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Well i have had the cavalier a while now and though it was about time that I started a WIP, I couldn't find a cleaner cavalier if I tried, bought from an old chap who has had it as far back as I can trace. when I went to see it I about fainted when I seen the condition of it, underneath looks like its never seen the road, the mileage is high 150k yet the car didn't reflect this, I am sure it has an interesting story to tell but ill never know.
Anyway this brings me to my first post, the car was completely standard when purchased, the god awful moon buggy ride height still remains although I do have a suspension kit ready to go on, but as the cavalier is off the road just now for the winter I am not that fussed on it. right, ill take it from the start to how it looks now, onto the pictures:
First thing for me was to get rid of the black panel on the back and those naff orange tail lights, quick raid of the cavalier parts shed and I found some late type SRi lights and a colour coded panel, along with a GSi front bumper.
Then off with the black panel, was amazed at how clean it was behind it.
Picture of the new lights fitted.
Next was the GSi front bumper, no problems really, the original bumper came off fairly easy.
The interior was clean although the gear and handbrake gaitors were very worn so I ordered some new ones, forgot to take a picture of them fitted though, looks alot better.
I have a bit of a picture blank from here onwards, just simply forgot to take any pictures, I got together the rest of the GSi/Turbo kit, rear bumper, bump strips, side skirts and the rear lip spoiler, Turbo alloys, I do have the end caps but they were in bad nick so I repainted them, just never got round to fitting them yet.
As the cavalier is off the road and with having no time to work on it, its been sat there for a few months without anything happening to it, since owning the car its never had a heater, so I decided to crack on with changing the thermostat, anyone who doesnt know the V6, the thermostat happens to be right in the middle of the V's, so that means a fair bit need to come off, prior to doing this I dropped a washing tablet in the coolant and ran it through the system for a few days before flushing it out, I flushed everything out, radiator, matrix etc until it was only clear water coming out. then I began on the strip down.
the manifolds, lower dividers, throttle body etc. were all cleaned, primed and painted with red engine enamel, I forgot to take pictures but I have a few of me building it back up, engine was surprisingly clean, all breather pipes were clear which is unusual on the V6, especially with the miles it has done. anyway back to the pictures:
and this brings me to present, coolant was bled through the system this morning and I was very happy to have a nice roasty toasty heater, while the car was running I gave it a good polish, the panels were too cold for a wax coating, I decided that I am neither going for a turbo look or a GSi look and the white/black was rather plain, so I opted for the red SRi stripe to give it some colour, the vectra colour coded handles get rid of the naff factory black handles, I have since just purchased a set of white vectra supertouring alloys so the mega clean turbo alloys will be going, unsure whether to sell or keep them as spares, time will tell, i also have some turbo rear cluster and panel, the panel requires painting, if i remember I will take pictures of this. apart from that, it will be tucked away til summer, where the bilsteins will be going on, finally getting it lowered. Oh and one last thing, I changed the side repeaters for nice clear ones and also was very lucky to get a new number plate light for the back, getting rid of the yellow thing that it had.
pictures as it stands now:
Colour coded handles and the red stripe
Turbo cloth interior - will be going for some turbo leather
Clear side repeaters
Plans for the future, store till summer, get the bilsteins fitted, opted for some cheeky B12 shockers with eibachs, get a stainless system made for it, stainless manifolds, 3l cams and then enjpy
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thats one clean shell! 
Originally Posted by Cavyman_130 
