Author: Pat

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How low is too low?

The previous owner wanted this thing l-o-w. It has 3″ drop spindles in the front, along with shorter (3″ drop?) springs. The rear has a 2″ lowering block and I think he told me 5″ shorter springs. It’s sitting on the rear bumpstops, and there is about 3″ of ground clearance on the front suspension. It also has very short tires, which makes it ride even lower. This would be fine if it was on air bags, but this is a static drop, and every single bump in the road is going to hit the bottom of this thing.

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Cutting backup light holes

This was not originally an RS model Camaro.  I’m pretty sure it was a base model, and someone transferred parts to it from a wrecked RS.

The base model taillights have one red and one white lens.  The RS taillights have two red lenses, and the reverse lights go in the tailpan.

The base model tailpan has no holes…so I’m cutting holes.

To pass inspection, I had temporarily mounted the RS lamps to the bumper:

The left-right position is centered under each taillight.  I measured 47 times and got the center lines mapped out.

from there, I found some templates online that showed the top edge of the holes should be 4.25” below the ridge on the tailpan (behind the bumper)


Then I drilled holes in the corners, and cut it out with a cutting disc.



still to come: cutting the other side and drilling the holes in the inner tailpan panel