Then... and Now!

I thought it would be interesting and cool to see your rides as they were when you first got your car and what it looks like and has now.

Include specs when bought and current specs now if you are feelin' it!

Note: Day 1 for me was July 15, 2008.

Day 1:



Now:



Day 1:



Now:


Day 1:



Now:



Performance(1/8th mile):

Day 1: 9.99 @ 72.x mph, 2.3x 60'

Now: 8.29 @ 85.2 mph, 1.84 60'

Day 1:
350
T5 5 -Speed, non-WC
3.23 gears, open drum diff

Now:

Engine

*Small Block 350 + .060" (5.9L, 360cu)
*10.5:1 compression, 93 octane fuel
*71' Corvette Heads - Pocket porting, double spring, 1.60/2.02 valves
*XE274 Comp Cam, 230/236 @ .050, .487/.490 lift
*Holley 750 DP w/ Holley HP main body
*Edelbrock RPM Air-Gap intake
*Hypereutectic Domed Pistons
*Fully Balanced Rotating Assembly
*Centerforce Flywheel
*ARP bolts

Transmission

*T56 6-speed
*Pro 5.0 Shifter + UMI Short Stick
*Spec Stage 4 6 puck unsprung
*LT4 PP
*Hawks T56 conversion crossmember


Exhaust

*Hedman Longtube Headers
*True-Dual 2.5" Straight pipe exhaust
*Flowmaster 40 Series 2 chamber mufflers

Suspension/Tires

*BFGoodrich g-Force Sport, 245/50/16 front, 255/50/16 rear
*Spohn rear lower control arms, tubular, polyurethane bushings
*Spohn lower control arm relocation brackets
*Subframe Connectors
*Spohn poly panhard bar, polyurethane bushings
*Edelbrock tubular torque arm
*36MM front/24MM rear sway bars
*Polyurethane front and rear sway bar bushings
*Polyurethane transmission mount
*Polyurethane torque arm mount
*Wonder bar
*Bilstein shocks/moog springs

Rear end

*10-Bolt 7.5"
*4.10's
*Aluminum girdle w/ support caps
*Moser 28-spline axles
*Moser wheel studs
*Zexel Torsen differential
*Solid pinion spacer

Exterior

*GM Victory Red base coat/clear coat
*Tint: 5% rear/20% sides
*Custom made aluminum nose emblem

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Hope to see a bunch of awesome transformations!

 

Its always fun to see "Then in Now" but i like during... that's something you rarely see... Nice improvements btw

 

great transformation, nice car

 

Where did you get that nice carbon filler panel?

 

Plasmeh that is truly a great transformation & your car looks great!!!

Unfortunately I am in the "Then" stage of my car....LOL, I hope to be in the "Now" around November of this year. I will be putting in new seats tomorrow. I will take some pics of the current seats. So far I did upgrade the wheels & lowered the car.

 

heres mine itll be finished early next week.

belive it or not there is a car under all those parts... the day i bought it still at the po's house


and now

 

this is gonna be fun lol


day i got it, june 6th 2009

 

and as of today, august 12th, 2011.

only different in interior is that i had a new headliner put in, steering wheel from a 90 RS, new seatbelt buttons, and new outter guides( can see in first pic)

 

I'm not sure why this was moved to the 'Members Camaro' section - it's for everybody.

Regardless, the panel you see in the hood latch area is stainless steel that was hand made to fit that area using the stock black piece as a template. There is about 15 hours of work altogether in that piece alone. The majority of the time came from placing each circular sand mark exactly .015" apart from eachother. Thanks for the compliments guys! I have loved every minute of taking this car from what it was to what it is. I just got married, and my wife loves the car as well. This one is staying with me no matter what. She can stay, too.

polaris, thats a hilarious picture of when you go the car with everything piled on it lol

 

then:









now:





then specs:
blown up completely stock 3.1/700r4. 3.23's in a 10 bolt.

now specs:
carbed 370ci lsx, PRC stage 2.5 ls6 heads, 11.5:1 scr diamond pistons, eagle h-beams. th400, Transmission Specialties 9" 4500 stall converter, moser 9" 4.11's and a full spool

the car has been 10.76 @ 126 on a 1.51 60' early this spring. i anticipte 10.6x's this fall.

