First off, I am by no means a Camaro guy. I own an 83 TA and love firebirds, but many of you have asked about factory appearance packages, like the one I put together for all the 3rd gen TA's. So after sorting through almost all 463 Reader's Rides photos I have compiled what I believe is an accurate representation of the Camaro differences. If I am wrong, just tell me and I'll fix it. Just note. I by no means try to represent which year/models had black headlight buckets, or which base models Could have had spoilers, or striping differences, or decal placement. There are just too many combinations and I do have a life. Combine the photos with the text in "TECH DATA" section and you should find the info you have always wanted. By next week, I'll have the tail light differences for my Camaro cousins.




------------------
1983 T/A LG4 w/T-tops
Rebuilt/Modified E Q-jet
Custom Dual Ram-Air
Self painted cherry red w/ restored black/grey interior
Dynamat from firewall to tail wall
Welded Comp Eng SFC
Tokico Struts/Shocks
Hotchkis LCAs and Panhard Bar
Energy Suspension bushings all around


[This message has been edited by Nightcruzer (edited November 15, 2001).]

 

Pretty good. Everything I see looks correct, but all third gens came with black hood buckets, but it common practice to make them match the rest of the car.

Chris

------------------
1986 Iroc 355 TPI coming soon

1985 Z28/5-speed Daily Driver

 

Oh yea. The hood louvers were only functional on some 1982 models

Chris

------------------
1986 Iroc 355 TPI coming soon

1985 Z28/5-speed Daily Driver

 

no they didn't. not on rs/sport coupe models.

 

Yeah, I was gonna say that too, I owned an 82 Z28, but it wasnt a CFI motor originally so mine werent functional. Wouldnt have been hard to make them functional though

-Roshambo

------------------
-Joe
1988 Pontiac Trans Am WS6 - 305 TPI, 700R4, 3.23 Posi, Digital Dash, Leather Seats, Maui Blue with Silver GFX, T-tops, Tinted Glass, Gutted MAF, TB Coolant Bypass, K&N Cone Filter, No Cat, 3" exhaust from Y-pipe back, MSD Super Coil, Accel 8mm wires, L98 Aluminum Heads, Ported and Polished Plenum, Siamesed Intake, Aluminum Driveshaft, Edelbrock 3 point Strut Tower Brace

 

My 92 RS has body color headlight buckets.

 

Great job man! BTW, the only ones with functional hood louvers were the Cross-fire injected models ('83 only I think).

EDIT: Sorry Rosh, didn't see that you already said that!

------------------
'91 Camaro RS - TBI 305 - medium garnet - '91-'92 Z28 wheels - leather - all power options (except power seat) - t-tops - Clarion head unit - Pioneer 4way 200watt 6x9s - Rockford Fosgate Punch amp and 2 Fosgate 12" subs - Edelbrock open element w/ K&N filter - Random Technology highflow cat - some free mods, more coming soon...

[This message has been edited by RSFreak (edited November 15, 2001).]

 

Looks pretty good, but in the one pic it says that the lip spoiler increased in size, but it didnt, one thing you could also post would be that 86 had the brake light on the top of the hatch on the outside, 87-89 its in the lip spoiler and 90-92 its inside the hatch glass at the top.also the RS model debuted in 88(and a few 87`s in california i think)and it had the smaller spoiler similiar to the 91-92 z28 spoiler only shorter and it only went accross the hatch not all the way to the quarters.

Ill look later and see if i can think of anything else

------------------
87 IROC-z 305 TPI
Borg Warner T-5 fresh rebuild
10-bolt 3.73 Richmond gears rebuilt GM posi,
formerly BW 9-bolt w/3.45 gears(broke it)
Ported Plenum and Runners Homemade AFPR
ACCEL 8.8 wires, High output coil,and cap & rotor
Bosch platinum + 4 plugs
Ram Air w/ K&N filters,
MAF sensor screens removed, TB coolant bypass
Polyurethane tranny and torque arm mounts
Gutted Cat, Dynomax Headers & catback w/custom tips
K&N oil filter,Mobil 1 synth,Factory Oil Cooler, Futura GLS Super Sport tires 265/50/15 rear and 235/60/15 front mounted on 86 monte carlo SS rims.

406 siamesed TPI in progress

 

sweet, i love that pick of my car.

 

and the hood louvers in 83 were functional on some z28's b/c of the cross fire injection.they stopped it b/c when u let into the gas the louvers would open up but if it was raining then it would suck rain right into the engine..so they stopped that...but u did a good job

 

I believe that the smaller spoiler that you are speaking of was only on the Sport Coupes in 88,
Also, the 3-piece spoiler was shortened for the RS's. The IROC's had a larger one.... I am pretty sure... They had a steeper angle to them.
The Third brake light was still in the spoiler in 1990. It moved up to the inside rear glass in 1991.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.....

------------------
http://kiztope.50megs.com
92 Pontiac Firebird Formula WS6 5.7/A4
K&N, Blue Streak Cap and Rotor, strange unknown exhaust system (sounds good though)...
Mods are in direct proportion to income!

92 Rs 3.1/T-5
Beautiful car, many mods, but now I am turning attention to the 'bird!

AIM : Theonekiztope
ICQ: 8787542

"Maybe one day life will take a turn. When it does Lean into it!" Leon Calrinsky (98)

 

you were right for the most part. though, the '88 sc spoiler (I have one) wasn't on all '88 sport coupes. though it was on most. everyone either calls it a smaller version of the 91-92 "F40" style wing or firebird style, but it's a totally different design on it's own.

and the bigger 3-piece was on '87 to '90 models. it had to be bigger for the third brake light. so the smaller 3-piece was on 82-86 and 91-92

[This message has been edited by SlowCamaro88SC (edited November 17, 2001).]

 

Thanks for the appreciation, I'll be working on the clarrifications you suggested so far and the "third brakelight/taillight" one will be ready by the end of next week. Keep the suggestions coming..