31 Mar, 2010
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The Camaro5 community is comprised of countless talented individuals, whether they be members with fabrication skills, DIY ingenuity, event organization talent, engineering know-how, or even computer design talent. Member Hazman is not only part of the group with some very impressive digital design skills, but has also been generous to share and utilize these skills [...]
Someone finally did it! This is the closest imitation of the Chevy Camaro concept’s afterburner tail lights that we have seen, and it looks excellent. Forum member TonyNo has the distinction of being the one who was finally able to develop a close approximation to the concept Camaro’s afterburner lights. See inside for more details! [...]
PFYC unveiled their latest project vehicle today – the 2010 Sinister Camaro Concept. The Sinister Camaro Concept transforms the newly redesigned 5th Generation Camaro from an already aggressive performance coupe to an intimidating menace, showcasing a design that accentuates existing styling cues. Sinister features a new Ram Air Hood, Dovetrail Rear Spoiler and an aggressive [...]
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, [...]
The Camaro will finally be introduced into the German market, home of the fabled Nurburgring track where the Camaro was often spotted in testing during its preproduction phase. The Camaro will enter the German market as a 2011 model year, and is expected to have its official introduction at the AMI in Leipzig in the [...]
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 [...]
