quick Q, need to make sure 87 camaro entire rear hatch assembly will fit and work on an 82 trans am

the tailpan that the spoiler bolts to are same all 82-92 F body right ?

*other than spoiler mounting holes placement*

we are taking a clean 87 camaro to shredder cuz rear axle and 700r4 busted in it, so im gonna grab seats and hatch for my 82 t/a



thanks!

 

Yes

 

hell yeah

i appreciate it

 

Too bad your cutting up the camaro...Easy things to fix... PM me if you wanna sell the camaro (I have a clean firebird hatch pannel).

 

cant, title is bad,
car going to peoria shredder by wednesday, im torching out rear axle and removing seats and hatch tomorrow sometime during the day, gotta drive the car over to here first though after i put a gallon of gas in it

i need more than just a hatch panel lol i need whole hatch, factory original one with heater grids in it, my 82 trans am has junk aftermarket glass with no heater in it and the tail pan was glued to glass very crooked, the entire hatch is junk, the 82 t/a is worth way more than the little camaro is, the camaro is just a little 2.8 POS
the t/a is factory v8 and auto and first year for the third gens, and a few other things that make it way better than this maro


so the camaro loses

been looking for a parts third gen for two years, these damn cars are hard to find for parts, rare as hell, most all of these cars have been scrapped or are driven still, barely, i see 2 maybe 3 on a real good day, camaros or birds, altogether 82-92 years,
maybe 2 or 3 '70-81's a year, and no 67-69's cept maybe 2 or 3 a year in a good year, almost alwyas the same ones over again,

heh


thanks

 

You live in lincoln.... I may have a hatch or two laying around....I am sure crazy n8 does too....
I live in Williamsville.
Let me know if you are interested.

 

williamsville?! holy damn! youre only a few minutes away lol!
you are officially the closest person to me i have ever run into on the net other than ppl i already knew before internet about 5 years ago,

im going towards you in the AM to broadwell to pick up a 5 ton safe to take to peoria with a friend of mine

i cant do anything about hatch deal unless a free one thats factory with heater grid in it and never been busted out/replaced

thats why the 87 camaro is what im taking hatch from, cuz its factory original untouched never been busted out

car has to go shredder either way, nothing can save it unless someone will give 250 for it minus title and rear axle cuz i am taking the 3.42 axle from under it, oh and the seats they are nice

the wheels cant go anywhere either, they are coming off first thing, they are someone else's, 15" aftermarket aluminums


i have to take parts offr this 87 or im screwed, car is shredder bound, parts will go to shredder wasted if i dont get them off before then,
i need them for the 82 trans am, ive been looking for a parts third gen for two years now, finally freaking found another one, about damn time,

still need more of these parts cars for following parts:

82-84 trans am fenders,
LG4 auto trans radiator,
82-85 mechanical LG4 engine cooling fan setup, bolts, spacer, pulley and all

windshield and firebird rear quarter panels,

87 up headlight motors assemblies,

82 bird interior parts like plastics and dash pad, steering wheel,

factory 82 83 84 LG4 exhaust Y pipe and exh manifolds,

so there will be more third gens for parts in the future yet so i can get everything else for the 82 t/a project car i have










thanks

 

Might be interested in looking at that Camaro...Let me know...

 

You might have seen my car. I have taken her up to Lincoln a couple of times to take money from kids who think thier cars are fast....

 

got til wednesday

but no title

call travis in the morning at 217 314 9681 at 8am or 9am at the latest tuesday AM, dont wait any later than then cuz the car is getting torn apart by noon by me tomorrow if not

youll just ruin my chance of getting hatch and seats and 3.42 axle for my 82 t/a in which will then get to sit and rot even longer til i find another one to cut for parts

and i wont see any of the money that he sells the camaro for, if he was to sell it to someone

so id be completely screwed

and probably pissed

cuz i have been trying to find a ton of parts for the T/A for years now



thanks

 

i probably have seen it, theres not too many of these cars left here, so,,

my 82 t/a sits on corner of third and monroe in lincoln, is purple 82 t/a. has gray car cover over it, sitting outside next to big huge old ugly building, cant miss it, and 84 baby blue c-10 chevy pickup right by it

i drive the little red 87 toyota 2wd pickup with wooden flatbed on it, used to have original bed on it with YOYO in big letters across the tailgate

i run around town in it ALOT

maybe youve seen it

alot of ppl know me, so.,. who knows,.,

heh

 

