Build it to 450whp.. get an LS1 Silverado SS heads (799 code) Trunions Pushrods Camshaft Oil pump Timing chain LS7 or BTR lifters Boom your at 400whp Throw a clutch at it and send it to a transmission shop for service once... 5k plus price of car :\ Price of 450hp for most people's engine upgrades.
Sydney if you can find one of these with hand crank windows do get it with them, the motors for the power windows on these go out so often due to the glass being so big and heavy for a little motor to handle.
I had a 93 Z28 as my first car in 96. 5.5 0-60 used to be the fastest in the parking lot. Now, your turbocharged family SUV hits those numbers routinely.
This car represents the era when we, as kids and young adults, absolutely lusted after our favorite "cool" muscle cars of the day. They were attainable, if you saved, and you didn't have to finance them for 10 years in order to pay them off. I fell in love with the Z-28 in the mid 90's after seeing them driven by people that I thought were cool. I still have my '99 Z-28 to this day, and don't plan on selling it.
My dad's first "for me" purchase after finishing residency was to buy a convertible '95 Z28 M(anual)6 (brand new at the time) and "teenager it out" (his words) supercharger and he had a borla put on,. sounded mean, 450 hp. 17 year old me was a little nervous to ask for the keys, which he eventually let me drive. Was his daily until he parked it about 5 years ago because his commute was stop and go, and he was getting older, my younger brother is driving it back and forth to school now, or at least was, until it started dying under load. Love that car, I have a '97 35th Anniversary that I bought from a salvage place. Very fun car, not a lot to work with as far as space would be my only complaint.
@@jplandscaping5069 proof that no one is happy no matter what; is the constant yearning for what someone else is wearing; driving, looking like; when we could be more happy if we just looked inside
That mechanic finessed him on that fuel pump 😂😂😂I just did mine. U can easily access it from the trunk behind the back seat on top of the gas tank☝️u just have to cut a square in the metal. Luckily mine was replaced before so it was pre cut
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv That's fine if you can throw a couple hundred bucks at a car every three or so weeks... Which is what you so with a gen 4 Z28. 4k is waaaaaay too much for repairs on a car that you can just buy another one for that price lol.
Every single Hoovie video ever: This is why I love this car and it's the best car ever. Now that it is finally sorted, I will be hanging onto it for a long time. One week later: So I am selling this car to buy a 1960s E class with 240k miles
He markets himself to gain subscribers. If you post a video about a car, add the secret sauce to gain subscribers. “This is why I love this car”. People that like the car search for it and are now hooked. Then he adds, I think I will hang onto it. Something the youtube audience is now interested in because they want to see him talk more about the car ‘they’ loved. With 11 million subscribers the secret sauce to youtube is working. Plus some squirrel videos don’t hurt.
I would love to see him try to swap out the optispark unit on one of these, I had that misfortune last year on my '97. I also chuckled a little when he said that parts stores had all the parts he would need, true for everything but said optispark.
Even decent self repair guys have some issues with the 4th...all Camaros and especially Corvettes. Idk wtf happened when chevy designed them but other than some things on the front of the motor all simplicity of repair when out of the damn window, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EXTENSION(S) YOU NEED TO GET THE TRANS OUT?!?!?................I love them all 🤣
It's fast, cheap, reliable, and practical (4 seat/cargo space). The only objective downside I see is interior quality... but should you really be looking at that when you're going fast? Old≠ junk.
It is JUNK. I've owned seven Camaros from '67 to 93 and the 93 was pure shit. Ran great, drove great, but pure shit. Kept breaking down and what a god damn nightmare to work on. Junk.
I've had several 1993 to 2002 Camaro's, and I have enjoyed them all, even the V-6's are fun to drive, inside look cheap? yep, feels cheap? yep, fun as hell to drive, hell yep.
Exactly, sure the interior is crap and you might not want it for a daily, but it puts a smile on my face every time I smash the throttle and row through the gears and I couldn't care less about the crap interior. They're also pretty inexpensive to mod and the LS1 especially makes great power from mods. My 02 SS just has a cam, headers, and true duals and it's making 402 at the wheels, all for $1300 if you do it yourself. Add heads and an intake and you're in the 450-470 range and spanking newer Camaros and Coyote Mustangs.
Definitely Not Junk. These are amazing versions of the Z28. I have a '94 with T-tops and it is the most enjoyable muscle car I have ever owned. Looking for a second one at this time. Love this Gen.
