What Did You Do To Your Camaro Today?

[taz1727]

Originally Posted by Risingson05

I like it !!

Thank you, I haven't stopped staring. I'm awful at taking pictures so they aren't the best quality, in the shade they look bronze-ish but in the sun they pop, i'm loving it.

[InFiD3ViL]

Originally Posted by taz1727

Attachment 1039275

Attachment 1039276

Took a chance and powder coated them “mayan gold black” the color exceeded my expectations.

Damn, those look really good.

[fireman1153]

A few weeks ago, right before my wife gave birth to our little boy, I had my fuel system upgraded and tuned for E85. Car made 985 rwhp and 859 ft/tq. I am more than happy with it but screwed up and didn't go larger on fuel lines with the new pump and injectors so I'm maxed out again because the lines won't flow enough fuel for more. In the process, I had a new clutch and MGW shifter installed and I have to say that the MGW is by far the best mod I have done to my car to date! I love it!!

[davesnever]

Originally Posted by taz1727

Attachment 1039275

Attachment 1039276

Took a chance and powder coated them “mayan gold black” the color exceeded my expectations.

That's cool! It's a 80's retro thing. Looking like the Bandit's TA. Seriously they do look nice, I have the retro chrome version of those on mine. Maybe some black lug nuts and a caliper color change now?

[taz1727]

Originally Posted by davesnever

That's cool! It's a 80's retro thing. Looking like the Bandit's TA. Seriously they do look nice, I have the retro chrome version of those on mine. Maybe some black lug nuts and a caliper color change now?

Thank you guys, I’m ordering the black lug nuts now. The powder coater recommended a color change afterwards too on the calipers. I’m drawing blanks though on what color would work for them, I dont think the red looks bad with it. Any recommendations on the calipers guys?

[taz1727]

Some better pics now that I’m home. Thanks for the compliments, I can’t get over how great they came out.

[davesnever]

Originally Posted by taz1727

Attachment 1039295

Attachment 1039296

Some better pics now that I’m home. Thanks for the compliments, I can’t get over how great they came out.

A few ideas? Darker Red, Gunmetal, Black

[StingrayblueSS]

Originally Posted by taz1727

Thank you guys, I’m ordering the black lug nuts now. The powder coater recommended a color change afterwards too on the calipers. I’m drawing blanks though on what color would work for them, I dont think the red looks bad with it. Any recommendations on the calipers guys?

I think the red looks good. Maybe just brighten it up some.

[taz1727]

Originally Posted by davesnever

A few ideas? Darker Red, Gunmetal, Black

Wow man thank you for the edits, it paints a much better visual!! I’ll be thinking about this all day now

[cowpunk]

Koni SRT's, new rotors, pads, TTY GM caliper bolts, MGP caliper covers in red.

Thanks
Jay

[ADVMax]

@taz1727 - LOVE that wheel color! Have considered going to that on my silver car!


This week's project - I've looked at the little SS engine cover badges and have nearly ordered one before. I grew up in a machine shop so I tend to want to build and make things myself so, I did!



Aluminum plate, polished edges. Set in place with 2 pieces of 3M tape under ends (cleaned up the tape edges sticking out after these pics). Just to make sure there are 2 small screws under the LS3 badge! After I mounted the aluminum plate I covered the top with vinyl flat black wrap then stuck on the LS3 badge (made from the finest Chinesium available!)



I think it turned out OK.

[George-CZ]

Originally Posted by ADVMax

@taz1727 - LOVE that wheel color! Have considered going to that on my silver car!


This week's project - I've looked at the little SS engine cover badges and have nearly ordered one before. I grew up in a machine shop so I tend to want to build and make things myself so, I did!



Aluminum plate, polished edges. Set in place with 2 pieces of 3M tape under ends (cleaned up the tape edges sticking out after these pics). Just to make sure there are 2 small screws under the LS3 badge! After I mounted the aluminum plate I covered the top with vinyl flat black wrap then stuck on the LS3 badge (made from the finest Chinesium available!)



I think it turned out OK.

It doesn't look bad. But you should have reduced it, rounded the edges and pushed them in a little bit down.
...to make it fit better in that molding.

It hasn't been that long since I've been doing it on my cover.
I made it from a piece of stainless steel.

[ADVMax]

Originally Posted by George-CZ

It doesn't look bad. But you should have reduced it, rounded the edges and pushed them in a little bit down.
...to make it fit better in that molding.

It hasn't been that long since I've been doing it on my cover.
I made it from a piece of stainless steel.

Yes, I beat myself up over the rounded edges. That's the beauty of fabrication, you can always change it. That piece of metal I sawed out of a scrap piece of large aluminum channel, it would have required way too much surface work to polish it so flat black wrap did the trick.



That stainless plate looks great! If I stumble upon a piece of stainless I may well make one out of that. The LS3 badge I used was inexpensive, 2 for 11 bucks.

[lafountain]

Not today, but recently, got my windows tinted. Had to remove the tint when I bought the car, finally got around to getting it retinted last weekend.