The Camaro Club (UK)

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

Come on, it's Friday now.

Did it pass the MOT, is it back on the road?

Is Stu spending too much time driving it to post?

Alas, it didn't pass.

Nothing major though.. Small repair needed need subframe mount, and rear brakes aren't good enough basically.. So whole new rear brake conversion kit ordered and on way to be fitted in a week or 2...

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

Sorry to hear about the MOT. I thought it would have flown through with the work that's gone into it!

What are you doing about the rear brakes? Disc upgrade?

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The rear brakes suck, and couldn't even muster 2% efficiency. Everything checked out mechanically so Stu took the decision to fit a great set!

The foot brake was also poor scraping through at 57%. Typical of extremely hard race pads from cold.

The rust hole I completely missed, it was tucked up behind the subframe.

Just a waiting game on parts from the USA now and then it'll be sorted in a couple of weeks....

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Wow that's not much good for braking! On my 3rd gen the rear passenger side drum had a slightly leaking axle seal so the pads got a bit greasy after a while, but still held, wonder what was causing these to not hold well.

You almost saw the back of the car then! New rear kit will be good, looking forward to seeing it on there!

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Looks like fairly decent kit.. hopefully will match well with the C5 fronts.. going for bit softer front pads too as yellowstuff on their now takes ages to warm and work well on the street.

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

Out of curiosity, what kit have you gone for? I'm putting a Baer kit based on C4 on the front, but still stock on the rear.

I had a C5 kit fitted about 6 years ago. I did a lot of research and was the best value and most easily fitted for the result, and future disc and pad supplies.
Rear was still drums till 2 years ago and then fitted a 2nd hand SSBC rear disc kit, but it was never great, hoping this one will work out. It's a RSD AFXRD07Z kit with bigger discs.

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

Picked the car up yesterday from Flak Monkey. Huge thanks for all the work, still a few few bits to do that I'll tackle myself.
It goes runs steers stops n suff.. ! Very happy
Will get some more pics soon but here it was yesterday..

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