87 cavalier wagon

F4U-1A said:

My cousin in the 80s was a heavy equipment mechanic for our Armed Forces and put a 454 into a Chevy Chevette. What the F-?

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I went to a Super Chevy Show back then, and saw a couple of Chevettes like that.... well they could have been small blocks, too, as I likely wouldn't have known the difference. Cheap, light weight car.... just enough to get wheels attached to the engine.

1ton-o-fun said:

CarCraft magazine put a 500 Cadillac almost completely in the interior of a Chevette back in the day. Worked the throttle by hand, I believe.

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The bad seed Chevette! I LOVED that car!
https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320...the-true-story-of-the-bad-seed-chevette-epic/

https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320...d-chevette-cheap-project-car-insanity-part-2/

https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320...r-street-racing-the-bad-seed-chevette-part-3/

Oops! Hot Rod instead of Car Craft. Loved them both!

A friend, in the early '70s, had a V-8 [SBC] Vega.

At that same time, there was a kit made that put a SBC right in the middle of a '65-'69 Corvair. I've never stopped wanting one-- fast and nimble both.

joe

1ton-o-fun said:

I love fast station wagons! Stings a little extra getting spanked by a wagon! If you had tv show worthy skills and or $$$, I'd say get a front wheel drive 5.3 Chevrolet police car and do a mid engine rear wheel drive conversion.

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The fwd cop cars are V6 Impalas. The Caprices are 6.0 and rwd. You'd have to get an Impala SS, Monte Carlo SS, Buick Lacrosse, or Grand Prix GXP for a fwd 5.3

618 Syndicate said:

The fwd cop cars are V6 Impalas. The Caprices are 6.0 and rwd. You'd have to get an Impala SS, Monte Carlo SS, Buick Lacrosse, or Grand Prix GXP for a fwd 5.3

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You are correct! '05- Grand Prix GXP, '06-'09 Impala SS, and '06-'08 Monte Carlo SS... I didn't know about the Buick.
All of these "W" platform cars 5.3s were aluminum rated at 303 hp and 323 ft lbs of torque.

df2x4 said:

Hope your buddy gives it a good home, those are really cool cars! The VG30Es are bulletproof. My '90 GXE had over 350K miles on it when I totaled it and it still ran great. (Most of the time, unless it was raining and something electrical was unhappy with me) It was my first car, I still miss it sometimes.

I think I went through something like five RE4F02A automatic transmissions before I finally got rid of my second GXE and accepted the fact that the 5 speed SE was the only model worth owning.

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Yeah he actually wants to keep it stock and just drive it,repair the rust and sunbaked interior and keep it nice. He’s more into nissans than I am anyway so I feel like he’s getting the better deal lol. I keep telling him to just do the head swap to keep from changing timing belts every 60-80k but he wants to keep the vg30 heads for some reason

Did a little measuring the other day..it’d be reallllly hard to make a 5.3 fit but it might be doable lol. Had an idea that might work for the rear engine idea though,just rob the rear end of a fiero and find a way to shift it with the front engine. I’ve got a few ideas thanks to the twin engine vr6 golf I seen on 1320. But that being said,I might go with supercharged 3800s,series 2..I had one a few years ago in a gtp coupe,had a smaller pulley,e85 tune,headers and slp mufflers and it would make that big ass w body fly. If I could just get ahold of two to cam out with bigger superchargers and good tunes,I should have one menacing grocery getter lol

Erik the Awful said:

Villager heads are low-compression and non-interference, i.e. TURBO-READY!

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That was kind of my plan. Build it for boost until it was time for a big swirlyboi,but I have too many projects as it is. And I can’t find any parts for the poor maxima so it’s my buddies problem now lol

Twinpala power train?

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/1000hp-twin-engine-impala-shooting-9s-ls-fest/