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

[ST33zn]

Insane....

[Stevanus.D]

niceeeee..

[soulfly]

When I was younger I really liked cavaliers, and looking at this one, I like them again. :-)

[HooWybrow]

Thank you guys very much, I'm back in the swing of things apparently.

Remember that tranny mount? I made it pretty, which is a shame, because you actually have to look for it once the engine and rad are installed. Oh well.





And, I spent a ridiculous amount of time cleaning three broken axles worth of axle grease off my transmission today. And, finished it off with a nice coat of "cast coat iron" engine paint. Hard to get a decent picture of it, but I'm in love with it and it will contrast the silver engine bay nicely.



The engine block and head will be painted the same. Relatively excited.

[ryanjblajda]

^^ +1 dear god that is the sex. i want moar!

[NorCalFocus]

[HooWybrow]

Thanks, fellas.

[07NJx355]

amazing work man! can't wait to see what the other update is

[244Brick]

You sir are a cavi boss!

[HooWybrow]

So, kinda hauled ass on the engine bay tonight. This is not the update I was mentioning before, this is just extra bonus stuff that I got motivated to do... Really motivated.

So, a little background, factory upper engine mount is ugly, huge and generally would bug the ever-living-fuck out of me had I left it alone. So, said fuck it, and cut the entire thing out. Started from scratch. I want the wheel tubs and the engine alone to be the center of attention in the bay, so I set off to design an engine mount that was mostly unseen. So far so good.

Pictures of said factory engine mount:



Gonezo:



The beginning of "the new hotness":







This has been sectioned into the frame, and is welded into both vertical sides of the framerail, as well as welded horizontally to the top of the frame rail on three sides. It ain't going NOWHERE.

And this, is now all you can see:



So, why stop there for tonight? Decided I'd finally built that gat-dang wheel tub for the right side, aswell:



FINALLY, my engine bay is starting to look like something again. I need to toss the engine back in now and finish the engine side of the new mount. I've had the engine in and out a total of 17 times since the engine-raising began. This is getting out of hand.

One more to tide you over until the weekend of awesome.



Pretty excited about how blurry that one is. Oh well, deal with it.

[andybob]

This thread will be fulfilled with a sizeable update this weekend. Stay tuned.

no. nao!

Excited to see the wheels. Saw on Hipstergram the other day you got a notification they were done among pictures of other motor things you were doing. Excited to see what's going on.

[rsingh3g]

I can't wait to see some more updates

[sawatsky]

no waiting, now please.

[milano_red]

I can't wait!

[HooWybrow]

This thread will be fulfilled with a sizeable update this weekend. Stay tuned.