ok so i figured id finaly make a build thread for my 2 third gens, anyway heres their stories.

About a year and a half ago me and my bro purchaces camaros, i bought a 1985 IROC z28 and he got a 1991 RS both t tops. after driving 96 miles a day round trip for college the iroc was slowly wearing it self down, wasnt running right, couldnt barely afford gas let alone keep up on maintance, the interior was destroyed when i bought it and still was, needed a tune up bad and a maf sensor, struts and shocks wer shot, tires wer nearly bald and the rear was wining and banging now, so me and my bro talked and we traded, for another six months i drove the RS as he put the work into the iroc that it needed, the trans gave up in the rs and i sold it (still in college and broke).

last December we traded the IROC for for a 1988 Toyota Supra GT 7mgt inline 6 turbo (not my idea was against it) well it blew up on the way home, we parted it out and made our money back and he went on to buy a 1991 GMC Typhoon, now im stuck driving my pos s10, wen on the way to college we found our old iroc sitting on the side of the road with a big puddle of oil and antifreeze under the car, no tags, no radio, no seats, keys in ignition.

So i called the kid up, he blew it up racing it and left it for dead, so i towed it home and got the title back from him


AS OF RIGHT NOW im finaly out of college and working full time, the IROC has received all new interior (minus dash pad and steering wheel), new tires all way around, brakes and wheel bearing, all new pioneer sound system

im about to start pulling the 305 out, i have 2 different 350s, ones a striped down 1991 G20 van block the other is a 4 bolt from a 82 suburban, i have world product torquer 2 67cc heads and a comp cam and lifters and all sorts of goodies, just need to send out the blocks to get checked and honed

the 87 sport coupe i just bought last week for $300, body is rust free with a lil surface rust over the rear wheels, interior is decent too, its a 2.8 auto, i have a 3.1 with 87k miles im puttin in it next week to be me daily driver

 

i was going to post pics but photobucket is acting up, ill try again later tonite, ill update this thread with pics of the entire builds

 

ok well heres some really recent pics of the iroc





1992 G20 van 2 bolt 350








heres the sport coupe i just got it will be my daily driver soon enough









the new 3.1 still in my trucks bed

 

opinions? this thread will be very pic heavy as i do more progress

 

towed the Sport COupe home tonite, gona start pullin the motor saturday

 

i needa get an engine crane >.<

 

got the sport coupe out today and washed her up a bit, get the dirt and crap off her, wishin she ran as good as shee looks

well the 3.1 looks really good other then a lil slope in the timing chain, so im gona go ahead and replace that and the water pump for safety and re gasket the whole thing and clean and paint it, should have it in in the next week er so



any opinion or sugestions are greatly apreciated

 

Your 87S/C looks like a 86 because of the third brake light on the rear hatch.Great buy!I got a 86 bird out here with the stock setup on it.

 

yea i know it looks lik n 86 but thats the original hatch im still confused about it as well

 

ok so oddly enough, i got to see my first camaro today, the blue 90 lik in my screen name! shes totaly trashed now tho got hit real hard in passenger door, and the motors smoking badly and running roungh, and the rust in the floor pan isnt there anymore, because the whole floor pan fell out oh well... but i still miss her, heres a pic








AND while i was up there i picked up the old z28 wheels i had on it for my sport coupe, and ALSO grabed a z28 spoiler which if u look in the pics below its layin on the back hatch lol, got sand and paint it and mount it, sat or sun im also gettin a 85 iroc complete front bumper and either the cowl hood off lil blue or a z28 louver hood, if i get the cowl back it will go on my iroc if i get the z28 hood itl go on the sport coupe

no updates on the 3.1 yet, waitin on next paycheck to get started on buyin the parts i need








and i put better tires on the rear also, i get pics of em tonite, they are way to wide for it and have some dry rot but its better then bald lol

 

heres what lil blue looked like when i sold her to the guy who has her now,





u can see why i miss her, and she was my first, but its ok because thats the color im painting the iroc, the sport coupe im either having down bright red or the original grey/silver color

 

goot a goodmark cowl hood and a z28 bumper tonite. swaping them tomorow, ill post pics,

the z28 bumper i got isnt waved at ALL that i can tell so tomorow im putting it on my iroc and puttin the irocs on the sport coupe along with the cowl hood(until the iroc is road ready then the cowl hood will go on it and the sport will get the louvered hood)

lots of pics will b posted tomorow

 

The blue car looks amazing. Always been a fan of blue chevys... and glad that the IROC I ended up with was blue and repainting it blue.

Look forward to more pics of your two projects.

 

yea lil blue (what we called the blue 90 rs) was really nice, the pics dont do her justice, sadly the 3.1 was very tired and trans was goin, on top of the teh drivers floor pan was rottitng HORRIBLY bad because the t tops hav been leaking LONG LONG LONG time before i owned it

the IROC is going to mimic the 90 rs, i plan on painting it the same blue or original red

but first i must get the Sport coupe running, its suposed to be my daily driver,


ill toss a bunch of pics of the bumper installs tomorow and some pics of the iroc

i should have the 350 for the iroc by mid august, i plan on having the iroc done and driving by holloween, but not painted, ill get it painted next spring... good paint jobs are NOT cheap lol

 

believe it or not, i kept in touch with the guy i sold the blue car to, sadly she was used for parts, BUT the wheels i got for the sport coupe are the ones off lil blue!!! and so is the cowl hood! so i atleast have the wheels and hood from her theyll be on tomorow

 

heres a pic of her today, tomorow shell have a goodmark cowl hood and a z28/rs front end id put the damn z28 spoiler on her to but i cant get the hatch open, no keys for it or the doors

 

and no im not a fan of clones, but for what i paid for the sport coupe, and how GREAT of shape shes in (minus the botom end knock) i couldnt pass it up, and im going ti shave the RS/Z28 badges off the skirts and rear bumper when i get them, i wana see about gettin Custom badges made that say Sport Coupe or something instead, would make it kinda unique

 

 

 

the skirt is not bolted to the fender yet, there wasnt holes for the bolts, ill drill em tomorow and get her finished, along with posibly sanding the bumper and primering it


looks SO much better imo

 

thats one crazy steering wheel.

