i tried to post my info and a pic of my car but had some problems. can someone help me please?[IMG]my ride[/IMG]

 

i see the pic

that's the first car i've seen those stripes on that actually looks good

 

thanks, i didn't know if i liked it at 1st but they have grown on me and i like to be a little diffrent, the wheels are 17 inchRW's there white and i think they really pull it all together.

 

side view

 

those wheels kinda remind me of the borbets... but yours are 6 spoke... ahhhh i really don't like 6 spoke wheels but those look ok

 

yeah, i wasn't sure about 6 spoke, and i love the 5 spoke but thats what everyone seems to have now

 

sweet camaro. the white rims your considering would look amazing on that car

 

pic

 

how much did they sting you for the 4th gen seats in your camaro? if you don't mind me asking

 

sweet ride. looks like its in great shape. welcome to the board

 

thanks, I took the walk around view of your car a couple nights ago, it's pearl paint, correct? looks sweet

 

welcome to the board Neighbour!! hahaha When I see your car around again we will have to chat...

Hey guys this guy was told by a So called Automotive Specialties shop that you CAN'T mod TPI engines!! hahahahahahaha

Welcome man

 

I'm not actually sure what exact colour my car is to be honest.

 

I feel alot better about my car now i found this site. possitive info for a change

 

it looks pearl, there was a guy in my town who had pearl paint on his car and it cost a fortune. you didn't paint it, i assume

 

yea just bought it already painted this past Feb. Doesn't pearl paint of like a gassy gloss or soemthing when you look at it closeup?

 

thanks, can't waite to check out your ride

 

I'm not sure how to tell exactly, other then the actual colour, and yours sure looks pearl, even more so with the white car parked behind yours. is there metalic flecks in your paint? some angles it looks bright white and others not so, i think it's the light on the camera, is there a yellowish tinge to it?

 

no metalic flecks...

 

nor yellowish tinge

 

maybe it's not pearl, you would think whoever sold it would have made a point of it, if it was i mean. looks good either way

 

Welcome..Nice Bird! There are some pretty fast TPI's round here, so dont' you worry

 

yeah, I noticed. This is great. I should mention that i have done a bit to my motor. things like-sdpc vortec manifold base, upgraded vortec heads,1.6 roller rockers,LT4 hot cam,SLP large tube runners,It's set up for NOS but i've never tried it. 8 point roll cage(due to a favour someone owed me)I also have a 1000cfm throttle body to install, that's all i can think of right now. I took the build up from a magazine, and it worked good. have a few bugs to work out still

 

blueandwhite what pistons are you running is it stock or have you up greaded them too?

also have you had a change to run your car at the track with that set up?

 

I left the bottom end as the car has low kms for the year. I noticed when we had it tore down the guy befor me had a comp cam in it so i was looking at everything and the pistons were flat top, i pressume stock. have yet go to the track but the car feels twice as strong as before. no regrets

 

oh, i should add that i smoked a supercharged GTP, twice he wanted to try. I'm not sure of the horsepower of those things but thats all i have to compare it to right now.(just for some kind of power indication)

 

Welcome to the show! Looking forward to seeing you at the track!

Bob

 

Welcome!

 

Great looking car and welcome.

Whoever told you that you can't mod TPI engines is right. Just let them all keep thinking that

 

Welcome.

 

weeeeeellllllcccccooooooooommmmmmeeeeee

 

Welcome to the boards, always good to see another thirdgen enthusiast.
:lala:

 

thanks, and i had no idea there were so many of us(3rd gen enthusiats). GLAD TO BE HERE

 

Why are your racing stripes on the passenger side? Nice ride anyways.

 

it's just something diffrent and thats why i like it. some like it,some don't. can't please all the people all the time you know. thanks for the compliment

 

Welcome to the board. I like the look of those stipes. Are they painted on or are they vinyl?

 

the stripes are vinyl and i like your car! it reminds me of one i lost in a head on

 

Thanks, it needs some body work right now. I have been thinking about picking up another hood and try some airbrushing. I have an airbrush kit kicking arund here somewhere. Your old TA looked great, I like those style of headrests you had. Too bad you lost it. I know for a fact that my car has been in a bad accident, although nothing is coming up in the GM or Carfax reports. It was pieced back together from a donor car. Oh well, what can ya do, just try and take care of it I guess.

 

the seats in the red one are recaro's and i kept them cause i know they were from the factory and i think only issued that year(1986) and my blue one is starting to blister on the windshield pillar and the wing is toast(same as the red one did) if that makes you feel any better

 

here are a couple shots of my interior, i did all the work myself including hand stiching the steering wheel and covering the roll bar. the dash pad is to much and will be black again

 

next shot

 

last one

 

Hehehe, you gotta love the T/A aerowing spoilers, heh. Mine is the same. I am almost thinking of putting on the older style spoiler.

 

Very nice work on the interior!!!!:hail:

 

yeah, I'm undecided what to do. I thought about the camaro wing(not sure who's car this is)?

 

thank you, it was allot of hard work and i'm glad someone likes it

 

I am sure it was alot of work, I can appreciate the time and effort that went into that interior. I've been professionally detailing for over 10 years now. I do have to agree the dash pad is a bit to much, not much! But a bit.

 

have you ever recovered a steering wheel? you couldn't pay me enouph to do another one. is there a trick to it? I cut the old stuff off and measured from that, then i had like 20 feet of thread and a needle at each end of it. I stiched it like you would lace shoes measured and marked all the way around where to stich(1mm from dot to dot)so the stich pattern would be the same. it had to be the same from the edge of the material to the stich as well. what a PITA.

 

Your interior looks like what a TA like that should have had from the show room.

Kinda like the TA's of a few years ago that were white with blue stripes and the same theme on the interior.

Good job!

tj

 

exactly, that's where i got the door pannel idea from and i wanted to do the seats but it was to much money for the white leather so i did what you see now instead. I still wish i did it the other way though and just had the white face gauges with the rest of the dash being black, white seats and doors the same as they are now without the top trim being white