Hey everyone. I recently moved here from NY. I live in Corona and I'm looking to meet up with some people. Back in NY I was pretty heavy into DSM's (Talon, Eclipse, Laser) but now that I can drive RWD year round I've got myself a 97 z28. Any info as to meets, local tracks, anything would be great! Looking forward to meeting some people!!!

 

welcome aboard. I was also previously a DSM owner. I owned a 22psi T3/T4 5spd chrysler sebring (with 420A Eclipse engine) and soon after purchased a 18psi 97 GS-T. R.I.P. on both of those cars. The sebring was broken into and vandalized. I sold the eclipse to my neighbor........which he just totally destroyed the engine/trans due to irresponsibility with maintenance.

 

Wow that Sebring sounds awesome! I'm trying to get a friend of mine (lives back east) to turbo his 420a Avenger. Did you use the Hahn kits? To bad about your 97. Thats a great example of why DSM's get a bad rep for reliability. Kids just beat the hell out of them and then complain when something breaks. I owned a 91 TSI AWD that I bought with 125,000 miles. I drove it till 135,000 (less then a year later) with nothing but a Dejon Upper pipe and free mods. Then I bought a 92 6/4 bolt. I drove that one from 136k to 160k in about 9 months!!! I through a 2.5 inch Buscher turbo back, boost controller, rewired the fuel pump, bunch of free mods. It was on the stock clutch at 160k so my quarter times sucked. I sold the 91 to a friend of mine and he's still driving it with over 150k, and he just installed a small 16g, ported 2g mani...bunch of other ****. I considered buying another one out here in Cali but all this emission crap scares me. Back east I ran an open exhaust daily driven!!! Sorry for the novel. So are there any car meets around here??? I'm dying to cruz but I dont know my way around!!!

 

I went with a STAR Stage 2 Kit and then just built my car around that setup. Although you had a stock clutch, did your 92 beast run pretty healthy ? Emissions laws in Cali. definitely suck. Dam, you ran an open exhaust daily driven back East? Here in Cali., that's like beggin' for your car to towed. Definitely not a novel. It's good to hear about another 4cyl owner convert over to a V8. It's definitely a night and day difference, huh? I'm not involved with any car clubs myself. However, I do attend some of the group meets the different fbody websites organize. There's 2 big events I know of that are coming up.

1: Super Chevy Show http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=343292

2: Castaic Lake Show

There's no confirmed date that I know of for this show though. Every year, it's been held sometime in May.

 

I should have been more specific with the exhaust. It had no cat just pipes with a straight through muffler. It ran incredibly well. Both my DSM' did. They are VERY reliable cars as long as you keep up on maintainence. And yep it was on the stock clutch!!! As far as the difference its just such a great feeling having instant power at any RPM with the Z28. The car drives itself. I'm definetly interested in going to this show in May!!! And if there are any cruz nights on the weekends or anything PM me or something. I live in Corona work in Laguna Hills. So I'm slowly learning these crazy *** highways.

 

Welcome to SoCal.
I moved here about 8 yrs ago from Brooklyn.
Still travel back and forthe quite often.

I know what you mean about the RWD!!!
You'll enjoy it out here!!

PM me if you got any questions~~