11-13-2008, 04:19 PM | #1 |
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Might as well start one... my 95 Impala SS
For example here's my old Caprice Here it is semi-cloned into an SS Here's where "350 INCH" comes from. It also refers to the 350 cubic inch (5.7 liters) LT1, similar to what was in the 92-96 Corvette and 93-97 Camaro Z28/SS and Trans Am. Stock it makes 260hp/330 ft lbs. Now compare that to my 1995 Impala SS, Dark Green-Grey Metallic paint when it was bone stock. 4,442 were made that year in that color. I kept the plate... Shortly after buying the car I got a brake-check in the rain (bitch came to a full stop at a yellow, hit her at about 10 MPH while the light was still yellow ) and it was enough to take the hood with it. The shop had trouble locating a stock hood so I went fiberglass. The first mods were done before I bought the car, it had a different intake, 160 t stat, and a Hooker catback. No real pics of the motor build, but I was starting to get a rod knock and figured I'd go for a stock rebuild. I changed my mind about that and figured I'd mess with it a little more. I bought some aluminum heads from a Camaro (mine came with iron) and gasket matched and polished the ports. GMPP 845 camshaft (.510/.543 lift with 1.6 roller rockers) and the accompanying valvetrain. Larger BBK throttle body. There's a whole lot more in there I can't recall at the moment. This is the closest I have to an internal shot, my Crane roller rockers while I was changing to polished valve covers. I innitially kept the stock exhaust manifolds, the guy that built my motor said I should get headers ASAP and I was losing at least 50 HP especially with the bigger cam. I feared for my transmissions life so held off on headers for a while. Sure enough the car felt beastly compared to stock and blew the trans less than a month after the new motor. I bought a transmission from Carolina Performance Transmissions, a 4L60E built for 600 HP with all the Transgo goodies and beast this and that inside. At the same time I had won a Yank 3000 stall torque converter on eBay for $200 ($600 new) with about 500 miles on it. Now that it had the trans to handle the power I ordered some headers. Full length Tri Y's from Clear Image Automotive and hi-flow cats to hook it up to the stock cat back position.
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11-13-2008, 04:41 PM | #2 |
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Here's the car right after I got home from SOG
For a while I was content with the performance so I messed around with the lights. There's not a single incandescent bulb left in the car. Here's a few hundred LEDs Here's my old tail lights, off a 91 Caprice that I used Nite Shades on and clear coated. The center strip was chrome but I had it painted DGGM. Like I said, all LEDs, here's the dash. Even the vanity mirror, I hate that yellow incandescent glow! Check out the parking lights... switchback LEDs so they're white on the low circuit and turn amber for my turn signals or flashers. The white matches my Apexcone 6000K HIDs almost perfect. Here's my last cold air intake before going supercharged. RAISS stands for "Ram Air Impala SS", makes a huge difference once you're going above 30 MPH as it has a deflector to move the air from the grille to the filters. The Y pipe and cones were from a Corvette intake.
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11-13-2008, 04:53 PM | #3 |
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Here's the shoes.
Notice how the car is sitting high? Might as well be a 4x4 so I got this stuff: Hotchkis springs, Bilstein shocks, BMR rear control arms extended length (to center the rear wheels), Air Lift 1000 backs to change the rear ride height, Dynotech extended alum driveshaft, more stuff I can't remember. All I can say is there's no body roll and it takes a corner better than any 2 ton car I can think of. Here's it nice and raked with just the front dropped Front and rear done
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11-13-2008, 04:58 PM | #4 |
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11-13-2008, 05:04 PM | #5 |
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A buddy of mine had a 94 capreezy and i LOVED riding around in that thing. Even with a few mods- intake, catback and 17" wire wheels haha it was definitely fun
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11-13-2008, 05:20 PM | #7 |
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I'll throw in a few videos...
Here's my exhaust (before the supercharger) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0Rd6yFEkc The bump http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snBfzcw3OLs I love how LEDs blink (the license plate is a lot brighter now, went to 6 LEDs from 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KyhjlMtq60 A few random pictures Sitting on slicks at Atco Sitting on drag radials at Etown (the white car next to mine runs 11.80's, I'm still in the 12's) NaSSty Boyz at our cookout in Lemon Hill Park (I'm the white one) If theres a few more replies when I get home from work tonight I'll post up some stuff about the Procharger...
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Edit: It's about time you started one of these. I was curious as to what you had done to this car besides the s/c.
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11-13-2008, 06:03 PM | #9 |
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Nice to see another big GM car on this site. Also nice to see a SC GM car as well like mine heh.
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11-14-2008, 01:19 AM | #10 |
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Here's some pictures of the Procharger install. It's a Procharger D1SC and a huge Spearco intercooler, the kit was originally made by Combination Motorsports in Las Vegas, then modified a little before I bought it, then I modified it some more. The pulley on it now is huge, 4.25" and the most I noticed on my boost gauge was 8 PSI although I think I need to tighten the belt some more or look for a leak as it doesn't always go that high.
After everything was done it looks like this And does this with ease
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11-14-2008, 09:39 AM | #11 | |
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Looks good. Big grandma car thats also fast. Whats it run?
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11-14-2008, 05:20 PM | #12 |
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12.7, 105MPH at Etown a few weeks ago, spinning most of the way and a boost leak. I think I have everything sorted out and always run quicker at Atco, I'm expecting low 12s/high 11's there.
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11-16-2008, 10:22 PM | #13 |
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man...nice car....but for the love of god.....buy some hood struts allready!!!! all that money you have in that thing and hold the hood up with a broom stick...lol
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11-17-2008, 12:07 AM | #14 |
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LOL I know about the struts... the stock 80lb ones bow the hood, I tried 40 and 60lb ones and they don't keep it up...
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11-19-2008, 01:34 AM | #15 |
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So I was trying to retighten the blower belts and had the camera handy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGO__l51Wuw
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11-19-2008, 08:35 AM | #16 | |
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Not bad for a big ass car like that.
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11-23-2008, 01:03 AM | #18 |
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Thanks man. If you wanna find out if it's a clone, if they'll open the trunk look for WX3 on the SPID label, that was the code. If it's got single exhaust, it's a 4.3 Caprice although the 5.7 Caprices were dual too. Only the SS has a black strip on top of the headlight, although I changed mine to green. They also only came with a grey leather interior but plenty of Caprices have swapped. Seems like almost every clone I've seen the side scripts on the rear quarter panel aren't centered right either.
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Procharged & Intercooled, GM845 cam, Crane 1.6 roller rockers, self ported Al heads, Yank 3000 stall, Eaton posi & 4.10 gears, level 3 built 4L60e, Tri Y headers, Hooker Aero Chambers, 3.5" cowl hood, Hotchkis springs and bars, Diddy Kong in the trunk, all LED and HID lighting, tinted tails, tinted windows, lots of polished stuff, too much more. Runs 12.701 @ 108 MPH with no traction and 4400 LBS |
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