Um What?!?!?

 

WOW... I think that was supposed to mean "The guy before me duct taped the spark plug wires together and did the same with the battery cable". tazs2000, do you have a learning disability or other physical/mental ailment? If you do, then okay that's a legitimate reason and I understand. If you don't, think about the fact that you appear to have such a severe problem and please do something about it.

 

I've got to see a pic of that door fix... I replaced the pin and bushing in my driver's lower door hinge a few years back, and the lower bushing somehow worked its way out. So, of course, the pin has been wearing into the metal of the hinge and the door has been sagging lower and lower, to the point that the latch notch and the pin don't even meet anymore (without lifting the door up and in as I'm shutting it, sometimes having to be done from outside with the window down, and yes, I'm going to replace the body side hinge). It would be easier to reposition the doors had GM NOT welded the body attachments to the shroud area and left them movable, but I can see why they did so.

 

replace the part and try lubing up the area with heavy bearing grease to reduce the friction. Friction is the enemy when it comes to metal agianst metal, other than rust.

 

That rear quarter and paint come first, since the door's shut right now. And also due to the fact that I think that Hawks' wanting $120 plus shipping for just the one half of the hinge is a little ridiculous, even if places such as Classic Industries want more.

 

!!!!!! $120 for the hinge. Talk about price gouging. Some of these busines's are just out there. When the EGR Temp sensor got dicontinued, they went from around $20 to $80 in about 2 months when they found out that the part was absolete. I agree bro. Take care of that panel. Hope that it all works out for you.

 

A local Camaro shop charged $35 for 1 power window switch lol Their was none on ebay so I had to get it. Luckily I know a guy with a parts car and we bought an entire door and both power window switches for $60! talk about reasonably priced lol $5 for the switches instead of $35, gonna take back that one switch for sure now! Since they're the only Camaro shop left in about a 70 mi. radius, they can charge however much they want on anything cause they know their the only ones with the parts.

MaverickH1L I'll get a picture up for you tomorrow for sure

 

If the hinge from Hawks is made by Top-Down Solutions, to be fair it isn't an OEM part. It's a custom designed and machined set of parts that improves the upper hinge design and saves you from having to drill out and weld in an entire new hinge assembly. It even has an option to have a grease fitting to keep the hinge well lubricated and working for many more years. I got the set and it was totally worth the cost.

 

I had a 89 firebird that someone used old galvanized fence posts to make the exhaust and he used a stick welder to put it together, so it was full of slag holes.

 

Good point.

Very true. While I absolutely had to replace the hood lifts because of how much time I spend under there, and I could replace the trunk lifts... replacing them just seems like a waste of precious cash that could be spent on other things.

Haha...well..it's the thought that counts right?

 

That's the upper hinge. I'm talking about an OEM (supposedly) lower body side hinge half.

Oh, and I've done a bit of power window ghetto rigging myself. Instead or replacing my broken factory switches with OEM ones, I went out and paid $8 for a pair of DPDT switches from RadioShack. Required a smaller hole be drilled in my bare 3rd gen 5-speed shift plate as opposed to the monsters that need to be cut for the factory switches, but they work pretty well (hold up to 30A each, more than the window breaker can stand, so I'm good).

:edit: Window talk reminded me that my pass side door window was held in place with BOLTS and NUTS with a couple of the plastic insulator pieces missing between the window track and the glass when I bought the car. I have the insulators in now, but I think I'll keep the bolts for the time being.

 

My backup car had been driven by my sister and had been in a few accidents. Like the passenger fender was dented and had orange and gray paint all over it because she hit a dumpster in the driveway. The front bumper had black marks on it from her t-boning another car and hitting the tires which left the marks. So I realized that some paint had chipped from the fender and started to get some surface rust. So I run inside and come back out with a can of Rustoleom and spray painted all the spots that were damaged.

 

AAHHH yes. I love it when friends or family reverse your car only to hit a parked car, or a dumpster.

"Reversing into a parked car = $600 repair.
"Reversing into a huge dumpster = PRICELESS.

 

The thing is though she didnt back into it but she side swipped it while I was in the passenger seat. She didnt listen to me cuz I was telling her you need to pull forward and straighten out but she just kept going and just crunched the fender and almost made the side mirror explode.

 

Man I feel your pain. What was her reaction?

 

She was sort of like I didnt see it and I couldnt here you and ten she went on to say I didnt think that it would cause any damage. The thing is though the music was off and I was pretty much yelling.

 

battery tray is apparently almost rusted through so the previous owner(s) cut a piece of wood to fit in it's place and used a bungee cord to secure the battery.

 

Nothing ghetto was done to it when we got it. We have done 2 ghetto things to it so far, but it has worked nicely.

The ground fx on the passenger side door bent out at the rear fender side. For whatever reason the fiberglass had bent outward and had created a 2 inch gap between the door and itself. To solve this problem we jammed a thin piece of wood at the spot where the bend started and made the fiberglass straight again. Put it back on the door and now it looks 100 times better.

The other one is the drivers side headlight bucket. The previous owner bumped something and left a large bent in the driver side fender and had caved in the headlight bucket. Because of that, the whole side of the nose piece stooped down, making the side of the nose that is by the hood drop lot. We just took a fairly large wooden block and jammed it up into the headlight bucket and it raised everything up. The piece next to the hood is starting to sink again though so I think it might be only a temporary fix.

