Well, its that time again, this is my 8th fbody and my 4th third gen. I already have a 68 chevy c10 with an LS swap, and a 1972 Camaro that Ive owned since I was 16, but car was way too clean and too good of a deal to pass up.


I'm at work right so I'll update post later when I get home.









Interior...









Car is 1991 Camaro z28, red exterior, grey clothe, auto L98 car. It has front disc, but rear drums.


I'll update mods and pics as I work on the car.

 

Congratulations on your purchase!

 

First mods were to replace accessory belt, changed out the park lamp housings and put a new bowtie grille.
Before...







I taped everything up and resprayed inside behind the grille to black it out, didn't like the red overspray.




After...

 

Second mod came a few days later, I decided to ditch the nasty tail pipes and tips that the car came with. I had the muffler shop install new mandrel bent 2 1/2 tail pipes and some corsa 2 1/2 inlet, dual 3.5 oulet clone tips as well. I am really **** about my cars, so I made the guy test fit the piping on the driverside and tip several times. I ultimately wanted the tips flushed with the bottom of the back bumper. He did a great job on the driverside, but once I walked away to take a phone call, he kind screwed me on the pass side one. It sticks out by just a few cm's. Car already came with a Hooker Aerochamber muffler, and it sounds pretty ok.


This is old nasty setup.





Here are the tips I that I got a decent deal on.




Tips being but on...




Mocking it up.




And all done, I just need to find the time to sand the piping and the Aerochamber muffler and polish them up.

 

Where did you get those parking lamps?

 

That front end sure cleaned up nice.

 

Shhhh, its a secret. Gotta be different from all the other red Z's, lol


http://www.ebay.com/itm/311078801261?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

$42 and they are at your door 3 days later.

 

Thanks DynoD.

 

So heres a before shot of the engine bay, it was pretty dirty. I'll have to give it some nice TLC.

 

very nice z28

 

Thanks bud.

 

Replaced the hood struts with these from a company called Strong arm off ebay, good over all product, holds hood up, and decent pricing.

 

Looking good keep up the progress. I wish my car was that clean when bought it... I might not have touched a thing for a while and enjoyed the ride.

 

you car looks great and that new exhaust is awesome.

 

Thanks bud, unfortunately the cars transmission has been acting up on me, I believe its going to need a rebuild. I'll post up some pics of the parts for the rebuild when they come in, as well as the tear down and reinstall of it. I trusted the guy I bought the car from, but guess that's what I get for thinking I got a hellofa deal on the car.

 

Thanks bud, weather has been bi-polar as **** down here in South Texas, so haven't had much time to polish up the muffler or the tail pipes. Here's a short clip of the car.

 

Like your car really nice looking thirdgen. Just bought me a 92 rs again also cant wait to stat working on it im also in sa

 

Thanks, I got some more little things here and there.






some distributor cover bolts

 

Im having a hard time find the thread where it is discussed which is the best transmission for a 350/700r4 car. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

 

not sure on that been doing a lot of reading also on the camaro. keep updates coming i just bought a bowtie grille like yours was still in box and found the ash tray for the backseat i was missing.

 

Got some more little nick knacks for the car.


New emblems from Hawks Third Gen as well as some Billet washers



New hood adjusters..



New throttle body late...





Newer model z/28 license plate bracket.

 

Looking good man.

That TB plate looks badass.

Will you be making it to the Thirdgen-Roundup in May?

https://www.facebook.com/events/951170021574908/

 

Nice, the tail pipes look great

 

Sweet car!!

 

I wanted to, but not wanting to drive 5hrs for a show/meet. I will be at the Texas Camaro Revolution this weekend though here in San Antonio

 

A little update, I got the car back from getting the 700r4 rebuilt. She is shifting nice and strong, but had a mild issue with the car reving itself up while in park. So I ordered a new IAC valve to see if it would take care of the issue, and low and behold it did, thank baby jesus.


While I took the TB off, I decided to polish the original thermostat housing as well as the throttle body. Heres a few pics.







Once the tstat housing was off, you could see how ugly it was.







heres a pic or two of it in the process of being sanded down.




and the final product of the tstat housing.









And one of it installed.

 

Good work! This car needed some love and you are on a really good way to help her shinning like a new beast!

 

God that thing is clean! Love those exhaust tips too. I had a set very similar on my old 96' but i think yours pulls it off better. Nice work.

 

That housing polished up nice!

 

Here's some before and after one the throttle body








TA DA!





Click on this last little photo for a short video of a 360 view of the TB polished up.



The TB took a lot of elbow grease to get done.

 

Thanks man, the car was a good platform, just needed some TLC. Little by little she'll get to where I want her to be.

 

Thanks man, check out my FB page. (Bad Monkey Polishing)

 

Did you install the Z28 emblems yet? What is the manufacturing quality of them like?
Keep up the great work with the car.

Dave

 

Dave,

I will be installing them tomorrow, crazy bipolar south texas weather permitting. From what I saw when I opened the package, they are very nice quality pieces. I paid $50 shipped for all three from Hawks ebay page. I'll post pics of them installed.

 

On a side note, I will be taking the wheels off pretty soon, stripping the clear and painting them semi-flat black. I had previously done a set like that and liked how they came out on my old 91 z28 I had back in 2008.





And since its throw back Thursday, here a pic from my house back in 2008, when I owned 5 fbodies all at once, ha.

 

Thank you, I will look forward to it. BTW my emblems are the same as yours...Grey rocker Z28's and red rear bumper Z28. My car is also bright red. Do you have any thoughts on. The emblem colours?

Dave

 

So I got tired of not seeing the flat black eye shadow so decided to do something.






lost track of time and was only able to get one done for now.

 

What paint did u use i got to do mine soon , and did u use clear

 

I would LOVE to see you and that beautiful car at the third gen roundup

http://thirdgenroundup.com

 

Regular semi-flat automotive paint I had laying around. Wasn't anything fancy. I just used a scuff pad to scuff the clear down, wiped it off and sprayed about 3 light coats. I should have the other eye shadow done by fri. I just personally did not like the way the car looked without it.

 

I really wanted to go, but that place is way too far. Maybe next yr once I have the LS swap done and the car is a bit more reliable.

 

I also decided to clean up the headlights while they were off. Sanded and resprayed both high and low beam brackets and trim rings.



Before.




After.

 

I always liked those blacked out. Nice work.

 

Here ya go Dave.

 

Thank you, are you happy with them on the car? They look to be a bit different than the originals. I found a set of originals but they are expensive.


Your car is coming along nicely.


Dave

 

Yea, the factory one is like a tri-color red, this one is a solid red, and I prefer that way.

 

Few pics of the Camaro at the Texas Camaro Revolution.

 

God that's a good looking car.

 

Word of warning; Bexar County Sherrifs and some of the small cities WILL ticket for having the license plate in the window. I know the state statute only says "must be displayed to the front of the vehicle", but they interpret that as "physically bolted to the front of the car". Last time I barely got out of a $200 ticket for the same because the deputy pulled me over in Converse, but tried to send me to court on the South side (flagrant jurisdiction violation). The magistrate ~grudgingly~ dismissed it, but still had to go through the hassle. Considering my car is tagged, inspected, fully functional, and I obey traffic laws, all it served to do was give them an excuse to pull me over where otherwise they had none.

 

Have you given any concideration to painting the headlight buckets black? I think it would look just that much better that way.