Thats a clean berly! thats one clean car! im surpised that that their isnt a berlinetta dash emblem and all it says is camaro... wonder why. thanks for the pics

 

Im taking Autoshop in College, and right now im doin the electrical portion, and all it has been lately is lecture upon lecuter. no hands on yet but yea it seems like we are skipping right to the obd II cars and not even covering the points system and obd I system cars

 

yep. which leaves a ton of uncovered stuff... pretty much will halt you in a hurry if you ever want to work in a hot rod shop that does old school stuff.. Also. Very nice burly.. Exact same one I have (Just had it picked up for a frame straightening finally yay) The interior is perfect and clean. same digital "star wars" dash and all. I think mine has something like 14k miles on it.. was a nice 84 and red.. stored in a barn for most of it's life until i bought it from the farmer lol. so many camaros.. so little time to work on them all lol. Only difference in mine is the center console does not have quite so many switches...

 

Well only thing I have to go on, to tell what yr berlinetta is the Berlinetta emblem itself and the mechanical fan but here gos!!!
In 85 they started spelling Berlinetta with a capital B. 82-84 berlinettas the b wasnt capitilized. The 85-86 Berlinetta emblems
had a painted gold look to the emblems, unlike the 82-84 emblems.In 1986 all v8 camaros got an electric fan.
I just wish I could see some berlinetta stripes in those pics.

 

So Im guessing that the "Berlinetta" in tose pics is an 85.
I would love to see the front bumper and rear bumper stripes

 

Are they any different then the 82-84 stripes? if so i still got mine on the car, altough they are a bit damaged b/c of age. i could take a few pics of it and post themup on the boards if you want.

 

Yep.

 

yep their different or yep you want pics?

 

OOPs sorry yes they are different and I could send you pics of the newer 85-86 stripes I have in a sales brochure.

 

Pics would be great mind posting them on line so everbody could see? then ill take some pics of mine and do a comparason (sry bout the spelling)

 

I figured I would make things easier lol.. no having to go through GM for the "Books"

the place you want is

MSX International
Attn: GM Chevy Resto
1426 Pacific Dr.
Auburn Hills MI 48326

Phone Numers are
18002221020
Fax is
12482757460


Item Numbers for the 1983 camaro Stuff is

2731002000 / GSR200
and
2731CAM-83 / GSR200

Happy restoring lol

 

thanks! im gonna be ordering that package here soon. My oil pump died on my car, thankfully when it died i was just 2 min from my house, (still had a little bit of pressure in the oil)

 

heres a pic on the 86 berlinetta, I beleive the 85 berlinetta is the same. I also Have a comercial I found today of the 86 indy 500
at the end of the race there is a camaro comercial. In the comercial it shows all the 86 camaro models. I have found some 80s magizine with old advertisements as well, and an interesting article on a trans am model I have never heard of as well.
As soon as I get a scanner I would like to give back to this website as much as it can. I will post the info I have on the special trans am in a few minutes.
Thanks
Randy

 

hmm intersting.. they look as if they have an extra stripe on them.. hmmm

 

called up chevy today, said i had to call back tomarow, they arnt open on the weekends i went to go take some pics of my stripes but i realized i cant take pics of the car until i wash it.. and i aint gonna wash it until i fix my oil pump

 

yea. on the 82 to 84 model berly's the bottom is a solid black, with One 1/4 inch strip about 1/4 inch above the black bottom stripe.

85 on had the soid black strip on the bottom and then a tri color strip right on top of it. (gold, silver, black) or something like that. Sorta close to how the 80' z28 was done. with the pinstriping decal that went around the bottom of it.

 

hmm now that i look at that pic, it looks A lot like my stripes.. but i got to check again just to make sure

Edit: nope all i got is 2 gold stripes, with black surrounding them.

 

All berlinetta had gold stripes!

 

thats correct , the LT's were the sliver's

 

Mine only had the Black stripes.. heh. i dunno. Might have faded out... will have to take a closer look at the paint... Although red and gold.. ug.. aweful colors lol...

 

i wouldnt doubt that, just about every single exterior is fadding fast on my 83...

 

yea. and considering none of that stuff was actually painted on and it was vinyle did not help any either

 

no kidding.. I just ordered my restoration package lets see how long it takes

 

Alright guys, anybody know what the gm paint code is for the paint color in my sig?

 

ok.. light blue and dark blue....

Light Blue Metallic = Dupont Color B8308
Blue metallic = Dupont Color B8389


or it could be a

Medium Dark Royal Metallic = Dupnt color B8394


those would be my guess.. I know the light blue is that code.. only light blue that was on the 83....
the dark blue is one of those two... you would need to go to a store for the paint color chips to get an exact match....

 

Im not quite sure that that Dark blue is a metallic, it seems more of like an undercoating.. Hmmm but ill go go those paint chips , I guess i could have waited for the restoration package to come in but thanks for the input

 

no problem lol.. yea it more than likely is an undercoating.. depends on how bad that paint is coming apart, and what type of paint it is (waterbase or enamel). But i do believe the entire car should be a light blue, with a dark blue or black ground strippes..

