{"id":562,"date":"2020-07-09T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=562"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:24:02","slug":"cutting-backup-light-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/07\/09\/cutting-backup-light-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting backup light holes"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was not originally an RS model Camaro. \u00a0I\u2019m pretty sure it was a base model, and someone transferred parts to it from a wrecked RS.<\/span><\/p>\n

The base model taillights have one red and one white lens. \u00a0The RS taillights have two red lenses, and the reverse lights go in the tailpan.<\/p>\n

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The base model tailpan has no holes…so I\u2019m cutting holes.<\/p>\n

To pass inspection, I had temporarily mounted the RS lamps to the bumper:<\/p>\n

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The left-right position is centered under each taillight. \u00a0I measured 47 times and got the center lines mapped out.<\/p>\n

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from there, I found some templates online that showed the top edge of the holes should be 4.25\u201d below the ridge on the tailpan (behind the bumper)<\/p>\n

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Then I drilled holes in the corners, and cut it out with a cutting disc.<\/p>\n

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still to come: cutting the other side and drilling the holes in the inner tailpan panel<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This was not originally an RS model Camaro. \u00a0I\u2019m 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. \u00a0The RS taillights have two red lenses, and the reverse lights go in the tailpan. The base model […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-and-paint","category-camaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}