I have a 1982 Z28 with the 16" IROC rims. They look good, but I would like to have center caps that say nothing, or Z28 (preferred). I don't want the IROC logo since it doesn't match and its not an IROC. Does anyone know where I could purchase these? Or perhaps ideas of how to make my own?

 

camarocentral.com or hawksthirdgenparts.com maybe rickscamaro.com

 

As far as I know, no one manufactures anything like that.

JamesC

 

http://www.hawksthirdgenparts.com/ca...Wheel-Centers/

 

I don't believe any of those will fit an IROC 16" wheel. If so, please confirm.

JamesC

 

I have Z28 badges on my 16" IROC rims, the PO did it somehow.. i'll take a look and see if i can figure out what he did.


Yes, weird to have Z28 badges on IROC rims on a RS..

 

I appreciate the response, and please let me know how you got those Z28 badges on your iroc rims. Something like that would be great.

 

im not sure but it seems to me that they are just glued into place, maybe hawks customer service? im sure they can either help or point in the right direction

 

They clip in, but I'm not against a red neck fix if it comes down to that.

 

what color are your current iroc z badges on the wheels

 

Mine appear to be glued on, looks like some kind of epoxy.

If you want pics just let me know.

 

Don't have any center caps. I am just looking for some and all I could find was the IROC logos for my rims.

 

Seeing the parts of the cap may be helpful. Check post #6:

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/body...nter-caps.html

JamesC

 

Which wheels do you have? the 85-87 style or the later style?

I had a set of the early wheels that I sold because of the lack of any cap availability other than IROC caps. Didn't want to put those on my RS

 

'86 as stated in the Title

 

Well shoot, I read the thread a couple time to look for that information and totally missed it in the title

 

You can kinda see a little bit of epoxy squeezed out the one side.


I keep meaning to take the Z28 ones off of mine, need to just get some bowties or something.

 

So where did you get those Z28 badges? Are they badges from the 15" wheels just epoxied onto the IROC rims. I am good with this solution, I just need to know what will fit.

 

I do vaguely remember the guy I bought them from saying something about taking the covers off of some other rims and gluing them on. It's been several years though.


If they'll come off i'd just trade you for yours.. lol


They should clean up and look good, i'll have to take a better look though.

 

Is this what you are looking for? http://www.gmsportssalvage.com/?q=node/781

I've seen them on Ebay too. I'd be interested in your old ones too.

 

those are for the 15" wheels with the black plastic caps. too large for the center caps of the iroc wheels

 

Mine will pop right out so if the OP wants them just PM me...

 

I don't have any on them currently, nor do I own them so trading isn't an option.... Sorry

 

I've been searching for something like this for a while myself. With IROC rims on my sport coupe, a centre cap with no logos is my preference.
One thing I've considered is to have a machine shop produce some from aluminum bar stock. The bar could be turned down to the appropriate O.D. and then parted off at a reasonable thickness. Sort of like a solid aluminum "slug" or disc.
Epoxy would then be the way to go.
I'm just not sure what a shop might charge to slice off four discs though. You would think it wouldn't be much more than what a used set of OEM caps is selling for on E-Bay. Around 60 bucks.

 

I found a solution that worked well for me (only took me 2 years to find something I liked) and if no logo is what you want skinny z than I found a good solution for that as well. Only thing is you will have to install stang parts on your camaro....

I took these center caps (6.99 a piece): http://www.americanmuscle.com/silver...enter-cap.html

and put a 2-1/4" dia. Z28 decal from a 1996-2002 10 spoke rim (10.99 for 4).

I cut off the tabs on the back since it clearly won't snap in and just put a touch of epoxy on them. They fit nice and tight and this is what it came out like.

 

nice tip! a chevy bowtie would look nice too

 

I went through the same dilemma. I wanted IROC wheels, but not to badge them as one. I took the center piece out of the caps and got 4 chevy cruze center caps. Ground the lip off that was crimped around the plastic and the metal face fit perfect inside the old cap. I used stuff called e6000 to glue them, though I cut them so tight it prolly did not need it. It's not easy getting a perfect circle, but that was my solution.

 

dude.....



but.. those caps wouldn't work on the wheel we are talking about. The 85-87 cap size is different than the 88-90

 

I'll tell you what. If I had to cut a perfect circle they wouldn't look like that!

 

thanks. I searched around a lot for stickers and all the other options of caps that fit for a while. Then the wife had a cruze rented when some idiot Tboned her charger and I got to looking at them and did some measurements........

 

Actually I have a bench sander, and once you cut all the way through the aluminum shell, it was almost dead nuts on the size. Just go slow and be careful.

Edit; Sorry just saw the different size quote. Anywho, gives you another option to think about. Measure and check around on other cars.

 

I like the look of the both of those. Those Mustang caps are cheap too. Did you have to modify them like the Cruz caps were?