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TurboDiverArt
09-03-2008, 08:59 PM
Hi All,

Just got account activated. Long time Camaro owner that strayed for the past 20 years to own and race Buick Grand Nationals. Sold my old GN racecar to go back to racing Camaro's. Sold GN in my signature to buy the Camaro racecar in my signature about a year ago. Having the time of my life racing a Camaro again. I've owned the show car in my signature for about 25 years, took me about 10 years to complete. Now I'm looking for a nice 1993-1997 3.8L V6 or LT1 stick car to use as a daily driver.

Art.

BonzoHansen
09-03-2008, 09:02 PM
Welcome aboard!

sweetbmxrider
09-03-2008, 09:05 PM
:welcome: whats up!? i have a 95 v6 but its not nice. I don't use it but i don't really know if i want to sell it yet.
ttiwwp

Knipps
09-03-2008, 09:10 PM
:wavey: Welcome!

SteveR
09-03-2008, 09:12 PM
Welcome aboard!

TurboDiverArt
09-03-2008, 09:12 PM
:welcome: whats up!? i have a 95 v6 but its not nice. I don't use it but i don't really know if i want to sell it yet.
ttiwwp

Yeah, I've been trying to post in the classified section. I guess I need to get to a certain post level or allow some amount of time to elapse before I can post in that section.

Art.

SteveR
09-03-2008, 10:35 PM
Yeah, I've been trying to post in the classified section. I guess I need to get to a certain post level or allow some amount of time to elapse before I can post in that section.

Art.

50 posts :)

98CamaroSS
09-03-2008, 11:03 PM
Welcome, that's a nice Camaro you got, lets see some more pics. :nod:

chrisfrom nj
09-03-2008, 11:38 PM
welcome

TurboDiverArt
09-04-2008, 05:00 AM
50 posts :)

Shame, I'll probably have found a car thru other sources before I hit 50 posts! I can see having a post limit for selling stuff but stinks when looking to buy from members. Only board I’ve been on where FS and WTB sections are combined.

Art.

SteveR
09-04-2008, 09:34 AM
Shame, I'll probably have found a car thru other sources before I hit 50 posts! I can see having a post limit for selling stuff but stinks when looking to buy from members. Only board I’ve been on where FS and WTB sections are combined.

Art.

you could make 47 posts of nonsense, thats what most of us do anyway :lol:

usp55
09-04-2008, 09:57 AM
Welcome! The 3.8l were an option mid 95 but your prob gona find a 96 or 97 with the 3.8 and they are all over craigslist for cheap. Any 4th gen before mid 95 was the mighty 3.4

2RARE84s
09-04-2008, 11:51 AM
Welcome! Nice Cars!

baddest434
09-04-2008, 02:37 PM
welcome aboard, nice ride!

NJSPEEDER
09-04-2008, 04:46 PM
:welcome: to the club!

TurboDiverArt
09-04-2008, 07:07 PM
you could make 47 posts of nonsense, thats what most of us do anyway :lol:
I've been known to do that too!

Art.

TurboDiverArt
09-04-2008, 07:08 PM
Welcome! The 3.8l were an option mid 95 but your prob gona find a 96 or 97 with the 3.8 and they are all over craigslist for cheap. Any 4th gen before mid 95 was the mighty 3.4

Yup, I'll find one I know that, just never seems to happen fast enough!

sweetbmxrider
09-04-2008, 07:12 PM
Welcome! The 3.8l were an option mid 95 but your prob gona find a 96 or 97 with the 3.8 and they are all over craigslist for cheap. Any 4th gen before mid 95 was the mighty 3.4

wasn't that only in convertible's? wait no that was dual cat's for cali emissions convertibles? eh whatever

TurboDiverArt
09-04-2008, 07:53 PM
Welcome, that's a nice Camaro you got, lets see some more pics. :nod:

Here's some pics from a trip to E-Town.

