New project Beretta - nice clean slate for the LS swap and RWD conversion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- I snagged this thing out of a junkyard where it had been sitting for 4 years. It's a little dirty around the edges, but it's a great car to cut up and modify. This video shows the basic gameplan for my swap. The front and rear suspension, as well as some odds and ends like the fuel tank and seats.
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Can't believe I'm just now finding this channel. My first car was an 89 GT white!!!!!! When I had it, I said I was gonna keep it and eventually do this very same project... then life happened. This is likely going to be my favorite build series on all of the internet!
Sweet man. I just took it to LS fest last weekend, it worked great
Found you from the sloppy group I love this so much
It should be fun!
Not sure how I missed this video. That thing is in just the right condition to cut up and modify; not pristine, but not roached either. Can't wait to see more progress!
Yeah, it was left for dead anyway, so it's all good.
$500... that's awesome. I had a 96 white Beretta with a 3.1 also sunroof
I actually have a buddy with a donor Beretta to put a sunroof in mine. I got get down to Philly and cut it out.
My man, my first car was also a Beretta, an '89 GT with the 5 speed manual. I didn't appreciate that thing. This is a fantastic build.
And now it's doing burnouts for drones🤣
If you're ever near Denver I have a drone and know some spots that are low key but great for shots, cheers!@@GEARHEADdezign
I love the beretta since a kid growing up in NY . My dads friend had a bad ass one in gray!
I got a bunch of videos of the gray 3.4/5spd swapped one I just sold this year
Está bien. Puesto para Restaurarlo ...ese Beretta ....ánimo saludos desde Mexicali .BC... Vuelve hacer que uno voltee a verlo en las calles ...
I spent months looking for one in the 90's in high school. Couldn't find one within my budget at the time so I opted for a 92 Z24 Cavalier 3.1 and stick. Still an awesome alternative to the Beretta. Did lowering springs, full exhaust, centerforce clutch, etc.
I liked the v6 z24s too. The 89-90 body style was my favorite
You might like videos of my 91 Beretta I built with 3400 5spd and tons of mods. I have a playlist for it
Love these cars.
My first car was 1988 beretta gt. Wish I never sold it, I'm still looking for another one like mine
Yeah my first car was a white GTZ, so this one is almost identical
Berettas are bad ass bro
This is my fourth one. So you could say I'm a fan as well. 🤣
Just saw you had a TH-cam after seeing your built in the MEJ group!
Car has come a long way since this video 🤣
My dad had a berretta in white with a blue strip
What year and what engine/trans?
You don’t find them this solid up north in the winter salt states! Look forward to the build.
Yeah it's pretty good. Still gonna end up getting cut and welded though. Haha
My mom has a rust free 90 beretta gtz 5 speed, it's awesome to see someone actually ls swapping one of these. I'm following this shit!
Thanks. A white 90 GTZ 5spd was my first car. So this one really caught my attention. Haha
Do you think she will sell it?
@@shawncole7536 Honestly probably not, it was her first brand new car and I’ve asked when she will sell and she tells me she won’t sell it until she dies or she will pass it down to me lol
@@shawncole7536 I have a 1989 chevrolet beretta gtu I may sell it is running and inspected in PA. with custom hood rear window louver, fun to drive with 18s all around ,5 speed my knees are bad ,and I don't drive as much anymore
That red one in the background looked pretty nice, too.
I would have preferred red, but it was pretty rough. Bumper, fender and door were totally screwed
It's funny... I was looking at that spare tire area, and that same time you spat out my thought of the 2 door blazer tank lol...
Yeah. It's a bit tall, but I could make it work. I remember now though that the fuel gauge is screwy on my Blazer. Probably be best off cutting the height down to the Beretta tank height and using the Beretta sending unit.
If you plan on using the factory lower control arm mounts I think I’d get a mustang 8.8 and then fab up some mounts for the upper links. Triangulated 4 link would work well.
I have an explorer 8.8 already. Going to make DIY lower control arms that bolt to the factory Beretta rear torsion axle mounts. Making a torque arm to eliminate axle rotation. This will be a tire burner first and foremost, but I can get the geometry pretty good.
@@GEARHEADdezign I have an Explorer 8.8 in my car now. Super easy to cut them down to any width. Custom axles are also reasonably priced.
I think full width will work well, but I'll see better once it's in the car. I can shorten 3in with another stock pass axle if needed or just get 5x100 Moser axles and not worry about adapters.
No babies in front of the winch cable! safety first.
Safety third. But the kiddo should be an exception, true.
