My project for the day Part II

[OffshoreDrilling]

I swapped out my upper intake on thursday night, and finished it up last night when I got home from work. My car now has the entire top end (heads, lower intake, and upper intake) from the LX9 3.5L motor in the 05 G6 and malibu.

It was a son of a bitch to get that thing on there too. I had to grind away a TON of material on the neck to the throttle body, grind away at the throttle cable bracket , solder in a new MAP harness, different MAP from a cavalier, re pipe all my PCV and vacuum lines, shorten a few bolts, bend a power steering line out of the way, and pull up a fuel rail to relocate the routing of a harness.

New manifold on the engine, old sitting in front.

Nice and dirty engine bay, with lots of messy wiring!

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[IDAFC21]

pretty nice. what kinda gains does this net you?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

It moves the powerband up the rpm range some more. Nothing measureable by my butt dyno though. Just swapping the heads, stock for stock, I dropped .3 off of my quarter mile. No porting at all.

My car is still slow junk though. The new motor will help, if it ever gets done.

 

[Mickey]

Oh noes, you forgot to plug in the egr Thats pretty custom, did u come up with that idea yourself or is that a fairly common mod? Either way nice work. And .3 in the 1/4?

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

No, I didnt forget to plug the EGR in. The plug wasnt long enough to move where it is now. Its disabled via. my powertuner anyways.

I didnt come up with the idea myself, but its not common either. Right now, I know of 2 other people with the manifold swapped, and Im 1 of 2 people with the heads swapped.

 

[IDAFC21]

w/ as long as grand ams have been around im really surprised theres not more of an aftermarket for them

 

[Dasfinc]

w/ as long as grand ams have been around im really surprised theres not more of an aftermarket for them

Lots of Ricer lights are available for them , and lots of "GRAND AM" windshield banners in odd choices of text.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

w/ as long as grand ams have been around im really surprised theres not more of an aftermarket for them

Its starting to pick up a little bit now. They are getting cheap enough that a lot of younger people can afford them. $5k will get you one with under 75k on it.

The motor is pretty popular to swap into other cars. There are a ton of fieros, earlier cavaliers, and berettas using them. As a matter of fact there is a local guy from glendale heights with a 3400 swapped cavalier z24. His motor is stock besides bolt ons and a homemade turbo kit. Best time of 12.2xx
358WHP 365tq on a lighter car with a 5 speed.

Couple of flyby vids:

 

[qwik01cobra]

race car

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

race car

You know it.

 

[IDAFC21]

now THERES a cavalier