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I may try to hit the tread mill, or a weight loss plan of some sort.
I can't use a carb spacer since I'm running an RPM Air Gap and Holley 650 on there with a 14x3 drop base air cleaner on the stock IROC hood. I may try to fashion up some sort of cold air system. That damn T56 added a good chunk of weight, but damn I wouldn't trade that thing for the world. Roller rockers worth looking into maybe? I'm using stock stamped steel.
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Well, my friend was in an accident yesterday with her LS1 Camaro. She is thankfully doing just fine, only some bruises. The car is a pretty big heap at this point...
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After:
I'm so glad that she is alright, and since this accident occured at about 50mph, goes to show you that these cars, being mostly fiberglass, don't hold up worth a damn in an accident... Take this lesson out of this guys: If you're running E/T streets, stay off the road on wet days, they are made for DRY PAVEMENT only!
The engine/tranny/wheels/rear/dshaft/borla exhaust (minus a tip) are all intact and salvagable. The car will live on in a new body at some point, but now we have to go through all the insurance bs... I'll be helping her find a new set of wheels next year to throw this combo into and get to work on swapping everything in.
goes to show you that these cars, being mostly fiberglass, don't hold up worth a damn in an accident...
They're not mainly fiberglass and the car held up just fine....she hit multiple things doing 50mph. Did you expect a few scratches? The car did exactly what it was supposed to, it crumpled and kept the passenger compartment completely intact.
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Go try a side impact with your "not mainly fiberglass" car and see if you live to tell me about it. I was very thankful to see that there was no side impact, because she would have been messed up good in that case...
Go try a side impact with your "not mainly fiberglass" car and see if you live to tell me about it. I was very thankful to see that there was no side impact, because she would have been messed up good in that case...
I've seen plenty of them at the shop. Fbody's never have been great at side impacts throughout their history...regardless of that the comparison is irrelevant. If you take almost any car in the late 90's/early 2000's and have it go through a side hit at 50-60mph and it won't be pretty. The car did it's job, she spun out at 50mph and hit something, HARD and she walked away just fine. I'm not sure what you were expecting the car to do. You look at the door area, the structure around the door, roof and everywhere else the occupants sit...all intact and fine. The car did its job. She's very lucky...then again...what do I know...I only do this stuff every day.
You should be thankful she wasn't in one of our thirdgens...she would've been banged around a lot more than she was.
I'm not sure why they thought it was a good idea, but at least she's okay, didn't hit anyone else, and the car can be used as a transplant for the next project.
It is being parted out completely. She has decided to just strip the car and move on to a different car altogether. Keep an eye out for a thread in the Parts for Sale section (I'll post a link here too)
"current" mods: slp cold air, jet air foil, throttle body coolant by-pass, ported plenum, hooker super comp headers, custom y-pipe, flowmaster delta force muffler, custom burned chip through dyno tuning, corvette servo, beast sunshell, shift kit 
