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Post by STROMI 121 on Dec 23, 2012 21:31:39 GMT -5
Id get do some staring at it and get some more opinions before making my decisions on how Id build it. I dont claim to be a GM wagon expert.
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Post by C4 on Dec 24, 2012 0:39:37 GMT -5
Jimmy, did you prebend your roof and rear side windows, too? 'Bout have to with any coil wagon.
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Post by STROMI 121 on Dec 24, 2012 10:49:51 GMT -5
No, I did not prebend the roof but should have. I did on several other types of wagons with good suscess. I think on some cars, especially camry wagons the roof is too strong. The roof needs to be pre bent to make it bend/fold more predictably.
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Post by hellbent09 on Dec 24, 2012 11:00:34 GMT -5
I'd pull the roof up in the back right above the notch. And beat the bottom of the rear window down where the notch is. Prebend the crap outta it or notch it kinda deep. Gotta give it a lot of incentive to go up. I did this and it worked pretty good for me. Ill see if I can find some pics of my old cavy lol
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Post by STROMI 121 on Dec 24, 2012 11:06:32 GMT -5
Did you run a rear bumper and gate? I have seen them run with and without. I think its all personal preference. If I were to run another on I would likely pre-bend the back then weld the gate on good and remove the rear bumper. I am usually a big fan of high mounted rear bumpers but these cars are the exception. Because of them being a wagon there is no way to mount a bumper high enough to assist in the frame rolling properly, unless you used some type of bracket off another car. This is all just my opinion.
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Post by C4 on Dec 24, 2012 11:17:14 GMT -5
I am a fan of stock rear bumpers and gates, just to kinda keep everything moving somewhat in unison.
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Post by hellbent09 on Dec 24, 2012 17:04:10 GMT -5
I welded gate on solid and just used stock rear bumper which wasn't much
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Post by STROMI 121 on Dec 24, 2012 17:39:22 GMT -5
U find those pictures?
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Post by hellbent09 on Dec 24, 2012 21:32:53 GMT -5
I've been looking it was on one of my photobucket accounts lol. Way to many pictures
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Post by ukbangerdan on Dec 27, 2012 9:34:50 GMT -5
what size engines do these cavaliers have? A British manufacture called Vauxhall produced a car from the mid 70's to the mid 90's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_CavalierFunnily enough, Vauxhall also produced a car called the 'Nova'. Chevy also had a car called the Nova too?
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Post by C4 on Dec 27, 2012 11:00:30 GMT -5
^^^^1.8, 2.0, 2.2 four cylinders, 2.8 & 3.1 V6's, but I doubt the Vauxhaul and Chevy had much in common. The bodies look nothing alike, anyway. There were 3 generations of Chevy Cavalier, 82-87 and 88-94, which had sister cars, Oldsmobile Firenza (82-88), Pontiac Sunbird (82-94), Cadillac Cimmaron (82-88), Pontiac J2000 (82-84), and Buick Skyhawk (82-89). Third generation (95-05) had sister cars, Chevy Cobalt and Pontiac Sunfire.
Neither the rear wheel drive Nova's of the 60's & 70's, nor the front wheel drive Nova's of the 80's (Toyota Corolla with a Chevy badge) had anything at all in common with these J platform cars.
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Post by ukbangerdan on Dec 27, 2012 15:59:25 GMT -5
ahh thanks for that, there's a fair few European cars from those periods you've listed that are similar. Vauxhall (Britain) Saab (Sweden) Opel (Germany) and even elsewhere Holden in Australia too.
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Post by vona112 on Dec 27, 2012 19:37:47 GMT -5
I don't know about the vauxhall, but a toyota cavalier is just a chevy cavalier z24 with toyota badges. Easier to sell in Japan with the Toyota name so they sold them over there for Chevy. On a side note you forgot the 2.4 liter 4 cylinder they used in the 3rd gen z24s C4.
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Post by C4 on Dec 27, 2012 21:40:42 GMT -5
Yep, forgot them.
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Post by STROMI 121 on Dec 27, 2012 21:51:14 GMT -5
what size engines do these cavaliers have? A British manufacture called Vauxhall produced a car from the mid 70's to the mid 90's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_CavalierFunnily enough, Vauxhall also produced a car called the 'Nova'. Chevy also had a car called the Nova too? Chances are you've heard about how Chevrolet had problems marketing the Chevy Nova automobile in Latin America. Since no va means "it doesn't go" in Spanish, the oft-repeated story goes, Latin American car buyers shunned the car, forcing Chevrolet to embarrassedly pull the car out of the market
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