A New Member, a Frenchie with a 99 Z28 LS1 Camaro

[titoux57]

Hi everybody,

my name's David, i'm 38 and i live in France, near Luxemburg and belgium.

I went in the USA in 1999 for my honeymoon...5000 kilometers beetween california, Arizona, Nevada and Utah in a 25 days trip...i felt in love with San Francisco and Las Vegas. I drove a 99 White 2.2 ou 2.4 Sunfire, i don't remenber, that was great...)

In France I've got a 1999 z28 Camaro, a bright red one, with ttop and Automatic transmission. 50K Miles on it. (I also got a 99 Mercedes A Class 140 and a Nissan Xtrail 2.2 DCI (diesel)

In France, with power restriction, my z28 is an european import model, with a specific single exhaust more restrictive (i think it's the european V6 3800 one), and GM said it was a 288 HP car. (305 originaly). In France, GM sold the Camaro 3800 II sport coupe and convertible , and the 5.7 z28 (not in convertible...) beetween 1998 and 2001.

I've got it in june 08 with 40K Miles, and now i've got 50k. It's almost a daily car, that's incredible in France with a 6.8 dollars per US gallon.

Mine has a K§N filter, a free ram air, and a Huge HP Tuner "tune" or "reprog" i don't know how i have to say? No speed limiter, no AIr, no EGR, optimization of the response of the Automatic gear, and a lot of great stuff. But my MPG is a little worse now. on sunny day, it's 19.5/21.5 MPG and in winter it's 15.68 MPG.

My top speed is estimated by a similar z28 in France at 168/170 Miles per hour on the GPS and 187/190 Miles per hour on the "speed indicator".

To be honest, my top speed with it was 150 Miles per hour on the speed indicator, i don't want to go to jail !! (max speed in France is 80 MPH on higway and a 150 miles Ticket = No more driving licence, no more car, and a lot of problems.)

I got a website here :

Ma Camaro z28 et son V8 LS1 de 5.7L

ps : if you have SLP air lid for sale, for good price with international shipping, i would be great !! On ebay, it's too expensive (200 dollars with shipping cost)

On the same way, i had a dream....a SS hood.....but in France it's impossible to find one, no SS Camaro were sold....we got to buy them in USA and import them....so a 450 $ hood become a 2000 dollars (without paint !) after the ship....


Excuse me for my poor english.

[SuperSport346]

Welcome! I know a guy from Lyon.

It's crazy the restrictions they have over there!

[67CamaroRSSS]

Welcome to the site. You're not the only one here from Europe. We have at least 1 other from Hamburg, Germany that I know of (he goes by the name "Hamburger").

Loving F-bodies is truly an International affair.

[c5z28]

Welcome to the sight there are a few member that are across the ocean. At 6.8 dollars per gallon my car would be a garage queen

[Knight]

G'day and welcome. If you're lookin to uncork those power restrictions, you've come to the right place to find out how.

[Smittro]

Welcome to LS1.com, I'm not used to seeing the euro marker lights. Nice Camaro though. Enjoy!

[pajeff02]

Bonjour! And welcome to the site!

[Mirkels_GTO]

Welcome. I hail from Russia, been to France once, beautiful country.

[SuperSport346]

I just noticed those are Firebird seats...

[67CamaroRSSS]

I just noticed those are Firebird seats...

Export Camaro's have them. It has something to do with the adjustable headrest being a mandatory thing in Europe (or something like that). Notice the additional lights in the rear bumper and the sidelight markers in the fender. All are export only items.

[Smittro]

The standard SS I believe came with a decent flowing single set up wonder if you could have one like it built to be legal over there?

[titoux57]

The standard SS I believe came with a decent flowing single set up wonder if you could have one like it built to be legal over there?

We don't have the SS in France, just 2 camaro SS are on our roads here.

We have a lot a greats guys who prepares theirs fbody to have 430 rwhp and to run with but most of us got stock fbodies, just a k§n, a catback.....i have to buy a magnaflow in september.


I don't know exactly how many Fbodies are in France, but a not a lot of.
some 1st gen, 2d gen, 3d gen and a some 4th gen (and some 5th too)...but in france price for a camaro or firebird is twice yours.

GM officialy imported these Fbodies :

93-97 3.4 Firebird and a little 3.8 firebird
96-97 T/A (500 max in France)
98-01 Z28 Coupe camaro, 98-01 coupe 3.8 and convertible.

No SS, No 4th gen 93-97 in camaro, no Z28 convertible

I think there no more than 100 Z28 98-01 in France, Two camaro SS 1999, and some T/A 98-02 WS6 in import by fans.

A used car in the usa at 10000 dollars for exemple, going to be 20000 dollars in France, and it's a real hard work to immatriculate it and to be allowed to drive with (we have to change a lot of piece, light, exhaust..have a track test, brake and pollution testing...and to pay 3000 dollars to try to immatriculate this kind of cars.

It's always the same thing when you want to get a car wich was not sold officialy in our country. We had a government who protect our local constructors (peugeot, citroën, renault....and europeans car, BMW, mercedes, etc....

Us cars are always for rich guys here, lol

But, we have a lot of 3.4 firebird and 3.8 camaro here.....
Some LT1 T/A, some LS1 Camaro, and a lot of Corvette L98/LT1/LS1 and more cause GM still import corvette here.

[c5z28]

Just an idea have you considered bolting a bullet style muffler before the axle, then swap it out for when you get it smogged. I can't imagine who much a muffler would cost to ship over there.

[titoux57]

Just an idea have you considered bolting a bullet style muffler before the axle, then swap it out for when you get it smogged. I can't imagine who much a muffler would cost to ship over there.

Excuse-me, i don't understand...what is a bullet style muffler?

[titoux57]

Welcome to the sight there are a few member that are across the ocean. At 6.8 dollars per gallon my car would be a garage queen

lol, with a 6.8 $ per US gallon here, i made 7500 Miles/year.

At 5 ou 4 dollars per us gallon, i'll be at 15000 i thing.

[c5z28]

Excuse-me, i don't understand...what is a bullet style muffler?

Some examples
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=f&oq=&aqi=g10

I guess more specifically rounds or ovals
http://www.borla.com/products/produc...?cat=5&type=72

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aggressive but not terribly loud since you probably wont be getting longtubes

[titoux57]

Some examples
http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...=f&oq=&aqi=g10

I guess more specifically rounds or ovals
http://www.borla.com/products/produc...?cat=5&type=72

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CCFJ48/...SIN=B000CCFJ48

aggressive but not terribly loud since you probably wont be getting longtubes

I really prefer dual style exhaust, or 2x2.....like this ones :

My prefered :


or this one, that we can find on camaros in france, but not mine....



If you have used one, at good prices.....lol