Here are some new pics of my car i just took a few days ago. I am now in the process of polishing the rims. i have one done and i am making this a 4 day job. Tell me what you think!

 

looks good , what are the specs on the car .

 

305 LB9, Almost bone stock, K&Ns, ported plenum, Superstock Plug wires, platinum +2 plugs, Accel Cap&Rotor, Posi, 1SC high option packed Z28.

other than that i dont know what the previous owners have done. the guy i bought it from didnt know junk about it so im clueless until i buy new heads.

 

First time I have seen that combo on a Camaro, I like it.

 

The ole car looks pretty good from here. Would like to see a few pics of the wheels when they are polished too...

 

any suggestions? thanks for the compliments.

 

devian what combo do you mean?

btw the car looks slick, i def suggest gettin the iroc 16" rims and polishing those instead, but other way it looks pretty good.

 

I like your car just the way it is. You see nice IROCs all the time, but not many nice Z's like yours. Keep it clean!

 

here is a pic of the rear rims polished and i hadnt done the front yet i just thought i would get a pic of the difference. what do you guys think now?

 

looks good wheres the center cap ?

 

it was on there. just a bad angle. the sun was setting and it was shining in the lens so i had to get it to where the picture would take. i have a pic but the sun is in the lens and the cap is on. the front rims are being a pita! i havent even finished one rim today. oh well i will have them both done by tomorrow afternoon. i guess i shouldnt have tried doing both rims at the same time because it seems overwhelming right now but it's worth it........... i think anyway

a lot of people are looking at my post they just arent replying.... i want comments guys come on!

 

Ok guys after all the hard work they are done finally!!! What are your thoughts now?



:lala:

 

Wheels look awesome man! I've only finished my fronts so far.

What did you use to strip the paint off them?

 

looks a hundred times better. A set of rims can make a break a car and the rims look a lot nicer now. I would consider polishing my 16" irocs but theyre always so damn covered in brake dust they look black either way. Maybe polishing em would help with that? I dont know either way good job.

 

looks pretty good, love ur z, nice job, keep it up man

 

nice job on the rims, i like the color and pretty clean looking.

 

I used Brush on Aircraft Remover from Napa Auto Parts. It was under 10 bucks and it works great! It took 2 or 3 coats of the remover to get it all off. I would brush it on and let it sit for 15 minutes and scrape it off with these tiny wire brushed i also picked up from Napa and recoat until the paint and clear was stripped off. Then i sanded dry with 120, 220, 320, wet with 400, wet 600, wet 800, wet 1000, wet 1500, then mothers aluminuim polsh and they just turned out awesome. it took me about 6 or 7 hours per rim including the stripping of the clear/paint.


the brake dust thing your going to have to replace the pads and rotor up front to get rid of and in the back too if you have all wheel disks. also you might want to try not braking really hard and just lightly pushing the brake ahead of the stop pretty far back because these heavy cars take 100 feet to stop at 60 mph with the brakes almost locked up. pretty much if you just keep them wiped off you should be ok. it take like 5 mins to wiped your rims off and like 6 hours to re-polish so which would you like?

thanks for the compliments! i just got in from installing my sub system. it is getting winter time so since it is cold out and i wont be using the t-tops i figured i would throw the subs in and they sound good too. oh and incase you have a sub with the dome pushed in like i did (its the thing that has the jl logo on it) just use a plunger on it and be gentle and it will pop out and look fine. well mine did anyways:lala:

 

LoL thats really the problem right there. I get bored when im just driving around the city and have all that torque at my finger tips so ill drop back a bit from the car infront of me then hammer on the gas and quickly back on the brakes. Also flooring it from stop light to stop light and then having to get heavy on the brakes. I just have to drive sane if i want to get rid of that problem but thats just not happening i was just thinking maybe the brake dust wouldnt adhere to the smooth polished surface as well as it does the rough surface left from the factory. Just seems like a potentially added bonus from polishing them.

 

it would definately wipe off easier. if you are going to drive like that i suggest wiping them off everytime you are done driving for the day and just before you go out for the insane driving just in case you forgot to wipe it off.

 

yeah it only takes a second or 2 to wipe them off but im lazy oh well the cars more ment to be functional a little bit of dirt on it doesnt drive me nuts because it happens everywhere i go but if im showing her off she definitly gets the full work over.

 

well i guess me being 17 not having a job and being homeschooled helps with having time to keep it clean

 

yeah im also 17 (isnt it cool when youre around a bunch of people with done up cars usually ricers but whatever and theyre all like 25 and your car at 17 can wipe the floor with almost all of them?!?!?) but i do have school and i work...howd you afford the car gift from daddy?

 

not quite a gift. i traded him for a car the guy that lives across the street gave me. it got better gas mileage (f0rd tempo) and he was going to buy another car but i talked him into getting the z and trading me for my piece of crap. a pretty big step up from a 4 banger ford to a v8 chevy :lala: :hail: