Built V6 Thing: 1984 Chevrolet Chevette
This next car has a shockingly optimistic asking price for a Chevette that wasn’t owned by Elvis — but it might have enough added value with its custom built engine…oh..wait, its got a 4.3 V6? Yikes. Not sure I’d drop this much coin on a V6 powered Chevette, but it is still an interesting build. Find this 1984 Chevrolet Chevette offered for $23,000 in Batavia, OH via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck.
From the seller:
1984 Cheverolet Chevette
condition: like new
cylinders: 6 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 50000
paint color: red
size: compact
title status: clean
transmission: automatic
type: coupe
Price Reduced! 1984 Chevrolet Chevette 265 cubic inch (.030 over 4.3L V6)
No corners cut on this project
Owned for over 30 years
This Chevette gets a lot of attention at car shows or the strip
Never any rust or accidents
Engine: 265 cubic inch .030 over 4.3L V6)
Built by Ellison Engines Cincinnati
Brodix aluminum heads (NASCAR heads) valves (2.08 valve)
Aluminum tall valve covers
Brodix aluminum intake polished (NASCAR intake)
Radical Lunati roller cam .622 IN .624 EX
Shot peened and polish rods
Balanced
High compression pistons compression (12 ½ – 1 compression)
New aluminum water pump
Electric fan
HEI distributor
Double roller timing chain
Deeper oil pan
Edelbrock carburetor
Racing alternator pulley
Turbo 350 transmission rebuilt with shift kit, new TCI converter and trans cooler
New driveshaft
9” Ford 28 spline posi rear end by Moser
16” Corvette wheels in back with 13” wheels in the front that match Corvette wheels
Mikey Thomson rear tires and front tires are like new
Fuel cell and batter in the back with aluminum cover over both
Electric shut off and connectors in the back
Holley red electric fuel pump
Pro Lite tach and shift light
New windshield
Racing seats
Frame connectors
Car has the optional side pop out windows
Painted with base coat/clear red Porsche red. Paint looks great.
All extra parts included:
New exhaust with chambered mufflers
Another complete set of wheels just like on the car
Two spare engines
New aluminum radiator
All paperwork and pictures from build
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Saw the cheap plastic “race” seats and “No corners cut”, and my first thought was, “Yeah, right.” Then I got to the engine specs – even with that price tag, I didn’t see a NASCAR Baby Grand motor coming.
I wouldn’t part with that much for a ‘vette. But That engine sounds bad ass.
The whole point of building a sleeper is the sleeper aesthetic. Bright red with a high rise hood and Corvette wheels? Not sleepy. Also, nothing says “cut corners” like those Pep Boys gauges screwed to the bottom of the dash.
This one isn’t what I’d call a sleeper, just more of an effort to find a find the lightest body shell and cram the most power into it that you can.
My fetish for sleepers distorts how I view modified cheap-o cars. From my perspective this is lipstick on a pig, but I see how someone else could look at a Chevette and see a blank slate for a fast car. I guess.
Maybe.
I was seeing an entirely different saying about hogs, myself: “You can’t make a race horse out of a pig, but you can make a very fast pig.”
There is a true sleeper Chevette out there in the net-land. It’s black, has steelie wheels and hubcaps, stock interior, no hood scoop…….and a built 427 big block with L-88 heads. Anything off idle threatened to break out the tires and lift up the front end.
Is it just me or are those wheels on backwards???