Super chevette

At strawberry creek raceway which is a 4km road course about an hour south west of Edmonton they have a chevette there called the super chevette. They call it this cause they use it to chase down super cars. It has 2.4 ecotec from a cobalt that has been turbocharged and makes around 340 to 350 rear wheel horsepower. I believe  it also has spec  Miata wheels and tires.

https://www.facebook.com/StrawberryCreekRaceway/videos/172532161451079

About five years ago, I very nearly bought a Chevette to drop a 2.0t Ecotec into.  I should have, but didn't feel like shipping the car 1,500 miles back then.

Sounds very rally car.

So... not just a Chevette, but – if I'm seeing that photo correctly – the last ride of the Pontiac Acadian. Sweet!

Let's take the "Vette".  

Stealthtercel said:

So... not just a Chevette, but – if I'm seeing that photo correctly – the last ride of the Pontiac Acadian. Sweet!

The US market name got a lot cooler in 1991ish.

See, Pontiac had the 6000, the smaller J body was called the J2000, and then they had their T body they gave the number 1000, and T-1000 meant something besides "Pontiac Chevette" after the summer of 1991...

Stealthtercel said:

So... not just a Chevette, but – if I'm seeing that photo correctly – the last ride of the Pontiac Acadian. Sweet!

Your right they are also legal for the Northern Alberta sports car clubs local chevette ice race racing class which jay esterer who built and owns strawberry creek raceway was one of the class founders.

The things you find out about your own country just by reading this board! Northern Alberta has a Chevette ice-racing class. Because of course it does. They don't use much salt anywhere west of Ontario, AFAIK, so I expect northern Alberta still actually HAS some Chevettes.

So, is there a build thread anywhere for this thing?

Stealthtercel said:

The things you find out about your own country just by reading this board! Northern Alberta has a Chevette ice-racing class. Because of course it does. They don't use much salt anywhere west of Ontario, AFAIK, so I expect northern Alberta still actually HAS some Chevettes.

So, is there a build thread anywhere for this thing?

In reply to Stealthtercel :

Is anyone familiar with the real racing Chevette?  A rear engine Chevy V8 poweredRace car of the like of McClaren Lotus 30 etc. 

It was aChevette  before there was a   Chevette. 

In reply to Stealthtercel :

You should come to Vancouver Island sometime and check out the yard art.

In reply to MotorsportsGordon :

Is he moving toward club racing at Strawberry Creek?

In reply to MotorsportsGordon :

Rons said:

In reply to MotorsportsGordon :

Is he moving toward club racing at Strawberry Creek?

I'm not sure it was originally built as a 2.5 km track to test his vintage race cars. He has a bunch including a few can am cars,f5000 cars,1970 Ferrari 512s,trans am etc. Then they started doing more private and now open events and rentals. Not sure of they have noise retractions or not but they aren't running bikes as they feel they are too loud for neighbours. Last year they extended the track to 4km. Mind u the track is only 40 minutes away from rad torque raceway formally castrol where club racing is held here.

This raced back in the day at Edmonton international speedway 

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I had a 80 or so T-1000 in mid ' 80s. Chevette. Never knew they became something else. Cool. 
'Course I'm an oddball that always thought the chevette was a pretty good E36 M3 box. Still a E36 M3 box, but there we definitely worse. 
Had a pont. 2000 around the same time for sale (before internet and easy picture ads) and no one would come look at it 'cause they "knew" it was just a chevette. 
Had (or dad did) a 89 6000 in 03. Had the "low" tech 4cyl. Ran decent, good ac, and 34 mph. Not too shabby

I've always thought a Quad 4 would be just about right in a Chevette.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Stealthtercel said:

So... not just a Chevette, but – if I'm seeing that photo correctly – the last ride of the Pontiac Acadian. Sweet!

The US market name got a lot cooler in 1991ish.

See, Pontiac had the 6000, the smaller J body was called the J2000, and then they had their T body they gave the number 1000, and T-1000 meant something besides "Pontiac Chevette" after the summer of 1991...

I don't get it, I thought they stopped making the T-bodies for North America after 1987.

In reply to GCrites80s :

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I thought Aronald was at t-1000 (or was it T-2000) 

you are showing one of the updated models, I think. 
Donno. I've burned out a ton of brain cells since '82! (That might even be off!)

In reply to 03Panther :

the 600 series had rubber skin, the Arnold version with living flesh was the 800 series, the liquid metal was the 1000.

The pictures above have more Chevettes than I've seen in 40 years.    They all rusted away here decades ago.  My only real experience with them was a diesel Chevette an old girlfriend had back in the day.  Slowest vehicle on the planet, but that particular one was a real creampuff with hardly any miles on it.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to GCrites80s :

I got that part. It was more like I thought it was insinuated that they gave it a full name rather than T-1000 after the movie came out.

stuart in mn said:

The pictures above have more Chevettes than I've seen in 40 years.    They all rusted away here decades ago. 

Or about how the door strike pin sheetmetal would tear and you couldn't keep the door shut anymore. Lots of 'em got junked over that.