It's been a while since I've updated this site on my car. I've done quite a few things over the last year. Two of the bigger mods I've done are lowering the car with Hotchkis springs and switching out the old cup coaster front brakes for LS1 brakes. (I think most of you already knew I had an LS1 10bolt with the rear discs...)


Here she is, the pictures aren't the greatest, but it gives you an idea.

 

Man that's a sweet looking ride you got there.Hope I can get my 88 vert to that condition by next summer.
On your ground effects I know thats the factory style for your year but I like them better than the previous style like I have.I have a set like yours.Do verts mount different or did they change mounting styles somewhere?The ones I have won't come close to mounting up.

 

Awesome...very nice looking

 

Damn, i dont usually like verts but yours i drool over.

 

car looks amazing like always

 

I love the way that looks. Those springs give your car the perfect stance. Do you have any rubbing problems?

 

Thanks guys.

And honestly the only rubbing I ever notice are at full lock when I am doing a u-turn in my neighborhood. I've never had any problems other than that, and the small amount of rubbing I do experience isn't enough to bother me. I'm never going more than 5 or 10mph when it rubs.

 

lucky you..my vert rubs all the time usually just the air baffle because the roads around NJ suck and are not taken care of...pot holes and weird hills are all over BEAUTIFUL car tho

 

Everytime I see your car it gets better & better. That 1" drop makes a big difference, makes me wanna buy my friends 91 RS vert if he doesnt do anything with it....lol

 

Looks excellent man!

 

looks good, and I'll bet it stops alot better now too!

 

It stops amazingly I was so shocked how big of a difference they really made.

 

Looks really nice Nick! The brakes and drop really compliment the 17" wheels well... gives it more additude!

 

Looks great! Thanks for the update.

 

very nice car....I always liked that color, especially with the chrome wheels..

 

I love your vert! I want one exactly like that but maybe in black.

 

Thats FUGLY..hahaha, I think I should that car off your hands so people won't tease you about it ...lmao j/k. Your car is one of the cars I see that gives me insparation & goal to reach when I finish my car. Thanks for sharing Nick, what plans are next for it?

 

Another LS1 conversion...one that will increase my horsepower drastically. I've been keeping my eyes out on a totalled LS1 car to strip the drivetrain from, but I think it's going to be a 2 or 3 year time frame project.

 

Quick question on the rearend, was it an easy swap, cause I just picked one up for free with pbr calipers, but getting alot of other stuff to finish the car, corvette front brakes & so on.

 

Yes it's really simple with 2 extra hands. You unbolt the driveshaft, torque arm, shocks, and lower control arms and it just comes out like butter. Put jackstands under the car and lower the rear end out with a jack.

 

Cool thanx for the info. Do the E-brake cabels connect easily?

 

I haven't messed with them yet so I am not sure. I know in the brake section of TGO there are a few threads about how people are making them work.

 

Didi the fronts bolt in easily? Did you still have to use spacers fro the front rims?

 

nice !!! nto sure but did u do everythign ur self?

 

Looks good as usual Bro, and I did finally get the set up off the ls1 board... 100 shipped or rotors calipers/brackets

 

The fronts were really simple. I wasn't too sure about how it was going to work until I got the spacers from Ed Miller, and talked to him on the phone for a few minutes as he explained how it all went together. But I made a tech article on how to do this swap and I was going to see if the admins on TGO would want me to post it in here; I wasn't sure if there were already a ton of LS1 brake tech articles or not. And yes I still have to use the spacers for the 4th gen wheels.

Regarding the brake swap? Yes, except for the hubs. A friend of mine made the hubs out of the 3rd gen rotors for me for free basically (well I paid for his meal at a club meeting). Other than that, I did everything myself.

Nice! That's a good find!

 

I cant wait bro you got me motivated to do it

 

any pictures of the hubs?

i ahev a complete 4th gen hub assembly rotors and calipers layin around. idk if i should sell them or buy the kit with the hubs and modded spindles.

 

I'll just paste the link for my tech article on Z28.com for you. I took quite a few pictures of the process and tried my hardest to explain everything to the best of my ability. I am not positive how a 4th gen hub set will work on 3rd gen spindles. That might be a question to ask Ed Miller. However I will add that I do not recommend paying extra money to buy modified spindles. It is a simple modification that you can do yourself with a ban saw and a file.

Here's the link to my tech article:

http://www.z28.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124604

 

damn thats pretty low

 

very sharp.

 

That car is amazing... I love it... Do you still have the back seat in it?

 

Low n' slow...for now...


Thank you. Yep I still have the back seats in it, the reason I keep them folded down most of the time is with the glass rear window you have to fold the seats down to get the top up and down, otherwise you can potentially bust out the glass which would be $400 down the poop shoot.

 

Looks fantastic! About time you got that thing down in the weeds!

 

Haha, ya or down in the cob webs...you should have seen all the webs inside the wheels when I went to take them off for the brake swap.it had only sat like three weeks too lol.

 

Three weeks?!? I love my Trailblazer, but I still at least drive the Camaro once a week (usually more, unless it's raining)!

 

Hotchkis? I didn't know they were that low. Neat.

 

Yes sir. I got em' for $20 too!