Cascade Crew

charlie6178 · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:20 pm Post subject: 1LE Resto time!!

well directly next door to my shop, is Alpina auto body.. and they have been talking about stripping and painting my 1LE car for a while now, just nothing real serious. well they blew up the motor in their E36 M3, so i am trading them a new ported M3 cylinder head, for a strip down and paint on my car. they are painting it all in pieces, and re assembling it with all new weather stripping, seals, windsheild, etc.. making it like new! also they are going to fill all of the holes that the cops drilled all over it when it served as a high speed persuit car. then i bought a new front bumper cover, fender, grill, turn signals, and the Z28 blister hood and spoiler for it. they are thinking it'll be a couple weeks in bodywork and paint, so i'm assuming about a month lol heres some pics of it from today in it's first day of demo!!

it'll get the windows tinted while it's at the body shop, and all of the new emblems and service stickers before i get it back.

my only real big plans for it is gonna be a new set of some kind of forged wheels for it, and a ground controll setup. other than that the interior is cherry, and it runs and drives awesome. i am excited!!! Very Happy

chevysquid · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:41 pm Post subject:

Going with white again or a color change? Gonna be looking pretty good when it comes out!

charlie6178 · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject:

I'm having it done in the 2001 Z06 speedway white

91RSVert · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:18 pm Post subject:

Being its a true b4c, I would have kept it orginal as possible. But to each their own, its your car.

Cant wait to see it finished.

charlie6178 · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:40 pm Post subject:

I'm not changing anything that can't easily be changed back. I'm going to put all of the Z28 options on the exterior. I think that the flat hood and the RS grills are absolutely hideous and borderline ruin these cars. Plus I already had the wing for it. So I might aswell. I'm looking at doing something white in the wheel department. Like a polished 5 spoke 3 piece wheel, with a white center.

DBL_TKE · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:29 pm Post subject:

Nice, that thing needed paint bad. I think it's gong to look 100x better.

charlie6178 · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:17 pm Post subject:

I have my eye on that ZF6 trans on craigslist right now.

DBL_TKE · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:20 pm Post subject:

Are you not usiNg this as a bracket car anymore?

iansane · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:52 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:59 pm Post subject:

Didn't GM run those transmissions in prototype cars?

charlie6178 · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:58 pm Post subject:

no it won't be a bracket car anymore lol not like its been down the track for the last 2 years anyways.

yeah theres been various people putting them in these cars. its easier to go LT1 T56, but i think a ZF6 would just be cool. i'm going to wait til it's all back assembled and ready to go after paint before i worry about that tho.

iansane · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:51 am Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 11:03 am Post subject:

So it shouldn't be to hard. What issues was he having?

iansane · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 3:41 pm Post subject:

Don't remember. Although I did find the guy that did it. ZBRA on TGO.

His signature says he sold the 91z.
http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/member.php?u=2718

Haven't sifted through his threads yet.

RSFreak · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:30 pm Post subject:

83Z28BlackBetty · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject:

dude that thing is going to look so sweet when its done. But PLEASE do it right and black out the headlight buckets. too many white cars are ruined by not blacking out the headlight buckets.

~JAKE

91RSVert · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:13 am Post subject:

Jake, I would say thats a personal preference thing. I dont like the blacked out buckets on any color camaro.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 7:57 am Post subject:

Paint the buckets black, then paint the rest of the car black. Problem solved. Wink

But I can totally understand the personal preference, I'm the guy who likes flat hoods and shaved spoilers.

charlie6178 · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:26 am Post subject:

Yeah I definitally plan on painting the buckets black. aswell as the black Z28 grill with a red bowtie, and blacked out windows. The wheels will have a dash of black too.

But on more of a sidenote.... The Vasily and Leo came down from the body shop the other day.

and....

They found the build sheet for the car!!!!!

91RSVert · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:59 pm Post subject: