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Old 08-17-2006, 05:52 PM   #501
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Old 08-30-2006, 11:57 PM   #502
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I'm in Marion, about an hour north of Columbus and enjoying my 1984 Firebird.
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Old 08-31-2006, 12:04 AM   #503
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Old 08-31-2006, 02:44 PM   #504
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Im from Mantua Ohio, if theres anyone that goes to the Solon car show on tuesdays and feels like talking about third gens let me know. Especially if its about prom tuning because im planning on getting into that soon, iv just been reading things for now though.
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Old 08-31-2006, 06:04 PM   #505
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Im from Mantua Ohio, if theres anyone that goes to the Solon car show on tuesdays and feels like talking about third gens let me know. Especially if its about prom tuning because im planning on getting into that soon, iv just been reading things for now though.
i've probably seen your car, i'm in ravenna, lived in aurora for 15 years also. you should come up to giant eagle/A&W here in ravenna on saturday nights. we have an informal gathering that starts about 9 pm. I might have some info that would be useful to you.
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Old 09-01-2006, 05:13 PM   #506
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Euclid ohio here....just east of Cleveland
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Old 09-01-2006, 11:03 PM   #507
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Hi, I'm a newly regestered member from Canal Winchester, Ohio ( near Columbus ). I have a 1992 RS Convertible that I bought back in Jan. of 1995 with 61,000 miles. It now has close to 190,000 miles on it and still runs GREAT!!
Damn.. The thread that won't ever die... Well I sold my Camaro back in 2004 with around 206,000 miles on it. I just bought a 1991 Trans Am Convertible last week. It has 156,000 miles on it and I hope it will make it to 200,000 also.

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Old 09-03-2006, 01:43 PM   #508
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i've probably seen your car, i'm in ravenna, lived in aurora for 15 years also. you should come up to giant eagle/A&W here in ravenna on saturday nights. we have an informal gathering that starts about 9 pm. I might have some info that would be useful to you.
Ill try and make it out next weekend if possible. i probly wont risk driving the camaro on expired plates though, im having trouble passing e-check.
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Old 09-05-2006, 03:06 AM   #509
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Ill try and make it out next weekend if possible. i probly wont risk driving the camaro on expired plates though, im having trouble passing e-check.
maybe you should check out LSRacingchips - Home for a good tune, they tuned my car and i passed with no smog equipment and a hollow cat converter. the guy that runs it is local and could probably tune your car around here. what trouble are you having with the echeck? did you fail once already?
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Old 09-05-2006, 08:42 AM   #510
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id rather not pay for a chip when i could eventually burn my own, but i would still look into it. and echeck is confusing me, i failed before, put a new cat and cat-back on, and failed by more! so either way i think i can pass just by proving that i spent a certian amount of money trying to pass.
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Old 09-05-2006, 08:59 AM   #511
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Wow, most of you seem to be way up north around Cleveland or Columbus. I am down near Cincinnati. We have a rather large cruise inn on Friday nights in Milford, around 500+ cars show up if the weather is nice. It's actually getting too large to suit me. We also have one on Saturday nights and Sunday nights, but those aren't as large and much easier to get a parking spot. There are even a couple cruises that go on during the week nights but those haven't interested me much. Larry.
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Old 09-08-2006, 12:58 AM   #512
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id rather not pay for a chip when i could eventually burn my own, but i would still look into it. and echeck is confusing me, i failed before, put a new cat and cat-back on, and failed by more! so either way i think i can pass just by proving that i spent a certian amount of money trying to pass.
what part of the test are you failing? look at your printout and tell me which part says fail. alot of times a failing o2 sensor will make you fail echeck. also another trick, try to go during the day to have the test done when there is the least amount of people. you want as few people as possible so you can get right in while your car is still warm, run the hell out of it and get everything nice and hot then take it in there. i've seen a few people pass simply by doing that.
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Old 09-08-2006, 01:12 AM   #513
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Old 09-08-2006, 02:12 AM   #514
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Ill try and make it out next weekend if possible. i probly wont risk driving the camaro on expired plates though, im having trouble passing e-check.
i put 4 bottles of 91% rubbing alcohol to my have a tank of gas,(thinned down the mix) and turned the timing don't a bit and passed. also ran on highway for 15 mins before. just an idea.
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Old 09-08-2006, 12:45 PM   #515
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I dont mean to turn this thread into emissions help, but thats for the input. ill be taking it to the test again today, i ran sea foam injector cleaner through it, and ill let it run longer than the 10 minutes it takes to get there, and ill prolly put in some 91% alcohol because a mechanic i know has told me the same thing.

only thing is, i failed the NOx only, and iv read those are caused by high combustion temps, and i thought alcohol burned hotter but maybe cleaner too. i also thought i might try higher octane gas, because higher is supposed to be harder to ignite, maybe burn slower, maybe burn cooler? retarding timing might help too but ill try to pass without doing that.

thanks again maybe ill be able to stop at the revenna car meet tomorrow if i pass today haha.
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Old 09-08-2006, 10:56 PM   #516
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I dont mean to turn this thread into emissions help, but thats for the input. ill be taking it to the test again today, i ran sea foam injector cleaner through it, and ill let it run longer than the 10 minutes it takes to get there, and ill prolly put in some 91% alcohol because a mechanic i know has told me the same thing.

only thing is, i failed the NOx only, and iv read those are caused by high combustion temps, and i thought alcohol burned hotter but maybe cleaner too. i also thought i might try higher octane gas, because higher is supposed to be harder to ignite, maybe burn slower, maybe burn cooler? retarding timing might help too but ill try to pass without doing that.

thanks again maybe ill be able to stop at the revenna car meet tomorrow if i pass today haha.


nox is usually o2 sensor or bad cat converter. let me know if you plan to head up there. here is the problem i see with the alcohol, the higher octane won't let all the fuel burn up. do you know what that does? it washes oil off your cylinder walls and allows the pistons to scar them. my grandpa did the same thing, but it was with some beater *** chevy blazer we didn't care about. he bought a bottle of absolute alcohol, it was 100% and poured the whole thing in the gas tank, yeah it passed... the engine was dead not 6 months later.
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Old 09-09-2006, 07:55 AM   #517
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that sounds very possible and a little scary, plus i was only planning on having 3 ors so gallonos in the tank at the time so that the alcohol wouldnt be much and wouldnt be in there long. the strange thing is the O2 has less than 500 miles on it and the cat is brand spankin new. when i put the new cat it failed by more! haha, so that just confuses me.

and i wont be able to take it to ravenna tonight due to a brake line failing and leaking, so i decided to re-do all the brake lines and such today and tomorrow.

thanks for the heads up on the possible alcohol side effect
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Old 09-11-2006, 09:50 AM   #518
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how did the brake job go? did you get it fixed?
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Old 09-16-2006, 01:47 PM   #519
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live 60 miles east of columbus

after this winter,ya'll wanna get together somtime and have a carshow or somthing? i got a 92 rs teal l03 auto t-top.i live in a little town called New concord.i know of a guy thats got a 87 iroc,i know of a guy with a 92 rs, and i know of a guy with a 84 berl, with a 283 in her.but i havnt really talked to them yet,i need to tho.well,we should get a carshow goin!

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Old 09-26-2006, 02:06 PM   #520
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anybody want to meet up at the ravenna car gathering on saturday night? i'll be there with my GTA.
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Old 09-26-2006, 05:18 PM   #521
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anybody want to meet up at the ravenna car gathering on saturday night? i'll be there with my GTA.
wheres ravenna? is that by defiance?
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Old 09-26-2006, 05:33 PM   #522
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go to maps.google.com and look up ravenna, ohio 44266
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ok,thats about 2 hours north of me.what time does it start? and end? idk if i could get my l03 maro to make it that far,lol,plus i got work,its this saturday? anymore coming up that i could request off work for?

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Old 09-26-2006, 11:41 PM   #524
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depends on the weather for how many people will show up. not sure if any of the people from the board will be there, but i'm sure alot of local people will be. it starts around 9 pm saturday night.
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Old 10-07-2006, 01:17 AM   #525
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Im checkin in from the east side of Dayton. I currently got an 87 Firebird but it really blows. I had a 99 Z28 until I crashed it on E Fifth Street a while back. Looking for a Straight bodied 3d Gen.
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Old 10-08-2006, 08:26 AM   #526
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Im checkin in from the east side of Dayton. I currently got an 87 Firebird but it really blows. I had a 99 Z28 until I crashed it on E Fifth Street a while back. Looking for a Straight bodied 3d Gen.
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Old 10-18-2006, 10:03 PM   #527
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I'm coming at my fellow members from Riverside in Dayton Ohio! w00t!! lol. I moved down here from Salem, Ohio.
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You should buy my turbo kit and make it move lol
1. Its a V6 Car!
2. If it was a v8 the turbo kit costs more than the cars worth, lol. Its really a piece of crap. Looks like swiss cheese.
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