No matter what I do, it's still a Cavalier.

[HooWybrow]

I'm getting excited.

You and me both.

Man, you are nuts, but i like it!

Thank you? Hahaha!

You do a lot of unnecessary and frankly illogical things to your car.

I feel we'd get along well.

Keep up the awesome work, man!

I actually laughed out loud at work because of this today. I feel we would get along just fine.

This has flawless victory written all over it.

Thanks, dude!

+1

If I had a rhd car, I would go through the left side drive thru at checkers, just to get a few WTF looks.

Shit, just go through the other way!

You'll have to do drive thrus like this.


Also your build is amazing. Love that it's on new wheels now

Most drive-thru's are out of the question in this car, depending on the age of the pavement, most are rutted too bad and I either get stuck or get questioned about those "god-awful noises my car made".

Stupid thing.

Anyways, went out to the shop tonight, for once I am actually excited to work on the car. I set out to get the subframe and steering rack switched around, including switching my N-body control arms into the RHD subframe.

LHD out back, RHD up front.



Switcheroo all finished:



I think installed it in the car and decided that working on the car for an hour tops was not near enough for tonight. So, I turned my attention to the inside again.

With machine like precision, and four zip-ties, I temporarily hung that bracket I removed last night and bolted in a steering column. From there I eye-balled it up and tightened everything down, and installed more dash parts to make this more a reality for myself.













After the blood left my penis and returned to my head, I crawled under the dash and measured up some brackets to attach that column bracket back to the firewall. I should've definitely done that while the dash was out.

Tomorrow's goal is to get the column mounted square, solidly, and have the bracketry welded in for good.

Thursday I plan to have the hole cut in the firewall, which, at this point I feel will need no major modification to do. Quite excited.

Definitely on track to have this thing steering itself by the weekend.

[Randomofodication]

You'll have to do drive thrus like this.


Also your build is amazing. Love that it's on new wheels now

[MooKz]

Shit, just go through the other way!

[Tubaman]

If I had a rhd car, I would go through the left side drive thru at checkers, just to get a few WTF looks.

[Shepherd]

You do a lot of unnecessary and frankly illogical things to your car.

I feel we'd get along well.

Keep up the awesome work, man!

+1

[andybob]

This has flawless victory written all over it.

[FunfGang]

You do a lot of unnecessary and frankly illogical things to your car.

I feel we'd get along well.

Keep up the awesome work, man!

[244Brick]

Man, you are nuts, but i like it!

[aLaFleur]

I'm getting excited.

[HooWybrow]

WELL.

Update time.

Getting fucked around with the RHD clip, I also had a bunch of RHD stuff lined up that I was going to buy for spare parts, dash pieces a spare rack, etc. Well, I went and picked that all up yesterday and will be swapping my car to RHD without the use of the proper firewall.

Initially, I was horrified of this idea, but after fitting the dash to the car tonight and taking a few quick eye-ball measurements, I think this will actually turn out better than having swapped firewalls, for a few simple reasons:

Being as I'm shaving the bay, I will now be fully capable of hiding the brake booster and clutch master under the dash, as the firewall kicks out huge where the pedals are now (soon to be) located.

I started with the car looking like this tonight, noting the factory LHD steering column bracket is in the way of the dash framing and dash itself.





I started by center-punching all the spot-welds and removing both pieces, seen here, completely unscathed. These will be installed on the right side now, in a semi-factory form.



Removed:



Framing temporarily in:



Dash installed:





Here's the bad news, you can see there are quite a few little pieces missing, and the upper dash pad has been stripped of it's vinyl wrapping. All is not lost, though. I've contacted a few different places and some people in search of said parts.

I managed to stumble upon an entire list of "Toyota Cavalier" part numbers today, and ordered a mirror switch, which is, unfortunately, the only piece still available new from GM. Regardless, it's one more piece to the puzzle.

I have a plan already in place for the dash pad, radio bezel and dash that will fix all the previous damages to everything and change the factory interior a lot, while still maintaining the factory look.

Currently our shop is absolutely jam-packed with shit. We take ownership of another shop strictly for storage come the first of the month. I honestly get anxiety being out there now, it is so depressing.

Hopefully, by the move this weekend I will have the car steering from the right side, but that may be pushing it.

[MrDanguy]

[rsingh3g]

What is this stuff you speak of?

[HooWybrow]

I bought stuff today.

[Dave_The_BMXER]

No real reason.

Hmm. Still mildly bothered.

Anyway I know you will carry on.

[HooWybrow]

Just read through the whole topic and.. dude seriously. So many times I thought this shit just can't keep getting better and BOOM, again and again, time after time, you keep suprising me with your plans, quality of work or just sheer insanty of doing this to a cavalier. Keep up the amazing work, can't wait for more updates.

Thank you, man. I appreciate the words more than you know!

I do see your point.

Thought you might.

That son of a bitch.