I bought mine brand new, they over book I guess it was sitting on the show room floor. I got it in a 6-speed, all leather triple BLK, 500 bose system, for 24,000 firm I try to walk out and see if they would come down, and the guy said have a nice day. So the next day I got their just before some guy who drove down for Ga. was going to look at it as I was rolling it out the front doors , bad day for him a good day for me but I still paid 24K but got 4,000 for my 96RS, and put down 7,ooo and got 0% interest and payments of $250

 

Just wanted to share this info for those of you who are interested in camaro special service packages
I was lucky enough to find a 2002 black B4C copo car with only 1500 miles on it. Mine has the Ls6 block and intake, not sure about the cam or heads yet. But it does have the larger battery and alternator, black leather, it has the "H" shifter **** but the steering wheel is not leather wrap (weird) six speed hurst with 3.42 s in the rear. w/o traction control, the suspension is the same as the Z28 as far as I can tell. the exhaust is exactky like the z28. Thats about the only differences I can tell of. Other than the fact that it was a fleet ordered car. (This one was ordered as an extra for the dealers son, but it wasn't good enough for him. he wanted the ZO6 vette)

its perfect for me

 

Since 1998, the only real parts difference, overall is the rear trailing arms.
The packaging is different. From 1998 thru 2000, the B4C came with a Power Steering Cooler, whereas the Z28 offered the cooler as an option....however, the cooler was made standard on all V8s in 2001/ 2002.....
From 1998 thru 2000, the B4C included Eagle RS-A Tires..which meant the car was not speed limited to 110 (or thereabouts) as a standard Z28 with the standard Eagle GA tires. (Z28s with RS-A tires or GSCs were speed limited to 162mph as I recall.)

From 1998 thru 2002, the B4C had power windows, locks, mirrors, and driver's seat in the package along with, I believe, fog lamps cruise control, and a power hatch release. (this forces a heavier wiring harness in the body of the car.......) The B4C also came with the vinyl steering wheel and brake release handle unless you specifically ordered the leather wrapped wheel ('98/'99) or the "Duplicate Radio Controls" (00, 01, 02) which got you the leather wrapped wheel and brake release. The B4C also deleted the Z28 emblems and furthermore forced a body colored roof panel, rather than the black roof panel that Z28s came with. CC1 removable roof panels were not available. The 6-speed transmission WAS available. However, from Start of Production in the '98 model year, thru the end of January 2002, the B4C could only be ordered 'Fleet' and that required a 6-digit fleet code to do so. Starting in February of 2002, the B4C was opened up (quietly) to retail orders for a good reason: We told (thru our fleet operations) all B4C users that fleet orders would not be accepted after February 1 due to build out and the large number of sold orders. Naturally, we started getting calls from dealers/police departments wanting to "order one more car......."

No larger battery, no larger alternator, no special transmission or engine or brakes......

oh....a few other things....I believe we made the Monsoon system standard on the Z28 in 1998. (memory is fading...it's late.....) The B4C, on the other hand, got the standard radio ...but could be upgraded to the Monsoon as a free flow option.... and remote keyless entry, while in the upgrade package on the Z28 was a free flow option on the B4C. AND......depending on the number of orders, we would two-tone cars with B4C....required, as I recall, a 90 day lead time and line drawings would have to be submitted.....and the colors had to be existing RPO colors........paint lines would be established by body panels. Most usually had doors and hood the secondary color with the rest of the panels the primary color. There was a charge for this, and thus, most departments desiring special paint would do it locally once they received the cars.


Hope that clears up the mystery...............

 

Are you sure they didn't get a bigger alternator?

I did a search and found the autos got 3.23s.

 

You are, I believe, correct in that the autos got the 3.23 axle......however, the alternator was the same...and this was problematic in that if the car sat at idle with the air cond. all radio equipment, and all the lights on (lightbars, strobes, et.al) for long periods of time, the battery would discharge...............not a good thing.......thus, some departments that added llotsa lights and radios and used the cars for safety patrol (where the car spent a lot of time at idle with all the lights and equipment on) would put a heavier alternator in the car.....but the car was primarily designed for highway pursuit......

 

JUST FYI- MY 2002 B4C HAS THE LS6 BLOCK AND 3.42 RATIO THE REST OF THE INFO MATCHES UP WITH MY CAR. ALTHOUGH MY CAR ALSO HAS LEATHER WHICH I WOULD IMAGING IS KIND OF RARE.

 

oNE MORE THING ITS A SIX SPEED THATS PROBABLY WHY IT HAS THE 342 RATIO

 

Well it means you have 3:23 gears , at least thats what i read

 

read where? nobody else here seemed to mention it.

 

If it's an auto, yes. His is a manual though so he got 3.42s (all LS1 M6 F-bodies got 3.42s). But if it was an auto it would have the 3.23s instead of the 2.73s.