Bought a Camaro z28

[*SlappinAzz*]

not bad. how many miles on it? is it gonna need an engine or tranny soon?

113,000 miles

engine fires right on up, and drives smoothly.

 

[VWBobby 10+ year member]

not much harder than that rly.

WTF do you know about paint?

When the clear has delaminated from the basecoat, you need a complete repaint. GM, Chrysler, and Dodge are notorious for having the '80-90's delam problem.

The basecoat fails and the clear coat flakes away from it. Most people think its the other way around. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

The only thing you can do is sand it down to the original primer or metal, EPOXY prime, paint and clear...provided there is no other bodywork needed. Anything short of that can result in a paint job that won't last very long.

Overall pretty nice car for the money...

 

[Louisiana_CRX 5,000+ posts]

if the paint gets to bad you can alwayz rattle can her....

 

[Maglite 10+ year member]

113,000 miles
engine fires right on up, and drives smoothly.

Nice ride.

Have a look at ThirdGen.org Lots of good advice to help you out.

For suspension upgrades (like sub frame connectors that should be the first thing you do) go to UMI Performance Inc.

Just remember that the auto's came with 2.73:1 gears....unfortunately. Summit racing is your friend.

 

[*SlappinAzz*]

Nice ride.
Have a look at ThirdGen.org Lots of good advice to help you out.

For suspension upgrades (like sub frame connectors that should be the first thing you do) go to UMI Performance Inc.

Just remember that the auto's came with 2.73:1 gears....unfortunately. Summit racing is your friend.

explain this....

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

The hood, the ground effects on the nose, the 5.7 TPI... it seems to have all the iroc-z goodies except the badges and interior. Do you know if it was an iroc or an RS slappin?

I like it. Needs work, but I like it.

 

[*SlappinAzz*]

The hood, the ground effects on the nose, the 5.7 TPI... it seems to have all the iroc-z goodies except the badges and interior. Do you know if it was an iroc or an RS slappin?
I like it. Needs work, but I like it.

Its the Iroc-z28, Ill post some videos of her tuesday when Im not working.

 

[Maglite 10+ year member]

explain this....

Most 5 speeds came with either 3.08 or 3.27's. Some performance cars had 3.42s

2.73 are pretty low gears.

For more info have a look at thirdgen.org

 

[Bob Saget]

yeah but that one is a Z28 pretty much top of the line Camaro in 87 the only thing nicer was the IROC Z's

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

'87 Camaro Z/28 = '87 Camaro IROC-Z

 

[Bob Saget]

The hood, the ground effects on the nose, the 5.7 TPI... it seems to have all the iroc-z goodies except the badges and interior. Do you know if it was an iroc or an RS slappin?
I like it. Needs work, but I like it.

I may be wrong, but wasn't the RS a 5.3 v8?

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

I may be wrong, but wasn't the RS a 5.3 v8?

That year may have been, but not all of them. My brother had an RS with the 5.7TPI. His was made after they'd dropped the iroc-z tho.

 

[chillin 10+ year member]

That year may have been, but not all of them. My brother had an RS with the 5.7TPI. His was made after they'd dropped the iroc-z tho.

What year was your bros car? I know i had a 91 rs convertible and it had a 5L (305). I would guess that is stock and the 5.7 was an option.

 

[Bob Saget]

91-92 weren't Iroc's, then the 93-02 are the 4th gen

 

[chillin 10+ year member]

Do you suppose the guys in the Jersey shore drove Irocs at some point?

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

What year was your bros car? I know i had a 91 rs convertible and it had a 5L (305). I would guess that is stock and the 5.7 was an option.

I *think* his was a '92. It had ground effects, t-tops, factory alum wheels, 5.7 TPI, etc. It looked like this one, only bright red: