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

[coconutt]

Serious business.

[benz88]

this thread made my day.

[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.

[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.

[BurNs760]

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

[244Brick]

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

[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.

[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.

[keith2]

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

[NorCalFocus]

Boredom is awesome.

[HooWybrow]

Thanks for the comments guys, with the new studs I can't actually even run the vette wheels anymore, which makes me happy.

Spent a few hours on my wiring harness today - I guess this will let the cat out of the bag, but I'm tucking and shaving the bay. What can I say, I get bored.

Anyways, here is what I started with:



Here is the engine harness run, I have to shorten a few wires and loom it, as well as fix it into place. However, this is exactly how it will be run.





Overall, very happy with this so far, especially for how little time I have into it. I'll likely finish this up and toss the engine in quick to mount the bulkhead connector at the firewall and finish the engine side of the wiring before the bay gets painted.

[gonzakev]

When I saw those vette wheels I couldn't stop thinking of anything but LS1 swap!!

[z38cavalier]

My mind has officially been blown! I'm sitting here thinking I want to go low as I possibly can with my cavy and thinking it hasn't really been done, then I see this haha, at least no one around here is doing anything even remotly close to what you have.

Really looking forward to see the wheels on that sweet ride of yours, keep up the good work buddy, I'm really impressed on how this looks and it's giving me to motivation to go and work on mine, just need some moulah hehe

[BurNs760]

chevys on the ground is the best around

[andybob]

Alright. Thanks for the info. I'm not gonna drive to Michigan though to drop them off so I'll have to save for shipping too. lol.

$225 isn't bad. I plan on adding 2" to the lips on my 8's so I can run my 9's up front and the 10's in the rear.