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I was think it might be an interesting/creative/unique look to place some small LED bulbs (the same size as the turn signal bulbs) inside the "air holes" of the ground effects of my 92 and have them turn on along with the running lights or have them on their own separate switch. Thoughts? Has anybody done this before? Give me your opinions!
You've undoubtedly seen the clown-crowd driving in the daytime with their headlights on, even their brights (coo-coo).
Before any car manufacturer I am aware of did it, I installed a relay to illuminate the turn signals.
Were these the first non-glare running lights?
I still have the car.
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Might look OK, but I would go with a smaller bulb than an 1156 or 1157, you'll see the bulb when not lit up. I would get some LED strip lighting or just some 5mm LEDs instead. If you got strip lighting you could place it around the circumference of the opening, it would not be easily seen and it would light up the opening well.
looks kind of neat,is your car dark green or black? i love the rims as well.im just down the road in Waterloo,nice to see someone sort of local to me!
any info on your engine? here is my trans am.still got a ways to go to get it perfect but im lovin it so far.
Thanks appreciate it, well lol the color didn't actually turn out the way I wanted , it's black with a green and some gold metallic , depending on how you look at it in the sun you get a different look but although I hate to admit it, it's more greenish. I was hoping for a more black with gold flakes but it is what it is. I hate my rims, I have the gold crosslace but I can't get them to fit the front because I did the ls1 brake upgrade I need spacers.
Your car has the hood I want lol. Been thinking about getting one how do you like it any regrets?
Engine is a 350 I have Holley sniper efi on it I don't know much the previous owner did a lot of work, apparently has a forged internals, xe274 cam, sportsman ii cylinder heads , long tube headers from headmen , I think 15/8, feels powerful when I do drive it, but feels a little slow off the line
Yeah it is nice to meet someone local, I'm all the way in Barrie.
But is that what you were thinking of doing I didn't understand what you meant by putting lights in the groundfx
i think the color is beautiful(i mean intensely gorgeous) even if its a mistake but two of my favorite colors
are black and dark green so im probably biased,lol.i wish my unintended mistakes turned out a quarter as good.
the hood was on the car when i got it and i always wanted a cowl hood when i had a chevelle and a camaro after that.
that being said it took a while to get used to and it grew on me,now i wish it fit better but ive got a second set of hinges
im going to slot and make it fit as good as i possibly can by tweaking it forward 3/8" at least .i do want to add gta vents to it
but im up in the air and a little leary.
Ive had 2 gta hoods in the meantime but due to using an edlebrock rpm intake,1" spacer that i need and a holley double pumper
and 4" high x 14" air cleaner they absolutely wouldn't fit i need the cowl hood.but i would hate a 4" or higher.you cant see ****
what gears do you have in the rear,makes all the difference in the world.ive got pathetic 2.92 gears now
but ive got a 9 bolt in my garage with 3.27s waiting to go in the car when it isnt cold,wet and dreary and i can pull
the car out and make some room.
i wasn't the original poster of this thread but thought the lights you did looked decent.im definitely not an underbody light fan.
i thought you were in missasaga,oh well its only another hour or 2-3 right .
Last edited by 1986BANDIT; 12-29-2019 at 03:07 PM.
Thanks for the compliment on the color ,it means a lot especially since I'm a bit stressed about it.
Oh man you gotta tell me more about your engine
Yeah from Waterloo probably about 2 hours maybe more since 401 is a **** show everyday lol, I drive down to the GTA every day for work so I'm used to the drive lol.
To me every trans am is beautiful , these cars in my opinion are the most beautiful cars every designed , I just love them
Same here I want to take mine out for a drive especially since I just finished off a few new upgrades, this weather is so depressing lol
right now im still running the crappy 305 lg4 with a few mods:
current engine 305 with edlebrock rpm and holley ultra 650
but ive got an L31 vortec 350 on a stand and a L98 tpi 350 on a stand.
whichever one i build is going to have the vortec heads with LS6 springs and comp retainers,a GMPP roller
cam i picked up(pn 7151) hooker headers,billet everything(got it all for dirt cheap used)
im basically building an exact copy of the gmpp crate engine sp350/357 (357 horsepower ,410 lbs of torque)
should be a step up from the lowly 150 horsepower 305 in the car now,lol.i cant wait to do it(my poor t5)
ive also got a 700r4 ready if (or when tbh)the t5 gives up the ghost.im guessing it wont take long
ive also hoarded a pile of parts and just parted out an 88 gta and kept everything but the shell(rusty)
here is the engine im building so far,just gathering parts to finish it as its affordable.
