen up that rear and give the Cavalier some much needed handling improvements. The rear beam is identical between GM J-bodies and L-bodies so this should be a plug and play after I drill out 4 mounting holes.
The Cavalier’s twist beam has giant factory holes in it as a weight saving measure compared to the pre 1995 Chevy Berettas. It’s a non-issue since they will not be interfering with the mounting points.
The Beretta GTZ donor was in pretty rough shape, back in the day this was the apex L-body you could buy. It came with the DOHC 2.3L 16v high output Quad 4 pushing 180hp NA, a Getrag 5 speed and GM’s most potent FE3 handling package. GM made the choice to not put in balancing shafts in the pursuit for MOAR HORSEPOWER when the made this one, so naturally it has horrendous NVH qualites.
#2- a warm air intake setup I pulled from a Honda Accord. I reckon with some good ‘ole shadetree ingenuity I can modify this to work on my GM Ln2 block. Really, I just need to drill out an air intake sensor grommet, do some trimming here and there, take off those lame stickers and Viola! We should be ready to rock n’ roll.
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> -Amateur
08/02/2019 at 14:07 |
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I love salvage yard finds. I can spend hours just wandering around. Good pics.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> -Amateur
08/02/2019 at 14:25 |
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Hmm, fun sticker bomb
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> CaptDale - is secretly British
08/02/2019 at 14:42 |
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I expect nothing less from a early 90s Accord...though it wasn’t lowered/stanced and it most certainly didn’t have an ann oying muffler installed? It did have a nice set of 4-2-1 headers on it with a random mustard painted valve cover. I don’t know what to believe in anymore.
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> -Amateur
08/02/2019 at 14:47 |
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The world is a lie!
Future next gen S2000 owner
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08/02/2019 at 15:03 |
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
That’s not plug and play. Also, putting a sway bar mount that close to the hole my bend the metal at the thinnest point between the hole and the mount.
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> Future next gen S2000 owner
08/02/2019 at 16:45 |
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Well then its make holes and play. I had a ‘95 beretta that I autocrossed pretty hard with the updated rear suspension (with the weight saving holes) that I crammed this internal and an aftermarket external sway bar and had zero issues with metal fatigue stress fractures/distortion throughout it’s life , its a non-issue to me. Should anything ever come up, I can always weld away and reinforce the area or flat out weld the internal sway mounts to the beam itself.
shop-teacher
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08/02/2019 at 16:58 |
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Nice score!
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> shop-teacher
08/02/2019 at 17:42 |
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Can’t beat it for the price of a dinner meal!
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shop-teacher
> -Amateur
08/02/2019 at 17:55 |
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Damn skippy!
MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
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08/02/2019 at 19:13 |
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I never knew you could stiffen up solid rear axle cars, I always assumed the solid axel was the be all and end all of stiffness. Thank you I’m glad I learned something! FE3 all the Chevy things
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> MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
08/03/2019 at 00:21 |
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Oh yeah, Those twist beams have a lot of play stock. On a FWD, you want the rear to be stiffer than the front to negate their natural understeer tendancies. My Beretta had a 1" rear sway bar attached and you can just see that it gives it a flatter ride throughout the slalom from my GIF. It’s one of the best upgrades you can do.