Transmissions are like $100

 

Still got my plans for an lt1 lol I got my roof rail weatherstripping today aswell from soffseal. Very nice as always. If would have been smart I would would pulled the brand new weather stripping off that 90 before I junked it. Those were only 2 months old

 

Also anyone know where I can get new dust caps for my new strut mounts?

 

Well today's the first day she's left me stranded. Got out of school today and got in, I had lights, stereo and blower motor but as soon as I hit the key I lost all power, kept trying it and she was completely dead, I had 4 people trying to help me he her going and one even jumping me and I had nothing. Well my father in law came up to pick up my fiancé and he tried jumping me, let it sit for a few minutes while he reved his truck and I finally had enough power to start her and run her home. As soon assume hit the garage an I turned the key she never moved another inch. Still haven't figured out what happend, think it was because my positive battery cable was lose or something.

 

Definitely check all your cables. I bought a 91 V8 5 speed with t tops in Indy last month and as soon as I hit 465 south it just flat out died. As soon as you turned the key everything in the car would die except for the temp gauge, which would peg itself to the max. It was the ground strap from the motor to the body and thank God I checked it, I was ready to abandon the car and go get my money back.

 

Sounds like it. If its not tight it will arc and corrode til it has a bad connection. Loosen and tighten a few times and I think you will be fine.

 

it seems fine now, just pissed me off cause she was running fine this morning, got in today and all seemed normal, turned the key and she was dead till she sat for a little while, after that everything worked till i turned the key.

 

well got some new toys for her for christmas lol, got new monroe matic plus struts, new gm strut mounts, new roof rail, door, and hatch weather stripping, some trim peices for the interior, and of coarse the parts i listed above like the rear shocks and all new tierod ends.

 

not shown are my strut mounts or hatch seal, havent gotten them in the mail yet!!

 

Got the four weatherstripping on around the door and it seems quiter inside the car and alot more sealed, can't wait to do my roof rails in the spring.

 

Also figured out this car can do a dounut very easy lol, took it for. Drive after getting the seals on and turned into this church parking lot that's abandoned and was dying a really tight turn and I goosed it alittle and next thing I know is that I'm doing circles lol, was fun lol

 

oh yeah, no weight on over the *** end and there a handful on wet surfaces, gravel, dirt, snow, ice is perilous unless your me, or ken block lol but these are great cars if you enjoy slightly drifting alot, if you got any roads around with hairpins and long sweeping corners, take her for a brisk drive, it'll be exhilarating, but dont crash

 

yeah i was on dry pavement doing my dognuts lol and today when i went out to get my something to eat i was coming back home and was turning and gooses it while turning and started going sideways on one of the main roads lol, was fun xD i love my car

 

yeah, my 2.8 bird was a ton of fun, kinda wish i wouldn't have sold it, colege costs money and so does gas for a 305, and the kid i sold it to knows nothing about cars or driving and beats on it, i'll buy it back soon enough though when my gf needs a car

 

thats sad that hes beating on it, i mean dont get me wrong yes i beat on mine time to time but i put all this time and money in it, and i know how to fix it when something breaks or goes wrong but i still beat on it when im in the mood. i dont beat her hard though

 

you guys are NOT running good tires if you think these cars are a handful, i'm not even going to touch ice and snow as my car never sees them and no car ever should, but I live out in the middle of nowhere and there are plenty of dirt roads and i've never felt that my car is a handful or anywhere near being out of control.

 

No we're not saying our cars suck at handling. We're talking about going out and playing in them and having fun lol. I'm running brand new Goodyear weather handlers and they have good traction till I get in it

 

goodyears are not the best tires for traction or "messing around", good economy commuter tires, yes.

 

I have 245/50-16 BFG G-force T/As and my car sticks to the ground like glue. Spinning tires is fun and all, but it's really about having power and having the ability to put it to the ground. I can take turns at 65 that my friend cant take a 50 with his 04 mustang and still be in complete control.

 

my bad by saying handful, just meant to someone whose never driven one before, like the kid i sold my firebird to

 

i dont mess around too much, just when im in the mood. most the time it is comuting, from school my grandmas, my dads, familys, ect. only when im alone which is very often and the circumstances are right do i mess around

 

got all my new seals on, roof rail and the door seals, i still need to adjust my windows though so that they align better into my new roof rails, i talked to my teachers at the career center and the mechanics teacher said he will do an alighnment on my car, so this weekend im getting my new strut mounts and my new struts put on and having that done but i also talked to my auto body teacher, oddly enough hes the guy who tinted my windows lol, anyways he looked at my dent and said that he can fix it and throw on some pin stripping so he doesnt have to paint the whole car and he can single it into that one area and make it alittle cheaper, he said i can get everything done for under $200, that includes the paint, pin stripping, body work, and what ever else. so im happy