Looks awesome, it's so fun building your own stuff. I would honestly recommend the tpi, I know that it doesn't make much power at higher rpm but if your just driving it , I think the feel of a tpi from stop light to stop light is unbeatable
After dealing with my trans am, I think I want a stock one, the second you start modifing it's like a domino effect everything needs to be upgraded or modified to make it work and for some reason the car just loses that nastolgic original feel, i don't know if that makes any sense
Like I had a 3.1 v6 Camaro and I loved driving that more than my trans am because it was so simple and stock everything just flowed together .
Still compared power wise damn my t/a goes .
One day I will get a 350tpi Camaro and I will keep it stock and drive the crap out of it lol.
ironically i had an iron duke 4 cylinder/4 speed standard camaro bare bones with power nothing and i adored the car.it was stolen and torched (ended up buying a v6 auto camaro with insurance money but i hated it) it really hurt me loosing that car even though it was slow it just worked perfectly and would plow through snow with the beefy snows i had on it,the second favorite was a 20,000 km loaded 305 berlinetta i had(car was perfect).i drove it for 10 years winter,summer,spring etc.looking back i wish i kept that car clean and in my garage rather than trading it for a pos mini van.having kids,you know how it is probably,right?
the quickest third gen i owned was an 87 350 tpi iroc,ratty as hell but it hauled butt and would bark in 3 gears taking off.i stripped that car to a shell too,was soft as butter on the stove,lol.
my t/a will decimate the iroc i used to have (when its done,hopefully)and its a stick,which i really really love having.
it is clean too and no rust,im not letting it go outside ever in the winter if i can help it...
Last edited by 1986BANDIT; 12-29-2019 at 04:47 PM.
Yeah kids, I told my self I would not buy a mini van lol, my dad had a trans am and even though he had kids he never drove anything but the trans am with us in the back seats. sweet memories, of giving the finger to people from the back seat hahaha people would drive up and tell my dad but he didn't care, lol we were so bad, I got my g1 and learned how to drive with that car.
Well at the end I did buy a mini van only because my Camaro started having issues with the torque converter and my entire family was telling me how unsafe it is to put a new born in a 20+ year old car .
Me and my wife used to go every where with the Camaro even before we got married I miss that car so much
Now with kids and a mortgage never have time to drive anything other than the Dodge caravan and my work truck lol.
But a secret confession I kinda enjoy working on the car and looking at it in the garage more than driving it. Always paranoid some idiot will ram into me and ruin all my hard work lol
Man all this talking we should set up a thirdgen meet up for the spring summer in Ontario, be great to meet up with more lovers of the thirdgens best generation ever 😁,
hell yeah,i just need to sort out the rear end as i chipped a tooth on my ring gear in my ten bolt,i dont know how though as i baby the car mostly.
funny,usually my cars are an idiot magnet but this car seems to scare morons and dipsh!ts away from me,maybe that and being 6'4' and intolerant of stupidity could add to it(lol)
i do have that tpi 350 with every single part ,sensor,plug etc including intake tract filter housing to mass air sensor,injectors,ecm and wiring harness
if you are into trading for that old school 350 you have.im terrified of wiring a tpi.it was running when i pulled it too! just thought i would throw that out there
before i pulled it,1988 L98 tpi.got it all head to stern.
Last edited by 1986BANDIT; 12-29-2019 at 06:06 PM.
