I'ma post about my Z28...

I bought it in March of 2000 ... I didn't get the title changed over until November 2000...

When I first bought it... the tranny was going ... or atleast it seemed to be, the bellhousing was cracked and I think the throwout bearing was slipping too much... 1st gear only worked half the time, reverse was a bitch to do (because of the bellhousing) ...

so whats the first thing I do? Well, not being able to drive a manual well enough to know better, and having a slipping transmission, I backed over the pile of rocks it had been parked on (damn parents) ... I held it in reverse because it would slip out ... and I latched the sonnuvabitch onto my moms Suburban... and I didn't notice it because I was going down the rock by that point and it latched on very slowly... my drivers side fender ends up twisting inward a bit and by the time I realize I've hooked myself on the Suburban, I've drug the thing over a foot (it was in park, I was in reverse)... the suburban is late 70s, with the iron 454... think about that.

So from that mishap I now have 2 bad fenders and a torn nose that now sorta sags more than it did before ...

When I bought it, the dash was a bit ruined and the passenger side door had a few cracks in the skin, the fender was ripped from the frame because of the lift it was on awhile before. The engine is a built 350, edelbrock heads, intake manifold, cam, etc... Performer RPM package.. and 1407 carb (750cfm) Transmission was the stock T5 from 83... Interior was camel (tan) ... the front seats were gray and complete ****, the rear seats were the stock vinyl tan(VERY ****ing comfortable for sitting outside on... )... and I had LAP BELTS on the front seats ... the exhaust is L69 exhaust manifolds, Y pipe to Muffler (no cat) ... and nice big fat pipes all the way back. It also had a set of Centerlines... 215 on the front, 305 on the rear (yes, 305 tires)... and even with a slipping transmission I STILL had traction problems with them Also, No Horn, radiator sorta going to ****, etc

I bought this Z28 for $500 in that condition

Things I bought after I got the Z28
Stock Z28 wheels with near brand new tires on them for $200 ...
Race Built T5 transmission for $600 with lifetime warranty (and don't ANY of you tell me the T5 won't last)
New Dash, Dash Pad, Ground Effects, Side Mirrors, Gray Seatbelts (I sold em), gray doorpanels because they were free, dome light, and a few other things for another $150
Pair of front seats for $25, another 85mph gauge cluster for $10

I installed the front seats. they suck but they do the job till I get my new ones.

After I bought the transmission, I bought a Zoom multi-friction clutch for $200, and a B&M Ripper Shifter for $150.

I also bought a pair of summit headers I never put on... and probably won't ever put on because of my new exhaust idea I wanna do... but if I do use the headers I'll put a purple horny in place of my current muffler... so thats $75 there.

More recently, I bought a pertronix flamethrower HEI distributor tuneup kit... $120, best thing I ever bought and installed... Worth the money...also got NGK spark plugs and some generic Champion plug wires for $40

a few weeks ago I bought an electric radiator fan ($80), line lock ($65), shifter **** for my ripper ($20), and a carb rebuilt kit ($40 with extra parts).

So... Into my Z28 including the price I bought it for and getting the new tabs/title changed over, $2300.

Now for the kicker:

Within the next week I'm buying the following:

My new seats ~ $75
Radiator ~ $200
Fluids and all that fun ****.
Edelbrock RPM Air Gap intake Manifold (or equivalent) ~ $175-$200
brake lines to install my linelock ~ $5
replacement muffler or glasspack ~ $25
Black Carpet ~ Free
Aluminum waterpump ~ $150

Here is what I still need to make this goddamn thing legal though.

I need seatbelts that aren't just lapbelts in the front. I need a horn if I'm to pass visual inspections... I'm also going to have to find a hood I can trust VERY soon ... I don't trust my old stock fiberglass one but may end up using it just because.

Here is what I need to make this thing somewhat closer to finished:

New Suspension ~ No less than $1000 (all spohn)
New Rearend ~ Also no less than $1000 (Going to Randy's Ring and Pinion for a complete one with 28 spline axles and a series 3 carrier, 3.73 gearing, etc).
Disc brakes for the rear, and new brakes for the front as well ~ couple hundred bucks or more...
Centerline Galaxy wheels... 16x8 front, 16x10 or a little larger rear (going to 305s again or maybe 315s) ~ $900 for the set
Tires (duh) ~ about $1200 give or take.
Frontend ~ Nose, Fenders, Headlight bar/brace whatever the **** that is, and hood (I want a bigblock hood, fully functional) ... new that'd cost another $1000 minus the hood, used I dunno what it'd cost me yet... hood is another $450
New passenger side door ~ $???
New door hinges (upper and lower with new pins) ~ $130
I also have to get my roof welded... NEAT HUH!? I have to pull the antenna thingy thats in it, and i'm going to get the stress cracks (since i have a hardtop) touched up/
Get the interior sandblasted and repainted (red, it'll all be covered in black though) when I get hole welded.
Pull the engine, weld in new battery trays since mine are ****, have the complete engine bay rewired, get a new master cylinder, new power steering pump/box, etc.
Have the engine painted black with red valve covers and a red waterpump.
After that? well...
EXTERIOR PAINT!! (after I get the hood)

