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Happy New Year to everyone, hopefully you will come to think of this thread as my New Year's gift to you.
This thread is about taking a Solstice apart, but let me tell you a little about myself.....
I joined this Forum a year ago, ordered my Solstice on the 1st day they were taking orders. Took delivery of my Sol last week after a wait of 8 months & 8 days.
Everysince I 1st heard about the Solstice, I have been planning to put a LS1 V-8 in it. I actually bought the Crate LS1 engine for it last June when we were thinking we might get them during the Summer. I know that a V-8 in a Solstice has already been done but all we've seen is pictures of the engine in the car. No pictures of the building process or even pics from underneath. They didn't even show us pics of the old driveline coming out. Hopefully you'll see the parts we are dealing with in this thread.
For the last 18 years I've made a living by installing SBC engines into Pontiac Fieros & selling kits so the home builder could do it himself.
I am hoping to get 250 miles or so on my Sol so I can determine if it needs any Warrantee work before I begin to take it apart. I figure that we'll start taking it apart in a week or so & it occured to me that a lot of Forum members have been using GM supplied chassis pictures as Avators..... maybe some of you would like to see what the Sol chassis & other parts actually look like. Maybe we might actually make some discoveries along the way.
I'm very excited about taking this car apart & I hope you are pleased & become excited too.
I'll be posting a lot of pictures but they will be hosted on my own web site so I won't take up much space here.
Anyway, I decided to take the front wheels off just to look around.
I found something interesting. Take a look.........
I've got an outboard C/V joint for a G6 6-speed car & it fits that Spline perfectly.
Could Pontiac be thinking about an AWD Solstice?
Happy New Year.
Archie
This thread is about taking a Solstice apart, but let me tell you a little about myself.....
I joined this Forum a year ago, ordered my Solstice on the 1st day they were taking orders. Took delivery of my Sol last week after a wait of 8 months & 8 days.
Everysince I 1st heard about the Solstice, I have been planning to put a LS1 V-8 in it. I actually bought the Crate LS1 engine for it last June when we were thinking we might get them during the Summer. I know that a V-8 in a Solstice has already been done but all we've seen is pictures of the engine in the car. No pictures of the building process or even pics from underneath. They didn't even show us pics of the old driveline coming out. Hopefully you'll see the parts we are dealing with in this thread.
For the last 18 years I've made a living by installing SBC engines into Pontiac Fieros & selling kits so the home builder could do it himself.
I am hoping to get 250 miles or so on my Sol so I can determine if it needs any Warrantee work before I begin to take it apart. I figure that we'll start taking it apart in a week or so & it occured to me that a lot of Forum members have been using GM supplied chassis pictures as Avators..... maybe some of you would like to see what the Sol chassis & other parts actually look like. Maybe we might actually make some discoveries along the way.
I'm very excited about taking this car apart & I hope you are pleased & become excited too.
I'll be posting a lot of pictures but they will be hosted on my own web site so I won't take up much space here.
Anyway, I decided to take the front wheels off just to look around.
I found something interesting. Take a look.........

I've got an outboard C/V joint for a G6 6-speed car & it fits that Spline perfectly.
Could Pontiac be thinking about an AWD Solstice?
Happy New Year.
Archie