2006 Pontiac Solstice, Mallett Cars, Corvette Ls2 V8 Conversion, #004 / #100 on 2040-cars
Merced, California, United States
2006 Pontiac Solstice. Shipped new to Mallett Cars LTD in Berea, Ohio. With only 6 miles on the odometer this was number #004 / #100 authorized by Chevrolet to do a complete new 2006 Corvette LS2 Engine swap with many upgrades. 100% genuine Chevrolet parts. It's Sly Silver with black interior, leather high back buckets seats with bolstered sides so no sliding around. A factory 5 speed manual transmission, Corvette LUK Gold Clutch Package, CTS-V, 3.42:1 rear axle ratio and posit-traction/Limited-Slip. When it's taken to a Chevrolet dealer or other dealer, you tell them it’s a 2006 Corvette down to the catalytic converters and Oxygen sensors. It now has 3" Corsa S.S. true dual exhaust, Big brake upgrade includes 13” slotted and coated rotors, Tri-calipers up front and single calipers on the rear with braided Stainless Steel brake lines on all four corners. Big wheel upgrade includes 1 piece billet 19.5” wheels with Mallett’s Hammer logo center cap with Michelin 265/35R/19.5” PS2 Series tires on all corners, 4 core aluminum radiator. A/C, power 4 wheel anti-lock disk brakes. From looking at it you couldn’t tell anything was customized except for the wheels and tires. You look at it and you know something is different, then when it starts you hear that un-believable V8 sound. It has custom Penske\Mallett coil over shocks. Everything was designed for the man or woman that loves the thrill of drag racing, track or rally racing or just plain old cruising around town. This car was shown at the 2006 International Florida Car Show. Too Much to list what all has been done. I was living in Arizona when I had it shipped to me from Florida. I have a home in California also. My youngest Son started to add to the number of grandchildren, so back to California. I took it to a smog referee and they denied me certification. California is the worst state for smogging a modified car. This whole engine package is exactly like the E-Rod Engine Packages that General Motors had California certify as a drop in replacement for kit cars, or any car for that matter. I have the same year motor by the way which only has barely over 10,000 miles on it. I’m not done with the refs here yet. I called Chevrolet in Michigan and their engineers totally disagreed with Ca Smog Refs. They said it should have been allowed certification based on same year and all of the correct equipment as their E-Rod Certified engines for California are. It even passed all of the emissions test. Either I drive it back to Arizona (700 miles) where it has always passed smog or fight these California Refs who won't change their minds. Mallett is was a well known Corvette shop that's done many modifications for Chevrolet vehicles. They were contracted by Chevrolet as "Consultants". These cars are and were a well thought out process. They are not dragsters or a race cars or ralley cars, but you could do them all and have lots of fun with them. The Kappa platform was designed to handle quite a bit of power. Some of Malletts cars were putting out over 1,000 horse power. Mine is putting out conservatively around 500 rear wheel HP. It’s a blast. Driven, but not abused. I'm a 59 year old retired man, disabled, but love my cars. This is the only Solstice Signed by Chuck Mallett on his carbon fiber valve covers and his hand drawn flames. It's also the first one sild to the public the other three were prototypes. It goes and looks great and stops on a dime every time. My upgrades are as follows. I installed a Texas Speed & Performance Magic Stick 3 camshaft. 237/242, .604”/.610” all at .050” (50) HP minimum gain up to 90HP with the right combo. Nice old fashioned rumpity rump. Upgraded the valve springs with PAC .650” max lift and TS&P 7.4” chrome molly .080” 5/16” chrome molly pushrods, a CNC’d 92mm GM Throttle Body by Pete Incaudo owner of VMax Motorsports in Florida, also modified the stock intake manifold to which the old timers would call porting and polishing. By flattened the floors and removing the resonators. Increasing the initial port width on a stock LS2 manifold which averaged 0.940” inches, while I ported the LS2 manifold runners to an average of 1.051”. These are very specific tolerances to follow. After completing the intake porting and carefully replicating the porting template, attention turns to the 90mm throttle-body opening. The focus here is on the floor and roof, allowing the air to transition to the runners more smoothly. A careful measurement of the area directly behind the opening indicated that it was increased from 91.6mm to 94.8mm by the rework. It runs and sounds awesome. Good luck to the winning bidder. The HP to weight ratio on this car makes it just right. |
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Junkyard Gem: 2006 Pontiac Solstice
Wed, Sep 4 2019The debut of the Pontiac Solstice, back in 2005 for the 2006 model year, stirred up much excitement in the automotive world. Sales were brisk at first, and then they weren't so great… and then Pontiac itself went under The General's cost-cutting axe. One thing I have learned during my junkyard travels is that even sought-after sports cars eventually reach a point at which they start showing up in the big self-service junkyards. For example, the BMW Z3 began appearing in such yards about five years ago, along with the Audi TT. While the Honda S2000 still appears to be exempt from this process, today's Junkyard Gem shows that the time has now come for the Pontiac Solstice/Saturn Sky. The first Z3s and TTs I saw in the U-Wrench-type yards were crash victims, not worth fixing, and that's the case with this Solstice. In a few more years, I'll start seeing the occasional Solstice/Sky discarded due to general worn-outness. Someone grabbed all the undented front body parts and the transmission (these items, presumably, being valuable), but no junkyard shoppers have felt like pulling the non-turbo 2.0-liter Ecotec. The interior seems dirty, probably from exposure to the elements while sitting outdoors in this Colorado Springs wrecking yard, but not in bad shape otherwise. Perhaps the car's owner celebrated a return from Iraq with the purchase of a sporty new Pontiac, 13 years ago. These cars have an enthusiastic following, so I wasn't expecting to see a junked one so soon after production ceased. I felt the same way about the Chrysler Crossfire, however, and I found two of those last year. What's next, a 2002-2005 Thunderbird? This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. Such optimism!
