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Old Jul 29, 2014 | 07:59 PM
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I've had my car for a good bit now, Cammed, headers, CAI. It runs great and breaks peoples necks going down the road, but I was wondering if I could do anything to make it look even better?

I've never been much of a visual mod person but I was hoping you guys could give me some suggestions..





I've been thinking about finally mounting my front license plate, I haven't gotten in trouble with the law yet but I'm sure I need to do something about it eventually. I was thinking about buying the bracket that mounts the plate on the chin spoiler off center.

As of right now, I love how this car handles, but I wish it was slightly lower. I am concerned about ride quality though!
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Old Jul 29, 2014 | 11:42 PM
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I think it's pretty much perfect as is. Only thing I would do is black out that stupid chrome strip on the nose. Don't know how that idea got pushed through to production.
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Old Jul 29, 2014 | 11:43 PM
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I think it's pretty much perfect as is. Only thing I would do is black out that stupid chrome strip on the nose. Don't know how that idea got pushed through to production.
I've been thinking about having that chrome strip covered in vinyl actually.. I'm wanting to do the bowtie in a gloss red as well.
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Old Jul 30, 2014 | 12:56 AM
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Dont do the bowtie red. Always looks like Rudolph the red nose reindear when people do that.
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Old Jul 30, 2014 | 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MeenZ28
Dont do the bowtie red. Always looks like Rudolph the red nose reindear when people do that.
I didn't think about that one

I've also thought about deleting the bowtie all together and getting the z28 grill
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Old Jul 30, 2014 | 10:53 AM
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Definately black out the chrome unibrow. Otherwise I would leave it alone, the 1le's are badass as is. A Z/28 mesh grill with a flowtie would look great though, if you can get you hands on them. Personally I would remove the camaro emblems off the fenders and blackout the gold portion of the rear bowtie as well.
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Old Jul 30, 2014 | 01:11 PM
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Definately black out the chrome unibrow. Otherwise I would leave it alone, the 1le's are badass as is. A Z/28 mesh grill with a flowtie would look great though, if you can get you hands on them. Personally I would remove the camaro emblems off the fenders and blackout the gold portion of the rear bowtie as well.
I removed the bowtie from the back, looked horrible back there lol
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smoke side markers, plasti dip chrome strip, and bowtie before you buy vinyl
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Get the Z grill if anything. Other than that and blacking out the chrome nose piece, I would call that perfect.
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