I've been working on it since April or so and finally got it running now. Hopefully today Ill be able to drive it.

Started out with this from TheWraith
http://www.techcessive.com/vert06/

Fiend and I turned it into this.
http://www.imangry.net/ne3/Kat/blah/blahz/

Few videos

Idle and rev
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWyZXEaoDrg

Idle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5cC7l-lj4s


The one thing that I want to know is that my car is a 88 (checked the VIN and other stuff to make sure that it is correct) but the car cam with the 87 spoiler. Anyone have any idea as to why? Thanks!

 

I was looking at buying that one when I bought mine. Shipping to me was outrageous.

Looks good!

As for spoiler, it could be an early model and they used leftovers from previous year. Something could have gotten damaged and changed in the past 20 years.

 

The 87 spoiler was defantly done at ASC, the doors are orignal to the car. But I agree with ya, I do think that they were left overs as well.

 

Spoiler looks a lot like my '89's.

So I'm not sure what you're referring to?

 

car turned out sick! i love everything about it

 

87's were slightly different and they have a small peice that goes above the door handle. Supposivly that it was an 87 only item. Guess not. lol.

Thanks guys, I cant wait to drive it. Screwing arround with it on the jack stands I have a feeling that Im going to need to get a vac can as it only pulls 11-13" of vaccum.. lol

 

OK. I gotchya. That's that forward side-quarter spoiler assembly extension piece. I was thinking about only the rear deck spoiler assembly.
As far as I know it was only found on the '87's. But who knows, yours might have been early in the '88 production run and still received them. It was in ASC's hands, not Chevy's, during the conversion.

Nice ride by the way!

 

looks real good. keep up the good work.

 

If your doors are orignal, open the drivers door and look at the asc tag thats hoepfully still there. It says the month it was converted.

Mine was done july of 91

 

The sticker was there but was illegable. The main door tag was 1/88 IIRC.

 

Hum, thats about mid year. IIRC, mine was converted 2 months after its mfg date. So if yours is mfg in Jan, est it be converted feb to april.

 

Wow, Real nice. very inspiring. I love that color, what is it? i just bought an 88 vert myself. Ive been working on it for a couple months, car sat in a garage for 3 years. its a 5 speed which is why i wanted it, not too many out there, at least that I saw. Again, nice car.

 

Is the color on that sunset orange metallic?????

 

Kat... You have a new fan of your work...... Norm and Jason showed me the pics a couple weeks ago... Awesome work... Btw just so you know who i am... I am the rebuilder of the LT-1... :-)

 

Ahh I know who you are. You did an awesome job on the LT1.

Thanks for the compliments. Maybe one of these days you'll see the car in person.

 

Thanks man, I didnt see this before or I would have responded to it. The color is copper with dodge pearl black stripes. The copper color I got from that show "Trucks" when Stacey David was hosting it. he build a 72 ( I think that was the year) C10 truck and had that color mixed up for him. He was nice enough to post the mix of the color on his web site for all to use. I can't complain for how it turned out, for litterally a back yard paint job.

Well here are a few more vids. I need to get some of it actually moving, tho the power brake booster is shot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kmvMQTHif4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v--Or2_MMhw

 

The early 1988 cars had the same pieces as the 1987's. My 1988 car was assembled in February and it has the the little extensions on the doors and the tail light and third brake light lens are all dated 1987. At some point during 1988 the extensions on the doors were dropped.

Great job on the car!

Chuck

 

Looks great.!!! It's always nice to see one of our cars brought back to life!!

 

I have 2 '88 convertibles. (Actually one is my son's) One is an IROC early production (IIRC Nov 87) HIS and the other is a Sport later production (July 88).

The exterior is the same (with of course the exception of the IROC decaling) The spoiler is the same on both with the exception of the extender pieces on the doors on the IROC (earlier production), The tonneau release mechanism is also different. On the IROC it was metal shafts tied together...on the Sport it is a cable mechanism.

As mentioned it all depended on when it was at ASC and what parts they had left from previous batches...

The IROC was one of 3761 built and the Sport one of 1859 built.

 

Huh, Mine has the rod style release for the top. I remember a friend of mine had a 88 "Camaro" back a few years ago, and his was the rod style also. I guess that later in 88 was teh switch over to the cable style. Which I happen to have the parts to make that work. I just need to get the AL stuff from work and bend up a tab and a plate to mount the release latch.

Thanks for the info!