Justice Pete

We wanted to give our Camaro a new look and went back to the future. The GM Heritage Grille and Nickey Chicago Stinger Hood do just that. I turned my car over to Witt Buick / Pedders in Muskegon Michigan for the update. Step one was fitting the hood for the first time. I helped with this and it went really well. The hood arrived from Nickey well crated with all the hardware. It took us longer to un-crate it than it did to fit it. Out of the box it looked good.





If you know me, the hood had to be modified. The Nickey Chicago hood scoop is fully functional and dumps air into the OEM air box. I don't have an air box. I have a ProCharger and wanted the dump to be into the ProCharger air filter. We had to glass over the existing dump and grind open the rear of the duct. The result is the air dumps exactly where it will do us the most good.




Anything we do always seem to grow in scope. This was no different. All we were doing is a hood and grille swap, right?

Justice Pete

To go with Nickey Chicago Stinger Hood we selected the GM heritage Grille. Keeping the theme of Pedders Red and Black we painted the grille -- GASP -- RED with the slats in BLACK.




The grille was ready, but we did notice a couple of stone chips in the fascia so as long as we had it off, why not touch them up, right?

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With the fascia looking fresh we installed the Heritage Grille.





With the grille and fascia back on the car we set the hood in place so we could lay down the black stripe.

Justice Pete

Our Camaro looked good when we started.



We like the new back to the future look.








There is more under the car, but for now I leave you with a couple of wheel detail shots.

DMS Motorsports

Looks great!

mike
dms

JasonD

Those brakes....they look interesting...

Nickey Chicago

The car looks great! What's up with the Brakes?

mudbone

Pete,
I love the Heritage Grill, but the XL-5 scoop - not so much. I can't tell if my opinion is based on the shape of the scoop or the way it's accented. To my eyes, it's just not right. Of course, if we all had the same taste, we'd all be driving Camrys (LOL).

Now...what's up with the brakes??

Justice Pete

I'll get a detailed thread up on the brake today or tomorrow.

Justice Pete

I think it is the grille loop. While I like the look, we probably should have painted the Heritage grille loop black to match the lower grille. What do you think?

mudbone

Maybe. I am no good at Photoshop. Maybe some of the PS gurus here will give it a shot. Truthfully, I think that painting the pointed portion of the scoop black might be the way to go. Of course, too much black would not be good either.

2010_5thgen

brakes
hood

Nathan S. Parki

At first i thought the bonnet was gunna be white that would look horrible but i love it in black it looks really good. Well done.

Justice Pete

Well... we decided we can do better so we have a Nickey Stinger II hood coming and a few other goodies.

jasonsmitz28

wow that looks bad! completely awesome

JeremyNYR

I think it would look better if the red part of the heritage grille were painted gloss black to match the surrounding area. The black region on the bottom of the nose is pretty good, but the black "slashes" on the nose that are higher than the foglights don't work for me. It makes it look too busy.