@@hazard4349 Awesome I agree. Red is so "Classic Camaro" in this gen. Mines Arctic white. I love the way the '94's have the black sail panel and mirrors to contrast the body color and give it the fighter look. I can't wait to get mine out of winter storage next month. Cheers!!
Instead of LS swapping into a cats eye car (93-97), buy a catfish and put the older fascia/hood on a catfish (98-02). You don't get the cool/unique dash layout, but the quality was quite good towards the end, and it's just way easier. The sail panel is a problem however.
Totally, you can afford to buy this, fix this (easy to fix yourself or pay the mechanic), find the parts and find the aftermarket stuff for it. And it still looks pretty good, better than most of the other rubbish from the same time period. I don't agree with Hoovies opinion of the new Camaro, but great video, keep up the good work. It's nice to see somebody take a good example, spend a little cash on it and show how much life is left inside it!
@@montesaab5293 I know they're better, but that front end looks SOOO bad! I think the issue wasn't as bad later on. My choice for 4th Gen would be the white 30th Anniversary from 97 in TTop or Vert.
I fell in love with that car along with the Firebird when they first came out in 1993. Absolutely a huge improvement over the previous gen, especially the "Vette" drivetrain. Just came out after I got out of high school and was in basic training. One of my drill sargents had one and he would drive it to whatever activity we had going that day. I remember day dreaming and fantasizing every time I saw that car. I think the perfect muscle car of that era would have been a Camaro exterior with a Firebird interior.
I agree with you about falling in love with them. I graduated HS in 91. January 97 I bought a 94 Firebird and drove it for the next 15 years! Put over 240k miles on that beautiful beast.
I own a '93 V8 camaro with T-tops and I gotta say this video is very spot on! It's been my daily for 3 years and it has been quite a pain in the ass to fix up, but when it's running fine and it's a cooler day outside the rides are unforgettable! Very fun to zip around in, and the 'cock-pit' feeling adds a layer of coolness to the car 👌
@@gittyupalice96 Yeah because... you know, the second a Canadian touches it, all of the american built parts, american design, etc all goes out the window and now it's a foreign car. right?
@@gittyupalice96 Umm, North American, eh hoser?! You've got your numbers all wrong. If you need to remember what a zero looks like, go look in the mirror. ZING! jk man
What he probably meant was: There are some older performance cars that are hard to get parts for and/or are hard to fix because of how they were designed. So even if you have an ace mechanic you might be in a hopeless situation if something breaks. The 90s Camaro Z28 ain't one of those cars.
I had a 95 Trans Am. I could only imagine what GM could have come up with if they kept evolving the Camaro/Firebird instead of shutting down production. Even today they make good drag cars
No, your just ill informed. Im a European aswell, and it is laughable to have 5.5 0-60 for a performence car like this. The upcomming Golf GTI is going to have a similar performence, and that's a FWD hatchback..
The torque, and sound of these V8 cars is what makes them so enjoyable to drive. Especially in the T-Top cars, you don’t have to drive that fast to have a good time.
That and it feels lower to the ground. Don't know if it's true but it feels that way. Also having no blindspots you can switch in an out of lanes fast, responsibly of course...
😂😂😂 especially in older V8 GMs smh🙈🙈🙈Satan himself did the blueprint for the engine bay🤣🤣🤣 limited space 👎👎👎 that's where Mustangs V8 have the upper hand☝️more space to work with under the hood.
I fixed mine myself. And I fixed it...and I fixed it...and I fixed it... and I dumped it. It was perfect inside and out cosmetically and it ran like a bat out of hell, but I couldn't get 3k for it when I sold it with only 89k miles on it.
Remove the right catalytic converter spark plug become a walk in the park I’ve had 3 of these cars have an 02 ss spark plugs aren’t that big a deal. Installing an Automatic transmission which im doing now is a complete pain in the ass. Just rebuilt my engine easy to work on after you pull engine and trans out of the car.
When I was a teenager these were the only cars I didn't break... the only thing to me that was "junky" about them was the interior plastic that made tons of noise. I'm no gm guy, but compared to fox bodies I owned, these were much better cars.
Wes Green Straight pipe i wont hear it unless i start moving shit around, center console is the worst thing, i dont know what sounds worse the rattles or the loud ass straight pipe 3.4 v6 at idle it sounds fine but stomp on that gas and it sounds like ass
Never was a big Camaro fan but agree that that 4th generation was definitely a forward-looking design. We need more of that and also not just making things with sharp edges and loads of plastic bits for no reason.
Daniel Knepper Ford really dropped the ball in the 90s in hopes of marketing the modular engine. These cars were rated at 275 but a dyno proved their adjusted crank while stock was really 310+.
