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

[HooWybrow]

Boredom is awesome.

Some see it different than others.

I gotta admit...I read the title and said to myself "why the hell would someone even build a cav, seems like such a waste" but now here I am 15 pages later anticipating more updates! It might not be a "worth while" car in most peoples minds (mine included until now) but the craftsmanship, blood, sweat, and Im sure tears, that you have put into it is truly awesome! Keep it up man!


edit: lol at only 2 posts haha. I come here every day and check out what people are doing...guess I could post more too haha

Thank you, sir.

[HooWybrow]

Trimmed up the framerail sorta thing and made a rather excessively sized wheel tub today.









I'm leaving a lot of minor things out of this build thread because I feel they're unneccessary for the "stance" aspect of the car, once certain things take place and look like something, I'll post them up aswell.

[244Brick]

I don't care what anybody says about cavi's, your caviler is the dopest, sexy, hardest one i've ever seen/imagined

[BurNs760]

:
3800 swap? Haha this thing is beast cant wait till my cruze gets older so
can tear it apart

[HooWybrow]

Thank you guys a lot! .

Took some time and started welding in the tub for good and blending it in, also filled in a number of holes in the same frame rail and cleaned up the notch for the transmission quite a lot.









I intend to blend the transmission mount in, and fill in the dips in the framerail that are still visible.

[wickedsnake00]

Well, dropped my wheels off at Weldcraft yesterday. I decided final sizing will be 17x10 et25 front and 17x10.5 et19 rear. They said two weeks and they'll be done, but I can't see myself heading down any earlier than 4-6 weeks.

Haven't actually worked on the car itself lately, been doing some side jobs to try and save up for these wheel modifications 'cause shit is EXPENSIVE. I really have no idea how the hell I'm going to fit the wheels, I just know that I will.

Wow those are some huge wheels, let alone on a Cavalier. I cringe thinking about running my 17x9's up front. Interested to see how that turns out.

Nice work on the engine bay as well. Boredom works well for you. I wish I would knock out the little things like that instead of game-planning compound boost instead.

[benz88]

this thread made my day.

[coconutt]

Serious business.

[HooWybrow]

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

[milano_red]

I can't wait!

[sawatsky]

no waiting, now please.

[rsingh3g]

I can't wait to see some more updates

[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.

[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.

[244Brick]

You sir are a cavi boss!