Heres the deal. I need some photos of cars with the IROC-Z decal showing. Preferable 88 to 90 cars .I need to compare it to my decal. Ive been told that the vinyl decal of GUNNER-1 on my car looks cheap So I decided to take that in to consideration. Some explanation of why I chose “Gunner” is my handle from the Marines.I guess I could change it as suggested but like to be different. Its a personal touch. Also this had some influence. . Ive looked and only found photos that are hard to see. So can you guys help me out with the photos .

Yeah, you gotta put IROC-Z back on there...

its your car, put what YOU want on it..

not the best pictures for showing off the IROC decal, but here you go;

Wow, great looking cars.Thanks for reply.

I scheduled a appointment to have the guys remove it. IROC-Z It is.Still would like to see more photos

Don't know if it makes a difference to you, but the IROC decals on the older cars (not sure the years) were toward the front of the door edge, later years it was toward the rear edge of the door. There's one of each pictured from the guys who sent the pics....maybe someone can tell you what years were what.... BTW - I like the Gunner decal.....

Those are some clean looking Irocs

I had the GUNNER-1 decal removed and am leaving it bare for now.Except for the small IROC-Z badge on the ground effects.What a huge improvement.The door paint is like glass and looks incredible. Thanks for suggesting the removal.

it was 88 and later that the decals were moved to the rear i believe

ok, i have to ask, prison? how did you manage that?
very nice looking car. i agree with the consensus that the letters look ghetto to me. I personally like the factory lettering, or none would look good also. with the hood stripes and lowers painted red, no letters would look good too. at least there isn't a 'in memory of ...' on the back window

Guy broke into my house. I new who did it and even after being warned by police I went after him . Thats all I can say.

ahhh, that makes sense. i might do the same thing. you bein' a former marine, i figured it was something like that, and you weren't the thief or somethin'

i think they look better without the stickers, i like the small z-28 logo on the side i have even seen a red camaro with an SS logo on it and i think that looked awesome

yes,
and i think with them on the lower part of the door, it shouldnt have much fade in a year. that is curved under a little, and exposed to the lease amount of direct sunlight, the worst being the hood roof and trunk or spoiler. there you might well see some fade and brighter red under the letters. my guess you'll have no problems if you take them off. of course you could peel a little of one off, maybe the " - " part to check first.

Yes, I did nave the GUNNER-1 decals removed and there were no problems with color fade. Looks allot cleaner. When I get the time and money I will put the IROC-Z from Phoenix Graphics on. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

whoever said 88 and newer had it to the rear that is correct. 87 was the last year of it being to the front of the door. I need to get new decals on my IROC at some point

Here is the Drop Roc...1988

88 camaro IROC-Z ( from the netherlands )






Dennis

nice iroc's men

Here It is with the old GUNNER-1 decal removed and the new IROC-Z decal on.

The "Z" on the decal seems to be a little off ( slightly sloped) but that's the way the decal was made. Its like that on both sides. Maybe its gust me.Its barley noticeable.
2009-12-20

It looks fine to me

does anyone have them in a custom color?

looks very nice and better than before!!!!

dennis

when i get my car re-painted they will be painted on.
the car is metallic red the they will be metallic black.

I think that's just an optical illusion due to the diagonal middle section of the "Z." If you put a straight edge across top and bottom of the whole decal, I'll bet you'll find it's not sloped at all. Looks great BTW.

Thanks guys. I like it allot better myself. All I need now Is new turn signals and tail lights.

IMO looks way better with IROC decals than custom name decals...But heres my 86 with its painted on decals

the paint decals must beeing a lot of work pffff !!!

but looks very nice ( only i don`t like the flames )

dennis

IROC-Dennis, Ya I don't like the way the flames turned out either...I will be repainting as soon as the engine bay and interior is done

I wanted to paint my car some bright color that I like. I considered bright pink like the 70s mopars. Ooops, looks like that's been done already, as I saw one going down the road next to me:

Just curious. These are OEM replacment decals are they not?

