My Daily Driver - 2002 Camaro Z/28
03-20-2014, 04:34 PM
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My Daily Driver - 2002 Camaro Z/28 This is my z/28 that I bought at the auto fair at Charlotte motor speedway almost 2.5 years ago. It was bone stock when I bought it, and as you can tell I've done a bit of customizing to it to make it my own.
The car had 20,865 miles when I bought it, and now it has just over 32,000. I drive this car to college every single weekday morning; it sees the freezing cold, the blistering heat, rain, snow, ice, etc., and then I drive it every weekend morning to work. I DO NOT baby it in terms of when or where I drive it. Where I do baby it, is how I take care of it. Gets washed usually once every two weeks and I try to wax it three times a year. Gets an oil change every 3,000 miles as well.
It has an ls1, but with almost no modifications under the hood. I have an slp lid and bellow in the mail that will be installed, but otherwise it will remain almost stock for a while. The exhaust system has a manual cutout on the I-pipe and a flowmaster muffler, which I hate. The cutout isn't loud enough, so long tubes are going in this summer.
The top was repainted 6 months ago and with it came the stripes. About two weeks ago I painted the wheels black. It was quite a challenge but they came out great, and it saved me a shitload of money. Most of the work done on the car was done by me, except for the top (I did not trust myself to paint it and get it right).
I don't know if this is posted in the right place, but I thought I would share the car for those who might be interested in seeing my baby. I think it is pretty unique and hopefully you guys like it.
The car had 20,865 miles when I bought it, and now it has just over 32,000. I drive this car to college every single weekday morning; it sees the freezing cold, the blistering heat, rain, snow, ice, etc., and then I drive it every weekend morning to work. I DO NOT baby it in terms of when or where I drive it. Where I do baby it, is how I take care of it. Gets washed usually once every two weeks and I try to wax it three times a year. Gets an oil change every 3,000 miles as well.
It has an ls1, but with almost no modifications under the hood. I have an slp lid and bellow in the mail that will be installed, but otherwise it will remain almost stock for a while. The exhaust system has a manual cutout on the I-pipe and a flowmaster muffler, which I hate. The cutout isn't loud enough, so long tubes are going in this summer.
The top was repainted 6 months ago and with it came the stripes. About two weeks ago I painted the wheels black. It was quite a challenge but they came out great, and it saved me a shitload of money. Most of the work done on the car was done by me, except for the top (I did not trust myself to paint it and get it right).
I don't know if this is posted in the right place, but I thought I would share the car for those who might be interested in seeing my baby. I think it is pretty unique and hopefully you guys like it.
03-31-2014, 09:13 PM
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I agree with you, the rectangular exhaust tips look bad, but the whole exhaust system is gonna be changed anyway so im not too worried about it for now.
Since the red/black theme is what im going with, do you think it would look bad to spray some round tips black? i wanna get the tips that the slp systems have; the ones with two "tips" for each tip. i think those in black would look cool but i need some other opinions haha.
Since the red/black theme is what im going with, do you think it would look bad to spray some round tips black? i wanna get the tips that the slp systems have; the ones with two "tips" for each tip. i think those in black would look cool but i need some other opinions haha.