Cascade Crew

lostinconformiti · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:44 am Post subject: my poor paint

so my paint on my car has started cracking and flaking off here and there (mostly where there is fiberglass... Evil or Very Mad

) so i decided id take a few pictures for you guys to show you how my paint used to look when this car first entered my family. just kinda sucks because i wash my car by hand and i notice it more and more every time.

my Ground FX are all the color on the left along with my headlight buckets and the section on the hood (i have the z28 hood)

rest of the car is this color

and the iroc-z taillights i picked up off of bob for 20 bucks for 2 sets.

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:50 am Post subject:

Still looks good in pictures Smile

ps, do you happen to have another set of those tail lights?

~JAKE

lostinconformiti · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject:

ya i got another set but one corner has a chip, its real small ill take some pics and pm them to you.

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject:

Hey i'd like to see some more pics of that thing! I really like how it looks!

~JAKE

lostinconformiti · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject:

here are some more for you. sorry its really dirty in a few, i had just come back from my dads house when i took them. (he lives on a gravel road). oh and that is me when i was 17 in the last picture. i look so young. lol.

(note these last too are really old)

HONDASLAYER · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject:

WOW....Your car looks exactly like my car.....Just....in better shape and been taken care of alot better....... Yours makes mine look like a piece of $h!+.. Laughing

lostinconformiti · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject:

ya mine looks ok but doesnt look all that great up close. only in pictures... and from a distance. lol.

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject:

Hey i LOVE the hood! Some others will agree that it is the best looking hood on camaros. Its good to see another one that looks good and being taken care of on the road. Keep up the good work! Thumbs up

~JAKE

lostinconformiti · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:45 am Post subject:

funny part is the hood is one of the 3 places i would say needs to be repainted the most. along with the nose and the rear bumper cover. (and anything else fiberglass GRR). oh well. lol it has to stay these colors though.

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject:

I dig the 'glass hoods as well.

Mine's not in too good of shape, but hey, it was free (Thanks Rod! Smile

)

lostinconformiti · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 11:51 am Post subject:

ya it our cars look pretty good with the glass hood. cant wait to get the exhaust, headers, and cam i picked out for it (has a 83 5.0 liter HO engine in it) should put down a good bit more power. i kinda want to do the t-5 or t-56 swap to it though, stupid 700r4 out of an 83 trans am with its 1:1 last gear. other than that it just needs some little things fixed like the drivers side window still....

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:40 pm Post subject:

if your last gear is 1:1 you probably don't have a 700r4. Its probably like a TH-200c or something.

lostinconformiti · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:02 pm Post subject:

i was under the impression that early 700r4's had 1:1 as the last ratio.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject:

I'd like to know the answer to this one too. I've always been lead to believe 700R4 is an OD trans. Even the 200R is an OD.

How many gears does the trans have?

chevymad · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:12 pm Post subject:

Early cars got 3 speed autos. I think they were th200-c's. The C stands for a lockup convertor. It's a lighter weight transmission then the th350. This is not the same as a 200-4r. A 200-4r is a reworked th200 with a 4th gear od, hence the 4r designation. All 700r4s are 4spd OD trannys. Hence the 4 designation again.

lostinconformiti · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:22 pm Post subject:

im pretty sure its 4. and that my rear gears are 3.73's (based off of the gears equation on thirdgen) on the freeway at 60mph im at 3000 rpms. car tops out at 110.

chevymad · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject:

Is the indicator D21 or OD321?

chevymad · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:37 pm Post subject:

According to TGO 82s had the 200c transmission and then in 83 the 700r4 was introduced. 700r4 would still have overdrive though.

iansane · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

lostinconformiti · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

indicator is D321, well now im really confused why is my car at 3K at 60?