Winter Upgrades?
 

I was looking at some parts and planning out what I wanted to get done on my car before spring rolls around and wondered what everyone else was planning.

Stage1 Brakes. C5 fronts, BlaineFab Ducts, braided lines, and new pads(not sure which ones yet)

Stage2 The little things, poly motor mounts, fresh tune up, replace pinion seal(it's a 10bolt, of course it leaks), relocate battery to spare tire well, and whatever other little do-dads I come up with.

Stage3 Suspension finally. LCA's, relo brackets, PHB, shocks, springs, sways.

I am sure I can come up with more ways to spend time/money on the car. Hopefully I can get through this stuff, hopefully I will have a few pennies left over for some other toys or just a few bucks to register wwwaaaayyyyy early for some track days :drive:

So whats your plan?

-Tim

well my plan is to replace broken parts for teh summer upgrades
i got a bad clutch in my cavalier (its not completely there yet but 2nd gear is not healthy)
and the trans am i want to do door hinges, redo the door locks , and start planning some upgrades :)

i am trying to do a c5 z06 upgrade to mine, but thats on the back burner.
hopefully i'll get the opti in and fix my oil leaks :shrug: who knows though?
at least maybe get two more ss 10 spokes and put on my winter wheels.
i want an adjustable panhard bar too but thats like if i come across some spare spare spare money.

You should probably examine the wheel liners on the front of your car seeing that you have a 99 Camaro..
On my 2002 both front wheel liners at the front of the wheel well were molded with an angled flap that has a 1 1/2" gap to allow the air that comes in from the Air deflector that has a a vented grill, " Right below your parking lamps "
It takes that air that passes through and directs the air towards the brakes..
Along with the air passing through the foglight hole in the nose..
On my car I cut another Inch off of that flap on the wheel liner along with I have no front grill, so I bowled out some of the front Impact foam that is underneath the nose to channel more air through the nose..
You just have to be careful with how much you take out of the Impact foam because it also use's that spot to direct air up into the engine bay which fed the factory Intake lid set-up and probably cool the engine bay..

I use this for my front plate it folds and retracks underneath the nose of my car..
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=APR%2D400&N=700+4 294849006+4294847027+115&autoview=sku

Camaro:
- JS Performance Clutch
- Roll fenders

I spent all my money on the motorcycle this year to complete the front end this winter. I wanted to do a C6 Z51 brake conversion, larger front sway bar, upper and lower A-arms & poly bushings all around.

3.73 gears and fix that leak. Some pro mags, install new coil, build 383. :twisted: Little stuff....

I gotta rebuild the motor, send out and install my bilsteins and eibachs, install my LCA relocation brackets and adjustable PHB, and finally install T5 conversion. I also gotta get my one rear together and have my 3.42 with the Zexel LSDi nstalledi n it, these 4:10's are killing me, and I didnt even get to use them at an auto-x yet :(. I want to do the C5 as well, but when I buy I buy the best, adn im not looking to pay almost 300 bucks for the caliper brackets, adn im not gonna go cheap and buy some ebay knockoff that I have to weld together. I wanna make the brackets for my OMP seats, but I dont have a welder, so im SOL on that.

Get a cam in the 98

get my green motor in my caged gn and run 9's next season

t/a.......... another transmission, freshen up the 12 bolt, fab a legal battery box into the bmr basket, 10 pt. cage, new tune

trailblazer.........maybe a 1.5 drop, new tires, dashhawk, new tune

for both, hptuners and details by rich189

BlckdOut96, what problem are you having with the 4.10's? That is a great gear in a 3800 powered car, Little G and 12secondv6 both had them and their cars moved along nicely.

Gas I believe. Back when you disappeared he said it.

KORE3 $100 and they bolt up with the hub. real heavy duty too. well worth it. kore3.com i think

oh it does scuttle along quite nicely, but the gas is gettign sipped up alot more then I expected, tho really i dont care, I have money for teh gas. its just cruising down the parkway at 3000-3500 rpm is what im not too fond of. If I can get to Millville's auto-x sure ill keep them in there for a little longer, but I want my 3.42 for when I drive to Conneticut, or up to north Jersey, that and its nice to have a spare rear.

4.10s never dropped my gas milage too much

The T5 is gonna help lower your revs a little too....slightly better overdrive.

- Justin

:werd: .63 in the T5 vs. .70 in the 4L60-E. With 3.73s and the T5 I turn 2200 rpm at 70 mph with my 245/45 17s.

My plans...

New (built) 23* iron heads
92-octane tune (gonna have to go to The War Room in Livonia outside of Detroit for that...)
Either a bigger single exhaust with better shorty or longtubes, or a true dual setup
Upgraded suspension for solo2
Extra frame reinforcement
(maybe) a new drivers seat ... the old one is squishy
new ball joints
new positrac
new door and hood
valve covers/gaskets
intake
carb

Might take closer to a year ... but whatever it takes. I'll get some of this done this winter, fix the daily driver first, then safety issues, then performance. Also, I need to see what my cashflow situation is like.

Why would you have to go all the way to Detroit for a tune?

Because, they're the best. Besides, I have to head out that way for a friend's wedding - which means I also need to make some passes at the local tracks, and do other car guy stuff while I'm out there. Only people who've been to Michigan can understand about stuff like the Woodward Dream Cruise.

Cool. For the exhaust, go with a big single. I have a 3.5 set up on my 99 and it sounds great. besides, a single 3.5 outflows dual 2.5's and a single 4inch will outflow dual 3's.

-Tim

Get a commuter vehicle, then take the camaro off the road.

Finish prepping body kit for paint, already have fenders hood and hatch, also get doors. Then finish body work and get car into at least primer.

Fix tranny leak, clean up little bits in interior.

Start working on my motor

Pads were a tough decision for me. Great street pads suck on the road course, they overheat easily and fade big time. Great track pads suck on the street, they don't stop when they're cold and need lots of heat before they wake up. Dual-purpose pads suck both on the street and track.

I spoke w/ a Hawk engineer and went with their HPS pads for street use, and HT-10 pads for the track. The material transfer film is compatible between them, so no need to re-bed when using the same rotors. I just swap on the HT-10 pads for track time, then swap back to HPS afterward.

I've been running this setup since 2004 (HT-8 pads at the time) and it works nicely. Front rotors last a season and a half before the surface tearing develops into cracks, the rears wore out after 3 seasons.

If you're willing to swap rotors for track days, no need to match up the film compatibility but it's a lot of work to get done before tech. I didn't think I could do it in the pits, especially w/ the 3rd gen hub setup using bearings and grease.

For my car, the front rotors are pretty close to end of life so they're getting replaced. I have a set of Brembo replacement rotors on the shelf and I'm running 3rd gen 1LE 2-piston calipers so it'll be a 2 beer job.

With all the trans work this Summer, the drivetrain is good to go for next season. I drained and refilled the rear diff w/ Redline super heavy shockproof as usual so that's good for two seasons.

I might pull the injectors and have them cleaned & flowed for preventative maintenance. Also check resistance on the 8 ignition coils, as of last year they were all within ~0.2 KOhms of each other.

Funny you should mention that, our new sponsor, http://injector-rehab.com/ , can help you out :)

I always wonder about pads too. I went through so many sets when I used to autocross, but there was a lot more emphasis on cold stops then too, so they got eaten up quicker than most track pads will. I always loved the Porterfield pads I used for the last season I ran my 91 RS, stopped great, but dusted like hell.

-Tim

the car is on a big diet trying to get down to legal c/p weight 3100 give or take a set of 3.73s mount the wilwood superlites. alignment maybe a cam if santa is good to me. new 710,s for next season.