Black with red ground effects (that fade into black with a spray of blood around the quarter panels, because I'm like that).
The hood will have a Fallen Angel (Demon) with black wings and a red tinged skin, crushing a fading golden halo in one hand, and holding a bleeding rose in the other. (that will be the center of the bigblock hood)... the stinger will be painted red and the lip around the opening (both front and back) will have a red pinstripe wrapping it. Along the sides of the "cowl" ... in mock iroc-Z lettering I'm going to have Demon-Z done in red.
I'm still debating having something on the sides.

Racing strips? doubtful.

And I aim to please, and also to disappoint... I am NOT, and will not ever upgrade the frontend to 85+, nor will I do the ground effects to 85+... I am also not going to get that highrise spoiler on the 91-92 Z28's much to everyones wishes. I'm keeping the lip spoiler... I am also not changing the goddamn taillights to the grid style, i do not like those therefore do not want them and will never get them.

Headlight pockets? ehh, I might do those in red, to go with the rest of it, but I dunno yet.

When I get the chance and money, I'm going to get a Demon 850 carburetor, and possible an intercooled Procharger supercharger (for use with the carburetor)... by that time I'll also do a T56 in it

After I finish the 83 Z28... my next project will either be an all-alluminum 666 CI merlin bigblock 83 Z28 with a T56, 365 rear tires, tubbed of course, 4.11 gears, or I will restore my uncles 1971 Hemi Charger (He would have wanted it that way)...

For those of you who want to argue I won't do it or my plans will change? think again, I do NOT give up that easilly... on ANYTHING... be it love and relationships, or my dreams and hopes for my Camaro.

My sig says it all. I'll leave it at that.

 

here, have a sig

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Try to live your lost Illusions
Demon ~ 1983 Z28 ~ Hellfire and Brimstone with a touch of grace.

[This spewing of useless drivel has been danced upon by three naked elves and a small green heffalump name Durf(spewed out Octembuary Seventytwelfth, 2001½).]

 

Sounds good to me man, thumbs up on keeping the 82-84 theme!

But dude, what happened with the Trans Am? You could use the doors, mirrors and headliner and stuff on the 83 couldnt ya?!

-Roshambo

 

I missed a few things.

New exhaust setup ~ $400 for the headers, $600 coated. ... $100 for the pair of purple hornies, and exhaust tips

Liscense plate is obvious... DEMON-Z

and if anyone ****s my car up because of plate or paint after its done ... I'll take their goddamn life if I see them doing it...

I don't **** with their fish or bumper stickers ... they express themselves through that, I'ma express myself through creativity and a bit more obvious methods

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Try to live your lost Illusions
Demon ~ 1983 Z28 ~ Hellfire and Brimstone with a touch of grace.

[This spewing of useless drivel has been danced upon by three naked elves and a small green heffalump name Durf(spewed out Octembuary Seventytwelfth, 2001½).]

 

well.... thats still undecided at this point ...

 

You still need a bellhousing? I have a brand new one I bought from GM but then upgraded to a Lakewood scattershield.

 

oh... I forgot to mention I got my bellhousing welded because I couldn't find a bellhousing that would fit the 83!!! the 84+ bellhousings are different!

I have a rare bellhousing

neat huh

Yet another thing I forgot to mention... Aluminum Flywheel and driveshaft

[This message has been edited by Demon Z28 (edited June 03, 2001).]

 

Yep, pretty neat

 

Holly sh_it , Aaron. Seems like a great plan , dont let anyone disrupt your plans with the Z28.I can't wait unitl its done. All I can really say is get a good job that pays well so you can buy these parts and for gas to drive it . Also about the hood thing ...... the wreaker that you went to while you were up here just got a white 82-84 Z28 with a sweet hood but your kind of far away , also my future is with a "2 cowl hood , so when I get that I could sell you mine.

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82' Z28 T-tops
305 LG4 with TH350
[IMG]http://www.camaro_z28.homestead.com/files/deathz.gif[\IMG]

 

Hey QWKTRP, I"m lookin' for a Bellhousing for my 84. I have Aaron's old T-5. How much you want for it?

