MY 1995 MK3 CAVALIER SRI

[joe cavalier sri]

I might have mentioned somewhere that someone fitted an ex BMW "acoustic weight" to my modified exhaust, which I reckon gives me the best of both worlds. Seems that these are not very common (and I've yet to do a YouTube of the results)

I love the sound of mine very loud and throaty when rev'd ill get a vid up it p1$$es neighbours off

[joe cavalier sri]

And it burbles I like that sound

[Telegram Sam]

With the ac weight it sounds quite law abiding as you are passing the police station, but rather the opposite as you then accelerate away @ north of 4.5 K rpm. I like to think that it fools the Specs gizmos also .. Everyone to their taste (including the neighbours).

[joe cavalier sri]

With the ac weight it sounds quite law abiding as you are passing the police station, but rather the opposite as you then accelerate away @ north of 4.5 K rpm. I like to think that it fools the Specs gizmos also .. Everyone to their taste (including the neighbours).

The neighbours didn't appreciate the wonderfull sound of sound of a xe and a straight through exhaust it was funny troy even said you got your neighbours moaning lol

[Telegram Sam]

It's a matter of educating the neighbours into having good tastes.
When the exhaust specialist fitted mine I remember he was rather pooh-hooish about the various bolt-on "downstream" exhaust systems that I had been considering. He reckoned that performance and efficiency were all to to with the manifold attached directly to the cylinder block. I suspect this has an effect on the acoustics also. [the high-lift cam + flywheel don't unfortunately result in a nice low rev burble, the price I have to pay .. ]

[joe cavalier sri]

A small update removed both side skirts and rear bumper to see how much welding is needed to be done I was surprised with the cill's as I though they would be worst

This is the drivers side rear side valence.



This is same side just under the boot floor corner where sun roof drain is.








This is drivers side cill from rear wheel.









And moving to the rear valence apart from two holes not bad nick.





And moving onto the passangers side cill and rear side valence and boot floor corner where sun roof drain exits again.



This was given a good prod with a screw driver.








By far the passangers side was the worst.












This is just above the rear back box other side is ok.



Here's one for the club.



I have seen worse on newer cars I was very surprised the condition of the cill's just waiting for troy to get back to me on a price for welding her up for me

[Envoy CDX]

All too familiar are those areas.
Still, it'll fix.

[joe cavalier sri]

Also bought this off troy fully poly bushed kunifer brake lines and stainless steal hoses im going to get is shot blasted and powder coated im going to do the same with the rest of the front sub frame fully poly bush it and kunifer lines and copper fuel lines etc the list goes on








It also comes with both rear hubs with disks and calipers and backing plates are in good nick too.

[joe cavalier sri]

All too familiar are those areas.
Still, it'll fix.

Ill be totally honest I was exspecting far worse but got epoxy on way too

[Telegram Sam]

All this brings back painful and expensive memories, , hopefully now "fixed". You will no doubt be thinking about how to protect and preserve what you end up with after all the welding (I'd be interested to know)

[Envoy CDX]

Be interested to see how this turns out once you get the work done.

[joe cavalier sri]

Putting a lot of money in I want to give it to my son when he is old enough to drive her but epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed and troy is removing the spare wheel well so I can have twin exhaust coming out od rear

[Envoy CDX]

Putting a lot of money in I want to give it to my son when he is old enough to drive her but epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed and troy is removing the spare wheel well so I can have twin exhaust coming out od rear

Looking forward to seeing the results.

[joe cavalier sri]

And im getting the rear arched rolled and they will be protected by epoxy mastic as same behind the front wings too and all the front end but is just matter of rubbing down behind the front wings and removing the front bumper no welding needed there

[joe cavalier sri]

And forgot to mention ive bough a pre face lift rear spoiler without the griffin badge in the middle as I cant get a griffin badge anywhere so im going for the debadged look apart from keeping the sri badges on the doors

[Telegram Sam]

epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed

Not a DIY job??

Debadged / pre face lift spoiler / front bonnet / radiator grill all look better IMHO

[joe cavalier sri]

epoxy mastic will protect her im moving the sun roof drains in the a pillars drilling a hole into the lower a pillar behind the front wings exstending the pipes and letting them drain into the front wheel well.
And spraying wax oil down the cill's too and the whole floor pan inside and out will be coated in epoxy mastic after the rust has been removed

Not a DIY job??

Debadged / pre face lift spoiler / front bonnet / radiator grill all look better IMHO

No not a diy job been talking to troy about the welding

[Telegram Sam]

Sounds like he's a useful kinda guy to know!

[joe cavalier sri]

Sounds like he's a useful kinda guy to know!

Not cheap tho but I want it doing properly

[Robsey]

He will much cheaper than someone who does welding as his main job.
You should find that his prices will be VERY competitive.

That is a pretty poorly underside your Cav has there.
May actually be worse than mine

I too will probably be calling on Mr Troy's Wonderous Welding skills in the summer, when I have raised some funds.
But I am hoping to do some simple bits myself around March / Easter time.

[joe cavalier sri]

He will much cheaper than someone who does welding as his main job.
You should find that his prices will be VERY competitive.

That is a pretty poorly underside your Cav has there.
May actually be worse than mine

I too will probably be calling on Mr Troy's Wonderous Welding skills in the summer, when I have raised some funds.
But I am hoping to do some simple bits myself around March / Easter time.

The floor pan is solid its book'd in with troy to have spare wheel well removed and smoothed off to make it lighter and strut brace welded in in boot ill get him to give me quotes on rest when he's there its makes sense as im in no rush to get it back on road and can save up for rest to be welded by troy.
But it looks worse than it actually is its just valance corners and boot floor corners and not much of rear end of cill's but I have a garage so troy can weld it in there and beaing force fed tea and coffee and biscuits
Ive proded most of it with a screwdriver so its not going to get any bigger well not much bigger after its been cut out but that's troys domain
Im thinking about buying next parts for next job polly bush all round refurbed rear axel off troy kunifer brake lines to go with kunifer lines on axel and new petrol tank which I have off chippandan's gsi rep he rolled just need front sub frame and a few other bits I can be getting refurbed in the mean time while its sat in garage waiting to be welded.

[joe cavalier sri]

Just a small update got cutting the rust out im going to get the cill cut out at bottom to treat surface rust inside cills

Drivers side cill.








Drivers side boot floor.



Passangers side boot floor still cutting rot out.




Drivers side rear valence.




Passangers side rear valence.




Passangers side rear cill.







Inside the cav looking bare.



Strut top mount looking scabby that's going to have to be cut out

[joe cavalier sri]

Getting it mostly stripted down to be seam welded so a lot has gone in my loft wife wasn't happy lol.

[joe cavalier sri]

Also going to have to cut this out too .

[joe cavalier sri]

Some body give me posertive news it got me down seeing all this