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Yes sir, looking forward to getting back out. I moth balled the car a couple years back.. Just fell out of love with it. I had string of nonsense that pushed me over.... Thought about pushing it out in the street and lighting it on fire on numerous occasions.. Once i get a little better tune it ill be out and about.
Next Tampa Bay Third Gen meet is April 16th at 11am at Smokin' Aces in Plant City. It is right off i4, across the street from Stingray Chervolet. Everyone welcome, even if you don't bring a 3rd gen.
I had no idea there were so many third gen owners near me! I live in Sorrento/Eustis and want to pull up to the next local meet, but I have to figure out what do about my blown head gasket first lol. I have a kinda ugly lookin 86 v6 Camaro thats primed and not painted, maybe some of y'all have seen it
I had no idea there were so many third gen owners near me! I live in Sorrento/Eustis and want to pull up to the next local meet, but I have to figure out what do about my blown head gasket first lol. I have a kinda ugly lookin 86 v6 Camaro thats primed and not painted, maybe some of y'all have seen it
Originally Posted by KrisW
I think I might have one of my projects running by then... Hopefully I'll bring a kid with me. We'll see!
Bring em! We have all quality of cars in the group and we enjoy seeing them all.
Happy to report that my car is 96.3% done. I've been driving it around some, had my horrible tint replaced, and currently have the window drip rails off so I can repaint them and put in new upper weatherstrips.
Beyond that my only issues left are all tuning related. I have HPTuners, but need to educate myself more in the art of tuning.
Its definitely running rich, I doubt I've driven more than 100 miles and the oil already smells pretty strongly of fuel.
Already took out what seems like a bunch of fuel for cold start idle, just so it would kinda idle, used to stall after startup.
Originally Posted by 86kittmaro
I had no idea there were so many third gen owners near me! I live in Sorrento/Eustis and want to pull up to the next local meet, but I have to figure out what do about my blown head gasket first lol. I have a kinda ugly lookin 86 v6 Camaro thats primed and not painted, maybe some of y'all have seen it
Yep, couple of us around.
Think I saw your car before when I was still working in Leesburg.
By chance, was it a local shop that told you that your head gasket is bad?
I've learned over the years that some shops will tell people they have a bad head gasket because its a bigger repair and tends scare problem cars/problem customers away if they don't want to deal with it.
Either that, or they mis-diagnose it.
I even have a perfect example of each.
1. Some years ago when I was working as a service advisor at another dealership, we used to have one guy in the shop that would often "cry wolf" and say that a car has been in an accident to try and get out of having to do certain warranty work.
2. When I bought my truck (1997 c1500 pickup), the previous owner told me that his "trusted" mechanic told him the truck had not only a blown head gasket, but also a bad ECM. Yeah, that was BS because all that was wrong was the typical crappy Vortec 350 spider injectors, a new water pump, and a damn fuse for the OBD2 port. Dudes scanner wasn't able to pull codes, and ruled it as a bad computer all because they were too lazy or lacked the knowledge to check the fuses lmao.
Anyways, I'm not on here super often. But if you'd like some assistance/guidance on replacing your head gasket send me a message, I can at least be a useful source of information because I've been there. Replaced the head gasket on my old 4.3 Silverado lol.
I had no idea there were so many third gen owners near me! I live in Sorrento/Eustis and want to pull up to the next local meet, but I have to figure out what do about my blown head gasket first lol. I have a kinda ugly lookin 86 v6 Camaro thats primed and not painted, maybe some of y'all have seen it
new Sanden style compressor and adapter brackets on the way, ac coming soon!
I think I'm going to convert to the Sanden 508 style. The GM R4 pancake style is garbage. I learned this week that the Sanden 508 came on 1987 Jeep Cherokees so I can still pick one up from the parts store.
20th of this month we're meeting in San Antonio, FL and cruising through the twisties into Brooksville. End location will be Glory Days in Brooksville. We usually meet around 10am but I'll update when there is a set time and meet location. These cruises are always a good time.
20th of this month we're meeting in San Antonio, FL and cruising through the twisties into Brooksville. End location will be Glory Days in Brooksville. We usually meet around 10am but I'll update when there is a set time and meet location. These cruises are always a good time.
SBCNX20, looks to be walking distance from my in-laws. How did I never see this car? Did they just build it and sell it or never drive it? You sell those wheels yet?
There is a nice red late 80'd Formula in Lakeland. I see it parked on Edgewood in a small plaza quite often.
Yes, I see that car sometimes too. That person works in one of those businesses in the plaza. I was headed down Florida south of the parkway(heading towards Mulberry) and saw 2 clean third gens. One coming out of a carwash(white vert camaro) and another headed north bound past me. They had to have seen each other.
There Are two white convertible 3rd gens running around. One has stripes though. The one guy has a friend with a red 3rd gen.They used to go to the little Friday night thing on South Florida Ave. I haven't been to any of the new locations since they got stopped from going to the lot outside of Denny's.
I've been meaning to hit that up, just never have. Thanks for the reminder.
I've gone to it the last couple of times. Good thing to attend if you have a lot of stuff to do over the weekend but still want to include something car related.
TTOP350, there are a few members here that are in the Ft. Myers/Naples area. For us a couple hours north it was just a lot of wind. I only had a couple small limbs fall and just a messy yard. I just got power back on about an hour ago.
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