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John Chamberlain
1984 Sport Coupe Camaro, 1979 350. Dynomax 2 3/4" cat back single in dual out muffler. Have Heads, Weiand Stealth intake. Sonn swapping in a manual and redoing the interior! (Soon as in now )

 

YAY!!! ANDY REPLIED!!!

My weekend just got better

You need to get back to me about the 4th bro, please!?

I think me old hood will survive a few more months of torture... I dunno yet hehehe

 

How in the world do you do all of that with out a job??

 

ehh... I've got about 700 bucks to last me until I get a job

trouble is... its all going to the car

this week

 

It retails through GM for $160 but I have an ongoing relationship with the local guys here and I got it for $135. I'll sell it for $80. It's been bolted on and off my tranny a few times but never used.

 

I think I've got a set of brand new bolts from GM to go with it too but I'll have to look.

 

Visual inspections? In Washington?

 

DMV visual

 

No such thing in Washington! You're thinking Cali Dude!

 

When I took my Vette through State inspection they simply cross-checked the engine code against the body code and made me remove the headlight and tail light blackouts. It was pretty funny too because all these really quite cars were going into the garage area and I was just coasting down hill. Then when it was my turn I cranked it over and VROOOOOOMMM!!!! The blower is whining at full pitch and the exhaust is howling. Kind of spiced up the place a bit, you know?

 

no... I'm thinking drive test....

they like you to have a horn that actually works worth a shyt

I physically got no fuggin horn.

 

So you physically got no license either? I haven't taken an actual driving test since driver's ed in high school!

 

that is correct.

my car is actually liscensed till november.
I just never really had the want or need for a liscense ...

what can I say, I'm a lazy mathafakka

 

I thought all modified Camaros had to have racing stripes???



[This message has been edited by Blue502 (edited June 03, 2001).]

 

No, its not all modified ones have it, its all DESCENT Camaros have racing stripes!! At least me and Lance will agree to that.

 

I won't say anything due to the current state of my car, but after seeing it run, you can't say Craiger's Camaro isn't 'DESCENT'!

 

Hehehe, it would still look better with racing stripes/stripe!

Okay, yeah, craigers car is really nice and I like it, for a Camaro :-D

 

if I get a racing stripe it'll be like ghost flames... but it'll be in red, and it sure as **** won't be a flame...

and if I do it, that means my pinstripping will go the same way.

 

Usually DESCENT camaros have flames or something because they're likely falling off a cliff. A DECENT camaro may or may not have a custom paint job.

 

Burn baby burn

 

Please! NO! No stripes on my Z!!! It looks too clean and stripes or flames on it would make it look??? not good, not clean... Not that stripes or flames are not cool, just on my car, i prefer the clean look. How about a TA bird on the hood Just kidding.

 

Ohhh, don't let Don hear you say that, craiger!!

 

Don't get me wrong, the birds look good on the TA's, but not on the Z28's ! As far as stripes go, I think with the iroc blue it's just not a good match! I like the stock look because that's where you get the sleek sleeper And I like the pearl iroc blue anyway! We gotta do some more racing in mid summer!

 

ooooh OUCH

 

We still love ya Lance! No, seriously, both yours and Craigers cars are sweet! Stripes or no stripes!

 

Yes!!!

 

You've obviously never seen Blues car then, Craiger. Its that IROC blue w/ white stripes... and about every time I see it I almost end up w/ white stuff in my pants.
But your car looks very nice without stripes, those Z28 hood blisters have go to be some of the best looking ones put on Thirdgens.

 

Make that double YES!!! SIR just kicked sooooooooo much @$$!!!!

Jess

 

racing stripes don't look right on camaro's bigblock hoods...

Pinstriping, however...

 

Come out to evergreen on de 8th, its only a 1/8th mile but its cheaper and thats what I'ma do to do my first drags in the Z

 

Yeah, too bad I'll miss the mid summer events... oh well, I will still be the first member of the CC to meet Wolfcoast!

 

Hell yeah! I can't wait! Just hope I have a few more mods by then. I want at least to have a new intake manifold, SFCs, LCAs, and hopefully I can get Brad to make me some LCA relocation brackets!

 

Is Brad making those? How much he want for 'em? Being my geometry of my suspension is all messed up and he's had a couple chances to practice on other peoples cars now...

 

I don't know. I emailed Brad earlier about going to see his new 'Bird (sorry Demon) so I'll ask him if he responds. He made Craiger's also.

 

Cool, let me know. It would be worth the drive to Tacoma to get them. Course, then I'd have to see everyone.

 

You say that like its a bad thing!