94 Sunbird LE from MN

[pontiacmc]

My wife has had this car for awhile but just with in the last couple years I have cleaned it up and 3400 swapped it. I have always liked the v6 J-body platform and is nice to be able to mess around with it now. I restored it for my wife but she was to afraid to do anything with it after making look so much better that she never drove it. So I figured I would try it in autocross, and dang I was doing pretty good with it. Now this winter it will get more upgrades do to cracking rear axle, and other things to make it stick to the road better.

[young gun]

Nice bird!

If your serious about auto x'ing I know of a gentlemen that has done some extreme suspension work on his 2nd gen z24.

[ericjon262]

sweet sunbird, I've always liked these cars, I want to do a RWD conversion on one so bad...

[pontiacmc]

very nice young gun. I am very serious about autoX, did it a lot this last year and brought home some trophies in SM and P. There will be a lot of suspension upgrades coming this winter.

[pontiacmc]

just a couple more pictures.


and picked up a SE rear bumper and header panel just yesterday

[Purple pit]

Love the color! Hell I just love those J bodys anyway. Anything you do to the rear suspension I'd sure like to hear about it(and see photos).

[pontiacmc]

nothing done to the rear just yet, but will be soon do to cracking stock beam during a autox. Picking up Beretta beam this week. All I really have done to the suspension is KYB Excel G shocks/struts, convert springs, and bushings.

[Purple pit]

Damn I have one of those already(it came with the car lol). So are the KYB Excel G's the same as the GR2's? What bushings did you get, the FE3's?

[pontiacmc]

Moog bushings and the Exel Gs are a step down from the GR2 I believe. It was working for me tho, need to center the weight a little better and it should be real strong.

[pocket-rocket]

Thankfully the Excel G are the same as the GR2 since they were all Tirerack had for my car.

From KYB's website:

What is the difference between the KYB GR-2 and the Excel-G products?


GR-2 and Excel-G
We apologize that this is a bit confusing. Both products are identical, except for the product name and paint color.

http://www.kyb.com/technical/faq/faq06.php

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[pontiacmc]

well I didn't know that, thanks.

[pocket-rocket]

No problem. I was relieved to read it too, lol.

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[Purple pit]

Me too. I had GR2's on my Cavy and they were nice! I have AGX now and hate them. They are too stiff on setting one with Eibachs. I'm not even going to try any higher setting.

[pontiacmc]

picking up my Beretta axle beam Saturday. Does anyone know if the Jbody brakes will bolt onto the Beretta axle beam?

[Purple pit]

They should be the same.