itsMikey

woke up early (10 o'clock) on sunday morning and turned on my tv and was flipping thru the channels and saw horsepower so i watched it and it was a really nice third gen camaro being built for a war vet at a WyoTech Automotive school for his services.
side note:
dad came and told me "mikey, your school is on tv!" lol
Mikey
tried to find some pics but couldent :P

G-reg

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I caught that show halfway through too, didn't get to see how the car looked when they started. I really liked it until the very end of the show when the car was almost done and they said something like "we were running out of time at the end of the 4th day" and realized I'm not half as far along as them at the end of 4 months..

itsMikey

lol..yeah..crazy how much they got done..and yeah i didnt see the very beginning either.. (sad face)

chevydrvr

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I was going too see it, but I had to get to work. damn. oh well

RS Reaper

Is this the same green Camaro that they where making into a "fuel efficient" muscle car?

itsMikey

i dont think so.. it was a performance car. real nice

JamesC

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I saw the episode as well. Joe called the car a Berly and one of the Wyo guys, IIRC, said the rear ratio was 3.07. I usually enjoy the show, but....

JamesC

DiabolicalRS

it was nice and all but theyt should have picked some one else! he just got out of basic, get an older soldier who has seen it all and do that for him. no offense to anyone. and that rear end was ugly with that eagle molding. but overall nice car!

RS Reaper

Just checked out there website and yea it's different.
Here is a link to the page

slowmaro87

i have it dvr'd its got 3:73 and a 350 producing 370hp i think they said ill have to watch it again but i think they did a t-56 swap as well so ya it would be a pretty beastly street car...they did a beautiful job on the under body on that car... it started life as a 82 Berlinnetta < sp? but looks like they put a 85 an up nose on as well as raised z28 wing ...in the show they did not do anything to the body or paint but they stated at the end of the show they were going to give him a paint job as well ...o ya one more thing he is not a war vet hes fresh in the army and will be shipping to Afghanistan soon

slowmaro87

i was wrong they rebuilt a 700r4 with a shift kit

aaron0991

Ya, im just starting the school and i stumbled across the link to a preview on the website. I cant wait to start at that place too bad im going into motorcycles and not autos. http://news.wyotech.edu/post/2010/04...d-1982-camaro/

92RS(real slow)

dvr'd it, because there is no way I was getting up that early lol. Anyways I wasn't to impressed. They bolted in subframe connectors instead of welding them in who does that when you have like 5 welders right next to you I was really hoping they would go all out on it like lsx swap or something

DeathStarr89

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saw it twice, pretty good episode. I'm sure we all would have done things differently but it's a helluva lot better now then when it rolled in.


It was idling pretty high when he started it, i'm sure that wasn't planned. lol

juanillox8

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missed it daaaaaaarrrrrnnnnn it

TheMuskr

i saw the preview for this episode, but i totally forgot about it till now.

BlackMamba

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I see both show when they even fix the 92 camaro they called it the lean green street machine and the espiode that just can on. I got them from itunes and I watch it on my ipod everytime very good videos

chevydrvr

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Maybe they just wanted to show ways that people without welders can get the job done.

itsMikey

lol..yeah..didnt like the rear end eagle thing..just not my style..and yeah i was wondering about the SFC's

3rd gen Will

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Just saw that episode this weekend, The motor knocked down 383hp and 435 ft/lbs at the crank on the engine dyno with no accessories. My guess would be it probably puts down 300rwhp. Not to bad for a ZZ4 SB and summit AL heads IMO. More power than I expected anyway, i was thinking 350hp @ the crank max.

Yea they called it an 82 Berlinetta, sure as hell didn't look like one! 91-92 wing and late 80's gfx/nose. I didn't look like it had a 3rd brake light in the window so I am assuming it was a pre 85 glass, had the 82-89 dash. Kind of a frankenstein 3rd gen as far as body goes.

They did a complete build on the trans using all new TCI internals/hard parts. The guys building the trans mentioned they only thing they re-used was the case and I would assume the main part of the valve body. Hotchkis springs/swaybars/lca's/PHB. New front brakes w drilled/slotted rotors but left the rears drum, but rebuilt them with all new parts. New axle's/posi/gears. Think they put an aluminum rad and E Fans too if IIRC. According to the link above, the powerblock site there is a parts list and they have the SFC's listed as weld on. I saw them bolt the rear part on which goes around where the LCA mounts and that is standard for those type of SFC's, I don't recall seeing how the attached them at the front though.