Ok, so I took it to the track last night and ran a consistant 16.2. First run on a bone stock 03 Cavalier base was 16.282 at 84.30mph. Second run was 16.281 at 84.39mph. Car is nothing if not consistant. Third run I missed the first to second shift and ended up with a 16.722 at 80.64mph. Fourth run got me back up with my first and second run with a 16.293 at 83.83mph. Then it all fell apart. Fifth run I got my best R/T of the night with a .193 on the lights. I nailed the shift to second. Into third could have been a little better, but when I tried to go to fourth... it wasn't there... I coasted across the finish line with a 16.769 at 73.18mph, got it back to the pits and started feeling for what went wrong. Turns out, my 5 speed Cavalier now no longer has second, fourth, or reverse... One of the guys at the track said that it might be a shift cable since the 3 gears I lost are the lower gates, but first seems about 2 inches closer to me than it was so it might be a bent shifter... There was no grinding in the transmission and I didn't leak any fluids so that leads me to believe that it might not be the transmission itself... Any ideas would be much appreciated.
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you broke a cable, or it came off the shifter
def. a cable. i just did the same thing for the second time in less than a month. it's a pretty easy fix.
87 Firebird
All stock...........lol.
nah, its an 03. I bet that the cable is fine, he broke the bracket that holds the cable that sits on top of the transmission. Especially if he miss shifted. I did that in two cars. The getrag has a thinner bracket than the isuzu. In the getrag I broke the bracket, in the isuzu I tore the cable apart.
so what ended up being the verdict?
RaGiN Z (the fake 05) wrote:nah, its an 03. I bet that the cable is fine, he broke the bracket that holds the cable that sits on top of the transmission. Especially if he miss shifted. I did that in two cars. The getrag has a thinner bracket than the isuzu. In the getrag I broke the bracket, in the isuzu I tore the cable apart.
so what ended up being the verdict?
I had the same bracket snap on my 01 2.4L..
but still interested in the verdict...
-- MyZcar
As it turns out, it was the bracket, but on the shifter side, not the end at the transmission... The dealership charged me $266 to fix it... Not too bad I guess.
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