Project round two: 1992 Chevy Camaro

[ruckusz28]

Love all of the progress! What drop springs are you running? I just ordered sportlines. Am I going to hate them?

I'm running cut sport lines in the front.

[Darren]

Love all of the progress! What drop springs are you running? I just ordered sportlines. Am I going to hate them?

Thanks! I am running Intrax drop springs. They were advertised as 2 inch drop but once settled ended up being more of 2.25-2.5 inch drop, I am ridding LOW. You wont hate them, in fact I was thinking about switching to them if another member decided he was removing them from his car. The reason I am not liking mine right now is the long tube and exhaust. I loved my ride height before and had little to no issues (driveways) but now I scrape the longtubes. If you stay with shorties or mids you'll be fine.

I need springs... sitting over here like a 4x4 with my new struts lol. Looking good Darren!

Like I said above mine might be coming off if interested. This is probably the next thing I will address and look into. I might go back to a stock spring with cut coils or a smaller drop spring. But I agree these cars need to be lowered. All the lows!

[C2YT]

I need springs... sitting over here like a 4x4 with my new struts lol. Looking good Darren!

[deeznuts94]

Love all of the progress! What drop springs are you running? I just ordered sportlines. Am I going to hate them?

[DynoDave]

[ruckusz28]

Hooray!

[Darren]

Project round two: 1992 Chevy Camaro







Ok so have found the solution! Stock throttle cable (from an 85) and a new drop base air cleaner. Gas peddle is perfect such a world of a difference now. Brian helped and discovered the old throttle cable was binding up and causing some of the hard peddle issue or all of it.

Bracket is good to go now and everything clears. I am sending this filter back (well Brian is) and am going to go with a slightly bigger one as I need a little more clearance at the top of the carb. By next week it should all be completed and on to the next!

Also changed the plugs again tonight. Put in some accel header plugs. Made it all much easier to do. I was having a issue of burning some of the boots of the wires up on the headers so replaced those as well. The car is running much better and feels totally different.


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[Darren]

I may have missed something, but was the throttle cable not stock? Why was it changed out originally?

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No it wasn't. A stock cable did not work with the previous bracket. A stock bracket can not be used either.

[birdie2000]

I may have missed something, but was the throttle cable not stock? Why was it changed out originally?

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[Darren]

Cut a hole in the hood? Function over form.

Um yeah, lol. I was told to buy a new hood and leave it black. I won't even do that. So cut a hole....

[Darren]

Well major progress tonight. In short I went back to a stock throttle cable. Thanks Brian. Also should have a new base with a smaller drop and a new filter coming soon.

Kinda what hat your talking about Fred. The drop base o have is 2.5 going to go to a 1.25 and still be able to run a 2.5 filter. I was running a 3 inch filter. So shouldn't make much difference and the new gas peddle feel is well worth it.

[Lucky SOB]

Thinner filter and run the standard tray? I'm guessing that's bad for air flow?

[MeenZ28]

Cut a hole in the hood? Function over form.

[DynoDave]

Can you explain how you would move the springs lower? I dont really follow what you are saying. I could space the bracket itself on a downward angle and have the springs go down away from the carb on a angle. Is that what your kinda saying? Might make the clearance I need to get the drop base in there?

Yes, you've got it. If you look at the photo I posted, there's a little yellow arrow pointing to a new spot to drill a new holes (one on either side) for the springs, that would allow them to run at an angle, hopefully under the air cleaner.

Sounds like you've already tried most everything that I can think of at the moment.

[Darren]

As low as your car already is i dont blame you

exactly and thats another issue I will be addressing as my checklist grows. I can barely get the car up and down my own driveway now, and it was chore before now its a pain in the ass!