Hahahahahhahaahaha....calm down there

I have way too many cars and too many friends with 3rd gens to let a fellow 3rd gen'er go without a rear and a hatch. Parts cars come cheap....if you know where to look.
Like I said, I am sure between crazyn8 and myself we can help you find the parts to keep her on the road.

 

What else are you looking for. I have a complete.....and I mean complete disassembled 87 Z-28 in my garage.....maybe even 2 of them, and another one ready for the same treatment down at the shop.

 

Hey...grab those parts, then say....this dude off the net needs the rest of the car....for like "100.00". Just have to see the car first. I dont deal with those junk 7.5 10-bolt rears anyway...got enough of them sitting round...

 

hehe no problem

the problem is that its not on the road,

because cant freaking ever find a parts car, there is ALOT i need,

stock v-8 y pipe, manifolds, radiator, windshield, fenders, axle, seats, and so forth

what would you rather see back on the road, a factory v-8 auto 82 trans am with tight clean doors very fixable, or a base model v6 87 camaro with sagged doors and broken tranny and no title ?

i hauled my 82 t/a all the fraking way from casper wyoming to keep it from getting scrapped wasted out there, cuz thats what was gonna happen

im not gonna just give up on it, ive been hunting for years for parts for it and will continue to til i have the rest of the parts,

just located three of the big parts with this 87 camaro shredder deal, now twice that to go and the car will be ready for quarters and fenders and repaint


finally..

who wants to see a 120k miles stock 82 v-8 auto trans am get restified and cruise around town after being off the road for 7+ years and such,


i know i do


thanks

 

I throw way the stock manifolds...Ill give you a set if I still hav
e them....

 

You may be in luck.... I am pulling the engine in the '87 tomorrow. I will then have an extra set of manifolds, a radiator, and a factory V8 Y pipe. Lets make some deals.......

 

Don't listen to nate.......he only has V6's

 

Ill show you a V6...Like the V6 I have sitting on my engine stand.....

 

yeh but travis can get over 100 out of the car at the shredder, i figure he will get about 130 or 140, but he will load it full of scrap m,etal and parts too before we leave down I-55 I-155 to 74 to adams street car shredder exit in east peoria with it



7.5" is ok with me, thats great, its not gonna blow up or anything,
im not gonna be hotrodding or racing the car, im gonna drain and refill with new fluid and put new brakes on it and whatever else before i swap it under the 82,

i just need something better than 2.73 the 82 has, thats all
i couldnt care any less about strength, i am concerned but cant do anything about it, just have to dump this crap 2.73 any way i can, its one of many goals i have had planned outfor this car for years
i have a specific set of plans for this car how i am going to restify it and i wont deviate from thjem, first is drivetrain, i have engine and trans done, now axle is figured out, next is radiator and y pipe and manifolds,

then is body and paint, got hatch now, so now just fenders and quarters,

and lastly will be interior,
that will be the funnest of them all, most difficult, i am probably going to go with no rear seats and full carpeting full length instead, cuzs the nly rear seats i have are a set of separate split uppers rear buckets from an 84 s/e i cut up years ago that had brand new condition interior and i dont like light camel tan color cloth that they are, but damn they are literally brand new condition

but tan!

yuck! fugly as hell!


but i dont like the color, so im gonna throw the seats all away, im tired of storing them in plastic all the time having to move then out of my way, sick of it, i know they will never go in the trans am,, so no reason to keep them any longer, i need to clean this building out of parts i been hoarding over the years, cept for some truck parts and the 82 project parts that i know i will be using in the car for sure






bt anyways the 3.42 under this camaro will be perfect,


its been a long time coming/ waiting on a decent ratio for it,

finally! damn!




