"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
04/02/2015 at 23:30 • Filed to: None
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
04/02/2015 at 23:30 • Filed to: None | 5
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Thank you chevrolet for making the mighty L61. It may not be the best engine you ever built, but they do last and for us poorer folk, it's not a bad powerplant. Pulls pretty well for the type of car it powers (if you think Cavaliers are lethargic try driving OTHER old econoboxes lol) and it's pretty tough.
Here's to another 100K.
RallyWrench
> thebigbossyboss
04/02/2015 at 23:38 |
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A friend of mine actually tried to kill his wife's Cavalier, with all possible prejudice short of running it without oil & coolant. He failed, and as far as we know it's still running well past 200k. For a the shit they catch, they're a tough little car.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> RallyWrench
04/02/2015 at 23:42 |
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Agreed. My wife has 230,000 km on hers, and it's still running well. They really are a bit like automotive cockroaches - not particularly pretty, but durable.
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thebigbossyboss
> RallyWrench
04/02/2015 at 23:43 |
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They are far from the best. But let's just say my idiot light came on (briefly) about four years ago. And my car is still here. And it's quite fine. lol.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> thebigbossyboss
04/02/2015 at 23:45 |
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What happened to the needle there? How is it glowing?
Trunk Impaired 318
> thebigbossyboss
04/02/2015 at 23:46 |
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Ive found that pretty much all GM econoboxes of this era either die a horrible death by 100k or last 300k + despite being neglected/beat on to the extreme
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thebigbossyboss
> Trunk Impaired 318
04/02/2015 at 23:49 |
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I don't even beat on mine that hard. Believe me it's in the top 5% of cavs haha. But the people whom hate them really hate them, and the people who like em think they're just ok cause they last. lol.
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thebigbossyboss
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
04/02/2015 at 23:53 |
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they all glow.
Xyl0c41n3
> thebigbossyboss
04/03/2015 at 00:10 |
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It's so weird to me seeing such a familiar instrument cluster with the "kph" on the outside edge of that arc versus the "mph." And a big fat whopping "yes" to everything you said about what that little engine can do. Some days I still miss my cavalier. RIP.
and 100 more
> thebigbossyboss
04/03/2015 at 00:10 |
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L61 = 1st generation Ecotec, right? I had an 04 Chevy Classic with that engine... Not bad at all! Everything else about that car sucked, but i still love the way they look, and that engine was great.
GM used a basic L61 block as the core of their Cavalier drag car, and got it up to about 300 hp on stock internals, iirc.
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thebigbossyboss
> Xyl0c41n3
04/03/2015 at 00:16 |
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Is your engine temp measured in c or f?
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thebigbossyboss
> and 100 more
04/03/2015 at 00:18 |
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Yup.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> thebigbossyboss
04/03/2015 at 00:24 |
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Aren't they lit up by a bulb, not glowing? Is the one on the left attached to anything?
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thebigbossyboss
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
04/03/2015 at 00:26 |
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Fuel. Why have engine temp when you can have fuel.
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Xyl0c41n3
> thebigbossyboss
04/03/2015 at 00:29 |
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Fahrenheit. Also, my fuel gauge didn't overlap it like yours does. Mine was somewhere on the right hand side of the cluster. But, IIRC, my car was actually manufactured in Canada. ^_^
Also, at one point, the orange LCD of the odometer once got FUBARed.... It looked like when you crack a calculator screen and the LCD kinda bleeds into the cracks. I was like "shit" because I needed to track my mileage for work. Then magically I got into my car some weeks later and it was back to normal. Well, mostly, there was some orange "bleeding" near the bottom edge of the display, but the numbers were still readable and accurate.
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Xyl0c41n3
> thebigbossyboss
04/03/2015 at 00:37 |
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Whoops. I misremembered. It was on the top edge. I found a picture that shows it. I missed the opportunity to snap it when it was five solid zeroes, lol.
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thebigbossyboss
> Xyl0c41n3
04/03/2015 at 00:38 |
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Oh cool. My fuel guage is not supposed to do that it just does.
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Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> thebigbossyboss
04/03/2015 at 00:42 |
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I mean if the gauge can't get any higher, the engine temp can't, right? Right?
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thebigbossyboss
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
04/03/2015 at 00:45 |
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Exactly.
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Xyl0c41n3
> thebigbossyboss
04/03/2015 at 00:56 |
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It's "not supposed to do that it just does." Yep. Sounds about right. :-P