What do you plan on doing to your car over the winter?
 

If you plan on doing something to your car over the winter post it in here.

Myself I plan on doing the following:

New Seats Corbeau FX1 Pro
http://corbeau.com/products/fixed_back_seats/fx1_pro/

Install 5 point harness for Road Racing/AX

3.42's to 3.73's

Second Muffler so I will have Magna Flow Bullet Style added to my Magna Flow Cat back in order to meet sound requirements road racing and AX

New Radiator mine is crap

Lightening my car
Here a little list: I havent fully figured exactly what I will take out but here are some Ideas


Camaro Weight Reduction list

Rear Speakers
Fog Lights
front Crash foam
ABS
AC
Rear Crash foam
rear carpet sound stuff
Front seats replace with corbeu
rear seats
Body kit
hood pins
Visors
Air bags and sensors and mounting shit
Smaller battery
replace Steering wheel
fly wheel and clutch lightened
clean out center console
Hood gut/insulation
mirror rubber trim
misc studs in car
carpet replace with year one light carpet
random shit to cut out
bumper supports
cut remove interior excess metal
cut up window crank brackets
TCS and Cables
Heat shielding under car
Hood release latch/cables
use one hood strut

Nothing take it apart lol

and never put it back together!!!!


I plan on removing the tranny again. for a Mainshaft(mines Twisted so the D/S wont slide smoothly)

get the 4th Weld wheel and 2 new front tires probably going with the Nexen SB802's again. walmart has them free ship to store for 52 bux each! i cant find anything else in that size for anything even Close to that price.

Finish the cold idle tuning. Rest of the tune is good. just need to varify with a wide band.

new chromoly Driveshaft so i dont shatter the stocker.

and MAYBE some paint.


and camarokid why are you removing SOOO much shit? needs it to Auto-x? i could see lighter for drag but??? not being a douche. serious questions as i have never done it.

lol well with autocross and roadracing the lighter a car is the less weight is transferred when under a lateral load which is why mitatas do so well. My car isnt exactly my daily anymore and I think I reached the point of not caring so it is going to eventually become a full blown track car. That list was more or less just ideas I will will probably only actually do half of that (for now). Also I need to change my pedals the stocks suck for heel toeing. Iam beyond addicted to autocross and road racing its more of a sickness. Plus what I'm doing is nothing compared to people on FRRAX, some actually cut the rear ends and reweld them to add negative camber on a solid axle rear.


On a side note you should see a 5th gen race clocking in at 4k with a driver its so terrible.

yeah i know the 5th gens are pigs. just never put much thought to weight on a road course.

Plan on driving mine...
Nothing until spring time when it gets warmer out.

A typical road race car like this weighs about 3000-3100 with a driver in it.

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Replacing the blown up ls1 with a 32k mile short block
having the stock 853 heads cleaned up nice with a valve job and have them decked. Maybe up the compression a bit.
Fixing a torn up arp wheel stud
A bunch of clean up work. Already flat black the engine bay area. Primed and coated the oil pan, timing cover, valve covers, throttle body.

Well if all goes well doing some shakedowns in florida throwing in a cage and some corbeau's in it, parachute and all the safety gear needed. Also building up a forged motor......And trying to work on the M3 LS1 swap but thats next.....

Damn sucks about the motor how many bottle you put through it? I know when you where in MA it was a good amount.

A damn good amount of nitrous. 150k miles on it with spray.

If you dont go to FLA Come to Virginia Motorsports Park. opens feb 24th!!!!! ill meet you there for SURE!!!!:supergay:

Depending on what happens mine may not even be on the road next year due to money problems. That and find out wtf happened to my pos 4l60 again!

having the front bumper painted , and finishing the interior

try to save up the money to keep up this habit lol

I'd like to get the 3.42 rear in, along with some more weight reduction. Also need to find/buy wheels for the front to match the zr1s out back, and then stuff DRs on them.

