Sir Speed A Lot

very sweet! how much did it cost?

myvmax1

As with the others that have posted similar, a small cowl induction would do just fine. But I think bringing alitle pontiac style up front would be alright. Like a restyled power bulge, except in the center, or a shaker setup from the first and second generation, but remember this is a blend of both cultures, so going leaning one way may lose your idea. Your call man, but anyway, awesome craftmanship, and the paint it pretty pimp too.



Max

coolrimsatleast

I think I like it. I pondered the same thing once. Visualizing it and such. As far as the hood goes, anything that would make it stand out even more. I personally would go with some kind of aftermarket rims so they'd be "neutral" I guess you could say.

And of course those fender flares need to be evened up. I dunno, maybe a little bit if bondo or something on the front ones to make them less defined so they'd match the rear. Yeah, hybrid fenders on a hybrid car.

iroc-z's

what did the car start out as?

very clean!!! looks stock

92KRVZ28

takes talent bro

Looks good agree with an ss hood itll help with the t/a half and camaro half

Tibo

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Would it be possible to have used the Camaro's tail lights?

casebaseball205

looks pretty cool....gotta appreciate all the work you did

91rsowner4life

yours is nice! i rember seeing a vert on TV that had a camaro exterior and firebird interior. does anyone else have pics of there conversions? i would love to see more pics for cars like this.

NuBird

it started out as a 86 ws6 T/A. Oh I put the lsi brakes on this too, it gets one more vote because this thing will stop a digested white castle (think about it) I'm still having to think of a hood that will fit the lines, whatever they are lol. And I'm in a money pinch right now, I had to sell my wolfgang and 5150, my babies

ZZ4 86 Z28

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much better than the new 6505 crap...i just sold my engl and my soloist so i could afford my tranny and now i have some old peavey, but it doesnt sound too bad, and the other 2 ibanez's and the schecter.

redlinemuscle

Is it a TransMaro or a Cam-Am?

ZZ4 86 Z28

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does anyone rememeber the can-am. i dont, just the name, and vaguely what it looks like.

86birdHT

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Dunno about you guys, but i think the best hood for the car would be an LT1 Ram Air styled hood seen on the WS6 T/As and Firehawks. Not as huge and ugly looking as the ls1 styled ones, but yet complimenting.


Nice work though, man. I've always pondered what something like that would turn out as.

faulball67

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Personally, I love it. Should have been produced that way. I would call it Cam-Am since the front end is Camaro. I was thinking that the ram air hood would look good too, except for the rounded lines of the hood.

If you were even decent with fiberglass and bondo you could change the hoods lines to look more square. But why pay $400 for a hood when you can take a stock hood and cut it up and add what you want.

You can even make your own scoop with enough fiberglass and some carvable foam/rubber like the crap crafts people use for making fake floral arrangements. Some people like the challange. I didn't think it was that difficult.

NuBird

I like challenges, but my talent is limited to say the leastbYou have the same idea I have though, I found the hoodscoop that I want, I will just take a stock hood and somehow get it on there, the scoop will be black and the hood the body color. Oh and I went to see King Kong tonight, lemme tell you if you cried at ole yeller you will do the same on this WHAAAAAAAA

faulball67

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Do you have a picture of the scoop you want? I'd like to see what you've picked out. I've made a couple of hoods for buddies and one for myself. It really just takes a willingnes to take time with the materials. Having a functioning scoop is as easy as drawing a pattern dilling some spot holes and taking a jigsaw to it. If want, I can write up a how to.

crazymonkey88

thats ugly dude

NuBird

crazymonkey88: ugly eh? I didn't know that your 326 is a 5.0....should be around 5.4 Or do you have a 327? Or is the the pontiac 326?or is it a 326.45? that would make it a 5.3983645632865 liter. Someone got a little happy with a calculator and an engine math book. make your comments constructive, not insulting

faulball67 :

Well I seen the cobra jet hoodscoop from JcWhitney, I liked it so I was gonna go with it. If you would like send some pics on how you did that with a jigsaw and such that would be really cool, if not for me to try it but to see it done

ZZ4 86 Z28

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lol 5.0 326.

but yea, dont listen to him, that post was completely uncalled for. he could have at least been helpful and given a suggestion of some sort. 5.0=305 5.4=327 never heard of 326.

and at only 1 month and 15 posts at that, already getting himself into trouble.

85f-bird

what's the displacement on chevy's new 5.3L engine?

ZZ4 86 Z28

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hm, i ddnt think about that. i thought it was a 327. now that im thinking back to it, i just figured it was that. im not sure what they call it.

kickasscamaro

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nice work! whats it registered as? wonder what the cops will think if you get pulled over, they will be behind you and call in the plates it will come back as camaro, while there looking at a trans am rear. lmao

NuBird

what about if I get in a high speed chase "dispatch: we are chasing what seems to be a...umm...silver car"

kickasscamaro

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lmao , good stuff

jeremys82c10

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i think it looks ok, it needs a gas cap though

crazymonkey88

its 327 but i'm just to lazy to go change that, and that guy said to give my opinion, some people man.

faulball67

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True he asked for opinions, but usually you don't just slam something like you did. You gave no reason for your opinion. You just said
" It's ugly dude"
At least give some constructive criticism as to why you think it's ugly. Maybe a way you would change it to make it look better. Use some tact newbee.


G*d, I hate teenagers.

crazymonkey88

mkay.....constructive......i'd paint it, change the rims, new hood.....

crazymonkey88

i also hate geezers

NuBird

yeah teenagers really don't have any respect for anything, and they like to start stuff just to start it, but its time to end this now otherwise SOMEONE is going to be suspended or banned. Change the rims? to what? your answer will dictate your acceptance into the thirdgen community, we can tell if you are a poser or a fast & furious loser or legit, and don't make it too obvious or we will know about that too

ZZ4 86 Z28

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hey im a teenager and i like it

faulball67

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Geezers? That would imply what age? 30? 40? 50? tell you what BOB, when you can buy and build everything he did, in his spair time, to create that, with YOUR own money, give us a ring.

