[SomeGeoffGuy]

Congrats!

[nismofreak]

Congrats and love the color.

[Chris Durant]

Good looking Camaro, Congrats, glad you were able to find one and man it looks nice.

[JT6Speed]

Hey good to see a fellow NJ poster. Riptide is a great, one year only color to send the Camaro off. Enjoy.

[JoeCamaro444]

Congrats! Can’t wait to see more photos. Love that you owned my childhood dream car, a 1977 TA 🤘🏼

[Edwardo]

Time is running out on finding a 2024, but you found a beauty. I went through the same process. Dealer couldn't come up with an allocation so I did a search for a month. After many dealership phone calls, I finally found one in transit that wasn't sold. Gave my deposit over the phone. Sharkskin 2SS 6M in my garage now.

[jfkheat]

Congratulations. I love the color. Did it have most of the options you were looking for?

I found my Black 2SS on the Chevrolet site. It was 300 or so miles away but the dealership delivered it to me.

[jfkheat]

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[Ray3768]

Thank you all. I intend to pick the car up on Saturday. The wait is killing me. I got paid for my existing 2012 SS from a private buyer. Only did slightly better than what the dealer offered me but I've known the guy for years and he is worthy of the car. It will go to Virginia and live in a nice garage. He plans to only drive it on nice days so it's daily driver duties are coming to an end. I guess it's like the automotive equivalent of retirement.

JoeCamaro444, I still own the 1977 T/A. I built the car when I was 19. I restored the body and had it painted. The car was upgraded with new front and rear springs, polyurethane bushings, solid subframe mounts, subframe connectors, 1981 WS6 steering gear, and 1979 WS6 rear disc brakes. It was powered with a 400 SBC and TCI streetfighter TH350 with stall converter. The engine was cammed and I ported the heads. Carb was a Holley 650 double pumper. It was a blast to drive. That thing was making close to 400 HP in the early 1990's. It was my daily and I drove up and back from college everyday. in 1996 I managed to break the crankshaft which was a stock cast unit. The car has been garaged since. I'll get back to it one day. Maybe an LS swap, maybe build another 400 SBC as I have a nice 4-bolt main block that's been bored 0.030 over. Dunno yet.

Regarding the new car's options, unfortunately it's missing some things from my chevrolet.com build. I wanted Radiant Red but after seeing the Riptide Blue in person I'm good with it. The sport pedals and strut tower brace will be ordered in a couple weeks. No biggie, I can install those items myself. I hope those pedal covers go on easy. My fingers still hurt from putting the ZL1 pedal covers on the 2012 ten years ago. Not really, but they were a bear. I might try gently heating them to soften them up a bit. I really wanted the 20" 5-split spoke Black forged wheels. The new car has the 20" bright, 5-spoke, Silver-painted aluminum wheels. That's not a biggie either. The silver wheels look good. I can certainly add them in the future to change up the look. I believe MRR makes a forged equivalent that looks he same.

Other than those items, it has everything I wanted. 8" infotainment with navi. Dual mode exhaust, No sunroof...future leak waiting to happen and no reverse mohawk...so no friggin' sunroof. Note that my T/A is not a T-top car which is why the floor pan and seat tracks are not rusted out. No MR suspension. 5th gen guys with MR cars have to now face the reality the GM discontinued the struts. So lemme ask this, what does putting non MR struts on a 6th gen MR car do? I would imagine the strut wires would be left unplugged? Would this throw codes? Disable stabilitrac? Who knows? I don't want to find out. I get that the MR is amazing tech but I want the option to install Bilstein B6's when the factory struts wear out.

I think about future repairs as I tend to keep my cars for a long time. I was never one to get a new/different car every couple of years. I know many people do and that's cool but I get attached to my cars. I wish I could have kept everyone over the years but reality prevents that from happening. Here's the short list of cars I've owned and drove daily:

1978 Firebird A3 - Driven from 1987 to 1989
1977 T/A A3 - Driven from 1989 to 1996
1988 T/A WS6 A4 - Driven from 1996 to 2000
1994 Z28 M6 - Driven from 2000 to 2012
2012 Camaro SS M6 - Driven from 2012 to present

You can count them on one hand. If GM didn't cancel the Camaro I would have been happy to drive the 2012 SS for a few more years. It's only got 79,000 miles and still looks/runs like new.

I know, I'm probably weird.


-Ray

[arpad_m]

Ray, this all makes sense, you chose very well and got lucky with the options, plus this blue color is as good as the red you would've liked (well, almost, but I'm partial to red, heh).