Doubt Ill get any of it done before spring, I hate working in the cold on my own car. lol

Which track in Florida? I am a short distance from pbir the old moroso. Let me know what you plan on doing. Would love to see it go

Finish parting mine. Not much left until its a bare shell

1. Put battery on tender
2. Wait

I gotta use my vacation before the end of the year but I'd definitely come down during the spring its only what a 9hours or so?

first and foremost a tune! i want to get an intake manifold on it first, thinking professionally ported ls2 with a pro products 90mm throttle body, 85mm maf and a 104mm lid.
paint the nose and rear bumper cover of the car, possibly remove ground effects.
PST aluminum driveshaft
lowering springs in the front

camarokid91 look into the burkhart bumper support brackets, very nice pieces and save alot of weight!

My ground effects are coming off finally. I will definitely have to look at into those supports. I hope to get car down to 3000-3100 which seems easily achieved. Also I will be stepping up to Hoosier a6s . On a side note we should plan day and have everyone register for a local auto X event. A 5th gen forum does it 3 times a year I think it would be cool to do the same next year.

ill go watch! haha


Doug im down for when ever. its about 8.5 from you if you take 95 and no traffic. JUST south of richmond. and open almost year round. cant wait to go check it out next february

winter plans: bilstein/strano + adj ph bar. new rims/tires. upgrade brakes. paint engine bay. change hood, get cme and paint sail panel black

Just a few small things for me including replace third brake light, maybe get a CAI.

Ok so I have a few minor things that I'll be looking to do this winter. Not much because working in the cold sucks balls and don't have a garage to really do anything to the car at the moment anyways.

-Find a replacement rim for the one that got chewed by a curb by previous owner - Done, at least I hope

-Do some more reasearch into purchasing lca's, panhard and stb.

-Replace the carpet, previous owner replaced it with this horrendous aftermarket shit that bunches up more than a womans panties.

-Find a good autobody person/place to get an estimate on respraying the whole car the way I want. Anybody know a guy who does lacework?

-Clean up the engine bay and do the wire tuck mod.

-Fix the cracked dash cover, either epoxy and fiberglass it or just find a new one.

-Replace the front and rear sidemarkers with either clear or blackouts.

That's pretty much all I can think of, most of it will probably just be ran into the spring/summer months since I'll be driving the car this winter.

@SLP if you do get rid of those gfx, let me know man. I'd probably be pretty interested in the front pieces. Not sure how the wings west piece I got off My84Z is going to look on the car.

Ohh almost forgot.. buying a foxbody roller ;)

BUT WILL IT EVER DRIVE!?!?!?!?!?

Probably not! It will be parted out just like his 3rd because he doesn't know WTF he wants to do!!!!!!!!! LOL

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id love to do autoX sometime... prob get disqualified each time lol but ill go try it!!!
those vids u have up here look like a lot of fun

I'd like to dial in my AFR, bolt in some rear LCA relocation brackets, torque arm relocation crossmember, and subframe connectors by spring but thats mostly gonna be looking for used parts.

:klab:

Of course not.. Youre expecting too much of me.. lol

Planning on gutting the driveline out of the Camaro and selling off the shell, unless we decide to detail it up and take it to the mecum auctions in Florida in January or February.
If it don't sell and gets stripped the engine will get freshened up with forged rods/pistons, 24x conversion so no more opti, new clutch, and a single turbo set up, then get bolted into my third gen. Probably cage the third gen too while we're at it since the interior needs to come back out anyhow from the nice mice that decided to inhabit the car for a while. Then fix a few random dings from the ice storm and drive the hell out of it while I dive back into the 68.
Oh yeah, and new coil overs and probably finally do the turbo swap on her wrx.
Got most of what we need to do all this, just need to find time to do it all lol.

Big Mac, what do you mean by lace work?
You talking about 70's style lace paint?
Hit me up if you want and we can talk.

Well at this rate... I'll be lucky to get the tire out of the back from turkey burns, put the ttops in and cover it. Lol

a pair of these are also on my list.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/mtt-3745r

my new motor in car, with cage, LCA's and a few other lil things... we will c what happens

might pull it out of the garage to clean it...



again... lol

Yup, thinking of going with artic and blizzard whites, having some ghosted flames shot with a lace overlay. Going old school like that. But probably more realistically wouldn't be till mid-late summer.