BADNBLK

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I'm pretty sure all it would take it rolling the windows up and down at about 30 mph haha! Yeah its only 4mil thick... Just to keep crap out for the time being.

The blisters and paint turned out great from what it was. I got my PDR guy coming out to look at a couple small dings on Friday.

91 Droptop

PDR is very cool, we have a guy we recomend for small dings if people do not want to go the standard repair route, really is no need if the paint is still clean. Here is one that I just laid the paint down on this week, been in the shop in a corner for months, edged the hood and jams and now it is all painted, I want to do my next 3rd gen this color, HOK Kandy Red (silver base) this color would look great as stripes on your black vert

BADNBLK

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Wow that color is sexy! I'm gonna be sticking factory on everything with the convertible. Depending on if I decide to take it as far as re-painting it, I will probably even go to the vinyl stripe kit, like factory.

Love the Boze wheels on that BTW. What resto-mod shop do you run?

91 Droptop

Sent you a PM, it has a mini tub in the rear to get them tucked in

BADNBLK

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I did the start of the cleaning underhood. Washed and scrubbed all the painted and plastics as feasible, then polished the painted surfaces with Prima Swirl, by hand.

If you remember...




After...






Still need to clean and treat all the rubber, and do something with the bottles.

91 Droptop

Still looks a lot better, keep up the good work

BADNBLK

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Thanks! Been a lot of fun making it look nice again. I have boxes of parts showing up this week, and gonna start stripping the parts I need from my 92 RS parts car.

IROCmyVERT

just shows what a lil patience will do.. if guy known how easy it was to wash and polish, could have got way more money for it.

BADNBLK

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Yeah no doubt! Dude was in the poor house and just needed cash, god knows I would have thought it was worth a grand more with wash, wax, and vacuum job!

BADNBLK

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Had a pretty awesome fathers day... Planned on spending the most of day working on the 92 rs stripper car getting all the worth while parts off, and getting some parts ready to be installed into the vert.

Woke up to a treasure hunt... Found that my love got me pass to the Rusty Wallace racing experience... Going NASCAR racing! Love her!

Got almost all of the interior stripped out of the 92, untill the smoke and ash started raining down from the forrest fire outside of town.

Went home and cleaned some of the parts I'm swapping over next week...


Pulled my old leather door panels off the 91, and cleaned/conditioned them for replacement of the water damaged/dirty one on the car now.


Still have a bunch to do, but I can feel how nice the inside is gonna look

BADNBLK

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OE look underhood insulation kits... Where to buy???

BlueZee28

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good luck finding a hood insulator...been looking myself haha

BADNBLK

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Not the answer I was looking for here!!!

lonsal

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I got mine for the Camaro years ago from Classic Industries. It came in a HUGE cardboard box. I need one for my Firebird now and checked, they show it available along with the plastic inserts that hold it in place. I'm local (40 minutes) so it is no problem to pick something like this up in person. If these still come in the huge cardboard box, I'd imagine it would be expensive to ship. Maybe they roll them up now? Did you check your local dealer?

Lon

BADNBLK

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Yeah I called my dealer and they don't offer then anymore I saw somewhere there was a guy making custom ones for birds with a Phoenix on them... wonder if he could do a plain one?

Lon I think you need to start carrying these... I know of 3 sales you would have haha

lonsal

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Considering how reasonably priced these are compared to what I spent years ago for mine, it can't be the same. I'll need to take a trip south to CI to check them out. I'm planning to get my firebird body work and paint done soon. At that time I'll check into the underhood insulation. If this rolls up I could easily sell them in the box I use for the SFC's.

Lon

91 Droptop

Make it 4

Richboll

Make it 5

1bad91Z

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subbed...

BADNBLK

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Youngs appears to have the GM ones, but honestly does not look like either of my underhood insulations? This one appears to be more formed.
http://www.youngsfbody.com/inc/sdetail/1898/15817

Then I found these with the google machine... NICE!!!
http://hoodliners.blogspot.com/p/chevy-gallery.html

http://www.carmotorsports.com/UHI_Z-28.htm

BADNBLK

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Got my radio and NEW GM console pad ordered this week, and original 25th decklid badge heading this way also.

Getting closer to biting the bullet on getting the new top ordered.

I need a little help in finding the paint code for the red windows in the wheels... anyone know?

BADNBLK

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Found why the cooling fans were not coming on with computer command... poor connection at connector for fuse link between the relays. A little clean and tighten on pin connection, and were good!

BlueZee28

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nice find on the custom hood insulation. i might have to order one that says "Z28".

Seems like a nice price too!

theNMBR27

So jealous, I wish I could find even a reasonably priced z28 vert around here. The car looks great!