Junkyard Gem: 2000 Pontiac Sunfire coupe
Thu, Feb 21 2019In a few months, we'll reach the tenth anniversary of GM's axing of the venerable Pontiac brand. G6s, Vibes, and Matizes continued to be built until 2010, but I'm noticing a marked decrease in discarded Pontiacs lately, as I perform my junkyardy rituals. Here's a 2000 Pontiac Sunfire, photographed in a Colorado wrecking yard. The Sunfire was the near-identical sibling to the Chevrolet Cavalier, based on the long-running (1982-2005) J-Body platform. It was cheap and simple, looked pretty sporty (at least in coupe form), and every parts store in North America carried just about everything you'd need to keep one running. This coupe had to compete for sales not only with a vast and menacing array of imports but with GM's own Saturn SC2 (not to mention the Cavalier itself). Meanwhile, the J platform was showing its age more with each passing year. This car sports what must have been the complete line of Fatal Clothing bomber-nose-art/skate-punk/gang-tag-influenced decals, circa 2010. I actually photographed this car back in 2011, then misplaced the image files until last week. The stickers are very California-centric for a Colorado car, but then plenty of Californians — including me— move here. When you know you're a car's final owner, it's a lot easier to whip out the paint pens and redecorate the interior. Power came from the engine GM developed for the very first J-Bodies: the 2.2-liter 122 pushrod four-cylinder. 2002 was the last model year for 122-powered Sunfires and Cavaliers; the most affordable S-10/Sonoma/Hombre trucks got this engine through 2003. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. It even came with a remote, so bad Midwestern farmgirls could make quick getaways when caught in the act by enraged broom-wielding mothers. Featured Gallery Junked 2000 Pontiac Sunfire View 30 Photos Auto News Pontiac Automotive History
Junkyard Gem: 1986 Pontiac Sunbird Sedan
Sun, Jun 28 2020The J-Body platform was a giant seller for GM, staying in production from the first 1981 Chevrolet Cavalier all the way through that final 2005 Pontiac Sunfire. Outside of North America, Opels and Daewoos and Isuzus and Holdens and Vauxhalls and even Toyotas flew the J flag, and better than ten million rolled out of showrooms during that quarter-century. In the United States, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Buick, and Cadillac each sold J-Bodies. Of those, the Pontiac Sunbird often had the sportiest image, more cavalier than even the Cavalier Z24. I've documented a discarded Sunbird Turbo in the past, and now here's a bread-and-butter Sunbird sedan from the same era. The Sunbird name began its life in 1976 on the Pontiac-badged version of the rear-wheel-drive Buick Skyhawk, itself based on the Chevy Vega. The first J-Body Pontiacs had J2000 badges, then 2000 badges, then 2000 Sunbird badges, until finally the pure non-2000 Sunbird appeared for the 1985 model year. I remain disappointed that the 2000 name didn't survive into our current century, because we could have had a 2000 Pontiac 2000, or just the "2000 2000" for short. The base engine in the '86 Sunbird was this SOHC 1.8-liter four of Brazilian origin, rated at 84 horsepower. Originally developed by Opel in the late 1970s, this engine family went into cars built all across the sprawling GM empire. 84 horsepower doesn't sound like much— and it wasn't much, even by 1986 standards— but at least the original buyer of this car had the smarts to get the five-speed manual transmission. This car weighed just 2,336 pounds, a good 500 pounds lighter than the current Chevy Sonic, so performance with the manual transmission was tolerable. The '86 Sunbird's interior was much nicer than those in its Cavalier siblings, though nowhere near the Cadillac Cimarron's reading on the Plush-O-Meter. An AM/FM/cassette stereo with auto reverse was serious audio hardware in a cheap car during the middle 1980s, when even a scratchy factory AM-only radio cost the equivalent of several hundred 2020 bucks. The price tag of this car started at $7,495, or about $17,500 in 2020 dollars. The cheapest possible Cavalier sedan went for $6,888 in 1986, but a zero-option base '86 Cavalier would make you think you'd been transported to the Soviet Union every time you slunk into its harsh confines. This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings.