Winter mods......

[Batman]

What have you all got on the menu for this winter? FOr a change I don't have much (if i can make it to Island and back Sunday the car will have been running ALL YEAR LONG! And I'm not racing so I have a 50/50 chance!). Here is my list:

-Looser torque converter, mine is just way too tight, it has to be hurting the transmission, and I am going to up the stall to either 3200 or 3600
-Shocks/springs. 150 track passes and 40,000 miles have finally worn out my stockers. I am actually leaning toward the Edelbrocks, not a big fan of adjusting shocks and the cars I have driven with the Edelbrocks handle great and are still cutting awesome 60's at the track.
-Rebuild the rear My Posi is starting to make some noise and I want to put in higher gears, the 4.10's are killing me with the A4 so it is goingto be 3.55's or 3.42's going in and a detroit true-trac.
-Tires Tires Tires! I need some new rear street tires and a whole set of race tires.

Don't know if I will have the cash for all of it, the converter and street tires are the only real priority right now.

So what are you guys up to?

[WildBillyT]

1.) Replace passenger rocker panel
2.) Notch and box out rear frame rails
3.) Install Mini-Tubs and rear wheel houses
4.) Install rear quarters

[BonzoHansen]

For the 77

*T56 & aluminum driveshaft <--who wants to loan me a lift & a garage for 2 weeks, LOL
*Bilstein shocks
*New exhaust
*Clean up stuff I didn;t touch last year. Like the back of the car.
*Fix little bugs from getting it back on the road.

[baddest434]

1) buy new slicks
2) install 2nd stage of nitrous
3) install wheelie bars
4) install parachute
5) change center section gears

[The Fixer]

For the Monte -

1. New headliner and upper doorpanels
2. New brake lines and adjust rear brakes
3. Install Walbro fuel pump and re-route the feed line and filter

For the Jeep -

1. Put the winter wheels/tires on in November
2. Maybe a Dynomax cat-back and new O2 sensors if the budget allows

[Untamed]

1. Pull engine block plug / reinstall engine temp sending unit
2. Finish swapping gfx
3. New tires
4. Tune
5. Get reg and insurance put back on
6. Inspection
7. DRIVE!!!!

[camaro2you]

86-get it back halfed, tubbed, 10 point cage, get engine bay painted, dash in and the interior wired.
98-stall, tranny cooler, b&m shifter, rebuild trans, new tires, finish berger panel.

[JW]

Save Money.... basically anything after Christmas I will be saving hopefully and maybe spend some on the car. If I don't buy a bike first which will probably happen!

JW :D

[bad64chevelle]

Chevelle-put the motor back together, the 4speed in, redo the firewall, some ET Streets, and break it in (hopefully not just break it) before ocean city

Truck-2-3" lift, finish my brush guard, off-road lights on it, and pray I can make it to 200,000 miles :-)

[79T/A]

Blasting, welding, and priming in the hopes of having a primed rolling chassis by Spring!

[MonmouthCtyAntz]

Get something ill enjoy driving in by summer. Either it be a stang or fbod. Still weighing out pro's and cons :confused:

[Blackbirdws6]

No real mods I'm looking into right now. However, I would like to clean up my engine bay and get that looking right. I need to paint the inner portion of the rear brake discs because they are rusty looking.

Mods Left to the car that I want:
12-bolt rear
shocks/springs
better front brake setup

Money is the only thing holding me up right now.

-brian

[maroman88]

hmm, no money and no place to work on my cars in the cold months = no mods. maybe if we have a warmish winter some cleaning will be in orderer, maybe polish the LT1 manifold

[MonmouthCtyAntz]

hmm, no money and no place to work on my cars in the cold months = no mods. maybe if we have a warmish winter some cleaning will be in orderer, maybe polish the LT1 manifold

Yea thats why when I get what I want Im gonna have a grand to throw at it right away...Im narrowed down to either a 4v stang (new egde Cobra or mach) or a LS1. That should get either moving enough to hold me for awhile.

[BonzoHansen]

Get something ill enjoy driving in by summer. Either it be a stang or fbod. Still weighing out pro's and cons :confused:

What is to weigh? Ls1s are awsome. Mustangs stink. LOL

[JL8Jeff]

Mods for which car?

- I hope the 69 Z28 makes enough progress to be completed next year!
- If I keep the 70 SS396 I need to do some wiring/alternator fixes and would like to find a decent carb for it. It could really use some new valve seals too.
- I just grabbed a set of headers for the 2000 SS so if I can time things out well I might be able to get them on before winter. It's the daily beater so I can't have too much down time with it.