Unless you have been building cars since you were a kid you can't possibly understand the kind of time, dedication, knowledge, and money involved in something like this. If I'm wrong then please tell me about your vast expierience.

Your what, 17 years old? I'm only 23, and have massive respect for the rest of the people on this site. I've been helping to build, and building my own cars since I was 11. My engine was completely rebuilt by ME. The body work, paint, suspension, electrical, welding, roll cage, will all be done by ME.

I'm not claiming to be an expert on everything, but I have enough wrench time, on enough different cars, to be able to do almost any job. It took me 3 months and thousands of dollars to take out my engine and tranny, rebuild to my specs(look to the left) and get everything back in and get it running right. All in my driveway. Now imagine how long it took to build his car. And I'm sure he's not even close to done either.

All I'm saying is, if you are going to come on here you need to show respect to the guys who have put in the time to make something that is truely special. The trans-maro is a true love of 3rd gen f-bodies. That's what this site is all about. People who love these cars. Just because you have one doesn't make you a part of this community.

By the way, I think you dropped these

NuBird

Man that was awesome! I'm 25 btw lol yeah its taken me about a year and a half to do it so far and of course as you know they are never done about 12000 dollars and bloddy knuckles cussin fits and everything else......My bad ZZ4 86 Z28, I was just picking on Crazymonkey88, we all were teenagers once, there are nice ones and then there are idiots....seems to be more idiots than there are nice ones anymore:-D

faulball67

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Haven't you heard? They are only allowed by law to teach manners to 25% of all school age children. That we OLD people can have something to complain about. ZZ4 seems to have fallen in the 25%.

There seems to be an 86 thing going on here. I know the engines in the 86's were dogs (a 350 was not even offered and the cam profile dropped the hp rating), but I like having the only year Camaro with the high mounted third brake light. I definately like seeing it on the trans-maro. Gives it a definate 86 feel.

Besides if you have the really good suspension package that came on the some 86 IROC Z28's, you will notice having a very large stock set of sway bars. I am one of those people and I will not be changing mine any time soon. At least not until the more important stuff is done first.

ZZ4 86 Z28

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Just because it didn't come with a 350 doesnt mean you cant have one and im about to fill in where my third brake light was. those caps in the corners of the hatch glass fit right into the holes left in the glass by the brake light.

I think one of the reasons I fall into this class is living in pretty much the lowest part of a good area. my school parking lot is filled with brand new bmw, lexus, audi, mercedes, etc. and most people just look at my car and say ew, its old. but id take it over their cars any day. again, not in a bad area really, just way on the low end of the area i am in.

jeremys82c10

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like i said, it don't look to bad, you could also call it a trans-cam

NuBird

man my school was filled up with tractors blazers f150s and the occasional beater nova jacked up in the back with cherry bombs (I'm from KY) and come to think of it thats still the thing out here lol

faulball67

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I'm from Cincinnati, but changed schools when I went to high school. Everyone had jeeps, trucks, and rear wheel drive cars. A few people had nice cars. One guy had a porsche 914, a girl I dated had a trams am that her dad bought her. That was about the the only reason to date her lol. It was like the parking lot was a show room for 80's car's.

During football we used to have to run sprints on the bottom level of the parking lot (the parking lot was built on a hill and had five tiers). Everyone knew to move their damn cars after school. The guy with the porshce decided he was special one day a didn't. About 5 guys ran their sprints over the top of the car. Then we moved his car to the football field. I thought it was funny at the time, but now I would never think messing up someone car was funny. If I could ever catch the bastards throwing eggs at cars on my street I'd shoot them dead in the street.

crazymonkey88

I with you dude i never wanted to start anything but that guy is just giving me guff about my opinion, so its that Sir whom start all the trouble.....ain't always a teen like me starting stuff.

ZZ4 86 Z28

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i thought you started it? you dont just make a negative comment with nothing constructive to say...

faulball67

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I wouldn't have said anything more if it wasn't for the geezers part. I know I said I hate teenagers, but I wasn't the one who started bashing someones car. I'm cool now. Just learn how the boards work. Now lets get back on topic.

Give us some parts choices you would make to improve his car.

purpleZ-28

hehe me too.
were not all bad. just some of em cant put them noggens to good use.

crazymonkey88

was looking back at those pictures and i was thinkin some red paint would really brighten up the car, but not sure if you want the fuzz to notice it more haha.....

NuBird

it was red, red means overcompensation |______| tee hee.....I think it needs to be dropped but that would take away from the effectiveness of the LCA relocation brackets because the angle of them would be more parallel with the road and theres goes my traction.... not that I get any anyways. Maybe I'll drop it in the front, make it look like a stinkbug

faulball67

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I've got mine dropped 2" in the front. I like the stance. Preloads for take off too. I hated all the wheel well gap. Plus not dropping the rear leaves room form much bigger tires. I'll post pic up later.

NuBird

did you use spindles or springs? I modded these spindles for the LS1 brakes so please say you used springs

NuBird

what do you guys think of this scoop?

sellmanb

The car was done up great, and the color choice was awsome

I think your choice of ground effects were probably the correct one after thinking over your choices, good job there too.


If I was you, I'd be waiting another few months and getting the Japanese hood, I think it would fit all the corresponding body lines

faulball67

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Japanese hood????

NuBird

thats not the hood.... its a hood scoop, I think I'll just stick with this one http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/I...D:100000231713