A big congrats to DBLTKE for winning this months COTM!!!!




Here is the low down on his low 1991 Z28...


DRIVETRAIN:

LB9 (Tune Port Injection, 305)
Accel 19lb injectors
Holly AFPR (Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator)
BBK aluminum Underdrive Pulleys
Edelbrock aluminum high flow water pump
180* thermostat
200* Hypertech fan switch
Richporter billet distributor
K&N air filters
Dyno Don headers & dual 2.5" (catless) Y-pipe
3" SLP Loudmouth 2 cat-back

World Class Borg Warner T-5 transmission
Hurst short shifter

10-bolt with Auburn Posi-Trac differential
Eaton 3.73 gears

WHEEL/SUSPENSION:
(I have a few sets of wheels)
C5 Corvette Y2K's 17x8.5 front 18x9.5 rear 245/45/17 front 275/40/18 rear
2001 Camaro SS wheels 17x9 front and rear 275/4/17 Kumho Ecsta Supra in front and 285/40/17 Nitto NT555's rear
16x8 Cross Laces with 245/50/16 front and rear.

Ground Control weight jacks with 800lb front and 200 lb rear springs
Koni Sport "yellow" single adjsutable struts and shocks
36mm front, 24mm rear sway bars
Founder Performance 1" raised strut mounts
Summit 1" extended lower ball joints
TDS "Wonderbar" (steering brace)
Bully Dog rod ended, adjustable panhard bar
Founders Performance Lower Control Arm Relocation Brackets (LCARB's)
Poly sway bar endlinks and bushings
poly transmission mount

INTERIOR:

MOMO Millenium steering wheel
custom engraved "Z28" shift ****
Recaro LS front seats
hardwired Cobra iRadar detector

AUDIO:

Kenwood Excelon KDC-X994 head unit
4x6 Alpine SPS-4629P dash speakers
6x9 Pioneer TS-A6971R sail panel speakers
Alpine PDX 1.600 amp
custom sub box
10" Kicker Comp VR subwoofers (x2)

EXTERIOR:

repainted factory Chevy Black
Depo crystal smoked front turn signals
Pilot fog lights
20% window tint
custom made carbon fiber front grill
custom front lip
























Gotta love that he has a set of wheels like most people have socks! CONGRATS man!!!

 

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Awesome Car. Congrats!

 

That car is beautiful. Hopefully you'll get that frame situation worked out soon. Congrats Skyler.

 

Congrats, love the 3 sets of wheels, one for every mood LOL!

 

Lovin' the car and especially lovin' the interior. Looks stock and modern at the same time.

Congratulations.

 

One of my favorite cars on this board!!

 

It's an awesome ride. Congrats to DBLTKE!!!

 

Awesome car!! Gives me something to work towards! Congrats!

 

Hot Ride!!

 

Congrats sweet car and stance !!

 

Great Car! i hope mine can be that clean one day

 

sweet ride. u can tell a lot of hard work went into it! congrats

 

CONGRATS !!!!! Very nice car !!!!

 

Congrats man! Your car is one of my favorites on here.

 

Looks good.

Great work highlighting the style of these cars!

 

Oh hot damn that thing just looks fast. Much deserved. Congratulations thirdgen brother.

 

Congratz!

 

Congrats!

 

Congrats man beautiful car!

 

Nice car! Congrats! When people say "stance", that is what they mean. pretty sweet!

 

Congrats....awesome ride!

 

very nice car.

 

Is that a Mazda RX-3 next to your Camaro in the picture with the trophy? Oh man, I love those cars. One of my favorite imports from the late 60's/early 70's. Oh, and your car is bad-*** too. lol, but would love to see some pics of that Mazda.

 

Congrats man! Sweet ride

 

Awesome mod on the grill. Would love to know how you did it.. love the black! The only thing missing is really cool shifter ***. Not trying to sell you mine, I can just imagine how cool it would look with the rest of your interior. I think we have the same head unit too! Congrats on the honor. Stone

 

I totally thought that I had posted up a reply on this already, but I am super excited that everyone felt that my car was worthy enough to win COTM for April! Honestly, there was some other damn nice cars that I thought for sure would win over mine. I really appreciate the kind words everyone! Thank you all!

