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Old 09-21-2011, 08:20 PM   #6
Blacdout96
 
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My name is Jeff Conover, and this is my 1996 Camaro. I've been the owner since 2004, and since then has had quite an upgrade in suspension, performance, and appearance. It sports ZR1 replica rims with C5 Corvette Front brakes and LS1 rear brakes, with the rear brakes sitting on a rear housing 4:10 gears purchased from JS Performance, and a T/Z housing cover. It has an SS replica rear wing, shortie antenna, blacked out rear tail lights, and front turn signals, and Grand Sport replica red stripes only on the driver side.

Suspension wise, it has 3-Point sub frame connectors, with tubular lower control arms in the rear, an adjustable pan hard bar, and strut tower brace. It was lowered using Bilstein shocks and Eibach 1.0 lowering springs, and does use the special brackets for the rear lower control arms to recenter them. It feels like steering a boa when the 16.9:1 ratio steering rack is in there, so I put a stop to that by installing a LS1 FE4 14.4:1 ratio, and never looked back. Lastly, to prevent this thing from swaying side to side, I installed a pair of 35mm/25mm sway bars

Drive train wise it has an LS1 aluminum 1 piece drive shaft, which replaced the 25lbs. two-piece drive shaft. To help it breath a little better, an SLP Cold Air Intake system, a polished upper intake to take the castings off, and Pace Setter mid length headers were put on, followed by a road racing-style side exiting exhaust, just behind the passenger side door. The EGR was deleted, and light weight push rods were installed to make it a little more rev happy. The A/C was deleted as well.

It is going under the knife as we speak since I now have a company vehicle, and am starting project "Dead Hand", which is a code name for automatic transmission, since you mostly never use your right hand, so I am going to give it work to do, as well as my left leg by making her stick shift. Also, I am back to working on one of the best N/A V6 engines ever created, by fabbing a larger capacity oil pan I had left over from my previous engine, and a special one off intake that I am designing, along side finishing up the A/C delete panel ( I know Sweet, I'm getting there!!!)

And a big thanks to Alex Quiles for doing my photo shoot a few years back, and I've still yet to have a decent pic taken of my car since then.
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