[WayFast84]

Get the car to js for him to finish everything including, long tubes,th350 stall, and sfc's

[Fast92RS]

1) recover from back injury :-x
2) install engine
3) install trans

[cdubbzz]

1. Cash the year end bonus from work (thanks CDW!!!!!)
2. Send trans to Six Speeds Inc for Stage 3 setup
3. Get FAST intake ported by Tony Mamo
4. Install Fast Toys ram air
5. Replace the M/T tires
6. Try to hit a 10sec pass and exceed 125mph

[Mike]

1. clutch
2. cage
3. kmember/a-arms/ manual steering rack
4. abs delete
5. more agressive tune

all in an attempt at the ls1tech stock internal m6 record :)
oh yeah, and to be competitive in pure street with stock internals :P

[ar0ck]

1. Clean up & "finish" the interior
2. Stainless Stepped Headers
3. Pay bills
4. Save money
5. Maybe upper & lower A-Arms

The Camaro as far as I am concerned is pretty much finished performance wise. I just want to replace those rusty headers & save some money.

[qwikz28]

1. Fix valvetrain!
2. Fix rear!

and wait till spring!!!!!

[procamaroz28]

1-finish 9" rear
2-headers
3-corbeau seats and rear seats re-leatered/suede
4-possible supercharging???!!!!????!!!!

[Ian]

adjustable upper control arms
solid lower control arm bushings
IROC steering box
new steering linkage
Hotchkis suspension
hopefully get an engine wiring harness
1LE front brake conversion
maybe S10 rear brake conversion....maybe


hopefully I'll have most of the car done for spring so I can drop the motor and trans in and drive it.

*edit

and for the Jeep

new rear brakes
new shocks

[BonzoHansen]

adjustable upper control arms
solid lower control arm bushings
IROC steering box
new steering linkage
Hotchkis suspension
hopefully get an engine wiring harness
1LE front brake conversion
That sounds familiar.....

[Teds89IROC]

Camaro:
-new weather stripping for the doors
-take care of some rust due to crappy weather stripping on doors
-new inner rocker panels
-paint underside
-install SFC's
-moog/spohn front end rebuild (prob. early Dec.)

T-Bird:
-fix driver side fender and repaint the nose (color is off from a previous repair)

[84HOtransam]

for the T/A

electric water pump
move alt
finish exhaust (ive had the parts for a year just no time)
maybe some front springs
clean up underhood wiring
sell extra parts


for the bike

finish repairing rightside upper and lower fairing(90% done already)
paint front end
hid head light

[deadtrend1]

Main thing is I wanna start body work on the 86 once it gets bad outside. That way I wont have anything to do and can devote time to the car.

as for a shopping list.....
The 4th gen:
a set of DR's
3.90 or 4.10 rear

Thirdgen:
Tubular K and A-Arms
Interior parts (headliner, carpet, doorpanels)
Tranny rebuild
New rearend

Silverado:
New plugs, wires and trans filter. Bought all this a while ago and never installed them. :lol:

Bike:
Maybe a different style seat, or some chrome pieces but nothing much. Its just going to sit on the battery tender.

Daily saturn:
Tires brakes and a muffler.

[Pampered-Z]

Hopefully the 383 will be fixed by spring. For now the stock shortblock is almost reinstalled.

Might have a line on a bigger Supercharger?

Also redoing most of the wiring harness to clean up the engine bay.

And my wife just did the delete Ford mod! Traded in the POS escape for a new trailblazer! Of course, that does mean less mod money for the Z....

[Ian]

That sounds familiar.....

hey, it works.

[NJSPEEDER]

new clutch, freshen trans, and lots of bolt ons. i would like to get into some chassis upgrades too.

[MonmouthCtyAntz]

What is to weigh? Ls1s are awsome. Mustangs stink. LOL
Not brand specific here love both, Mach's run very similar to Ls1's and terminators will crush them. Ive had 2 Lt1's and a Ls1 just thinking its time for a change.

[Batman]

Not brand specific here love both, Mach's run very similar to Ls1's and terminators will crush them. Ive had 2 Lt1's and a Ls1 just thinking its time for a change.

You might get a Mach that run with a 98-00 LS1, but I've never seen a Mach in the 12's stock. The only car I've seen run with them stock is the 03-04 Cobra. What the hell is a Terminator mustang? Get which one you want to get, don't let us knuckle heads jade you.

[MonmouthCtyAntz]

You might get a Mach that run with a 98-00 LS1, but I've never seen a Mach in the 12's stock. The only car I've seen run with them stock is the 03-04 Cobra. What the hell is a Terminator mustang? Get which one you want to get, don't let us knuckle heads jade you.
Mach's run the same times as LS1's including 00-02's, they just dont trap as high. Dont see many 6spd ls1's running 12's stock either. Terminator mustang is a 03-04 Cobra...Think John Colleti head of SVT came up w/ it.

[unstable bob gable]

T-Type: Install new fuel pumps and fuel tank. Bleed brakes. Get it running and ship it out to Savitske's to have the front end sorted out, and have a bunch of other things done that I don't feel like doing. Also looking into new flat black paint job with skull/barbed wire graphics.

