Well the belly pan is pretty much a bust on the SS. I put the car up on the lift today and found that bumper nose is apparently longer on the bottom than the ZL1's. I aligned the pan to the frame and then using masking tape drew a line on the front of the pan where the bottom of the bumper hit it. Sorry for the cell phone pic, the line is faint but you can see that the bottom edge of the bumper is about 2-1/2 inches too far back. The only way I see around this is to notch the bumper to allow the front of the pan to fit and line up
Of course you'll have to notch out for the headers, but I also noticed that on the manual trans there are some metal lines on the passenger side that will have to cut out for as well.
So I'm scraping the ZL1 pan and making my own using it as a template to get started. I'm not going to run the pan back as far to avoid hitting the headers. After talking with a buddy that built stock cars, I'm going to widen the pan at the nose to extend to the front of the wheel wells and close up the nose. Then I'm going to make the duct work to feed my CAI from the lower grille since it pulls air from the bottom of the car. I'll also copy the Naca duct design and incorporate that too.
I don't get how other guys were able to install this without cutting the bumper. Perhaps the bumper is different on the model years.