I love my car like none other. I previously had an '85 Camaro Z28 that was pretty rough. I had, and still have, a vision of exactly how my car will end up. I'd always loved the 91-92 Z28's and I was basically going to transform my '85 into what you see here. My '85 was down for over a year from doing an engine/trans swap, prepping for pain, and suspension work when many of my friends started giving me crap for not driving around a F-body. I too missed driving my Camaro so I started looking on craigslist and local classifieds to see if there were any 91-92 Z28's when I happened to find this one. prior to that day I wasn't seriously considering buying a new car but once I saw it, I knew that I wanted to buy it as it was damn near exactly the car that I truly wanted. a black '91 Z28 with the 230hp LB9, T-5 transmission, N10 dual cats, G92 performance package and was only on it's second owner with under 130k on the clock and was insanely clean from top to bottom. The doors closed without that typical "thud" of most third gens. The interior looked mint and was in nearly perfect shape. the body had been repainted so it looked pretty sharp. And the under side was completely dry and clean, no a single hint of any leaks or seepage.

So I haggled the owner down a bit on price and I finally got the Camaro that I had been searching for for the better part of 5 years and immediately began adding things here and there to mold it into my ideal third gen. While I'm very happy with my car as it sits, I'll tell you this, I'm nowhere even nearly being even halfway done with it. I have some big plans for it in the near future and over the long run. I know it'll take many years before I can consider it "done", as if that term is ever appropriate for a project like this, but I truly appreciate the support and warm reception that I get from this community.

 

Beautiful ride!!!

I'm just getting my 87 vert back on the road after some years under wraps.

I have an 01 Corvette and would love to transfer that tire/wheel combo to my IROC. It looks fantastic on yours.

Tell me, did you need to make any changes at all to your suspension to fit the Corvette 5 spokes?

Can't wait to see what else you do to it.

 

Besides needing to run adapters, no. Though I recommend lowering any F-body.

 

Congrat's ...... Bitchin Z

 

Beautiful car! Congrats!

 

DBLTKE, any idea how much your subs, box, and amp weigh? Any dynamat? How do you think 250 rear springs would be compared to the 200s you have? Reason i ask is Ground control set me up with 250 rears cause of the extra weight of my stereo and dynamat. I'm concerned about streetability of the 250's and would appreciate your input. Thank you in advance.

 

My sub box with the subs and amp installed weighs 46lbs. I dont think 250lb rear springs is too stiff but what are they paired up to on the front? That should match a 1000lb+ front spring.

 

Very Nice!

What spacer sizes are you using front and rear?

and where did you find the front splitter/air dam lip at?

 

With those mods you had listed what Do you think you are pushing power wise? And Btw's. Sexy car. Love that black wheels. What type are those??!!

 

Not the Trans am black ones, the long spoked looking bacl wheels...

 

The black long spoke ones are 00-02 camaro SS wheels I believe. I'm liking those

 

They Look pretty good dude, keep working on it and it'l be even better!

 

Also are they 17x9 all the way around for the SS wheels? Or 18x9 in the back?

 

It has dyno'd 216hp and 275 lb/ft. And the SS wheels are 17x9's front and rear.

 

Don't stock z28s with 305s push 230ish to the wheels? I expected you to be at least 245? maybe? I dont know.. Or was the dyno before you added some mods?

 

245 with the mods, but I'm young an optimistic. Still looks amazing though!

 

Congrats!!

 

In 91-92 the z28's with the 350 had 245hp and the LB9 with the N10 and G92 package had 230hp. This rating is at the crank, not the wheels. Accounting for the approximate 15% drivetrain loss that would mean that I'm at around 257hp at the crank.

 

Oooooh okay that makes more sense, so reasonably speaking a 1991 RS makes like 150ish probably? ;/ That makes me a little sad but Im probably gonna build the suspension up before motor mods, if any, besides minor things, headers, cat delete. so on,, an so on. Hopefull gonna have it here in less than a month!!! *fingers crossed*

 

What are your rpm's like with the 28in' tall tires? and the 3.73s in the back?