Yes, in case you all noticed. Every possible thing was change on both cars right down to the clusters (hence why my camaro now has 150mph cluster)
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Yes, in case you all noticed. Every possible thing was change on both cars right down to the clusters (hence why my camaro now has 150mph cluster)
My camaro now. No other mods are being thought about, car will remain badgeless (no z28 emblems) love the sleeper look and yes it has caught a few cars off guard!
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I know many 3.8 guys say hey I gave a z28 one heck of a hard run! Well sorry to burst your bubble, when my camaro was a 3.8 it even had the 3.42 disc rear with y87 3800 series2 performance package.
There IS JUST no comparisson my camaro seems radically faster now, handling wise again no comparison. Fuel mileage wise the 3.8 provided marginally better economy though.
While no outside appearance changes will be done or needed on my camaro hers is another story.
Remember it had black rims? Those have been stripped and repainted
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We also changed the hatch and trunk lifts on her car. Got all it idiotic bubba'ed HID lights that were electrical taped into the stock light housing and then baling wired in place fixed.
We went to 2 junk yards and found every possible thing to put the lights (including driving lights) back to original including all factory light retainers.
spent about 160.00 on everything
high price yes but she complained as well about the painted flat black ugly mirrors. How to fix it? Well we lucked out and found to very nice gloss black mirrors on a 2000
Before
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after
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Our next plan with the camaro's, take them both to Irwindale and race together for fun.
Here is my camaro all cleaned up
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Wow man... great write up, amd make the swaps look so easy.
Great Job!!!
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Was actually pretty easy, took me about 4 weeks to do everything. But much easier when you have a donor car, I just got lucky is all and found my donor car for a grand. We have finally done some spirited driving with the two cars, needless to say my old drivetrain in her car doesn't fair well against the LT1.Quote:
Originally Posted by popo8
Handling has also improved considerably, every z28 suspension part was used in this swap as well.
Gas mileage wise it averages about 3-4 mpg less then the original 3.8 on day to day fill ups. I haven't had the opportunity to see what it does with freeway mpg though.
There is some I left out, and didn't take pictures of such as the complete abs pump swap, ASR changes etc. But everything possible works as it did in the z28 and you can not tell my camaro didn't come from the factory without a V8 except of course the VIN number.
Glad you all enjoyed the thread, BTW nothing had to be drilled, cut or anything for this swap. All necessary holes for what is relocated in a different spot for the LT1 was already there on my camaro.
So doing some detail type work to my camaro. I bought a LT1 intake manifold to polish for it. I also bought a second 100% complete LT1 intake I will polish up.
Here is after 2 hours of sanding on it.
Has a nice smooth surface but still a lot of sanding to do.
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