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02-21-2010, 01:53 PM #1
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bright red- 1999 Z28 Camaro
A New Member, a Frenchie with a 99 Z28 LS1 Camaro
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.
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02-21-2010, 03:01 PM #2
Welcome! I know a guy from Lyon.
It's crazy the restrictions they have over there!
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02-21-2010, 03:14 PM #3
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2002 Z28 A4 NBM- Sadly now demodded :(
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.
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02-21-2010, 04:04 PM #4
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
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02-21-2010, 05:21 PM #5
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Black- 99 WS.6 - Modified
G'day and welcome. If you're lookin to uncork those power restrictions, you've come to the right place to find out how.
It's not how fast you can go. It's how fast you can get there.
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02-21-2010, 05:30 PM #6
Welcome to LS1.com, I'm not used to seeing the euro marker lights. Nice Camaro though. Enjoy!
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02-21-2010, 06:18 PM #7
Bonjour! And welcome to the site!
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02-21-2010, 06:47 PM #8
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Black- 2005 GTO
Welcome. I hail from Russia, been to France once, beautiful country.
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02-21-2010, 07:35 PM #9
I just noticed those are Firebird seats...
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02-21-2010, 08:10 PM #10
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02-21-2010, 11:23 PM #11
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?
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02-21-2010, 11:52 PM #12
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bright red- 1999 Z28 Camaro
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.Last edited by titoux57; 02-21-2010 at 11:54 PM.
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02-22-2010, 12:12 AM #13
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.
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02-22-2010, 12:18 AM #14
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bright red- 1999 Z28 Camaro
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02-22-2010, 12:23 AM #15
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02-22-2010, 12:28 AM #16
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
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02-23-2010, 12:39 AM #17
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