[Project] 1996 Camaro Z28 LT1 Project

[alone_and_insane]

I bought this car for $1000 last summer. Body was in pretty good shape, and the interior was kinda trashed. I had a lot of parts from a '95 V6 that I had wrecked my senior year in high school, so I wanted to using parts from that one to fix this one up. On the outside, all we had to do was pop out one small dent and replace the front and rear bumpers (which survived the '95 rollover). I replaced the entire interior, except for the dash and console:













the '96, the wrecked '95, and my mom's '00 in the back:


It wasn't running on all cylinders, so we bought it figuring we could swap a different engine into it. Pics of the engine removal fiasco:













my dad was pretty happy that we finally got it out lol


When we got the engine out, we discovered why it wasn't running right: one of the belts wore through two of the spark plug wires. So we replaced the plugs and wires, put the engine back in, and I'm gonna be driving it (hopefully) this summer. I just bought a rebuilt 4L60E automatic transmission from a guy in Kansas, and today I bought these Pacesetter ceramic longtube headers from a guy in Utah today for $285 shipped:







More to come!

[SoulTerror]

Looking good.

[nascarnate326]

You are just full of win.

Maybe in a year or two you will want to sell the v6...

[Darren]

Best of both worlds IMO the LT1 and V6 4th gen, I am kicking myself for buying the Blazer (although I love it) over a 4th gen v6 for a daily driver... If I was you I would hold onto the v6 and all of its history!

[alone_and_insane]

You are just full of win.

Maybe in a year or two you will want to sell the v6...

Best of both worlds IMO the LT1 and V6 4th gen, I am kicking myself for buying the Blazer (although I love it) over a 4th gen v6 for a daily driver... If I was you I would hold onto the v6 and all of its history!

year or two? more like week or two, lol. I'm probably gonna list the V6 for sale as soon as I get home. I suppose I could list it for sale on here so maybe we could keep track of it, but the car's in Wisconsin right now...I was planning on that being my project until I found out I could actually insure the Z28 (our old insurance guy fails at life). I already have a '99 Grand Am for a school/winter DD, so having two (nearly identical-looking) Camaros would seem kinda pointless. Not to mention that my family currently has 11 cars for 4 people, so we should look at reducing the size of our fleet.

[Darren]

youll have to list it here! give this car a chance to stay in this Family!

[alone_and_insane]

not gonna lie, I don't really want to lose track of it either, lol. It's up

[97z2801ss]

pretty cool build, Im hoping next week my car goes under the knife aswell, I bet you cant wait to drive the lt1 though

[BP_Z28]

Get to it.

[alone_and_insane]

Get to it.

yeah, I can't wait. I gotta wait until the end of next week though, since the car's in WI and I'm still at MSU lol

[prorac1]

Looks like you got the start of a great project. Good luck, Eric L

[JoeliusZ28]

so wait the 95 you rolled was green too?

[bri2203]

I 've never seen some do a tune up that way.

[alone_and_insane]

so wait the 95 you rolled was green too?

yes it was

I 've never seen some do a tune up that way.

haha funny

[alone_and_insane]

Yesterday my transmission and headers shipped from Kansas and Utah, respectively. I hope to have them by the end of this week or the beginning of next week.