Driving the Beretta RWD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- After fixing the clutch, I took the beast on its maiden voyage out of the shop. It's all over the road, so it needs an alignment real bad, and I'm going to re-check Ackermann after I fixed the bumpsteer. Did get the pinion angle dialed in and smoked some tires!
It feels so good to drive it, even though there's still plenty of work to do before it's streetable.
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Having owned a 96 Z26 nearly 20 years ago and seeing this car running with power to the rear wheels is truly amazing! Great job man with all the work. So awesome seeing one of these cars still running on the road and ever better seeing it tearing up the road!
It rips pretty good! Gotta get it dialed in and street legal now
Lol exactly I had a Beretta years ago and I always wondered why GM never made them rwd especially with exhaust note and all the torque it had...
That looks like a cool car for rally. I like it
Plan is to drift it, be my summer beater, and I'll drag it too just to see what it runs. Probably 12s
I absolutely love how stock this looks from the outside. Well done.
When I finish the exhaust it will be reasonably quiet too. I'm making it look just like my first car. Just need the rest of the bra and some mirror tint🤣
Yeah that is my favorite part of this whole project. Nobody would even know its not stock from just looking at it
@@engineerisengihere44 interior is going to be slightly modified. But if you hadn't owned a Beretta you'd probably never know
I always thought the Beretta should have had the drive wheels at the rear! You did what GM should of done! Nice work!
It will drift a lot better, that's for sure 🤣
My Dad bought an 89GT new when i was 12. I spent the next 5 years waiting and finally got the hand me down. Lots of firsts in that car. Great memories. Love the project.
My first car was a white GTZ that I put z26 wheels on. This one should look almost identical. I gotta find mirror tint🤣
So weird seeing that car make that noise. Great job dude, really makes me want to do something similar
It's so much fun, man. There was a time where the project was kinda dragging and annoying, but it's so worth it. 🤣 Can't wait to summer daily it next year.
Yes! such a slept on car! Love this man great job!
I've always loved Berettas
That's awesome ! Great job ! Why Chevy didn't made a RWD Beretta ????????????
Well, they kinda did. It was called a Camaro🤣
@@GEARHEADdezign 😂 yeah for sure, the Dimensions are pretty similar. But all cool cars deserve to be RWD. 😁
@@OldAmericanroads I really liked my old FWD Berettas too, especially the last one I built. But I wanted to go crazy on this one🤣
Excellent problem solving. Cool, original pursuit. Lots of "if then" studying. Keep up the great frontier explorer life ⚒️ ⛏️ 🏁
Thanks man. I've done a lot of mild fab work before, but wanted to try something way out in left field this time. More challenging
@@GEARHEADdezign Nailed It!
Your project has progressed nicely. It was funny to see you working on the clutch through the mansized hole in the floor board. You could make that part of the floor board removable in order to do future repairs on the car. Soon it will be time to make the car pretty and comfortable after all the mechanical systems work correctly.
I'm gonna miss that huge access hole🤣 I just used the trans access yesterday too. Haha
I'd like to make the trans tunnel removable like an Astro doghouse, but I'll probably just weld it
That is a nice build I love the body style
Best looking car of the 90s IMO
100% with you on that one ... Dad bought some Mopar Junk LMAO
When Chevy exists...why own anything else?
I've always wanted to do something like this. I have a few ideas on what to build.
One is taking a Toyota Corolla or whatever it is they used in Nascar and using something like a Toyota Tacoma for the drivetrain. That would be okay.
Another idea was taking a car like an 80's Grand Am and moving the engine and transaxle to the rear. There are a lot of interesting swaps and conversions being done. But not many people are doing crazy stuff like this. An LS Beretta wouldn't be my first choice. But it's definitely cool
I wanted to do something different. These days it's hard to do something unique
Don't see many Berettas these days. Back in the late 80s early 90s people back halved them and built Superstock cars with them. Used NHRA Superstock legal late 60s early 70s 350s. SS/GT class was full of former front drivers converted to rear drive. Those Berettas looked killer tubbed out with 14x32s under the ass.
The body style on them is beautiful I think. And I'm sure aerodynamics we're better than anything else of their time
This thing is sick!
Haha lot of work but I love it
Heck yeah man got her out and ripping! Alittle more fine tuning and you'll have her dialed in love the sleeper vib!! Can't wait to her started on my 05 boneville build!!
Yeah it still needs work but I wanted to pound on it before snow
I was getting kind of annoyed with it taking forever too...this is a huge morale boost🤣
I was always a GM kid growing up , and I actually liked all these cars such as the cavalier Z24's and Beretta Z26 (GTU) the lumina Z34 and even newer lumina LTZ/ Monte Carlo z34 in wich I've owned a sweet 98 LTZ lumina with the 3800 impalas , Pontiac grand prixs , I liked them all and owned a few different ones mentioned but I always wanted to see a rear wheel drive setup and especially with the possibility to grow through your own gears and use a real clutch lol, good shit
Hell yeah. Berettas have always been my thing, but all those cars are nostalgic now
I like you bro. I have a channel too and I can appreciate the work you are putting into the car and the videos. Nice job. I subbed.
The channel is a lot of work too🤣 but it's fun to share the build
@@GEARHEADdezign The channel is a LOT of work!! I agree!!
Super dope. I'm going to do this to my buick. You made your own suspension geometry and I don't think I'm really capable of doing that. Feel like I can just cut out the rear unibody of a RWD vehicle and it would work out without have to change suspension geometry
It's a lot of work no matter what way you do it. I've seen similar projects use an IRS rear cradle and just make mounts
@@GEARHEADdezign Yeah, I initially thought of that, using a Corvettes IRS, but I don't go to junk yards and find Corvettes... ever.
Also, I don't really know any cheap IRS that I can get that will hold power. I'm targeting 700whp when the engine is complete.
You got any suggestions?
@@donovan2697 I used a solid explorer 8.8, but the newer ones come with an IRS 8.8. Those have got to be plentiful and cheap.
oh my god this is insane
Just awesome!
Thanks. Can't wait to get it on the street
mint!!
It would be so nice to see one of these in AWD monster mode.
I brainstormed AWD since the front hubs were already set up to be drive axles. I was originally going to use nv3500 too so that would have worked. But there's no good solution for a front driveshaft.
Would need one of those Bluetooth driveshafts🤣
i’m sure you said it and i just missed it, but what trans did you use to make it rwd
T56 6spd
This is like seeing a rwd Toyota Solora, cool…But it’s only good for roasting tires and being a lawn ornament 😂l
I've daily driven it all summer🤷
26mpg
Are you an engineer? Im currently in school for my mechanical engineering degree and it seems like a lot of the stuff you are talking about is engineering terms we are learning.
Just redneck engineered.🤣 But I've learned a lot over the years and did a fair amount of research when I ran into things I hadn't done before
You built the car nobody wants 😂
Incorrect. Cause I wanted it🤣
Wait a min is this walton?
Uh...yeah. Where are you? 🤣
My shops at the other end of route 10 in deposit
@@brettbaker9350 haha that's cool. Small world
Zl1 Beretta 🎉 lol
You donate the supercharger and I'll do it🤣
All that noise... and zero movement. I get there is some wheelspin, but that was garbage.
Aprecaite the effort, time, and money in the build though!!!
@@sticks4166 old dead tires and oil & stone aren't a recipe for traction. I also have a brake lock🤣
ford explorer calipers and rear brakes? dude why? they are a nightmare...
Uhhh...because it's an explorer rear axle. They seem fine so far