Saturday I pulled out my turbo z24 for the first time in 9 months. It has been under a car cover the whole time. These pictures are before I washed it. I also have a couple goodies for it, and lots of plans.




This is a new part I got. It has to be refinished, but you get the idea.



Also got these for it.

 

nicee.. minus the auto

 

looks good... what's up with the interior though, is it just hte picture or is the dash falling apart.

 

Not feeling it. Sorry. You should sell it and buy an SS/SC.

 

When I got it it had been painted, but the paint cracked. I have been peeling it off. It will be getting refinished.


Why should I get a SS???? Get rid of that car NEVER!!!!

 

Oh and I like the auto. Allows me to worry about other things. Plus my 2001 z24 is a manual. I have the best of both worlds.

 

in my eyes, thats a pretty good example of domestic rice, if it wasn't turbo'd, id really hate it

 

I wanna say those are from a picture phone otherwise if not get a new camera car paint looks slick though

 

can we get a pic of under the hood and what does it run for times

 

Love the hood,It looks like you invested alot in her congrats

 

Good camera fone if it is.

 

i dunno what to say to some of u guys here, thats the Grim Reaper, alot of history that car has... buy a cobalt ss? hell no, even auto i bet it could smoke a ss/sc...


John u know i love that car, u can never ever sell it and if u do i want it!!! cant wait to see what u've got planned for it, and of course cant wait to find out how she runs once u get that motor fixed...

 

awesome looking car, auto sucks tho

 

Ok some more info. It was not a camera phone, yes I could use a new camera, but I have 2 Z24's that are my toys and money goes to them first.

I can't believe you call this rice (but to each there own), and it if it did not have a turbo you would really call it that. A turbo does not make a car rice or not.

As for what the car runs/ran. Since I have had it it went to the track once. 14.9's on 4psi. I could only get 4 psi because I blew the turbo to manifold gasket on the way. It ran 14.9's all day. Also the car currently is non-intercooled with 240 degrees intake temps, but has still ran with STI's. I'm not happy with the times it got with me, but those will get better I assure you.

Future plans are fixing the motor (not sure whats up), intercooled, swapping to a 97 ECU so we can use HPTuners to tune with. Besides that lots of boost!!

Thanks for the comments. I will try to find a picture of the engine bay.

 

the camera was an hp photosmart 120 series cam ... I like the 3rd pic the best it looks really smooth. If you work hard to make a car look tastefully nice i dont think it can be considered rice. There are lots of cars that are done up with just enough taste to be unique and those are the cars I like to see. While the cavy is not my cup o tea what you have done to it makes it look good. I would ride with you man good luck with your project

 

Thanks.

 

Also how did you know what camera I used?

 

any camera you have identifies itself with embeded information. It shows information regarding the f stop, iso, exposure, shutter etc. Here is your image with your cam settings displayed,

 

so why has it been sitting for 9 months?

 

The car looks great man good work. It actually reminds me a lot of an Eclipse.

 

looks good!

 

Well 9 months ago I was driving it to one of our monthly meets. My EGT's were way high, something was not right. When we got to the meet, I popped the hood everything sounded fine. I idled it up and held it at 2k, thne heard a pop and it shut off. The car started back up, but had a weird noise. We thought rod bearing. had it towed to my friends house. We check the oil no signs of spun rod bearing, pulled the plugs all looked good. I parked it at that point and covered it up. I was in the middle of a divorce and really did not have money to put into it. I also was fed up with it at that point as well. I had been putting a lot of time into fine tuning it, and fixing little issues. Had just got it running great!!! when this happened. I'm in much better shoes now in regards to being able to fix it, and have the want to get it on the road again!!! I miss boost. Should be lots more updates on it in the next month or so. Thanks for your comments.

 

I like it minus the hood scoop and the auto trans.

 

You have neons in your car......need I say more.

 

Very nice man...those 2.4s may not be as refined as the Ecotec, but they're still strong little workhorses. I don't doubt you saying you ran with STi's when it was running well. Keep up the good work.