Building The Cruzen2.0

It's done!

Kidding, just the engine bay is done. The interior is still all over the floor, and there's a lot of fiddly stuff to sort out such as wiring the lights and decklid as they are different between the 2 cars. Hope to pick up those parts today, then it will technically be legal to drive.... Once the title gets here that is. CANT WAIT TO HEAR THIS THING RUN AGAIN!

Parts!

Decklid (assembly), headlights, taillights, and rh mirror.

An update, I spent most of today working on the door wiring, all of it is now installed and some of it works! Not sure what problems are from just my own stupidity and what is just not working at all.

As of right now all four doors on the cruze have modified verano harnesses and the following is the status of their functionality.
Drivers window goes up and down properly
Rear driver window goes up and down but backwards
Neither passenger windows work
Only rear door speakers work
Have yet to test power mirrors
Need to take lock and latch from verano driver door and install in cruze so I have a key to it, this has been done to the other 3 doors already

Other things
Need to wire up driver headlight
Need to wire rear lights +camera
Bleed brakes again
Mount rear deck speakers
Finish reassembly of interior
Change park brake cables
And the rest is just cosmetic and reassembling the front end

So this is where the progress slows for a bit as I figure out what the h*ll I did wrong! And I'm waiting on parts anyways.

9 days

Nine days from the cruze shell rolling into the garage to a running driving vehicle.

NINE DAYS


Most of the remaining work is waiting on parts

I'll start with the question of documentation, I didnt take as many pictures as I wanted to. Most of what I did was "little" tweaks, for the doors it was just reshaping the existing buick wire routing and changing the power mirror connectors, for the dash harness it was again mainly reshaping and extending a few wires for the onstar module. Wouldnt have been much help if I had documented the piles of wires, each car and set of options would require slightly different tweaks and you really have to put the harnesses next to each other to make sure they are as close to the same length and shape. The only thing that would be the same for another harness swap car is the wiring for the lights, and I didnt think anyone would really want to see that.

As for putting the buick exhaust on a cruze 1.4, I would go with the 2.0 exhaust if you want the dual tips and from the 2.4 if you just want a bigger diameter pipe. The issue comes from both buick engines having rear exhaust, I will have to look again but I know the buick exhaust has a 90 degree bend to attach to the bottom of the dump pipe. Also, the o2 sensor locations are different, the 2L has them both in the dump pipe (along with the first cat) and the 1.4 has one in the dump and one in the main exhaust.

EDIT: I didn't document much of the drivetrain install as I swapped it and the subframe and suspension and wheels as one unit, meaning it was just "take out big bolts, put big bolts back in" same story on the rear end and fuel system. Actually, the wiring is the main issue, everything else is just put the bolts in where you took them out. Also, the buick exhaust has additional mufflers at the tips, with a heatshield that the cruze only has 1 mount for.

Now that you mention it...

2014+ Cruze diesel in North America
151 HP, 250 lb-ft

2013+ Verano 2.0
250 HP, 260 lb-ft

And I think it's safe to assume the gas engine is lighter

Small update, got a few of the little things taken care of in the last few days.

Park brake cables are in and working
the rear lights and decklid wiring is finalized
repaired brake booster vacuum line fitting
installed T for boost gague if/when I get that far
married the buick shifter and boot to the cruze boot trim and bezel
bled rear brakes AGAIN
replaced busted battery tray from buick with a good one from the junkyard
fixed some of the wire routing
started looking at how to install/rewire cruze start button

Still waiting on some parts, as well as replenishment of funds, and it doesnt help that the remaining tasks involve a lot of work and a lot of thinking.