BADNBLK

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Yeah those do look nice. The 91 Z might get one, and the decent OE hood insulation go on the 92... been doing a lot of that so far.

Only thing I didn't really like was gluing the insulation to the hood... Not sure how I feel about that one.

... What color paint did you use when you refinished the red windows on your Z03 you did??? I need to get everything here for that.

BADNBLK

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The thing about deals is, if you don't look for them you won't find them... Turning into a craigslist junkie haha!

Thanks man. The pics really make the car look better than is. Its getting all new/refurbished interior from carpet, floormats, center console, door panels, console, door caps, switches, cluster lens, door pulls, door sills, vert plastics... The deal is not such a deal I keep adding up how much I have been throwing out there on re-storing it

BADNBLK

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Ordered my seatbelt caps, and door seals under the caps this afternoon. Can't wait for the all weekend interior thrash to get this thing looking great on the inside!

91 Droptop

Slowly but surely, its all coming together

BlueZee28

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I used whatever the paint code is for the bright red used on a 92 Camaro.I googled "1992 camaro paint codes" and found it that way.

58mark

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I was going to say the same thing about the bright red.

but... I'll add that personally I don't think the red wheels look good on a black car at ALL. I know there there's some red on the car, but it's too far away from the wheels to make them look right. Repaint the wheel insets black or medium grey, and maybe brighten the flat parts with at least 800 grit paper, or polish them outright

BADNBLK

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Well I will get a paint code figured out from that. Thanks again!

Yeah but I'm going to keep this one as stock as possible. It came with the red wheels for the Z03 package, so its going back to that.

BlueZee28

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+1 on going original

BADNBLK

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Pretty sure with the rarity of these I would kick myself for modding it when it comes time to sell it. I already have a modded car

I'm thinking that I'm gonna try and win Super Chevy Show in modified and original class this year, if I can get it done in time.

BlueZee28

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I went to Super Chevy in STL this weekend but didnt enter my car because I didnt want to be stuck.there for hours in 100* weather.

BADNBLK

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No crap! Its hit 106 here today, and August is our hot month... No wonder my entire state is trying to burn down.

Still gonna go though... just be very sweaty haha!

91 Droptop

Wellcome to my world here in FL where its always at least 90 from April til November

BADNBLK

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I'll trade you... it rains ash all day and the if your outside for more than an hour your eyes and lungs burn, and you smell like campfire. Its awful

91 Droptop

We had that here in 97 & 98 cars were covered in asah like snow, stay safe brother

BADNBLK

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Are the convertible sun visors different from the hardtop? Mine are GONE, and not sure what they even look like.

conlinj

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Pretty sure they are the same as the ttop ones

BADNBLK

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I assumed hardtop cause the area is pretty flat on the header panel.

Richboll

That's what I've been told. The bases are also supposed to be different between the hardtop and T-top cars

BADNBLK

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Ok so next question... With all header panels being black plastic, are all visors black?

sid rs91

should be, that's how mine is set up and its got the red interior.

BADNBLK

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Damn. I have a new pair of T-top visors from Hawks that they accidentally sent me years ago in grey. Anyone wanna trade new Hawks visors in grey for some black used (great condition)...?

ThunderODB

Anyone ever find OEM hood insulation? Mine got eaten by evil rodents.....and I hope they choked on it.

BADNBLK

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These were all I found other than, a extra cheesy grey fiberglass mat type on ebay.

82tarecaro

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The insulation from Young's F body has a caption under it that states that the picture is for illustration purposes only and the product is not molded.
I also looked into that aircraft stuff and I did not like it because it has to be glued on with contact cement.

ThunderODB

I'm with you guys on that aircraft insulation. It looks great, but i wanna try to keep my vert as stock as I can. I saw the caption for the one at Young's, and that is probably the one I am gonna go with.

I also have a couple of unrelated questions...... is the 3rd brake light (spoiler) specific to the verts or is it the same as the hatch ones?

My spoiler suffered the same fate as most of them, but when it came off it jerked the wires hard and broke the back side of the light assy. it also broke the lens, either when it hit the pavement or when it pulled the wires, not sure which, so now I need a new spoiler AND light. I'm thinkin about the one from Hawk's, but does anyone know if it comes with the mounts already attatched and do any of you guys have a spare light assy that you are willing to part with?

One more question... other than replacing them, is there a good way to clean up the front turn signals? The lenses are kinda cloudy.

Here is a pic of my '89 before the tragic spoiler loss.

BADNBLK

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Stock is the same plan for mine. You need to order that one from Youngs today, and post some installed pics... asap!