What did you do to your Camaro today?
08-18-2010, 11:58 PM
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Picked up my car from the a/c shop. Cost alittle under $1200 to replace the compressor and accumulator, flush the system out, vacuum and charge it up again. Got a warranty though.
08-19-2010, 08:45 PM
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sadly i allowed it to be impounded due to parking it at my friends apt complex with expired tags 
. cant afford to get it out til the first. not happy about it but what can I do?
. cant afford to get it out til the first. not happy about it but what can I do? 
08-20-2010, 01:55 PM
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160 deg thermostat and reprogram of fan speeds! 
Finally decided to cool down my LS1 today. Got a good deal on a 160 stat/housing/gasket ($27.85, tax included). Two bolts, one hose clamp, and one wire harness remove/replace later and I reprogrammed the 160 stat fan speeds into the PCM. Will take a couple of days to get all the air out, so far no leaks. After the air is displaced/vented out the overflow/recovery bottle I'll look for leaks more carefully. Thats what I did for my girl today! 
08-22-2010, 06:25 PM
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New guy here...recently purchased a '98 Z28. Started it all off today with the free mods: Cutting the EGR tube flush with the top of the intake, and opening up the base of the stock airbox. More to follow...
09-04-2010, 08:23 PM
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Yea.that '68 is lookin real good Doug.Dad told me today his old boss is suppose to stop by his house tommorrow with his 68 he just got 100% completed after like 8 years long process on a complete frame off resto.502c.i.,etc,etc.Hes gonna call me when he does stop by so I can comeover and 
09-04-2010, 08:48 PM
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Yea.that '68 is lookin real good Doug.Dad told me today his old boss is suppose to stop by his house tommorrow with his 68 he just got 100% completed after like 8 years long process on a complete frame off resto.502c.i.,etc,etc.Hes gonna call me when he does stop by so I can comeover and
Funny thing is wife didn't like the hood when I bought it...after accident I get to the body shop and he asked if I had a hood or was using this one
After it was all done everybody loved it
But wife did pick color.
09-05-2010, 08:39 AM
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New radiator cap (see what happens when you take the old one off?) 
Well, when I did the 160 deg thermostat, seems the old OEM radiator cap decided to not 'reseal' on the radiator. I was having a lot of air in the radiator (squishy top hose, not firm, before warming up). After checking for a leak from replacing the 187 degree to 160 degree thermostat job, traced it down to that radiator cap. It was not sealiing, preventing the system from drawing the fluid back into the radiator from the overflow bottle. Tried cleaning the cap's gasket a couple of warm/cool cycles and gave up trying to save my $. A search of yahoo and google led me to O'Rielly's where I purchased a generic 18lb cap which solved my 'air in radiator' problem. Just $2.82 total (not counting fuel because I was driving by there anyway doing my 'as-needed' list of things to do that day) and my girl now has no more air in the system. In about two more years (maybe three) I will go ahead and replace the radiator fluid again. As I remembered, that hose was not that firm for quite a while, so that cap has needed to be replaced even before I did that 160 thermostat upgrade. 
12-26-2010, 10:18 PM
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