That tpi engine is some hardcore **** lol. Damn it's sexy,
Thabks for the trade offer but after all I've been through with the trans am I'm gonna keep that engine until it blows lol
But I'll keep it in mind , I have my eyes on a 305 thirdgen if I decide to go for it I wouldn't mind buying the 350tpi off you , how much would you want for it? Lol funny thing I had a 350tpi with everything that I pulled from a 89 GTA car was rusted out wasn't worth saving , but I ended up selling it to someone biggest regret lol
idk,i had a 350tpi and sold it off too and regretted it,just need to decide if im building it or the L31 vortec,
both are 350's but the l31 doesnt have provisions for a mechanical fuel pump like the gta l98 350 does .ive also
got a low mile LB9 305 tpi long block(tpi + intake is gone but the rest is there)sometimes having too many
decisions can be irritating.oh,well i just looked in the L31 and it still has the cross hatch pattern
in the bore and is super clean,im sure the 350 tpi does as well.
its inherent to being fuel injected,they seem to last and not wear out like carbed engines.guys open up 300,000 ls engines all the time
and they look mint inside because they have good rings and dont have fuel wash like carbed engines.i would love to go ls but the money
and the wiring are daunting
Last edited by 1986BANDIT; 12-29-2019 at 06:40 PM.
Stick with fuel injection I think it has more potential, carbs are nice but issues with flooding and cold starts are a pain, that's why I installed the sniper efi on my t/a so tired of tuning the stupid carb all the time,
Wasn't that hard to drop the tank and put in the fuel pump , took me about a 2 days could have done it in 1 day but was being lisure with the work
To be honest if it was me I'd put in the 350 tpi , should be that hard to wire it up if you have the donor car just replace everything the only potential problem I see is the vats system but I think you can just do the resistance bypass I did that on my camaro
the other issue is with vortec heads that im definitely using,the tpi base will not work.you need a completely different tpi base,then i would want bigger runners,then i would want batter heads,then it would snowball out of hand like yuou said.
im thinking later on ill go with a conventional style carb intake with provisions/bungs for injectors and big throttle body and go blow through with twins,lol.if my car was tpi to begin with it would be a no brainer but as a carbed car it would be a pain to sort the stock wiring as this is a massive annoying undertaking to me.
Twin turbos v8 that's probably the best thing ever! Lots of work but man once it is done would be a beastttttt.
Yeah that exactly what I mean about modifications once you start it just snowballs into something bigger and then it's like 6 years later your car is still not done lol.
Keep it simple and have fun.
I wanted to put twins on my t/a but I have a 10.1 compression ratio and apparently it wouldn't be a good idea I'm not to educated on forced induction so I'm just going with what I read on fourms
But that's what I want to do if this car engine goes down rebuild it with lower compression and install twin turbos but I want rear mounted ones which I read if you do you won't need a intercooler because of the length
But these are all dreams probably while I'm dreaming stroke it to a 383 and then do rear mounted twin turbos lol
TURBOS ARE A PAIN FROM MY UNDERSTANDING............rear mounted have miles of pipe and low boost,under-hood turbos have massive heat,both need forged everything and low compression and a boost controller and lots of electronics.ill be n/a for a long time im afraid,a decent supercharger of to the side would be cool
Thanks appreciate it, well lol the color didn't actually turn out the way I wanted , it's black with a green and some gold metallic , depending on how you look at it in the sun you get a different look but although I hate to admit it, it's more greenish. I was hoping for a more black with gold flakes but it is what it is. I hate my rims, I have the gold crosslace but I can't get them to fit the front because I did the ls1 brake upgrade I need spacers.
Your car has the hood I want lol. Been thinking about getting one how do you like it any regrets?
Engine is a 350 I have Holley sniper efi on it I don't know much the previous owner did a lot of work, apparently has a forged internals, xe274 cam, sportsman ii cylinder heads , long tube headers from headmen , I think 15/8, feels powerful when I do drive it, but feels a little slow off the line
Yeah it is nice to meet someone local, I'm all the way in Barrie.
But is that what you were thinking of doing I didn't understand what you meant by putting lights in the groundfx
Cool Barrie I'm just up the road in Orillia. unfortunate my car is not road worthy though. it needs a restoration. I think having accent lighting in the fender vents would be a neat idea for cruise nights.
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