 

Wood is generally inappropriate for car repair. I wouldn't have even thought of doing either of those things.

 

so far all i have came across are the results of a bad wiring job for the stereo and the remnants of an audio system install.

 

I think I may have you all beat and this is only 1 car. An 85 z28 ,lets see where to start front disc brake pads only 65% touching rotors , fuel pump hot wired to fuse block with a toggle switch to bypass the relay it is spliced in to both wires where they exit the body .5 of 8 plug wires landed wrong . Wire nuts everywhere!! Ground effects completly held on by zip ties ,of course there is caulk to stop the t's from leaking (which did not work btw) air intake taped to tpi .And of course it came with a 2x4 .theres more I just cant think of it right now . Oh and I bought a car some years ago that was advertised as new paint ,which it had but was exterior house paint applied with a brush .

 

You have any pictures of it cuz this is something I have got to see (especialy the caulk onthe t-tops, close up of paint, ground effects, etc)!

 

. Words are one thing, but pictures are even better. Wip out the camera and start hitting that shutter button.

 

Well the one on the ground fx is very tiny and not a big deal.

As for the headlight bucket one, it was meant to be a temp fix. Short of buying a new nose, we have no idea how to go about fixing it.

 

Well i got my car 2 days ago and what i found done was that the exhaust is made from several pieces of metal piping badly welded together. and then they welded a glass pack to it.

 

i got one for ya, someone spent the money, but didnt fix it right. I got an 85 Iroc that HAD the 305 HO TPI minus the tpi. Someone actually put an edelbrock performer RPM intake and a Edelbrock 750 carb ontop that 305. U wanna talk about overkill.

 

I just about threw up when I saw this junk. Obviously the Camaro is a RS, with a misspelled IROC-Z decal. Tell me fellow members, what do you think?

 

it IRC-Z irks me.

 

That's worse than the one that used to run around here that had it airbrushed on reading: IROCK. Both are epic fails. Somebody please kick the owners in the junk.

 

BAHAHAHAHAHAHA... hands DOWN that has to be the winner here.

 

I do that . . .

 

you should have checked to see how many teeth the owner had....along with the presence of a mu ll et. that deserves some serious foot to crotch action.

 

The front shocks on my hood are some what weak so I have to put a 2x4 in there and after about 10 minutes the shocks get stiff so then it stays up. I have also seen these fourth gen camaros and RS camaros that drive around with IROC-Z decals on the side. Some of them say IROCK-Z or IROK-Z written on the side.

 

Wow the pic of the idiot with the white camaro made me laugh so hard I fell off my cpu chair. What people will do is beyond me.

I saw this at a car show last night on a rat rod. It is about as Getto as it gets but man i have to give him props for it as it is an amazing idea I have ever seen

 

thats not ghetto, thats actually quite popular among rat rods. i see soda bottle coolant bottles all the time at the shows here

 

first time I've ever seen it done and thought it was i pretty amazing idea for sure

 

It is actually pretty popular. Whenever I go to a car show I always atleast see one car with that setup.

 

Hi there fellow member. I dont mean to get on your case but when I read your comment, especially when you stated "cpu," I then said to myself, "he meant PC chair." CPU stands for "Central Processing Unit" which is the brain of the computers motherboard.

 

. Ive seen the Camaro around for about 1 year and I never had a chance to take a picture until now. My wife hates my IROC, but when she saw this one, she admitted that she would rather drive mine. As kicking the crotch, I'd rather have the owner smell my burnt rubber and exaust.

 

At the time of morning it was and 20 beers into a 24 im surprised I made any sence LOL but yeah thats what I meant

 

My idle was adjusted instead of just replacing the intake manifold gasket that was leaking

 

This wouldn't really be a "ghetto" thing I've found in my car but when I had my old factory 22 year old radiator removed 3 months ago and when I drained all of the coolant out of the IROC there were cigarette butts all in the coolant!

 

I kind of believe that one because Ive heard of others that empty out a cigarette to plug a hole. Ive also been told that you can use chewing taboacco (fine cut) to plug up a leaking cooling system. I saw on Mythbusters that a raw egg can temporarily plug up a hole.

 

I'm guessing the guys who had put the stop leak in my old radiator some years ago had been smoking and decided to oh, we'll just throw those in there along with the stop leak, lmao!

 

i have a 92 rs that ive used zip ties and folded cardboard to hold the neutral safety switch in proper position

 

I bought my car for 800, and it also came with a 2x4 to hold up the hatch and hood
the PO drilled an amp in the back and now my gas tank has holes in it.
the PO also had the exhaust held up with old used up tires, if i remember correctly lol
and i found stems from weed in the ash tray and by the shifter.

 

How do you know they were weed stems? Im curious because of your member I.D.. King Cotton. Is it for King Cotton because of a condition called "cotton mouth?"

 

My 89 RS Camaro 2.8 has the radiator overflow bottle replaced with a weed eater gas tank. Someone before me was very creative...

 

I love this thread for the following reasons:
A- It keeps going
B- The ghetto things done just get more and more outrageous
3- People have actually started admitting to ghetto things they did to their cars themselves!




Note- the A,B,3 was intentional as a joke

 

How was it held down?