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Bad, Bad Barry!

500 miles of beating, and things were going well. But then I broke a shift cable. Not a normal break either, ripped the casing in half!

I gotta stop working out at the gym I guess.

So..... Beretta is off the raod again. The hunt for another good cable begins. Have plenty of ball joints left though, so no worries there.

Edit: It actually didnt rip the casing, it just ripped it out of the crimped on circle peice that fits onto the tranny. I put it back in and was going to weld it, but it turns out the crimped peice is aluminum. Damn these cables suck. I will be looking into a custom cable

Group Buy anyone?

Maybe its not that you work out at the gym too much but it could be that your beating on these cars a little too much... Your taking something thats "Stock" for all intensive purposes and beating on it like its built for a race application...

I know it sounds mean, but Barry you need to be a little nicer to the car if you want it to last otherwise you'll be fixing it every other week and be out a daily driver...

That is true. I see it this way, I now live at college in philadelphia, so I no longer need a car(cant bring it here it will get stolen/broken into too much). So this car is just for pleaseure on the weekends and some rare week nights when I go home. I make sure to enjoy it to the fullest at all times, its just too fun. I love every moment I'm driving it.

Barry wrote:

Group Buy anyone?

I'd buy a set for my Quad.

Basicly when I first bought this car I had this image of a perfect beretta in my head. Thats why I spent so much time finding a good dash and swapping out nearly the whole interior. I was planning on getting it painted eventually. I used to wash it at least once a week.

But now its more of a "have fun with it" car where a paint chip isnt going to ruin my day. Its needs front bumper paint pretty bad now. Its much to far from a show car to make it worth babying it. Also have a rust bubble coming in where the back bumper cover meets the quarter below the fuel filler. Thats pretty depressing. Rust in the drivers door jam, and minor on the spare tire well. The rear spring mounts are solid though so im happy about that.

Get on that rust ASAP. I just washed my car and found a big chunk of paint in the grass. Just makes me sick and my paint is not so good(it's better than my old 90GT's though).

I can't believe the rear sprint mounts are solid. That was the first to go, rockers last on my car.

I'm in for a cable group buy! As long as they are not retarded-expensive... and then I might be anyway. haha

Cable-driven shifting blows goats when you're used to a solid top-loader T56.

IsaacHayes wrote:I can't believe the rear sprint mounts are solid. That was the first to go, rockers last on my car.

Yeah it's good I guess. The car is far from rust free but structually it is solid and that's what I care about.

Still waiting on push pull to get back to me.

There is just one spot on the under side of the drivers side rocker that is starting to rust through. Door jambs though on both side are bubbled up pretty bad. Spring perches in the rear are shot, so bad there are holes and it's paper thin. Only thing holding springs there is the square frame rail, no telling how safe that is... lol

IsaacHayes wrote:There is just one spot on the under side of the drivers side rocker that is starting to rust through. Door jambs though on both side are bubbled up pretty bad. Spring perches in the rear are shot, so bad there are holes and it's paper thin. Only thing holding springs there is the square frame rail, no telling how safe that is... lol

Ouch! On the aqua car or the orange one?

i imagine its on the aqua car as the orange one was completely gone through by the previous owner

Well push-pull still didnt get back to me. I may call them to speak to a person directly.

I got home from school at 2am sunday morning, woke up at 8am to go to the yard to get a shift cable. I got one out of a GTU and its the best one I had yet, no plastic ends at all. Just as good as my balljoint cable but its stock.

Came home and swapped it in. Also mounted some snow tires on my GT wheels, I dont even know why, it never snows here anymore.

So I got to drive the car for about an hour, and now im back at school again with it sittin at home


*Heres some info I got from the yard today exploring a bunch og gmfwd 5-speeds.

Izuzu shifter and cables appear to be the same as the getrag stuff.
The 2.4 GAGT 5-speed has a different shifter and cables, However, the cables mount the same under the hood. So you can use a 2.4 GAGT shifter and cables in a beretta as well.
The eco saturn ion has a very different shift cable setup. Lots of plastic and stuff.
Messed with a 3rd gen cavi. Forget what motor it had, but those cables were very different too.
Most imports have very similar cables. Honda F/H series motors, DSM 420a and 4g63 seem similar too. I beleive celica as well. The cables are just like ours, however the part that clamps into the trans is smaller and uses a clip like ours do up at the shifter.

I may be going home tuesday so I can drive for a llittle while then it will be 2 weeks before I can drive again.

Barry wrote:So I got to drive the car for about an hour, and now im back at school again with it sittin at home

I may be going home tuesday so I can drive for a llittle while then it will be 2 weeks before I can drive again.

Mine's been parked or apart since Nov or Dec now and no driving in sight for at least 2 months, quit your whining!