 

getting my alighnment next week and dropping my car off to get that quarter panel fixed and pin stripping replaced. not to sure on how im going to like that pin stripping though, i need a photoshop lol. also my grandma is lending me my grandpas car while mines getting worked on, a 2008 impala with the 3900 . this thing has ***** and sounds mean

 

well i get my car back tomorrow, THANK GOD!!!!! i cant tell you guys how much iv missed my car, even driving that new car that would romp on mine and nicer i still miss my camaro more than anything, i cant part with this thing at all!!!! iv been down there every day, twice a day watching them and the body work is top notch for a school job and im really impressed, the paint matched up good and im just really happy, even the pin stripping looks really really good and i like it. only other things iv done is iv bought a replacement hatch bolt to repalce the one with the broken cover, and im about to buy a flowmasters 80 series muffler with 2 outlet pipes and my hatch stripping, im also looking at getting my spare tire area fixed since its rusted out then all i need is my seat repaired, my centercap emblem, and new lubnuts and my cars done till i drop a new engine in there besides some new LCAs, PHB, and subframe connectors. but after i get her home tomorrow ill take pictures.

 

Get my car back in like 30 minutes, I saw it this morning and it looks good, they blended it nice

 

cool

 

How about posting some pictures?

 

I will, only mistake is I think they scratched the paint when putting the tail light in so they are going to repair it

 

well guys i went from this

 

to this( during body work) you can kinda see the pin stripping, i really like it and ill post pictures tomorrow of the finished product, my only complaint is it look like they scratched the bumber cover while doing something but thats it, im extremly happy, and it only cost me $200, oh and i forgot to add, i got my new hatch bolt so i can get that old rusty one off that the cap broke off and i bought this new toy for it, its a flowmaster 80 series muffler with 2 1/2 in manderaline bend tailpipes, i cant wait to install that and hear it, next is headers!!!

 

it'll sound great at anything under 3500 rpms, after that it sounds to "light" not like a heavy rumble but still cool none the less, my 305 just sounds "throaty" with what i think is a super 44 but i'm gonna make my own nascar style boom pipe eventually

 

That's the nice thing, my car rarely sees those rpms, unless I'm playing it shifts that High but normal driving is lower rpm shifting, hell even out cruising doing 60, my car never leaves 2500 rpm. I'm happy with it, I wanted an exhaust I can hear and have the tips showing out the back so I'm getting both, that stock muffler wasn't cutting it l

 

I have had a few 2.8's one i went all out with bored 30 over heads reworked double roller chain high volume high pressure pump edlebrock intake at the time i did it they made 3 cams stock mild and racing i took the mild with roller rockers chrome valve covers the only thing was i switched it from multiport to carb. i did shorty headers MSD ignition and the car had the 700r4. I did put a flowmaster on the car it was on there about a week i did not like the sound of it it sounded like a load of pissed off bummble bees but at an idle it sounded good. I like your car it brings back memories of mine.

 

yeah i keep tossing the idea around about beefing up the 2.8, iv looked at cams, head work, high compression pistons, headers, turbos, ect but everytime i look at it i think that with the money im putting into this, i could put into my lt1 so i never really spend on it, just maintence. but thank you, im kind of fond of what iv made her look like, alot better and different than when i first got her, man, that was almost 3 years ago

 

heres the final pictures of the finished car, i took several so everyone can see the work and the pin stripping so here they are

 

and two more, im really happy with everything

 

Same here except the 04 Mustang in this case belongs to my mom. Yes I have driven the car and completely agree with her about how mine has better handling.

 

what center caps do you have emo?

 

don't mess with the 2.8 only thing you'll do is lower its reliability my 2.8 would run rain sleet or snow no matter what and i felt confident driving it hundreds of miles from home, never had a more reliable car, the l69 in my maro is nice but i don't care much for a carb (DD), been considering a holley stealth ram and converting to efi but i'll probly end up keeping it original

 

Centers are factory stockers for my rims, they are hard to find anymore and harder to find silver, most are black aftermarkets

 

Wish I knew how to enlarge those pictures

 

damn, i'm trying to find a set of silver ones

 

All I found were black replacements, it took me over a year to find 1 silver one on eBay

 

How much did the repair end up costing you?

 

damn

 

Repair cost me $199.02. And yeah these centers are getting really hard to find, I'm missing the camaro emblem on my passenger rear, still need to get that

 

Do you guys know how I can enlarge those pictures?

 

use tinypic.com resive to message board

 

Yeah I could do thst, I use to have a program thst I got from a member here but I deleted it and don't remember it

 

Hey man I thought you might wanna take a look at this
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/pts/2823893396.html