Need advise

[drvngstorm05]

Originally Posted by will69camaro

I'm sure spacers would be fine on a driver as long as you take it easy on them. People can swear up and down that they're "just as good as bolting the wheel up normally" but i've taken classes recently which make it apparent that the lugs will feel a greater shearing force with the adapter. In short, ok for normal street driving and cruising, bad for racing.

William

u talkin about the rear wheels right? i would assume they would be just fine on the fronts since the only stress they may get is from hard turning...

[DaMoNe6969]

they are 17" x 9.5 Z06 wheels on a 3" billet aluminum spacer...
Shoes are 275/40-17 Cooper Zeon 2XS tires all around.. had to make a few very minor adjustments to get a decent turning radius but all in all, they bolted up very well.. I bought the rims, than bought tires, the place I bought the tires from mounted them on the rims, then I took them home and bolted the rims/spacers on the car..
will69, Ide imagine just by looking at it that there would definatly be more shearing force on the hub to spacer lugs, but being a daily summer driver, it shouldnt effect me at all..

anyways, back on topic. dont wanna be a thread jacker.. with your 6'r being a MPFI, I wouldnt recommend taking it off for a 4 barrel carb.. JMO, but ive never been a fan of carb's..

Originally Posted by platinumwarrior

Right now I'm smoking V6 mustangs, and rice rockets, but anything with an 8 is faster.

Consider yourself lucky that its giving you that much.. But without either serious engine work and one major power adder (turbo, super, nitrous) or a 350 engine swap, your car will always be behind the 8's

[blindeyed]

If your lookin to stick with your 2.8, then here's a link to a site that has alot of performance parts for that engine. Good luck with whatever you plan to do.

http://www.engine-parts.com/GMV6/gm28stroker.html

[will69camaro]

I'm not talking about the rears only, i'm saying there is increased stress due to the weight of the vehicle being applied a greater distance from the hub (that's "torque"). Driving hard increased the load seen by the tire and thats results in a higher shearing force on the lug.

William

[bag91]

Originally Posted by 97CamaroRS

Way too general man... just 3rd and 4th gens theres the 2.8, 3.1, 3.4, 3.8... the basic generalization is the 3.4 and 3.8 are the only ones to make decent power with, and thet the 3.8 is all in all better. EPA on the 3.8 is 29 highway 18 city, I get about that, a little better than that on highways.

I believe the whole topic of this post is 88 2.8L, WHAT DO YOU THINK I WAS TALKING ABOUT?

[blindeyed]

Originally Posted by bag91

Holy crap!!!!
How'd you get 220 posts in 2 days!!!!

EAT SLEEP CAMARO FORUM

Well, he's been around since Mar '04. That might have something to do with it, lol.

[bag91]

Originally Posted by blindxeyed

Well, he's been around since Mar '04. That might have something to do with it, lol.

OH CRAP I think ill just delete that post...and call it a night.
talk to you guys in the morning

[platinumwarrior]

Well, I think I'm just going to work on my 2.8 even though a 5.7 is what I want. One other thing, my car says that the body is by Fisher. What does that mean?

[Genopsyde]

F-Body = Fisher Body... camaro, T/A, Firechicken.

[88camaroproject]

hey i got a 2.8 also and i put a msd blaster coil on it and that helsped out sooo much, and now im swapping a remanufactured 2.8 into it and im getting a tbi spacer and a injector spacer i think and ill tell you how it goes, but if you find any performaance parts that help it out alot i would like to know cause i wanna go faster, well get to speeds faster. also im thinking in gonne get my intake bored out cause i heard the intake is way restrictive on theese engine and thats what makes em mad slow