No they are not OEM replacement. They never offered these in black but that's what I wanted. Bought them on eBay for $20.00.Other than the color they are the same design. Decent quality.The photos.not so great. Sorry.

WOW...that's clean

My new laptop screen saver.

this is my baby my 88 iroc. right after these pics were taken she was pulled into the barn out of this weather preparing to have the engine oulled out and rebuilt. This is my first car. besides the one i wrecked but that is a whole dif story.

heres mine

i wish i had the 16" wheels but here is mine

Hey guys. Has anyone ever removed the old sticker decals from thier doors? When my Bro N Law gave me my IROC as a wedding gift, I noticed that my stickers are not where they are suposed to be. So any help would be great. Also, is there any GOOD vendor that sells GOOD IROC-Z decals? I found a few but I dont know if they made the decals with quality plastics. Thanks Andrew, "Chevy86 IROC-Z".

Where are yours now? Keep in mind, the 85-87 IROCs had the decal on the front part of the door, 88-90 was to the rear of the door.

Well they are in the front section of the door, but they are WAY up towards the front. To get a better idea, follow this link to my picture album- http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/al...p?albumid=2335

Phoenix Graphics has a nice selection of decals. When I removed my decals I used a blow dryer to heat it up and lifted/ pulled them off with my fingernail/fingers very carefully.Try this link: http://www.phoenixgraphix.com/gm/8587iz.htm

Cool. I'll try this method first, and the first method second if all else doesnt work. Thanks for the tip bro.

I'm a little curious here... A number of you guys are saying that 88 was the first year that the IROC-Z was stationed to the back of the door vs front in 87 and earlier. My first Camaro was an 87 and it had its IROC-Z decals towards the back of the door. It also still had the original paint too.... My VIN confirmed it to be an 87 also.

regardless of where the decals were originally I think one I get decals for my 86 cut I'll definitely put them towards the back of the door as personally I think they look much better there.

For the years of 85, 86, 87, the decals where put towards the front of the door because when someone visually sees the IROC decal, people will more than likely look at the emblem on the rocker panel which reads Z28. Now for the years of 88 and above, the rocker panel "Z28" emblem was changed to an emblem that reads "IROC-Z". Now that the rocker panel had the IROC emblem, the front of the door will be too crowded with the IROC door and IROC rocker. So GM decided to move the decal towards the rear of the door. It's really up to you though. But the location Of the decal really is signature to the IROC, IMO. The one thing that really TiCKS ME OFF is when someone who has something other than an IROC (RS, Z28, Berlinettas,) is when they put IROC decals.

soo.. what you are saying is someone most likely peeled off the original stickers and placed new IROC-Z decals towards the back of the door on this car. thats something that I had not noticed between the 84 Z28 and up. Will have to pay special attention to that next time I see some

Edited: I scrolled up and noticed that some of the front mounted door decals also stated IROC-Z I thought you had mentioned that the earlier years 84-87 had only IROC and not IROC-Z are these perhaps after market decals placed on the car(most likely after a paint job etc)??

85 - 87 had "IROC-Z" towards the front. 88 and up had em towards the back. Maby the PO to your Camaro peeled the decals and moved them to the back. Unless the Camaro was repainted with the factory color and had new decals towards the back. Regardless of the situation, from the factory, 86 had the decals towards the front. But it's your choice man. It's your car and you can do as you please. I like to keep my look as genuine as possible.

Well... even though I wanted to keep my car looking as original as possible I've kind of strayed away from that a tad..... Once the ball got rolling its hard not to stop doing what you want to do and yet still keep the car looking as close as possible to original state. However... I do believe my car to be a bit more valuable now than if it were plain jane original like so many other people do. When upgrading stuff on my car I also tried to stress the natural body lines that the car has and also create a 2nd body line from the hood scoop to the rear wing.

this is an older picture prior to finnishing the hood work but still shows the new 2nd line