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My 1988 IROC-Z, LB9 5-speed

Hey there everybody, just wanted to share one of my third gens to everybody here. I picked this car up back in 2014 after 8 years of searching for an original 5 speed IROC TPI. Here where I live it is very difficult to find these type of cars, because they all seem to come from the northeast, as was the case with this car. It was just by chance that this car had made an incredible journey in its life as it originated from New Jersey, then went to Pennsylvania and went overseas to Germany; then back again to the U.S to Texas in Brownsville where I picked it up. As a result along the way the car had showed its age, but concluded on inspection that everything was fixable. Now when I picked this car up in Brownsville, it was not running right. Three sensors were no good, vacuum tubing was crumbling, timing was retarded, exhaust leaks, spark pug wires arcing through, radiator leaking like a sieve, hood hinge was broken when opened, and the reverse gear was no good. At first I was skeptical, but I accepted the challenge and made this car to what it is right now, and boy this 5-speed is wayyy more fun to drive and much quicker than all my other third gens I have. This car only lacked the G92 option and thus did not have rear disc brakes and the oil cooler, but I did not want the 9-bolt as it is scarce and can not be updating with aftermarket parts, so I converted the rear drums and put my 3.55 gears with a Yukon duragrip. Car is also T-top and not a hard top, so I'd imagine finding a t-top 5 speed third gen is difficult to find as most of them were hard top. I also rebuilt the T-5 myself and replaced the reverse and added the billet steel plate for the cluster gear. To this day that T-5 has survived hard driving and my 315/35-17 drag radials with the spec stage 2 clutch in front of it. This project is still ongoing and not finished, and their is to much stuff I have done myself to list, so tell what you all think. Thanks guys :burnout:.