thanks

 

fuel injected

i dont think any of it will do any good for 82 LG4

really doubt it

the y pipe would have to be round and not oval like th L69';s and such, my 82 is non L69/whatever other engines got oval y pipe

the radiator im not sure about either, i heard 85 older, something about electric vs,. mechanical

i need a brass copper auto trans v-8 radiator for mechanical fan

what kind of deals ?

hmm,...
?


thanks

 

thorw them away ?

why ?

what do you use on your F bodies then ?

its too damn difficult to have anything but stock exhaust on these cars,

theres just no other way really, without mucho grande $$$$ spending and hassles

i need to find stock manifolds and y pipe for 82 83 84 85 LG4

bene looking for such things for years also, i find 80-up C/K-10 series truck ones all the time but the truck manifolds are three stud outlet vs. the car two stud ones, even though they are completely idenitcal otherwise,

so that does no good

just cant win


thanks

 

im sorry

my condolences to nate then

im not sure who is nate in here now, hmm..

 

nothing else i can rob from anything that late

now i need to find an 82 83 84 FB for everything else i need now

pretty much

cept manifolds and y pipe and radiator maybe

and windshield

but console and steering wheel and fenders and QP's i need from 82 83 84 and/or 82-92 FB

so theres at least two parts third gen FB's i need to locate yet, either two early ones, or one late and one early, in order to have everything else for this project

i figure in 5 years i MIGHT have everything found ?

maybe ?

cant find jack around here,

can find about anythnig else, but not freaking F bodies



thanks

 

I will keep that in mind. I come across them every once in a while.

 

ok sounds good thanks man im willing to pull and give parts from this 87 out here to someone here who needs and has soemthing i need for the 82 t/a project

LG4 front exhaust parts, radiator- were they all aluminum in 82(mechanical fan LG4 with auto trans and a/c) or were they copper brass only this year? or what ?

i bet no one knows

thanks

 

can it really be that hard to find parts for a 3rd gen, and manifolds, if you didn't have any, why not do headers, they're made for these cars...heck, they even make ones so an LS1 can fit in. Mucho-$$ was long ago replaced by ebay, so finding parts really shouldn't be that hard. IF you're looking for good parts from a bone yard, you should drive down to st. louis, our yards have well more than enough 3rd gens to spare. well more, could probably go to a yard, and by the end of the day have built a complete car with the parts, maybe two....also we've got 4th gens like crazy around here also, i pulled my second 4th gen dash a few months back, rear ends w/ disc brakes, etc etc, the list is endless...

on the v6 note, they dont have much resale, but if you go over to the sixer board, you might be amazed at what some are doing with turbochargers, theyr'e definately making up for displacement.

 

st louis is alot more populations, by hundreds of times,

thats the first difference

headers are a PITA then id have to get all rest of system to match and its illegal to do that and no shops here will touch it if its not cat converter and yadda yadda it would run hndreds of bucks to do that, i alr5eady have exhaust pipe and mufflers and such under the car all stock factory, all i am missing is y pipe and manifolds

so i need to get those

and be done


no yards up here have f bodies, at all
everyone here takes vehicles ot peoria thjemselves, on traielrs, alot of ppl up here are jobless and live by hauling in cars they get for cheap or free,

thats how it works

thats where everything went around here,

not even gonna comment on the sixer stuff, not even wsorth my time, my car is not a v6 and im not going to v6, so i have nothing to say about that and i cant care any less about v6 engines,


thanks


thanks

 

You got some good quality pictures of the Tan seats you want to get rid of?
I might be interested!

 

yeh, know we're more populated down here, that's why i was recommending it, but i'm not 100% on where ur at in illinois (as in ur town location, could look it up, but don't care that much) If you're close enough, the city would be a great location to find used 3rd gen parts, especially SBC parts, such as manifolds and y-pipes, should be a no brainer.

I actually didn't think that illinois had emissions tests, know they do in the metro (st. louis side atleast) , but the area i'm living in for college doesn't either, so in missouri, it's not state wide. There's not a soul who would care if we removed our cats from our vehicles, as removing them isn't their problem, it'd be ours, on the other hand, finding a shop that would be willing to do that for you, might get you in some trouble, or them in trouble, and they probaly would stay away.

