OK, so I got new wheels for the Camaro...they are 18x9 HRE's, and I was just wondering why the neons don't act right on my car. They have been on there for 3 years already, and they are purple. My seat is starting to lose some of it's comfort, so I think I am just gonna put Trans Am leather ones in there. HRE uses some nice chrome. 542's. The neons just started blinking and I don't know why? I doens't do it to my bass, although I have a pretty powerful system. I put Polk Audio speakers in the doors and the rear panels beside the rear passenger seats, and I put one in the old Bose box in the rear. I wish I oculd find those seats for pretty cheap, but I haven't had much luck. I want really dark black leather, that is really soft, but that might be expensive. I thought about putting green neons on instead, since my car was black, but purple owns. Sometimes too, my car will act like it is going to die. I think it is my altenator, because I have so much juice flowing to the system and my neons. What kind of lug nuts should I use? Def Leppard. Do you like your neons? I think I will clean the tires on my rims, and change the air out before I put them on. I want to take it road racing this weekend, but my new Corbeau's are in the shop getting recovered - and to be honest, I don't know if I can weight reduce my car anymore - I already pulled out the stuff in the glovebox and console, and removed the rear panel between the back seat and trunk. Those wheels are gonna be awesome though, and I hope my neons don't ground out on them. Trans am seats roast beef are nice to sit in.

Any ideas what could be causing my car problems?

 

Just a suggestion, seperate each problem/question into it's own paragraph. Reading through your post it like watching a train wreck.

 

as far as the neons, the exhaust bearing might be leaking onto your rotory Splints making the Neon ballast tube get insuficant amounts of Amperage. Its a common problem on 93-97 Fbodys, not so much the LS1 cars though. and actually purple neon causes this more then say a green tube would. Due to the different density in gases. As far as the Neon Grounding out onto the HRE's, you should be ok, they are only 9 inch wide. usually when you go 9.5 and 10 wide is when you have the problem with grounding out. Just be carefull of your rocker panel hinges. they will get weak with the added heat that the HREs produce at low speed, and even stoped at a light. Now as far as weight reduction, it seems as if your car is basically gutted, but one thing i did to my car that gave me a huge SOTP feal was you know the Shocks that hold the trunk lid up? Take one of those off.. you only need one! The weight you save by taking one off is incredable. Basically anything i have 2 of, i now have 1 of. 1 bolt holding my licens plate on. and it took all the ***** off the Heat controls. Those will be worth about 2 tenths (sorry i dont auto cross, i put everything into terms of 1/4 mile) If you dont change the air in your rims you create the risk of premature dry rotting from the inside.. its good habbit to change the air every month or 1000 miles, just for safety measures. Old air dosent have the resistance the new fresh air would have. and under a hard turn will tend to give easier then some fresh air would. a trick i use is, on the intake of my air compressor i have and anti bacterial air freshner, so all the air that comes in runs through that. That will keep the air good for about 1500 miles.. It just saves some hastle and give you a little extra time to change it out. Good luck with the neons and the wheels and all that... hope you can loose some weight with my diet plan!

later!
Mike

 

.....and this one time at band-camp...

What the hell are you trying to say buddy?

I read the first few sentences and had to stop. I think it said something about neon seats out of a TA, made by HRE.

 

You need to get your shiaat straight nizzle.

The problem with your neon seats is that HRE overcharged them.. (or overcharged for them... bah I dunno) but it was definately one or the other thing and it is a common problem among f-bodies. You need to go down to your local ricer shop and have your neons recharged with the good stuff (preferrably Greddy, matrix GR motorsports, or PIAA) While you are there, you need to get some uncle bens, and sprinkle it around the immediate neon-lit vacinity to maximize your max-boost. This will not work unless you are running at least 16psi through your neons, and have a super-whoosh blowoff valve.

As for the green vs. purple, I dunno... I will ask my uncle and his boyfriend and get back to you.

 

i completly forgot about getting them recharged! i hear APC does a mean neon recharge.. thanks paul.. you saved his Ground out valve from exploding into the shatter bell.. that coulda been bad! dunno why i didnt think about it.. good thing u brought it up

 

Ummm......

 

Man - that makes so much sense now!
I new that those seats weren't charged right. HRE needs some serious qulaity control on their neons...for $4000 they sure are losing their charge quick - I mean, three years???

Thanks for the suggestions though - anyone else? I still got to get this stuff ifgured out.

 

Ineverknewtherewassomuchtolearnaboutneons. Iguessit'sagoodthingthatidon'thaveneonsonmycarbe causeIknowIwouldn'thavethepatienceforthem. ButIdogiverespecttoyouguysthatdohavethem...theyloo kprettycoolattheshows. I'mnotsureiftheyareevenlegalwhereIlive. Thosepeskyporkersareprettystrictaroundhere. Hey, passthatpipeoverhere...puffpuffgive...puffpuffgive .

-Mike

 

I think reading this thread made me stupider.

 

imsparc i think you need your spacebar tensonizer spring tightned, and check the level of Hyrooxyhat fluid on the side of the keyboard.. i think u got a trouble code... Is the SpacBar INOP light on? something to look into

 

Try deleting this post and starting over by typing it up like a sane person

 

Wow when we get thumbs up smileys I remember asking for them but I didn't think we would accually get them!

 

And there's like 50 of them in this post already...

 

my head hurts.
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