 

An 87 car without a rear spoiler, like yours, would have still had a hatch mounted third brake light.

 

thats a factory sport coupe/berlinetta wheel bro...

 

Your car is looking good man. My '84 also started it's life as a sports coupe. Now it has all the gfx, bumpers, and rear spoiler from a '91Z. It's currently getting painted. Keep the pics coming. It's looking nice. You could sell your sc front end and get some money for other parts.

 

Yellow lettering on the door leads me to think it came from a yard. Which means the hatch could have as well.

 

no the hatch is original, lik said before spoilerless 87s also got the 86 style 3rd brake light, and yes the door is from a junk yard, was replaced 5-6 years ago off a 86 the same color, so im told. but then it got backed into again so its waffled in the front and the fender isnt original either and its also warped


I WISH IT WAS T TOPS GRRRR! (but thats why i have my iroc too )

 

played with the hood a lil more today, got it to sit perfect, but for som reason it still doesnt align right with the bumper.... neither did the stock hood, its never been wrecked, everything seems to be on right, oh well it doesnt bother me and isnt noticable, ill let my body shop take car of it

 

opinions! ok what ya guys think about this, i have the z28 front bumper and spoiler, i think it looks more agressive without the side skirts, how do u think it looks with just the mean z bumper and spoiler, but keep it side-skirt-less?

 

oh and for tires i have 235/60r15s in front and 255/60r15s out back

 

I wish my t tops was a solid roof lol

 

lol hey trade me, mines in beautiful shape


id honestly sell it in a heartbeat if i found a cleanish heritage edition 1992 t top

 

I like having the car being nice and uniform so if it was me, I would throw on the skirts and the Z28 back bumper as well...

 

i probably will end up doing so after i get the motor finished and in, that is if i dont sell it to buy a t top RS by then, i dont really plan on keepin the sport, i love t tops to much lol

 

Well just make sure you get one that doesnt leak! Also make sure to check the pans and such

 

yea lol i know iv had 5 third gens so far, i dont mind them leaking beacuse thats simple as new seals, but rust on the other hand is a problem


sport coupe might go up for sale soon, iv run acrossed a 92 25th aniversary camaro, for a decent price, price was $1900 they told me $1000 when i called them if i came and got it

SO we shall see, if not ill just keep working on my sport coup

 

what area is this in?

 

bout an hour from my place in delaware

 

pulled most of the accessories and brackets all off of the 3.1, pulled the intakes and fuel rail, gona start polishing/painting the parts i took off,

 

when i get it up on teh stand im gona pull the pan, MAYBE the heads.

 

tuesday im making a trip to DC to pick up my new 2.8 from TGO member Grifter757, to use over the winter while i build up the 3.1

plans for 3.1 are complete tear down and rebuild, posibly bore it a bit if possible, headers, work the heads and port them and the intakes and throttle body then stuff it in by january AFTER i get the 350 in the iroc z first which ill be posting pics of that also within the month or so

 

well i decided i didnt want a hard to f body and if i was gona put $ into another one it has to be t tops so i sold it tuesday for $800, this allowed me to fix the rear in my 454 SS DD, and also buy a new toy

heres my "almost" camaro, its a 1989 Z24, ok dont bust my ***** to much i love these cars, this will be my 4th 2nd gen cavy z24

 

so i did sum looking over the 2.8 in the lil cav, pretty tired, swaping in a 3400 soon, which is much easier in a cav then a camaro because its plug and play!

 

the lil z is coming along great, got her all cleaned up, didnt do much inside because im replacing most of the interior, im grabing a 3.4 (fwd rated 185hp crank, have proven to show 190-210 at the wheels in a cav stock)

heres more pics

 

ok so yes its be quite some time since iv been on here but im back now working on the IROC Z28


as of now im in the slow process of removing the old LB9 from the z28 to make way for the new LB9 with low miles and an LT1 cam

i have pics to post, and yes that includes all the destruction inside the old LB9, i have 2 vidoes and some pics already of the poor blown up penut

 

 

thats what i found when i pulled the valve cover off, the part the bewilders me the most is the missing pushrods....

 

heres a video of trying to crank it

 

been to cold and snowy to really get any work done

got most of the accessories off of the iroc and started undoing the harness, hopefully if the wheater break and i have time ill start pulling the dizz and the rad and intake manifold

still have to prep the new motor as well, the wheather is really slowing things down a bit, wish i had a garage still, oh well

 

not much progress on the z28, just aquiring parts and suchs and finishing the interior


however i may end up with a 91 z28 t top, so now ill have 2 z28s that is hopefully, keeping my fingers crossed

 

looks like shes coming along nicely