 

Just gonna update you guys on my oil pump issue, I got the oil pan bolts off, moter mounts disconnected, torque converter shroud off, then i went to raise the engine... and forgot that the windshild wiper moter was in the way took it off, then called it a night

 

lol. yea.. so many things in the way all the time lol... If it were not required by the state i would remove the windshiled wipers lol.. I ca't drive my car in the rain anyhow.. no traction at all...

 

Next thing i think i need to remove is the air tubes... The engine doesnt want to lift high enough to get the pain out

 

yep.. i ussually just unbolt the manifolds from the engine and then unbolt the engine from the mounts and then lift... makes things go a bit easier... some make disagree with how i do it.. but it has not let me down yet.. the most i have to lift the engin is like an inch to 1 1/2 inches... then it clears everything pretty easy.... most times.. but not all the time...

 

gonna try to lift the tranny up with the engine first to see if that works, and if it doesnt ill do your way gonna work on it a bit after i get home from a Party

 

It was A PAIN in the Rear to get the pan out, i had to drop the entire exaust and i figured out that as i raise the engine the car body would raise up as well, put down some padding and put on some sand bags on top of the shocks (padding then the sandbags) once i did that, the oil pump more or less just jumped out of its place

 

lol. did you unbolt your engine before you pulled the engine up? lol.. happens a bit. but yea.. my y-pipe goes behind my pan by about 3 inches. plenty of room for the pan...

the thing i am having a pain with is the stinking y-pipe itself..

It is pressed right into the passenger a frame... can not even get paper in between there because there is way no space lol. after that I have a larger problem.. one of my transmission crossmember mount bolts actually fell out onto the ground at a gas station.. i went to put it back in.. got it in the hole... started turning and noticed i was not going anywhere.. I then for some reason just pushed the bolt striaght up.. and it just zipped right up in there..sounded like a zip tie.... I then pulled on it and it zipped right back out.. I have no idea what the heck i am going to do to fix that problem... and it is not the best to drive the car with 3 x-member bolts. since it looks like it will twist way easy without that bolt...

 

yea the engine was off the bolts, heck i left the engine jacked into the air for a day, so it was deffently off the monts, but the engine would rase only so high, then the rest of the body would follow

 

well. you know you have a sturdy drivetrain then lol.. nice and stiff lol. I have a set of poly engine mounts for the motor now . hopefully that takes care of the exaust clearnace issue on mine.. say. wile you have you engine off the mounts you might as well replace those things. especially if they are stock.. you will notice a difference

 

The car's already put back together, boy does it feel good to drive it again i checked out the motor mounts and they looked good, However the oil pump was removed once before it looks like, And who ever put it back in decided to weld the pick up tube to the pump can you say dumb ***?

 

Actually you know welding them to the pump is pretty common.. some pickup tubes in fact are made to weld on.. depends on the pump/pickup i guess.. but i have seen tons of pickups that say "must be tacked to pump" I know all of the ones in mine are welded... I even tacked one on myself because the stupid thing kept fallin off... no idea why... but it did not wanna stay. so i tacked it... no biggy.. i can cut the tack without much pain..

 

this one fit more snugly then when it was on the old pump, the pick up tube wasnt all the way seated onto the pump either, looked like the person who did it was just trying to get it done and didnt take the time to do the job right

 

Ahh. I get faster replies from u than anyone on any other board ever lol... yea.. tis possible it was a hack job... happens alot.. with it not fully seated i am surprised it had adequat clearance fom the pan

 

im bored lol, all i do is read other forums, IM and reply when i get replys

 

Yep same here. between mnfbody.com, thirdgen.org, and camaroz28.com. I keep pretty busy with boards lol

 

lol, hey ive been toying with an idea for a mod with my interior, ill run it past ya , Im thinking about moving the power window buttons/hatch release button to where the ash tray is up front then cutting a hole where the buttons where and putting a bit of PVC pipe down into the hole, and fiber glass the bottum of the pipe to form a cup holder what do ya think?

 

that would certainly be interesting. and would be funtional.. in 1983 the cars actually came with a quarts clock where those buttons are as an option.. to bad it was a rare option to be had. removeing that would have been perfect for a cup holder lol..

As for me. i am taking my ashtray and turning it into a switch panel for the different switches i have (undercar, interior, ect.) not something that will be in there forever.. but i like neatness lol.. I am having a custom interior made (full interior minus the seats) out of fiberglass.... i would like some flow a little more useable dash space, and new intreior panels ince mine are cracked and dry rotted. then i am having a custom sub enclosure made for where the back seats are (since those will be useless once the roll cage goes in.)

 

cool cool, took the maro out for a drive today, man she's doing great, great oil pressure, but my engine temp guage went out on me today its saying that the engine is over heating (way past the red marks) yet i have no steam nor any boiling coolant, but i do have coolent in the radatior

 

yep. mine has been gone for a long time.. bought a cheapie and put it in beside the hood release latch... works very well now..

 

any ideas why they go out floating about around here?

 

No idea, but theories. I noticed on mine it was electrical. so either the wire is junk, the physical guage is junk, the trace board on the back of the cluster is junk, or the sensor is junk.

 

a lot of "junk" to test lol, how much was that guage?

 

i think i got it for like 15$ at the local wally world.. just the standard temp guage.. will do until i can put in the autometter guages i have, or decide to go all digital with it and do a Dakota digital bit and put the autometers in my other camaro.