Well, i bought my girlfriends old car which is a 1998 chevy cavalier for $1000. Car has 146k and the engine and tranny are LIKE NEW. this is going to last awhile. Figured it would be a good car to work/learn stuff on and also a DD for winter/rainy days Its the Ugliest color ever, gold. Anyway it was having anti-theft lock issues along with wireing as my idiot lights would go on and off randomly. Dealer couldnt find the problem they said they traced all the wires and found nothing. $220 later... Still having the same problems. i know they didnt trace ****, because if they traced the wires, they would have found the 3 wires that were poorly twisted togehter under the battery in the harness going towards the headlights...also, this GIANT GND that was not connected and it has about 10 wires going to it......




Before all this happened, her low beams stopped working, took it to a local shop and they found that wires were corroded and they "replaced" them. After that day, ive been having all these problems that i mentioned above and they refused to look at it and blamed it on my cd player install... Anyways, After replacing the PCM, fixing the wires and cleaning/reconnecting that GND 5 ing cycles and no lights or weird sounds. HORRAY!

Onto the pics.





I debadged it front and rear...i DONT want to spend money on this but the BUG arggg... im thinking new headlights and a intake nothing more..........yea right haha.

 

That would be fun to play around with. I've seen some pretty bad n/a cavys out there.

 

im thinking TRD parts....

 

3rd gen!!! noooo!!

haha jk, although I am partial to 2nd gens. Just hard to find one in nice shape nowadays.

 

Auto-X It!

 

ha, not sure what i wanna do with it. Its a great DD car and great MPG. Would want to lower it...but then its going against what i wanted it for in the first place...drive it in the winter as my sedan is too low

 

Hot Rod right thur!

 

your gonna go crazy loking at that shitbox in your driveway cant wait till you break down and take care of business and i k now i have the suppport of most people on here lol

 

Sweet body kit!
lol pimp that ride!

 

wtf? you high or something that made NO sense.

 

those things were notorious for batterys leaking and getting all over the wiring harness under the tray. theres a connector down there you may want to pull apart and make sure is all good if you ever have anymore goofy problems with it. nice pick up for a winter car though

 

Those pushrod 2.2's make good DD's, my friend drives one to work and he gets over 30mpg with just a SRI and a Cat-back.. just be careful and dont let it get hot..the pushrod 2.2's are notorious for blowing head gaskets...

 

me and my friend both of 1998 2 doors cavalier . mine has the 4speed auto with 115k and hers is the 3 speed auto with 150k on it. there good cars but there slow as ****. i was thinking of puting the Z24 kit on my car i have everything just never did it. im thinking of selling it and picking up a blazer.

 

Already blew one at like 115k so im good on that major problem i was impressed, the GF KNEW to stop driving and turn off the car before any dmg was done.

 

nice DD wanting to pick up something similar. Had a 1996 2dr Cavy loved it, lost the head gasket around 33k miles in that but overall a great car. Good luck with it!

 

lol bout the wiring

 

the old 2.2's are beasts!! jk

i still have my old cav, same engine but it was an 02 (non ecotec). The only problem i had with it was that while running there is a tinging coming from the engine. sounds like a pulley is loose or something, i donno

 

definition of a beater i guess. nice dd. my old car was a cavi

 

pos, dont do **** to it. how about run it off a cliff, that would be fun. Get 1000 people to pay 1 dollar to watch.

 

ok, just kidding, but put money in the balt, not this