AMX: Take care of belt throwing problem, finish wiring up electric fans, and get it back into storage.

Cavalier: Install headers, Random Tech cat, and Borla exhaust. Play with tuning via HP Tuners.

[BonzoHansen]

T-Type: Install new fuel pumps and fuel tank. Bleed brakes. Get it running and ship it out to Savitske's to have the front end sorted out, and have a bunch of other things done that I don't feel like doing. Also looking into new flat black paint job with skull/barbed wire graphics.

AMX: Take care of belt throwing problem, finish wiring up electric fans, and get it back into storage.

Cavalier: Install headers, Random Tech cat, and Borla exhaust. Play with tuning via HP Tuners.

Cool, you're sending ot over to Marcus? Nice.

[procamaroz28]

terminator stangs are nasty this guy i used to work with that had his pushing 630+ to wheels and he drove it on street he did cams pully swap full SLP kit and tune

[procamaroz28]

but still take LS1 over that b/c much lighter N/A motor, could be supercharged to to make better results, better handling car although i think stang is built better but make sure ur ready to take care of the rear and thats on both cars b/c ford's IRS sucks alot more than GM's 7.5"

[unstable bob gable]

Cool, you're sending ot over to Marcus? Nice.

Yeah, hopefully he'll take it. lol

[Jclt12003]

I have a HUGE list of things i am doing this winter once i get my motor back from the machine shop. Prep and paint subframe, Assemble motor, electric water pump, new motor mounts, and then put subframe back under car. Redo front brakes drilled and slotted and new pads. If anyone is up for taking a ride up to hackettstown this winter and lending a hand at some point feel free to PM me.

Jason

[NJLT1SS]

Doing a sinle plane conversion/Wilson elbow/90mm TB conversion. Getting a dyno tune in the spring. Might change the oil pan, and go with a Canton.

[Tru2Chevy]

!stuck in driveway

- Justin

[GP99GT]

1. get some money back in my bank account
2. get a new ECU
3. ???
4. profit

[WayFast84]

1.save money
2.Have josh finish everything :)
3. pay for it all
4. start saving for 12 bolt

[Knipps]

figure out my heat issue.
maybe pass inspection :lol:

[procamaroz28]

who needs inspection i cleaned off my sticker, when i get pulled over i say new windshield lol+ i got no front plate so when cop sees me from front and see no inspection and no plate they most likely assume out of state why bother

[band77one]

im not doing much to the camaro this winter, im focusing on my truck this time around haha, and im starting this week!

New Grille, Lights, Bumper, Air Dam, Front Fenders, Doors, Cowl Hood and the bed is getting a new fender, tailgate and rollpan, also getting exhaust.

[Anti_Rice_Guy]

None for either vehicle at this point

[NumberTwo]

Install the HSR I have sitting here and if the funds allow it buy and install a tubular K with A-Arms. Redo all bushings.

[Teds89IROC]

Install the HSR I have sitting here and if the funds allow it buy and install a tubular K with A-Arms. Redo all bushings.


post up how that HSR compares to TPI. I know it'll raise your RPM and powerband but at the same time it'll distribute your power more evenly so you won't have that gut wrenching low end torque...at least so I've heard. I'm just curious because I'd like to throw together a 400 sbc I have with the HSR or possibly upgrade the TPI and just use the HSR again later down the road.

[NumberTwo]

Will do. I plan on taking it to Crazy Horse in South Amboy to have it dyno'd before I do the install. The car sat for a good while and is in dire need of a tune up. TPZ's best time with it was 13.5 on DR's. I bought it, put gas in it and ran a 13.8 on old dryrotted Kuhmo 712's. One plug boot is ripped and it arcs here and there. She's been kinda neglected the last few years so I figure Ill get a base pull, then do a tune up, HSR and anything else I can afford over the winter.

[Teds89IROC]

Nice! When I looked at your avatar I thought the car looked familiar and now reading "TPZ", your name "NumberTwo" came to me as well...NE3G :lol: What work is done to it, I forgot.

[NumberTwo]

Its all in the VBGarage thing. Basically bolt ons and suspension.

[band77one]

i have a tpi motor ill be bumping to a heads/cam 355 and going to work the tpi, may i ask what HSR is ?

[NumberTwo]

Holley Stealth Ram.

[Mike]

Hopefully the 383 will be fixed by spring. For now the stock shortblock is almost reinstalled.

Might have a line on a bigger Supercharger?

Also redoing most of the wiring harness to clean up the engine bay.

And my wife just did the delete Ford mod! Traded in the POS escape for a new trailblazer! Of course, that does mean less mod money for the Z....

what ya doin with the smaller supercharger ???

[Pampered-Z]

what ya doin with the smaller supercharger ???


You want to be first in line? it will be for sale, just the blower and brackets and stuff, but not a complete kit, it will need some piping and no intercooler. Probably won't happen too soon, not for a few months.