 

Yeah, I'd say that's a pretty radical conversion, haha. So sick, great job man =)

 

then




now

 

Not going to bother posting before and after quotations pretty self explanatory

 

This is the best i have for after pics still not done at all with the bottom side

 

So sick... wish I had the money/time to make mine better than new. Stop making everyone jealous lol

 

I already have a thread chronicling my restoration (so I'm just gonna link it, lol), with then and now pics, mind you it is still very much a work in progress, though she has certainly come a ways since I bought her.
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...-4-camaro.html
I don't have pics of everything up yet though, cause I need to get them off my mother's SD card(had use her card since mine got lost).

 

Then:























Now:

 

THEN:
first car...86 z28 305 carburated all stock and original down to the window sticker




and now 350 crate...700r4 shift kit...hooker exhaust ss hood...wheels

 

Some great conversions here guys - a lot of you have beautiful rides

 

heres mine. started off as a 305 tbi with a 700r4



and now with a 355 tunnel ram



still have a long way to go. way to many mods to list in 1 post.

 

UPDATES PEOPLE UPDATES!

 

car before then car after then motor before and then motor after.
before 1986 Iroc 305 TPI 700r4
After 1986 Iroc 468 Big Block with t5

 

motor pics before and after and recent hood stripes forgot to add it had red camaine interior it now had charcoal plastics with gray seats have a quote to have interior redone in all black for $2500.00

 

what???? theres no way in hell a t5 could handle a big block... right?

 

It has so far but i already have a fund for a tremic for when it goes. I'm 40 years old it is more of a tool around car not a full blown drag car so i am not that hard on it yet. but give me time I have jumped on it once In my drive left 2 10 foot black marks then pulled back did it again and the car hooked that time. when i say jumped on it i mean 1/4 pedal and let the clutch out alittle fast not dumped when it was an Auto i drove down the street with it and thought the trans was slipping nope the tires were that was only 1/4 pedal also. it's putting down about 590hp to the wheels. it's 13.5 to 1 compression and a lunati braket master cam with a 850 holley done at lawrenceville speed shop flowed or whatever to 930. it has a lakewood scatter sheild 11 inch zoom clutch and 3.42 gears in the rear

 

thats crazy. i would love to have that much power!
i thought the t5 wouldnt be able to handle cause of the torque.

 

I am testing the limits of a world class t5

 

i bet haha.
once you blow that thing to pieces your gonna have to post it in the holly s*** thread in the racing part of the forum lol

 

I love the clean look, how do you like the wheels? I love those but I do not want to use spacers if at all possible

 

Wow! What a transformation. Nice job.

 

beautiful car man. that car looks mean and runs as well also.

 

thanks guys, it's ever changing in my quest for the baddest street driven n/a small tire car on the planet, though i'm far from that title right now, lol!

 

Badass thread, will have to put some pics of mine. It's incredible to see how far some people's cars have came


realized this was a Camaro thread :P
jacked it and created my own in the Firebird section

 

Originally I had it in the general section, but it got moved to the Camaro section for some reason :P I see you got a thread started for firebirds - I love seeing how everyones project progresses through time. Everyone has to be proud of building a car rather than buying it built.

 

then.......

 

NOW......

 

then.....





now.......

 

I like the Z06's, although I had a set of chrome ZR1's before these and I actually kind of miss them. I would like to get a set of 17x9/17x11 for the rear in the chrome ZR1's. That would look real good I think. These wheels are 17x9 all the way around.

I'm using a 4th gen width rear so the only spacers are in the front. I honestly forget they're even there until it's time to do a brake job.




For those that like the "between" pictures, here you go:

 

This is a cool thread... I love the before and after shots. You guys have some nice looking projects!

 

Awesome thread man! Sadly I have mostly NOW photos because I'm a newer owner of my car, But i can tell you There is still a huge difference between when when i got it and now.

 

Now


Now

 

Then...












Now...

 

You fixed it so much you turned it into a firebird?!

 

Yes, it grew wings. Jk, Pretty much all the work I did to that 92 was transfered over to the 86. Everything from the LT1 swap. The body is the only original part left on this 86. I am already in the garage removing the front end for lowering. As you can see the car is a 4x4, the Intrax 2' springs should do the trick.

 

Found some old pics today, this was the very first day I had it back in June, 1999. Took delivery a few hours prior:







Summer 1999:





These had to have been around 2001-2002. I thought I put the BFG Radials on in 1999, but I think it was actually spring, 2000. In the below pic, you can see the 2001 Car Craft Summer Nationals sticker in the windshield, so this put these pics somewhere shortly after that time:



And dear Lord did the car look terrible before it was lowered:



And here is the original Autotrader ad from 1999 when I found the car, I just took this picture today:



Kind of cool to find old 35mm pics. I knew I had them around somewhere.

 

And today:

 

-DylanN