I just bought a basic bitch 88 Beretta, which was one of my dream cars when I was in high school, they were new then, lol. I'm not going to do much to it, just clean it up, put a decent paint job on it, some kind of stipes on it and some nice wheels on it drive it. I just want something that is good enough to go to a cruise-in/Cars and Coffee with but that I can daily drive also.
In factory config they're a great daily beater. I really need to figure out AC for this one now🤣
@@GEARHEADdezign Yeah but mines not a beater, It only has 53,000 miles on it, really was "owned by a little old lady next door that only drove it to the Grocery Store and Church". but with Mixie it was more like the Bingo hall and The Liquor Store 🤣😂🤣. She was a old Korean war vet and was crazy to the bone..... all in all though it's in phenomal shape, that's half the reason I bought it.
@@TheREALOC1972 hell yeah! And by beater I just mean a daily driver to get groceries (or liquor) 🤣
@@GEARHEADdezign Oh I know what you meant. I'm having a hell of time finding some wheels though.
@@TheREALOC1972 wheels are easy. 5x100 with ~40mm offset
I might be looking for one soon. Had one in blue for a few years. Where did you find this one?
Someone told me they had a parts car when I was racing my last Beretta. And here we go 🤣
Looks great
It's finished now
My Chevy Beretta won't start it suddenly died before rough idling and poor acceleration.. it won't even give a code on the OBD2 after buying an adapter for OBD1 to OBD2. What do you think it could be I already changed the fuel pump and I changed the ignition coils and the spark plugs and the wiring to the spark plugs. I'm thinking it might be the throttle body or the idle air control valve
What year is it and what engine?
@@GEARHEADdezign it's a 1991 and it's a 2.2
@@indigoFlowerglass you'll need to read the codes with an obd1 reader, or use a paper clip and count the flashes. I'm sure there are videos showing how to do that
The main this is the wench line wasn’t damaged previously and break the day you were using it.. lol
Nope. Just me being brain dead and forgetting the pin🤣
Have you thought about using a 4th gen Camaro front k member and rack?
A friend of mine did that with his Grand Prix RWD swap @autotechtyler but the track width will be too wide for a Beretta. I want the first iteration to look completely stock from the outside.
The short long arm configuration of the Camaro is superior to the McPherson Beretta strut for handling, but my Camaro will be the competitive car. The Beretta will be mostly a tire burner and drifter.
I couldn't hear much due to the background music overpowering you. Most folks do the music during the sped up portions of a build, and revert back to voice description.
I hope you're going to beef up the nv3500, I killed three of them with a 375hp SBC in my 94 silverado. I would look at SST (Silver sport transmission) in Tennessee for a beefier version, or a different trans itself.
Ok, thanks for the audio advice. I'll turn it down more next time.
I know the nv3500 doesn't have a great reputation, and it will get replaced once I add power. But in a light car with small tires and only 293ci, I'm hoping it will live for a while.
fuck yeah 12.7 mpg from a big block
That's the manual, baby. Best I've ever gotten was 14.somethin
Water leak?
All Berettas leak at the firewall. It's kinda of a piss poor design to start with, and there was some sort of sealant issue at the factory. So any Berettas that haven't already been fixed leak. I've got plenty of firewall surgery to do though anyway. 🤣
@@GEARHEADdezign ok now o know , I thought it was the sunroof condensation dripping and leaking ,had such water on floors I drilled a hole to drain it out.
Nun some flex seal can’t fix
Haha the only thing I've had work well long-term is a good 2k seam sealer.
@@GEARHEADdezign not a drop since pull the speakers and roll the carpet up front take the lower dash panels out and get a paint brush and smother all seams get the black version and do the outside from the wheel well too
@@kenshin034 oh believe me, I've had multiple Berettas torn apart to fix the leak. They were ok for a while, but leaked again in a few years. I used 2k seam sealer on my last one about 10yrs ago and never had another problem since.
@@GEARHEADdezign yea I caught mines early
Hey man for your next video sponsor I would like to sponsor your work I want to see you completely put an LS motor and convert my 92 Oldsmobile cutlass ciera over to rear wheel driver
But stipulation is I get to keep my car and show off your work and be the sponsored and let people know who did it
I'm on this I'm a disabled person that would do it myself but I physically can't enable not to do it officially can't able to can't do it
Your pickup is so clean 🥲. NY salt has killed 3 trucks if mine
I go get them from out west or down south. This one is from CO. I'm trying to keep it clean. The 6spd is super hard to find