Newbie from So. Cal. Hello Everyone.

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Capeasy
Posts: 173
Joined: Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:16 pm
Location: Downey, CA.

Newbie from So. Cal. Hello Everyone.

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[attachment=0]20190611_193651.jpg[/ [attachment=1]20190611_193636.jpg[Its Walt from the Downey area. After a couple LS Fests in Vegas I was introduced to the Caprice PPV. I've been looking for either a G8 or an SS to satisfy my itch while my 67 Nova Track/street car project is being built for the last 8 years lol. So I found this clean all white 2013 Caprice 9C1 on Ebay. I didn't want a salty road exposed unit so I waited till I found one in Florida, after shipping to So.Cal and $9K it was mine. I cant leave anything alone being Mr tinkeritous . So after scrubbing 5 years of spilt Cokes and coffee on the center console with the sticky buttons I got to drive it. I was impressed. First Mod was an affordable Spectra cold intake, then there was a clunk in the front end from the upper strut bearing, so I contacted Carl at Holden for a set of pedders coil overs. Then after smokin the rear tires noticed it was limping and only one wheel spins. So went on the forum and researched the Camaro 3.45 pumpkin, found one with 22k on a wrecked 2015 Camaro SS manual trans. For $150. Got the new BMR bushings installed just waiting to find a buddy with a lift and trans jack. I'm young at heart but with a worn out body.lol. I'm still doing the research on the mating it to our Caprice driveshaft to the Camaro yoke with the larger locating dowel/sleeve holes. I'll need verification from you guys that its OK to mount it that way. If I have to I'll machine up some new sleeve dowels that will allow us to mate it the way GM designed it to be.
I'm also struggling with the deeper Camaro trans pan upgrade, GM seems to change part numbers for no apparent reason so the buzz now is going with the Cadilac CTS-V pan but I cant get a straight answer on the big mouth filter with or without the extended pick-up snout. Hope to get some concrete answers on that in the next few weeks. Dont know the health of my 96k miles on my trans. There was No carfax history on my Caprice other than the dealer it was purchased at by the Sarasota PD.
Well that's what my short term plans are. Then we go for the New Comp cam and lifters maybe headers, exhaust cutouts or Blackwidow Venom mufflers.
Thank you in advance for everyone's help and thanks for the dedication to this website.
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2500 miles later irs here. YES !!!
2500 miles later irs here. YES !!!
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Very first necessity.
Very first necessity.
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Soon as I find a lift this goes in.
Soon as I find a lift this goes in.
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Needs the LED spotlight. Lol
Needs the LED spotlight. Lol
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Finally cleaned up.
Finally cleaned up.
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Cleaned up nice.
Cleaned up nice.
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Walt (AKA:Capeasy) So. Cal.
2013 Caprice 9C1,Huron white, Blackbear tune, DOD Delete, Texas Speed stage 2 cam with all the goodies, Circle D 258 mm converter, 3200 stall. Spectra CAI, 3.45 Diff, deep trans pan. BlackWidow Venom exhaust,Granatelli oval cutouts, Doug Thorley tri-Y headers, Pedders coilovers,Tower brace, Widend OE. rear wheels to 10" wide with 295 Nitto's
Ilikemtb999
Posts: 220
Joined: Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:49 pm

Re: Newbie from So. Cal. Hello Everyone.

Post by Ilikemtb999 »

Welcome! Car looks great!

I’m jealous of your 3.45 diff. I could only find a 3.27 locally.
CrashTestDummy
Posts: 2300
Joined: Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:31 pm
Location: Pearland, Texas

Re: Newbie from So. Cal. Hello Everyone.

Post by CrashTestDummy »

Looks nice. Gotta love those Florida cars! Our Tahoe PPV came from the Sarasota Co. Sheriff's department.

Yes, it needs a spot light. How did they plug the hole?
Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas
2012 Caprice 9C1
1992 B4C 1LE Camaro
2018 Tahoe PPV (her car)
1995 DGGM Impala SS
1985 Firebird - 310 LS1 C Prepared autocross car.
1980 Bluebird Wanderlodge
And some others
Do YOU have my SPID?
camrat68
Posts: 216
Joined: Sun Apr 30, 2017 7:47 pm
Location: Appleton, WI

Re: Newbie from So. Cal. Hello Everyone.

Post by camrat68 »

Very Nice!!

Jim
Jim Chesnutt
1968 Camaro -my first car.
1995 Black/White 9C1 Caprice
2012 Alto Gray Metallic 9C1 Caprice--The HoDag-Solo axle back exhaust, improved racing OTR CAI intake.
2013 Black/White 9C1--NADACOP-DOD Delete with BTR Stage II cam, Kooks Headers, Solo Hi-flow Cats and Header Back Mach Balanced kit, WestBendDyno tuned.
Capeasy
Posts: 173
Joined: Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:16 pm
Location: Downey, CA.

Re: Newbie from So. Cal. Hello Everyone.

Post by Capeasy »

Yeah I figured Florida would be a salt free state. But there's signs of rust appearing on the bottom of the frame, mostly around those welds, I took some chassis black POR 15 to it. Maybe it's all the humidity down there. And to plug the spotlight hole they just put a big dollop of clear silicon. Lol.
Walt (AKA:Capeasy) So. Cal.
2013 Caprice 9C1,Huron white, Blackbear tune, DOD Delete, Texas Speed stage 2 cam with all the goodies, Circle D 258 mm converter, 3200 stall. Spectra CAI, 3.45 Diff, deep trans pan. BlackWidow Venom exhaust,Granatelli oval cutouts, Doug Thorley tri-Y headers, Pedders coilovers,Tower brace, Widend OE. rear wheels to 10" wide with 295 Nitto's
SSpeedracer
Posts: 149
Joined: Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:34 pm

Re: Newbie from So. Cal. Hello Everyone.

Post by SSpeedracer »

345!!! You monster. Beating up on the PPV. If the Transmission is still programmed stock then you're missing all kinds of fun. But probably keeping things from blowing up in the long run.
2016 Caprice
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