Rebirth of Carbonfire

[kyrusfrost]

Well, finally after 4+ years I am getting my Sunfire completed.

No thanks to Sean and Perry for taking my car as their class project at our local college.





Can see the doors were finally attached, and the entire car will be repainted black.

My carbonfiber hood had pretty significant UV damage, and couldn't be completely re-cleared.
Sean had the idea of masking off the scoop, painting the rest black and reclearing the scoop.

I'm pretty excited to actually have the Sunflower in presentable condition.

Woot!

[Fast97z24]

so howd it turn out?

[kyrusfrost]

Should be seeing the Sunfire completed this week.

I went down to the shop today and checked things out.

Lo and behold, Sean was in the paint booth painting various pieces, and Perry was masking off the car itself for paint.

[rousseau9099]

[kyrusfrost]

Nice pics, Sean.

I took a couple at the shop myself, though it was only on my phone.




The car is essentially finished. The billet still needs to be replaced on the hood and bumpers, and a couple assorted
pieces from the interior.

Now I've got a long winter of sitting idle in storage, but I hope to get it out to as many meets as we can arrange
this coming Spring/Summer.

[moonwell]

Sweet!

'Bout time you finally got her back.

[Prophet]

Now you just need to yank that 2200 out and put an ECOtec in.

[kyrusfrost]

Now you just need to yank that 2200 out and put an ECOtec in.

No doubt!

Thats actually my goal, at some point.

Hopefully it won't take another 4 years though.

Engine/Tranny are a must, I was looking up what else I might need. Front axles? Possibly a new gas tank?

Maybe by the time it comes down to doing it, I could get the ecotecs from the Solstice/Sky. Aren't those 2.4?

With that much effort though, I'd be interested to know what it'd take to jump to a 3100/3400. I know a few people have done it.

[Redrider02]

I would do an Ecotec swap over v6 swap any day of the week.
This is just my 2 cents worth.
Heres a few reasons for that. (I've had a v6 2nd generation cavy) :

Spark plugs much easier to change.
Huge aftermarket for the Ecotec.
You only have to get under the car for the oil plug to change the oil. lol.
A header doesn't cost an arm,leg and first born to pay for.
HPT for tuning.
A nice choice of factory turbos/sc off other ecotec cars.

I would just do a regular 2.2 ecotec swap, its been done a ton of times and the electronics on the 2.4 ecotec would cause a lot of headaches for you.
If anything you could do a hybrid ecotec with parts from other ecotecs 2.0/2.2/2.4. There's been talk from a few ppl that have looked into doing it on ecotecforum.com (great website for info too)

[Prophet]

Or, find a trashed Sky/Solctis or a Cobalt SS with the turbo 2.0. Then you have an easy 260+hp out of the box with no mods.

[rousseau9099]

I have an Eco, the axle that you need to change, gas tank, fuel pump and guage cluster for the eco swap, all you would nee then is a tranny and wiring harness

[BadBlack_Z]

WOW! Good to see this car getting back on the road!

[Superdave]

um Rhett.. this topic is like 2 years old.

[RedefinedTSI]

I miss that car some times.....

However this 390whp 320wtq monster is a good replacement, ran a 12.95 at 105mph last weekend at the subaru shootout in Byron Ill, just got retuned last Friday so it is actually more powerful now:


Believe it or not I ran across this website again searching for something, and I was like WTF it still exists. So I had to add the update.