need advice

later on im going to go see a car:

98 camaro z28 6 speed, t tops, 315s widestance on the back, 245 on the front, headers, exhaust, intake, new dash, new AC, new fuel pump, new power steering, new altinator, new radiator, body kit and custom paint

the car has 160,000 miles ,i have never had or driven a camaro,is there any particular thing that i shoul look after?

the guy is asking 8,500 for it and judging for the pics the car is in good shape,do u guys think that as fair price?


thanks in advance.

sounds like an alright deals for the car your getting

its a 98 with 160,000 miles. He is asking too much. If it had a brand new motor I might say yeah but you have to think about the wear and tear on a sports car that is 8 years old. Try to talk him down alil

mileage and age are indeed the biggest factors,but the car looks good,
dont really now hot to post a pic,so below is the url to a pic
if url are not allowed,please delete post.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/mitademedio/camaro98.jpg

Yikes....
Find a better one.

Yikes....
Find a better one.

I agree, 160K on the clock is ALOT for any car. Especially a v8 sports car. I guarentee that its been driven into the ground, and even though the body looks good, the engine and tranny are probably beat to hell. He could have done the body kit and paint 5K miles ago before selling it. Even those bolt-ons and replacement parts shouldn't change the price that much.

Modded cars sell for less than stock cars.


Ugly modded cars sell for even less.

While I think the paint job looks pretty good, I'm not diggin the hood and body kit. But if that's what you like then definately go check it out. But see how old the person is selling it, if its a person thats pretty young, then odds are he's beat that thing alot, especially with that many miles. The most I would offer the guy is $6,500, and that's being generous.

OK thanksfor the advice i couldnt go see it saturday so i will go sunday afternoon,i guess i dont loose anything with checking it out.

hey also it is a ls1, so chack with that manny miles it does not eat oil. some of them do that after they get miles.

Some eat oil from the time they are first started.

ok thats was an itch that i had to scratch so i went to see it,the car starts rigth up,and shifts fine,paint job looks fairly new maybe a year old or so,has a few rock chips at the fron but i guess thats normal,both back tires are in bad shape,has corvette chrome wheels in perfect condition,interior its pretty stock with the exeption of a couple of pillar mounted gages and the dash that was also replaced,sound system is stockwith a cd changer in the back,the muffler ratles and hits somewhere. something that i didnt quite like it was that there were no cats,it was a straigth system,guy told me it will pass emissions fine cause the sensor are still connected so it tricks the computer?...is that normal has anyone do it?i have no way of knowing if it burns i guess i fail to ask the guy that.
so that about sums it all,i didnt make him an offer but say i wil call him later,was thinking of offering 7000 ,thats 1500 less that his asking price,but im still unsure about the whole exaust systems,theres no sense of getting it if it can pass emissions.


and with that body kit...not an everyday driver.

anyone has any input?

s9omething i forgot to mention,the headligths were kind of loose is that normal?

man all those miles are sick...after 130k im doing rebuild all day long..or new engine and tranny. dont get yourself caught up in a money pit, our cars have and are known to cost us alot to keep running. they arent cheap. u can get a ls1 for 6500- 10k with under 100k miles on them all day. i would suggest u either keep looking, or give him 6k for it

The headlights tighten up with one 10mm bolt or nut, I forget now...

My exhaust was hitting the floorboard on my car too, it was the transmission mount, cost me about $30 to fix.

you can't pass if the cats are out because even if you do have the sensors pluged in, the cats filter out crap so it will not pass. but the rattle might be a peace of metal in the muffler, or the heat shield rattling, or hitting something. ya offer him 6 or go find another one, because that is alot of miles.

well here in texas if your car is 96 and up they don't use the probe in the exaust pipe ,they just check the emmision system troug the computer.

Oh ya i forgot about that. um do this, ask to test drive it and go to autozone and have the codes scaned, if none come up on there reader then it will pass.

No codes will come up if the service engine soon light isn't on.

He has rear O2 sims. They simply have a certain ohm reading set that is normal for those O2's to read, thus not setting off the rear O2 emission codes.
I have my rear O2 codes deleted from the computer. Cheaper than sims to have an LSx shop edit the computer.
Lots of guys use those sims when they remove the cats or run hi-flow cats.

I want to thank everyone for the help, i guess ill wait until i find one with about half the mileage.

No codes will come up if the service engine soon light isn't on.

He has rear O2 sims. They simply have a certain ohm reading set that is normal for those O2's to read, thus not setting off the rear O2 emission codes.
I have my rear O2 codes deleted from the computer. Cheaper than sims to have an LSx shop edit the computer.
Lots of guys use those sims when they remove the cats or run hi-flow cats.

what he said. No really, he said exactly what I would have word for word, except replace "LSx shops" with "tuners" and that's exactly what i woulda said.

the guy is willing to take 6500 for it so i migth get it after all,can i run super unleaded in it or does it have to be premium?

a couple more pics.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/mitademedio/1Uyup9o2fhIyT0pFsdWqoELxr4se.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h29/mitademedio/48Va3bVhSqxyQXjpGWinlYzwpoOC.jpg

Man that car looks terrible. The appearance mods are way past what I like.

It requires the highest octane fuel you can buy at a regular gas station. 91-93 octane.
I thought premium and super were the same thing.