We love the beginning parts of each week because it almost always means that we get to report on Camaro5 members’ meets from the recent weekend. This weekend also featured another large SoCal meet, this time at an event hosted by Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet in San Diego. Approximately 55 cars showed, in addition to the [...]
Camaro5 welcomes The Tire Rack as a forum sponsor. As some of you have seen, The Tire Rack’s banner is now running in our Wheels & Tires forum. The Tire Rack has put up a special Camaro Upgrade Garage especially for the Camaro and the Camaro5 community. If you decide to make a purchase from [...]
28 Mar, 2010
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Per PnCRedJwl2SS: Un-be-lievable! That’s what today was (all photos here). First, on behalf of the combined memberships from the San Antonio, Austin, and Rio Grande Valley Camaro5 clubs, I want to extend sincere and heartfelt thanks to Darrell (SumittSS) for coming up with the idea and the location, and for planning and coordinating all the [...]
27 Mar, 2010
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Don’t have audio/phone controls on your Camaro steering wheel? No problem! Our ever resourceful members have figured out the process to retrofit fully functioning steering wheel audio and phone controls! Member “techsupport” has put together this comprehensive DIY on how one can retrofit these features. It requires only a few parts totaling less than $100 [...]
DIY’ers rejoice. The Helms service manuals for the 2010 Camaro are now available for order. The manuals’ three volumes cover the following categories: 1 – General Information, Body Hardware and Trim, Body Repair, Body Systems, Brakes, Dianositc Overview, Starting Point, and Programming, Driveline/Axle, Driver Information and Entertainment, Cruise Control, Engine Controls and Fuel – 2.8L, [...]
23 Mar, 2010
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This just in from Motortrend. GM’s Chevrolet Camaro and Corvette marketing manager John Fitzpatrick recently hinted to Motortrend that the 2011 Camaro (V6) could possibly meet or exceed the 2011 V6 Ford Mustang’s power output. When asked whether Chevrolet would respond in the next couple years to the number’s challenge put up by the 2011 [...]
As some of you have seen, we now have a “Camaro of the Moment/Week” feature on this homepage, located in the right hand column of our blog. Going forward, we will be featuring a Camaro-of-the-Week (COTW) on a weekly basis. There will also soon be an COTW Archive link on the homepage which will list [...]
22 Mar, 2010
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Nebraska based body shop, ottobody, has developed a conversion kit to change non-RS headlights to RS bi-xenons. The kit is a direct replacement headlight for non-RS Camaros with some slight wire modification required. The replacement headlights are fully operational with high-beams and low-beams. You can even run them with just the marker lights and halos [...]
Canadian Camaro5 members are in the process of setting up a date for the 2nd annual Camaro Meet and Greet in Oshawa, Ontario. Several dates are currently being discussed. If you have interest in possibly attending what will surely be a bigger event than the first Meet and Greet , please vote on the poll [...]
Check out GM Hi-Tech Performance Magazine’s review of the Fastlane 2010 Camaros, a monster of a car which ran a 10.86 at 127 mph at the quarter mile. This was accomplished at the 2010 Camaro Shootout in Memphis. So, what did it take to get them to the top? Quite honestly, not much, just a [...]
HOTROD Magazine is building a Camaro for Keystone Light as part of a promotional effort… the build was handled by Steve Stropes of Pure Vision in SoCal. Here are a few casual pics this afternoon before the Keystone graphics go on… then it’s a drive out to Las Vegas Sunday for the unveiling on Monday! [...]
When Pedders needed a brake upgrade for their Camaro, they looked everywhere and came right back to the GM parts bin. It took a while, but they sorted it out and found what they believe to be the most cost effective and perhaps best brake solution for the Camaro — THE CADILLAC OF BRAKES for [...]
