stargazer7467’s 1995 Pontiac Sunfire

LED tail lamps.Got a  set of euro tail from a trade with a friend, decided they were too bland. Found out that a premade semi truck taillight assembly fit perfectly into the hole where the red ball was. Littel bit of weather strip for trim and a tight seal and some dabs of hot glue from the rear and I was set. Everythign is prewired and weather proof, so the turn signals blink preperly.

Air ride-Ah here we are, the sport compact peformance person's Kryptonite. I received numerous flames when I started theis project. "Why bother with going fast with the air irde stuff all over it". I guess they didnt know that the equipment weighs as much of less that the stereos thayre all hauling around.  Anyways, I have a convertible, on average they weigh 500lb more than the hard top models or my car. Settle down Mr. Andretti, and enjoy the ride.

Turbo stuffs-Got the bug for boost from my other vehicle, the Omni GLH turbo, also in my garage here. Have a look. Anyway this vehicle started with my intensions of being just a engine project car with mostly fast in mind, however I joint a great group of guys and their car club, Bittersweet Reality, and they change my outlook a bit. After joining up on the show circuits a bit I realized there was a bit more than just going fast to get props on the vehicles. So I decided to go show and go. So now that this vehicle journey is approaching full circle, we are back at the GO part again.

Now that i have interior stuff, here is the Interior stuff page. :) First off, I LOVE FLAT RATE JUNKYARDS. Scored the whole set of white leather seats from another Sunfire convertible. They are stock in a limited amount of them, but are still very cool to me. Gave a whole $53.47 for them. They cleaned up very nice with some Westleys bleach white and a treatment of Meguires leather conditioner. Now Ill have a tripple white convertible, well, quadruple white if you count the wheels.

This car started out as a beat up 95 Sunfire Covnertible, I gave $500 and a cd player for it and drove it home. It had a broken shifter cable, and the guy thought it needed a tranny. The top was so shrunken and torn it flapped in teh wind on the back, and sported an L shaped hole in the roof from where someone decided they needed to have the stero out of it.About a week later the stock engine blew out of it(with help of me and wipe open shift due to the broken shift cable). Rod started knocking. Found out that since my car was a 95 manual tranny the older version of the Quad4 would drop right into my car and work, largly due to the lack of the cam sensor found on the autos and 2.4s of late.A friend sold me the donor car, a 90 Beretta GTZ. Car came with an HO Quad4, 180hp, more aggressive cams, higher CR, better flowing head. That'll do the trick. Dropped right in and ran great.A little later down the road, the upgrades came again, rebuilt her into W41 status. Landed an "086" for it. The best flowing head for the engine and also has larger valve by a few MM. The W41 cams, same lift but longer duration. The W41 was good for 190 in stock trim, and gave a nice lope at idle, not bad for upgrading with stock parts.Alas I was limited by the stock PCM, its rev limiter would kill me half way thought the power band. The stocker PCM would cut me short at about 6200RPM, a grand short of where the W41 begs for a shift.   Page Nav-(1) Random pics(2) LED Tailights(3) Turbo stuff(4) Air Ride(5) Interior thangs and suchNew pic since the body work-

Complete with gay map holder which is actually goona be the place to put the tuning laptop later down the road.Got the new steering wheel installed, took me a while scouring the internet for the white version of this grant wheel, the red ones are in stock a nearly every parts store >:O. We'll see how much of a bitch this is to keep clean :).

Last years pics-

This is an GM8 IHI Borg Warner Duramax Diesel turbocharger, the manifold is a late 80's tubular steel Quad4 manifold, this i used for a usable flange, since it was steel I could have it welded. Since NOONE makes a flange for Quad4 this was the way to go for me. Anyways I chose the GM8 mostly because of price, $56 on ebay, but this bad boy is a T3/T4 hybrid stock with a 360* thrust bearing. Plus I wanted something that would breath. Some people done use them because the turbine inlet and the discharge are faceing the same way right next to each other, this is where external gates are your friend.

Custom made this gauge mount from the old cubby hole part of the console. I cus tthe inner part out and left the outer shape, basicly just cut out the bottom and where the lighter socket was. Wrapped it up with a red shop towel and laid fiberglass and bondo over it. Still needs some edge finishing had a show to go to the next day. The gauge mounting surface itself was formed with a paint cap.

Got him mounted in there where I wanted it, none if it is even close to working yet, there not even a hole in the manifold under the flange is yet! I was also blessed with the ability to use the stock heat sheild that came with the turbo. Turns out I wont have to move anything or delete anything, not the A/C accumulator still in place, not even the cruise servo had to move (empty bracket on strut bar).

Last years pics-

The new set of wheels I just picked up, they look similar but have a polished face and slimmer spokes. But couldnt pass up the deal, $300 with only 100 miles on them.So I pulled the car out of storage and broke an air strut, well they had a good life, bought them used about 3 years ago and who knows what they had been through. Bit the bullet and bought a new set form easystreet. Theyre are the sleeve type bag now tho so im gonna have to modify them to get them to go as low. Although these babies have a really nice mount design, much better than the old one.