3.2 Cavalier (another car that I sold last year)

I had this car for 11 years she started off life as a 93 2.5 24v V6 Cavalier but after a cam belt failure (only 6K on the belt) she had to have a heart transplant and thanks to a totalled police omega I had a 3.2 lump to go with

This is generally the same engine as the 2.5 but took a bit of work to make fit. A lot of the parts were sourced from a mate who worked for the tuning arm of Holden (GM down under) which made life a bit easier (but expensive in shipping)

The engine puts out 200+ BHP as standard but after some playing

1. Fully ballanced engine with lightened flywheel
2. High lift cams
3. Ported and polished big valve heads
4. Custom inlet manifold with 12 injectors
5. Custom map ECU & gearbox (she's an auto)
6. Custom stainless manifolds and exhaust with 2 sports cats! (for the MOT emmisions)
7. Custom Oil cooler
8. High compression pistons


She went off the scale on the rolling road we were using at the time so all I know is she had more than 250BHP but at a later date when we did a remap it ended up at 316BHP (bit optimistic but I'll take that figure thank you)

for people that don't know me I get more pleasure out of having a "Q" car than shouting about it so the external looks almost std Cavalier but if you look closely you can tell

16" wheels (with holden sourced trims)
BIG!! Vented /Drilled / Grooved disks all round with 4 pot calipers
215 /55 Bridgestones
Full Bilstein Suspension (with just a slightly lower ride hight)
Uprated antiroll bar
and an engine note that gets the old loins stiring especialy at over 6000rpm

My main achevment was managing to keep all the electronics working the TC was a bugger to do but vital in the wet I can tell you!! which is one of the reasons she only goes on road in the summer!!

To be honest it had too much power to be usable except in a straight line although overtaking is a hoot She was my everday car for a good while and has never missed a beat since the last bolt was nipped up or used a drop of Mobil 1. But she only runs on full proper super unleaded (not optimax) and on a good day manages mid 20's to the gallon on a bad day (a heavy right foot day) low teens if I was lucky.

This car is currently on the roads around Leeds with its new owner so if you get blitzed at the lights one day you know why

I remember seeing this car hideing under a dust cover secretly hiding an amzing engine!!, impressive spec, bet its great to get it on the motorway and see what it can do!!

i love to see cars like this,,,,sleepers! not what it says on the tin haha

jason

Really nice car shame you don't see many now and a very impressive bhp looks neat

im a bit of a fan of the old Cav turbos from back in the day, with 4 wheel drive! a bloke round sheffield has a white one with some big power,,,,,,not something you want to see at the lights

jason

i liked the old cav and calibra v6's but was never keen on the turbo 4wd's due to the 4wd being very tempremental, a lot of them had failing transfer box's when the tyres wore unevenly meaning they were only 2wd anyways. Loved the rwd omega's, was the cav fwd or 4wd. how was it with torque steer if fwd, went in one of those little alfa's with 250bhp and that torque steered like no other car i'd driven.
Bet the big v6 sounded awesome.

Well I've heard through the grape vine that unfortunately the car has been totalled by it's new owner

More to the point it's end apparently was assisted thanks to a number of police cars and a Helicopter. According to my brother who is a local police inspector the car has picked up a marker as being used in the supply of drugs

allanhelen wrote:Well I've heard through the grape vine that unfortunately the car has been totalled by it's new owner

More to the point it's end apparently was assisted thanks to a number of police cars and a Helicopter. According to my brother who is a local police inspector the car has picked up a marker as being used in the supply of drugs

Total shame! there isnt enough older mint examples of things like that car around let alone one with a spec list like that one had.



jason