Since your car won't have MR dampers, you can do anything you want with the suspension, the software will have all MR specific bits deleted. The pedal covers aren't particularly easy to put on, prepare your fingers , but the real dog is the RGB footwell lighting package (an accessory you can order), I still remember lying on my back, head buried deep into the passenger side footwell and cursing at whoever decided on bolt locations for the kick panel that you have to remove . That said, it was very much worth it in the end.

You can take your time with the mods you're planning and do them piecemeal like I did until you arrive at the perfect setup for you, or if you already know exactly what and how much power you'll want, you can save a bunch of money doing it in one go. Tons of useful advice here in the forums if you use a proper search engine and enter the "site:camaro6.com" tag, the built-in search is abysmal and hardly finds anything of use.

It's unfortunate that GM discontinued the car (a whole story of its own), but a small silver lining is that the Camaro is a parts bin vehicle, the majority of its parts are shared with other GM cars/trucks, so there is some hope we can drive these beauties for a long time and still be able to find parts. I did start buying replacements of unique parts such as the discontinued 2018 ZL1 1LE smoked taillights, however. By the way, my list of cars is even shorter than yours, and this 2018 2SS I have is my forever Camaro.
Here's to a joyful Saturday with a trouble-free delivery experience for you

[split_bumper]

Originally Posted by arpad_m

, but the real dog is the RGB footwell lighting package (an accessory you can order), I still remember lying on my back, head buried deep into the passenger side footwell and cursing at whoever decided on bolt locations for the kick panel that you have to remove . That said, it was very much worth it in the end.

I've been seeing threads and comments about this RGB stuff. Is this standard on the ZL1? My footwell lighting always just stays white, and it doesn't change with the ambient lighting. Is there a way to turn this off so it isn't on? Sometimes at night it gets annoying having this bright white footwell lighting on. Maybe someone will see this and can help me out. Sorry for hijacking the post.

[arpad_m]

Originally Posted by split_bumper

I've been seeing threads and comments about this RGB stuff. Is this standard on the ZL1? My footwell lighting always just stays white, and it doesn't change with the ambient lighting. Is there a way to turn this off so it isn't on? Sometimes at night it gets annoying having this bright white footwell lighting on. Maybe someone will see this and can help me out. Sorry for hijacking the post.

No, it's a GM accessory kit that you could either order with the car (dealer installed) or later.

The standard white LEDs cannot be disabled, but on my car (that has the RGB footwell kit) they only illuminate when either door is open, they fade out once you start driving. The RGB LEDs are always in sync with the rest of the ambient lighting, both in terms of being on/off and the current color. They're not as bright as stock GM photos would have you think, but they do add a lot to the interior atmosphere at dusk or at night

By the way, these accessory footwell LEDs have their own separate rectangular cutouts next to where the white ones are installed, check them out when you have a minute. In other words, they don't replace but augment the standard white footwell lighting.

[split_bumper]

Originally Posted by arpad_m

No, it's a GM accessory kit that you could either order with the car (dealer installed) or later.

Thanks for the info. I will have to have a peak and mess around with my settings some to figure it out. That will be sometime around April or May as the car is in storage until then.

[JoeCamaro444]

**JoeCamaro444, I still own the 1977 T/A. I built the car when I was 19. I restored the body and had it painted. The car was upgraded with new front and rear springs, polyurethane bushings, solid subframe mounts, subframe connectors, 1981 WS6 steering gear, and 1979 WS6 rear disc brakes. It was powered with a 400 SBC and TCI streetfighter TH350 with stall converter. The engine was cammed and I ported the heads. Carb was a Holley 650 double pumper. It was a blast to drive. That thing was making close to 400 HP in the early 1990's. It was my daily and I drove up and back from college everyday. in 1996 I managed to break the crankshaft which was a stock cast unit. The car has been garaged since. I'll get back to it one day. Maybe an LS swap, maybe build another 400 SBC as I have a nice 4-bolt main block that's been bored 0.030 over. Dunno yet.**



-That’s awesome! My HS/college years car was my 88 IROC-Z 5.7L. In between my freshman and sophomore years of college, I decided I wanted to do some work to my IROC and turn it into a bit of a sleeper. My uncle was a very good mechanic, so he, along with my dad and I, did a few things to it:
3:73 Richmond Gears
B&M ratchet shifter
B&M transpack
Full Edelbrock exhaust
Engine bored over .30
Ported and polished heads
Crane compucam
TRW pistons
MSD ignition
Some small suspension upgrades as well

My buddies loved that car. I snuck up on a number of people at stoplights.

PS: Congrats on your new wheels!!…and I hope you get that TA rolling again, maybe with some LS power, like you said. I will own a 77 or 78 TA down the road. My Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Edition Camaro 2SS M6 isn’t going anywhere either. I feel we are in the same age bracket. I’m 48, and loving the car show scene.