Hey dude! Long time, hope you're well!

 

all good. A little older, a little fatter....

 

Lol, I'm in the same boat. Glad to hear all is good.

 

Yes sir, looking forward to getting back out. I moth balled the car a couple years back.. Just fell out of love with it. I had string of nonsense that pushed me over.... Thought about pushing it out in the street and lighting it on fire on numerous occasions.. Once i get a little better tune it ill be out and about.

Anyone here know FAST XFI?

 

I think my wife and I will drive up for this.

see ya'll tomorrow!

 

Next Tampa meet is at the Bubba's 33 in Brandon on the 21st of May at 11am. Come on out, even if not in your third gen.

 

I had no idea there were so many third gen owners near me! I live in Sorrento/Eustis and want to pull up to the next local meet, but I have to figure out what do about my blown head gasket first lol. I have a kinda ugly lookin 86 v6 Camaro thats primed and not painted, maybe some of y'all have seen it

 

I think I might have one of my projects running by then... Hopefully I'll bring a kid with me. We'll see!

 

Bring em! We have all quality of cars in the group and we enjoy seeing them all.

 

Happy to report that my car is 96.3% done. I've been driving it around some, had my horrible tint replaced, and currently have the window drip rails off so I can repaint them and put in new upper weatherstrips.
Beyond that my only issues left are all tuning related. I have HPTuners, but need to educate myself more in the art of tuning.
Its definitely running rich, I doubt I've driven more than 100 miles and the oil already smells pretty strongly of fuel.
Already took out what seems like a bunch of fuel for cold start idle, just so it would kinda idle, used to stall after startup.







Yep, couple of us around.
Think I saw your car before when I was still working in Leesburg.

By chance, was it a local shop that told you that your head gasket is bad?
I've learned over the years that some shops will tell people they have a bad head gasket because its a bigger repair and tends scare problem cars/problem customers away if they don't want to deal with it.
Either that, or they mis-diagnose it.
I even have a perfect example of each.
1. Some years ago when I was working as a service advisor at another dealership, we used to have one guy in the shop that would often "cry wolf" and say that a car has been in an accident to try and get out of having to do certain warranty work.
2. When I bought my truck (1997 c1500 pickup), the previous owner told me that his "trusted" mechanic told him the truck had not only a blown head gasket, but also a bad ECM. Yeah, that was BS because all that was wrong was the typical crappy Vortec 350 spider injectors, a new water pump, and a damn fuse for the OBD2 port. Dudes scanner wasn't able to pull codes, and ruled it as a bad computer all because they were too lazy or lacked the knowledge to check the fuses lmao.

Anyways, I'm not on here super often. But if you'd like some assistance/guidance on replacing your head gasket send me a message, I can at least be a useful source of information because I've been there. Replaced the head gasket on my old 4.3 Silverado lol.

 

Nice...........

 

I live around there too, Tavares more or less

 

What's up Ya'll?

 

Y’all can contact me at Scott Marcano on FB

 

I'm down for a Florida F-body meet. I'm in Miami but willing to drive up anywhere for a weekend meet.

 

July 16th at Bubbas 33 in Tampa off of Faulkenburg and Causeway BLVD

 

gotta get the AC fixed, summer meets are killer without!

 

Not kidding. I will be showing up top down and leaving top up.

 

That's where I'm at lol.

 

new Sanden style compressor and adapter brackets on the way, ac coming soon!

 

I think I'm going to convert to the Sanden 508 style. The GM R4 pancake style is garbage. I learned this week that the Sanden 508 came on 1987 Jeep Cherokees so I can still pick one up from the parts store.

 

20th of this month we're meeting in San Antonio, FL and cruising through the twisties into Brooksville. End location will be Glory Days in Brooksville. We usually meet around 10am but I'll update when there is a set time and meet location. These cruises are always a good time.

 

cool, I have no idea where that is, but it could work.

 

This sounds like fun...wish I was closer.

 

I work nights, gotta work the night before that date and the night of the 20th, so we shall see.

 

may be able to go in the afternoon.

 

I work the night before and the night of, so we shall see.

 

This Saturday 3rd gen meet at the Quaker Steak and Lube in St. Pete. at 11am.

 

my phone number is 7192313776, give me a text sometime. May be able to go

 

anybody in the Eustis, Mt. Dora, Tavares or Leesburg area off this weekend if y’all want to meet up.

 

Any of you FLA guys recognize this car ? I bought it from a guy in Tampa back in April. Trying to figure out who the original builder was.
Thanks

 

Nope, but I wish I could have bought those wheels from you before you took it up to Mass.

 

This will make you sick to your stomach. It was sitting right here when I picked it up.

 

SBCNX20, looks to be walking distance from my in-laws. How did I never see this car? Did they just build it and sell it or never drive it? You sell those wheels yet?

 

I had seen that car a few times. Quite nice.

There is a nice red late 80'd Formula in Lakeland. I see it parked on Edgewood in a small plaza quite often.

 

Yes, I see that car sometimes too. That person works in one of those businesses in the plaza. I was headed down Florida south of the parkway(heading towards Mulberry) and saw 2 clean third gens. One coming out of a carwash(white vert camaro) and another headed north bound past me. They had to have seen each other.

 

There Are two white convertible 3rd gens running around. One has stripes though. The one guy has a friend with a red 3rd gen.They used to go to the little Friday night thing on South Florida Ave. I haven't been to any of the new locations since they got stopped from going to the lot outside of Denny's.

 

I've seen that one around too. There's a nice black one that runs around too. Don't see many nice Camaros.

 

Where are you located?

If you see a NBM 4th Gen SS with chrome 5 spokes and loud, that's probably me. I don't have it out much but once in a while I stretch it's legs.

 

It's got an LS in it? I think I've seen you at the Lakeland Cruisers show when it was at Big Lots.

I'm in south Lakeland.

 

I'm on the north side and I've never been to a show outside a Big Lots.

Yes, mine has an LS. It's a 5.3 sleeved and stroked to 440ci.

 

I'd say that wasn't you then lol.

You should come out to the Lakeland Cars and Coffee, it's every first Saturday of the month at the airport.

 

I've been meaning to hit that up, just never have. Thanks for the reminder.

 

BTW, I never realized there was a Big Lots there. I have been before, I think twice with the SS. Usually I had a different car.

 

I've gone to it the last couple of times. Good thing to attend if you have a lot of stuff to do over the weekend but still want to include something car related.

 

Hope everyone is out of harms way down there!

 

As of right now, it's still happening this weekend. Saturday 8AM-10AM.

 

Everyone ok?

 

Saw on fb this one got hammered

 

TTOP350, there are a few members here that are in the Ft. Myers/Naples area. For us a couple hours north it was just a lot of wind. I only had a couple small limbs fall and just a messy yard. I just got power back on about an hour ago.