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My old mighty 81 vauxhall Chevette with a little twist to it. Bought this car 3 years ago for my sons first car all stock standard. Few months later, it blew a head gasket. We decided to strip the engine down and to sell off in parts. I had decided to take it off his hands and have been looking for a project for a while. I found a Nissan sr20de engine with 5 speed gearbox that had been worked on, lots of money spent on the motor with forged internals etc.. And bought this engine for a cheap price! The first time the engine was going to be placed into the car, the sump needed to be tubbed so it could fit over the x member and an oil cooler was fitted to give it extra capacity for oil. Custom radiator was fitted, front brakes and callipers had to be changed to Audi rotors and holden Astra callipers for it to actually stop!! The good thing about this car is that it is all certified!Heavy duty clutch also fitted in and lightened flywheel. The whole build took just over a year to get it all certified. Surge tank,high volume petrol pump and battery are in the boot.She has never had any problems, never broken down, and runs extremely nicely! Good change from 50hp to 180hp.Drives and handles well and surprises a lot of people
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So i ended up buying another Chevette at the start of this year. You can check out my other Chevette here //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/25371-friendlyfires-chevette-hs-c20xe/#entry643012 which is still sitting in a shed in Nelson as i have now moved to Blenheim. Once i have settled down in Blenheim and have a decent garage, progress will then continue on that one. So my recent purchase was this lime green chevette (Registered as a Chevanne because it never had rear seats as was used by the post for deliveries) key features of the car is Sr20 engine, gear box, Isuzu Piazza Diff, Steering rack, front brakes. The car was very rough when i first got it, lots of broken and missing items (indicator stalk, window winders, center console, mirrors, bumpers, rev guage, gearbox leak, front brakes) but all those are easy fixes which have now been repaired. apart from one thing which i am having a very hard time finding which is the big rubber donut torque tube diff mount everyone that i have tried knows nothing about it and cant get them, the torque tube is isuzu piazza but im sure holden gemini would be the same? so any help with that would be much appreciated. The reason behind the purchase is that i finished uni last year and scored myself a sweet job in Blenheim but i didnt have a car on the road at that stage so instead of buying a cheap 90's jap car i decided to go old school as my daily and i love chevettes so it was a no brainer. The futures plans for this car is nothing crazy at the moment, will continue to tidy it up and add features to improve quality of life as im driving it each day This is the car as i got it Stole the springs and wheels off my other chevette as i am not a fan of driving the chevette on 17" wheels which scrape all the time and on springs pretty much touch the bump stops and get crazy bump steer. Heres the car after putting on wing mirrors, springs the raise it up, wheels, front and rear bumpers Father and sons car cruze, went out to marahau to catch up with Alex (yoeedynz)
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Hi all, As of this coming Sunday I will be the proud owner of Vettie for a full year (how time flies!) so I thought it’s about time I make a thread for her. Discuss here I owned a burnt orange Chevette wagon back in 2006/7. Tried to swap the original 1256cc Vauxhall motor and 4 speed gearbox out for a Gemini g161z 1600 + 5Speed, but got as far as the driveshaft and got stuck (student spec finances and stuff-all mechanical know-how didn’t help). - please excuse the god-awful trispoke wheels, they were the only thing with rubber at the time. Around the same time I had the opportunity to finish my studies over in Melbourne, so decided to sell up and shift over to ‘Straya for a bit. Fast forward to 2012 and I’m back in NZ, owned a motorbike, sold a motorbike, missing the fun of an old car and find this for sale: Already had the Isuzu Piazza g200z 2L + 5 Speed conversion done! Bought the car from OS/GM-T forum member aninja before he left for ‘Straya (something about these cars push people to the West Island?). Crazytim got the widened steelies before I bought this, so the car came on some sweet original Rostyle wheels. A couple of small issues: Exhaust stops before the diff Small bits of rust Still has the tiny Chevette radiator Windshield, and side window rubbers leak a bit, so no carpet No rear seat base No speedo cable. No cert.
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Hey guys feel free to talk shit here/give me advice. I have lots of questions so shout out if you know anything about these gr8 cars haha
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Hey everyone this is my 2nd chevette, I've had it since roughly the start of the year. I bought it of the guy that had it as a sort of unfinished project. anyways ive got it all back on the road now and have sold my wheels and bought some ssr mk1s from japan for it. they should be here in a couple of weeks now i thought since ive got it sitting on blocks in the garage it would be a good time to get some stuff done/finished on it. heres a crappy picture and a picture of the wheels i got for it to replace the xxrs it came on.
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Discuss here Pics here
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Can anyone tell me where in NZ I can buy some rod ends similar to the below pic? I am building a ladder bar rear end for my chevette but I'm struggling to find them in NZ. They will need to be able to be certified
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Discussion Thread //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/21479-sexychevettes-chevette/?hl=sexychevette Thought i may as well make a thread for the chevette. Had it for over two years now. Spotted it on the side of the road and told rot808 to buy it. He goes 'nah why dont you buy it dick'. So i did. Its pretty badass...mods= kustum audio install(not by me, although i did add new 6x9's after the others died), enhanced springs, adjustable panhard rod, sexy widened rostyle wheels in 13x7, custom bonnet opener, fluffy dice, monkeys and union jacks on ariel and back seat. So yeah im pretty useless at doing anything quickly Future mods: have a gemini g161z and 5speed gbox, along with a drive shaft and gemini diff. Also have some badass extractors for the engine, just need to suss a carb. Was thinking one of those webbers off those 2L fords but now im thinkn i might add a crazy cam and get some guy who knows stuff about things to do abit of head work on the bitch. Also been looking at bike carbs for a laugh if i do tickle up the engine. Also i want to find some piazza brakes for the front and rear as well as a piazza lsd diff head to go inside my gemini diff. Also want to learn how to weld so that i can use my welder(acetylene ) to fix some of the rust under the battery tray and in the floors and around the boot and under the rear window, etc. so yeah, heres a few pics ive got on my computer. Ill take some more soon cos its lower and the wheels are more rusty. snapcracklepop
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Well this is new project, 1979 Vauxhall chevette Sedan. Also seen in such threads as "Mikuni's 1979 Chevette Sedan": http://www.oldschool.co.nz/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9774 Appears to have had four owners so far.It's also one of only a handfull of "GL" chevettes,Featuring the highest output 1256 in it's class...... Body is in a pretty rough state, and it's going to be staying like that for awhile/ till i'm sick of it. Sussing out whitewall flappers at the moment, along with more period styling mods.
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My Sedan: Bought car Put wagon next to it Lowered it, put wheels on and pulled springs to check clearance issues. I had to buy an adjustable panhard rod to get things straight but it still has abit of clearance issues due to the saggy rear end. Go for phat photo shoot Painted my tyres today in preparation for beach hop. I was hoping to have the flappers by then but it looks like I won't be so lucky. Also got my roof racks today. Thanks a million to Dan (escorta) and kerryn (TRD_CHICK) Painting is rough. Plans are to lower it more before the weekend. Then after the weekend have the wheels widened to 13x7, powdercoated black and attach flapper whitewalls.
