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I like that idea about the plugs, as it really dosent turn over particularly fast, I'm gonna try that in a minute . Hell, i havent even had the plugs out of it yet... now thats a fucking good idea isnt it? gah...

Yeap, i get that, but i made sure it was at tdc on no1 on its compression stroke by having the tappet cover off, no4 was just ending its exhaust stroke. At that point the rotor is pointing at no1 lead. I did go and swap the leads 180deg tho, and it was the same, except this time there was the odd backfire. I'll try some "start ya bastard" when my flatmate is home and see how it goes.

Checked plug order, it was wrong when i got it, ive corrected, 1-3-4-2 sytlez. When its at tdc, firing on no.1, the rotor is pointing at no.1 plug lead, so i dont rekon its out by 180 deg. .

Okay, its not the most complicated of engines, but i must be missing something really simple. After fixing up some dodgy wiring, and making sure the grounds were all good, the starter motor engages (inertia type) and it cranks over. I checked it was actually sparking by removing the coil lead from the distriputor cap, holding it near the intake manifold and seperating the distributor contacts manually... it sparks, awesome. I set the timing the oldschool way, rotated the engine till the crank pully was lined up with the 9 deg BTDC mark, firing on no.1 cyl. I hooked up my voltmeter to the low tension lead coming from the distributor and a good ground, then rotated the distributor until it flicked up to 12V (i.e the contacts have *just* opened)... Now, it cranks over, back-fires occasionally, but just wont go. Any ideas? A few nice high-res of an un-molested chevette engine bay would probably help if anyone has any? Cheers .

You know, ive had a fuck load of jobs before doing all sorts... And i can tell you there is alot more to work at Repco than you'd first think... 90% of the time is spent ordering and sending stuff out for trade customers, dealing with retail punters off the street is actually pretty uncommon. Not that its a hard job, its pretty damn cruisey. I'll keep working there part time while im at uni, mainly for the ohhhh soooo goooooooood staff discount .

thats crap man, you need atleast one day a week off!

Looking good man, find a new door already! . Not tempted to try your dash motor in it?

First step is getting it going, hehe. My flatmate is on the way currently. He also works at Repco, fuck we're in-bred around here.

Alas, the battery is dead flat, and this is my only car (I usually push-bike everywhere, save the enviroment, bloody hippy). Soooo i cant have a go at getting it running. I did get busy however, and gave it a good clean. I decided i'd start all the little jobs from the front back, and outside in. First was remove the kit, second was remove all the bodgy overspray from the indicators. How it looked when i started... not to bad, but lots of paint marks and road tar everywhere. After a good clean and cut. Man the paint comes up smooth and nice! Really amazing. Shame about all the scrapes and what-not, but its an old car you have to expect it. Its just flavour! Indicator lense. The orange tints were all cracked and broken, so i've removed them alltogether, and will just run an orange bulb. Currently im just waiting on my flatmate to bring a battery home, and i'll kick it in the guts to see what happens, wish me luck! Chur. 250507: Round 2! New battery, check, Nulon "Start ya bastard!", check... and im off. The starter dosent engage however... there is a big click from the relay by the firewall, but nothing else... After taking the starter out and checking it (it went), i had a further look. Hooking the starter directly off jumper leads works... so i use a jumper lead as a seconday engine ground, and hey presto, she cranks over. Took the ground off and cleaned up up real prudy, now it cranks over fast, but still wont start. Preliminary investigations show no spark... But its getting late, so that'll be a job for tomorrow evening. Still not going, but definate progress.

I cant think why anyone would hate Chevettes... They're pretty cool looking, quirky, but decent styling. They have coils on all 4, double wishbones at the front even. Also, they have a steering rack, not a god-damned shitty fucking box. Man i HATE steering box setups, leaky, loose fucking things... . They are kind under powered... but thats half the fun of doing one up.

Man the interweb is awesome.

SOLD . PMing you right now .

So very very keen on that, chur!

Yes, im shit. Fixed now tho.

Not sure. Apparently just timing and checking everything has been done right. The motor has been swapped because the old one was smokey. Ive never played with anything that wasen't fuel injected, or had pushrods, or imperial nuts and bolts! hah! Its going to be a learning curve, but im really psyched . Friday will see it going i tentatively hope, and a damn good clean up.

Woohoo, found a Chevanne! I can remember Dad bringing one of these home on a test drive back when i was just learning to drive... was going to be something to teach me in, but it was a bit of a lemon, so it went back to the yard. After seeing a couple of the Chevettes on this site, my interest was piqued, and low to behold, this one was found . Why cant i ever buy a car that actually runs!? Add to that the fact i dont have any imperial tools... Thank god i work at repco and get decent tools cheap, or i'd be screwed. That kit is very very ugly. It will be removed just as soon as i can find an original chrome bumper. Seems pretty tidy, smells like an old car, thats for sure, but not like a smokers car, so thats a plus. The spares, not shown is the original engine, which is also included, but yet to be picked up. Plans are to: A) Get it going! remove that front kit, get some rostyles and widen them, then lower it quite a bit. Tints, tidy the body some more, and enjoy

Looks like that exhaust is off a starion? I used a starion exhaust on mine, and had to lengthen it by 20-30 cm .

get a socket just marginally to small and smash it on with a hammer, that'll sort em.

Wheels: Looks like you;ve got some 5*120 wheels from a holden? You could get some bolt on spacers made with the same stud pattern as the wheels, but it'll probably cost you about as much as the wheels did .

Kickass man, I really want to see this thing pulling a mean skid... Chop chop! .

Try checking the voltage at the starter while a mate is trying to crank it over. The cable might be good enough for no drop when there is no load, but as soon as the starter gets hungry for some current it might not be able to cut it.

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It has different front lights, which is weird... I kinda prefer ours i think. but damn starion widebody wheels are the pure sex. Those are the Sport Handling Package ones, 16"x9", +12 offset on the rear, 16"x8", 0 offset on the front... fucking perfect.

That solver car is the earlier shape, they are a little rounder, have more meat in the rear pillar, a different shape to the boot, and more glass in the rear window. Here is my inspiration, starion 5 stud bits and starion widebody wheels, fucking drooooool!

Fuck your car looked straight on import x, well done man, congrats .