87 cavalier wagon

[__CHI__]

I’m about to trade off my 90 Nissan Maxima for my buddies cavalier wagon. Only has 140k miles and the underside is spotless. It doesn’t run right now,we think it’s timing related because we redid the belt about a year ago and He never put it in TDC Lol
But anyway,not sure what the plans are yet.. can’t decide between a compact derby build,slam it and camber it,or just go balls out and make it rwd with a 4.3 and a 5spd and make a dope drift wagon. I never see these old things anymore so even a restoration is possible. Any opinions or ideas?

 

[1ton-o-fun]

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.

 

[F4U-1A]

The car? I had a Chevy Cavalier 2004 for the winter F- here, until I got my JK. Great car with the 5sp manual, Zoom Zoom. The automatics were dogs.

 

[df2x4]

I’m about to trade off my 90 Nissan Maxima

Just out of curiosity, it's not an SE with the 5 speed is it? I had a '90 and a '93 and they were really fun cars but both automatics. I still look around occasionally trying to find a 5 speed SE but I never see them.

 

[F4U-1A]

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-?

 

[1ton-o-fun]

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.

 

[__CHI__]

Just out of curiosity, it's not an SE with the 5 speed is it? I had a '90 and a '93 and they were really fun cars but both automatics. I still look around occasionally trying to find a 5 speed SE but I never see them.

Matter of fact it IS an SE with the 5spd. Wanted to put vg33 heads on it and big cams and make a screamer daily but I can’t find vg33 heads anywhere near me that aren’t attached to a villager still lol

 

[__CHI__]

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.

That idea is actually getting tossed around lol I seen an mx3 on hoonigan with two klde probe engines and it got me thinking mayyyyybe I can get away with two 5.3s...

 

[df2x4]

Matter of fact it IS an SE with the 5spd. Wanted to put vg33 heads on it and big cams and make a screamer daily but I can’t find vg33 heads anywhere near me that aren’t attached to a villager still lol

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.

 

[Erik the Awful]

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