TurboDiverArt
09-04-2008, 08:09 PM
Welcome, that's a nice Camaro you got, lets see some more pics. :nod:

Here's one of my baby and the GN I sold but still race.

sweetbmxrider
09-04-2008, 08:11 PM
:drool: those cars are effing nasty!!!!!! nice rides!

usp55
09-04-2008, 09:06 PM
:drool::drool: thanks now i got drool everywhere

sick camaros

BigRocsFirebird
09-04-2008, 09:07 PM
welcome! nice car

V
09-05-2008, 08:11 AM
ive always wanted to build a 3rd gen like that. my power plant was gonna be a sprayed 540.

and i love GNs but the prices are insane, oh well

Fast92RS
09-05-2008, 09:04 AM
Welcome to the club..

Tru2Chevy
09-05-2008, 04:05 PM
Welccome to the club!

- Justin

NJ Torque
09-06-2008, 07:00 PM
Welcome Art.

BTW, This is Chris, Ratboys friend, LOL.

TurboDiverArt
09-06-2008, 07:21 PM
Welcome Art.

BTW, This is Chris, Ratboys friend, LOL.

Hey Chris, I thought that was you. When I was looking through the classifieds on this site I naturally had to look at the only 2 Buick's listed. Only you would list a GN for sale on an F-Body site! :-) BTW - I like your gold one (no I'm not looking for another one!).

Art.

NJ Torque
09-06-2008, 07:44 PM
All these years, we never did meet each other. I do see you driving past work all the time with the Turbo 6 on the truck.

TurboDiverArt
09-06-2008, 08:29 PM
All these years, we never did meet each other. I do see you driving past work all the time with the Turbo 6 on the truck.
Yeah, I think the same thing all the time. I did see you walking to the Camaro one time as I was parked in the lot. I was talking to Artie Chin on the phone otherwise I would have walked over. Next time I see your car in the lot and I have time I'll walk in and say "hi".

Art.

Pro90rscam
09-06-2008, 09:36 PM
Welcome to the club! That is one bad ass 3rd gen man! Wow.
I myself have a Prostreet 90 Camaro that I show,but do not race!
Total opposite of yours. I would love to run it at the track more,but in the past I have and it gets pretty expensive when things start to break.:rofl:

Fire_Chicken92
09-06-2008, 10:38 PM
Welcome! I'm new here too =)

maroman88
09-07-2008, 12:57 AM
welcome

TurboDiverArt
09-07-2008, 07:44 AM
Welcome to the club! That is one bad ass 3rd gen man! Wow.
I myself have a Prostreet 90 Camaro that I show,but do not race!
Total opposite of yours. I would love to run it at the track more,but in the past I have and it gets pretty expensive when things start to break.:rofl:

Yeah, you are correct there. Mine's extremely reliable but it's light like a potato chip, that's the key. My GN was heavy at 3600 with me in it and was going 9.60's at the time. The engine was reliable with only a couple head gaskets letting go once in a while. Everything else on the car never faired too well with the power and weight. Control arm mounts bending and one almost coming through the floor boards, plenty of broken converters and transmissions, U-Joints, etc. My Camaro is only 2450lbs with me in it. Simple 468 stock GM block with a set of heavily ported old Dart 320 heads and a good size cam with about 730 lift. The engine was built to run on methanol with about 17:1 compression but I've always run it on gas. I like the fact that the car is maintenance free, just oil changes about every 50-60 runs, plugs about every 20-25 runs, put in gas and go. If I ran methanol I'd have to drain the tank and purge on gas and that's just too much maintenance. Lots of times I leave the Camaro in the trailer if I know I'm running the next week. To me that's fun and it's really consistent.

We are still trying to figure out why the car is not responding to timing changes. I ran the 8.98 at night, cool weather and a hooking track at only 34-degrees of timing. Plugs look clean with no metal flakes on the porcelain so it's not detonating. We've added as much as 4-degress of timing with no signs of detonating but the car still runs the same number. We've tried different jets and all it does is blacken the plugs but the car run the same numbers. I'm gonna try a friends carb that I know runs well just to see if it makes a difference. Eventually I'll figure it out or I'll dial it down and be happy with 9.2 brackets in the heat and 9.0's in the cool weather. That amount of swing in the weather tells me that something is not right in the tune. A little variation is normal but not 2-tenths. I'll figure it out.

Sorry for rambling!
Art.

Pro90rscam
09-07-2008, 08:18 AM
Thanks for the information about it. Very impressive! That is not rambling,that is what this sight is all about,being able to chat about different things and what we have. That is still a kickass car.
Thanks again!:drool: