The Camaro Club (UK)

I have just fitted the centre piece of the 1990 hatch spoiler I bought off Rocky.
As the lower part of the hatch had moved slightly, they do that over the years,
I decided to remove it and install the piece off the car.I was going to get it resprayed but not to lose time I did it.
First off support the rear hatch to remove the struts.
This is the second time I´ve done this so I knew it´s best to use a substantial support, one that does´nt let the glass flop side to side.
The glass is heavy, let it drop and it´ll bust.They make one helluva bang when they do break..........yup I know.


Then clean the glass and inner panel of residue gunk and sealer.


Sprayed.


Luckily I got the holes in the right place.
I did make a card template but it was useless, I got the end holes first, placed the spoiler over them and pressed it onto the metal the studs marking the paint.
Then it´s close eyes, silent prayer and drill, pilot holes first opening them up until the spoiler fitted.
The holes on the inner panel had to be big enough to let the nuts pass, some filing was necessary.

Bench fitting.


The 1990 inner hatch panel is swaged differently to a 1986, they did it to hide the retaining nuts, they are hidden by grommets, on mine they look like this.


I had a high level brake light originally but when a hatch glass was available I jumped at the chance to get rid of it.
That meant the connections for the spoiler mounted brake light were in place, just connect.
I bought new bulbs for the brake light and after a clean up I was done with the centre part.


Help online.
Rear Hatch Alignment 101......http://www.thirdgen.org/hatchalign




I hope to get to the final side pieces soon.

Top Job.

Take a couple of rear view full car shots please

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"Main Force Patrol we,re out of the game "

Like this ?

Nice.

Just reading your car details there. Did you do the work or was it done when you imported it?

Any youtube videos of it running?

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"Main Force Patrol we,re out of the game "

Apart from paint I´ve done it all, don´t trust anyone here.
And it´ll never go back to the place that did my last paintjob.

Here they believe in change the oil filter every other oil change....
Where´s the sense in that ?

I had most of the car done when I imported it, just told them I bought it that way....

Good work.. I quite like it without the end-caps in a weird way...

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

I thought that too.
I´ll search for pictures with end pieces and compare.

More butt shots.

That's really handy, cheers for posting that.

Nice car, too!

My vote's for end-caps though

I was looking at doing the end caps yesterday, seems there´s an awful lot involved in getting the trim
away on the left in the rear.
I will have to ruin trim clips to do it.
I need plenty of room to get my drill in there.

Oh cock !