Another thing, what i was mentioning about ebay and headers and parts the like, is that since you don't have a y-pipe or manifolds, and i'd be assuming that your stock cat-converter is still in place, then replacing the y-pipes w/ a facotry unit and using headers with it shouldn't be that big of a deal. as for the price, i can understnad that holding a person back, would hold me back too. The maro shorties on ebay are going for a 130 bux, but ya can never beat new materials versus salvaging.

That's just the way i look at things, on the other hand, i can completely understand taking your buck as far as it'll stretch, i'd probably be trying to do the same thing. But given that the car isn't numbers matching, i don't see the problem with going to the aftermarket for parts, least i wouldn't lose sleep over something like that.

PS- was trying to convert you to a v6, infact at some point i'm converting to a v8. The comments just seemed a tad negative, and i thought a person might be interested in some of "neat" automotive stuff out there. You then said in another post that it was "peppy" for a sixer, they're much peppier than the ole' sixes, port fuel injection made things a lot better than the ole' 2 bbl.

 

i just dont like v-6's, im not losing any sleep lol,

are you ?



thanks

 

sure gonna look like i am since it's 1 am right now...but no, i'm not...and that was supposed to say "wasn't trying" and no, i highly doubt either of us are loosing sleep over this whole thing. lol....hopefully we're not, now if i could only get to sleep.

 

im not i know hehe

no problem

 

uh oh....

i was looking at the camaro hatch earlier and noticed that it has third brake light in it

damn

what am i gonna do about that now ?

i need to use the hatch on 82 t/a

cant with a third light in it

i want this car to be completely factory correct 82 trans am exterior and interior, because thats what it is and they are the most beautiful sleekest(among other things) third gen ever made, IMHO






so hmm


what do i do ? i cannot freaking find a normal good shape hatch with grid glass for my 82, or alot of things actually,

anywhere

im pissed!

 

what's under the light? 87 was still externally mounted right, or was it on the inside. Either way, pull the damn thing off, if you're not going to use it, no point in keeping it.

 

'87's without a spoiler still had the '86 light. The rest had the 3rd brake light in the spoiler.

 

cant just pull it out of the deck, will have a big hole in the deck then

cant have that, its not 82 firebird correct


thanks

 

yeh, was still under the impression of it being on the hatch and not on the decklid...that sux, if it's hard to find parts around there, you could pull it and have the hole filled, seems like a lot of work, but for the look i you're going for might be needed. IF not, hop on ebay and see what they have, or go the next town and look for a hatch.

sux that you couldn't sell off the maro to get some money out of it, then you could nab a period and make correct donor vehicle. Would make the restoration years worth easier.

 

yeh its skinny wide third light in the hatch lid itself under the spoiler yep, sits flush with backside face of decklid

the car has no title and in IL you legally cant do anything with a vehicle without a title, nothing,

and i need parts of rmy 82 t/a bad, this car had a few pieces, but not much, that i can use on it and remain factory correct anyways

trans is messed up and its jus t abse 2.8 car, not worth much, even though it was clean car, well still is, but no interior cept dash and console, and no rear end and hatch now

thanks

 

ok so which one of you have the LG4 manifolds and y pipe (non-L69 style) ?

a v8 auto radiator ?

mechnical fan shroud and fan and bolts/spacer ?

how much and where ?

possible parts swap deal ?

lemme know
i also need 82 84 FB parking lamps assemblies, trans am steering wheel, console parts, dash pad, one of the gfx pieces, i think rear one forgot which side ill have to look, fenders t/a style, entire QP's from a third gen FB

thanks

 

hey, how much would you want for that little camaro v6 engine....hmmm, bet i could have some fun with that and a go-kart.

 

75 bucks and engine is all yours, if you can get here asap, i have cherry picker and tools and can get the torch again

no biggie

im surprised car hasnt been hauled to peoria yet, it was supposed to have been hauled out days ago


thanks

 

eh, not gonna be able to make it there anytime in very near future...i'm sure i'll come around another one sometime, if i don't use my own for a project eventually.