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Hello! late last summer I got a chance to buy a 1978 Type LT Camaro and with the weather improving I'm finally able to start getting at it to fix it up. It's in need of a fair amount of work and while I'm a mechanic by trade, Airplanes and cars are only so similar LOL! I've got a lot of work on my hands with this (and with the 2 EM Corvairs sitting in my garage as well) and even with my shop manuals to guide me I would love to be able to pick the brains of other owners as I bring this car back to life! I'll post some pictures of it later but for now just know it's a 78' LT with a 305 bolted to an automatic transmission. It runs but has some issues that I need to take care of before taking it out on the road. I look forward to learning more about this car and how to not only fix it up but take care of it in the long run!
Welcome aboard ! I have a 1979 Z-28 Pro Touring car Being an aircraft mechanic shows that you should have the skills to work on cars ,And you have to be more precise to meet FAA standards So you wont fall out of the sky. I would get an assembly manuals and other factory manuals .As well Chiltons and Motors manuals Also join a local club would help. these years of cars were fairly simple to work on as well.Just start out by making the car safe to drive .And with all knowledge of members here .As well as such sites such as the 2nd gen site NastyZ-28 you can get by.
Yeah, nice not worrying about the FAA lookin over my shoulder for a change lol! I will need to expand my Metric tool set of course as nearly everything I have aviation wise is Standard.
My first priority is of course to make sure the car is safe to drive, so at the moment I have all external lights working including the high beams. Inside however, no lights at all and the wiring under the dash is my nightmare made real. Last owner apparently fancied themselves electricians. And working out some issues with the carburetor, (have not rebuilt a carb in a few years, cant wait!)
Love this car and can't wait to crack into it, looking forward to interacting with everyone here and learning more about this awesome car! The project as it stands.
These later cars are a little strange that they are mostly SAE with some metric mixed in.And these have usually have Quadra jets Of which arent very hard .There are a a variety of HP books that deal with the subjects.
04-09-2021, 07:50 AM
New Camaro owner