@@matchboxcody I'm aware 😂I know it says only 280 hp but I can feel it's faster than that lol cuz I had 02 Camaro SS and my 95 Z28 feels like it faster 🤣it's also a 100lbs lighter ☝️spins tires easy
@@02mp9696 there's pros and cons to both😂☝️I owned both. Camaros are faster and have more power stock but they limited engine bay space and harder to work on. I think I like Chevys cuz they're faster lol
I bet if you dug into that car you'd find a "No Doubt" cd somewhere! I actually had one of these only it was a 95 with the LT1 which was a lot of fun to replace the distributor on.
I’ve actually been hearing good things about the msd optispark, it’s about the same price and supposedly pretty reliable, thinking I’ll put one in my 95 trans am if it’s opti goes
I was born in 1991 and I was an huge fan of this Camaro in Gran Turismo 1. Now I have mine, a 95' Black Z28 with 6 speed transmission. What a car! Its like a little Dodge Viper for only 13 000€ in France. Crazy V8 sound, drifting everywhere, crazy look and all Kids are like "wouaaa look look !". So this Camaro is juste a lovely old sport car.
I'm in my early 20's and I have no clue what that is. My girlfriend is 25 and she has no clue what that is. I've heard of it, but I've never actually seen an instance of it in real life. Maybe it was an accessibility thing, some parents used it while others didn't? By the time I was just becoming a teenager we already had the first Iphone. A 13 year-old today would have been 1 by the time the first Iphone came out. I'm sure my 30 year-old brother does know what that is, but you're probably a decade off.
@@ViolentMLG Back before everybody used GPS on their phones (or in their cars), if you wanted to go somewhere and have directions, you went on MapQuest and printed them out. Later Google Maps came around, and now with phones you just use them to navigate.
@@AndrewAMartin A.M....thats when I finally jumped on the internet and 56k was the fast connection for land line....there was a police substation near me so there was a really strong land line signal, the Napster downloads were fairly quick on a 3 gb computer...22 yrs. ago...lol...KaZaa was the best.
I just picked up a triple black 02 35th anniversary with the badging Z28 with 55k miles leather,auto and it’s drives like a dream. For $6k it’s like a new car.
I adore 4th gen f-body cars, when I was a kid my best friend’s dad had a firebird firehawk and it was the coolest thing around, which is what led me to buy a 95 trans am as my first car
I used to own a 93 Camaro and I honestly cried when I had to sell it was when the economy tanked And I had a dead end job at the time I really loved that thing😢
What? No standard traction control? No electronic steering or brakes? No computer doing everything? No radio that, when it fails, prevents the AC from working? You mean I actually have to DRIVE the vehicle! What? What a piece of junk! Whatever!!! I had a 97 SS that was an awesome vehicle!!! Got great gas mileage, had plenty of power, didn’t handle bad and looked great! Once it was out of warranty I did a 396 Lingenfelter, installed a full suspension kit from bilstein, added a x-brace from a convertible, strut tower braces and subframe connectors. After all that it was a beast!!! Walked away from many Vipers and corvettes!!!
Great car, great motor, spanked every mustang that was na with mine. I would like another , but the ss with a six speed. just a Camaro nut. glad u got it.
1996 Z28. LT4 Hotcam conversion. 6 speed. Skip shift delete. Reflashed 95 ECM. SLP headers. Stainless works exhaust. Love it. Owned it since 1999. Same color as hoovies.
@@polycarp87 The 97 got light at high speed whereas the 14 is much better planted. The 97 was more raw and the 14 is a bit more civilized (being a vert). The 97 did get up to 154 but took way longer. I can get the 14 up past 100 in no time.
AHEM, UM JUST LETTING U KNOW 2006 - 2010 HYUNDAI SONATA 3.3 V6 CAN DO 152 MPH LOOK UP V33 SONATA ON TH-cam AND A GUY IN ARIZONA WAS TICKETED FOR 147 MPH IN A 2006 3.3 V6!!! 😁 SONATA
Google Account .... yes because everybody at the cruise ins and car shows and such are like wow thats a sweet Sonata.... that is what this is about... being proud to be a car guy, it is truly lost in today’s market.
back in the early 90's that was very fast. today its still peppy and respectable. if 0-60 is what you desire swap the gears get rid of the 2.73's, 3.73's will wake these cars right up...… but then the gas mileage, forget it its gone LOL
@@jaredchampagne2752 "most 4 cyl cars can do that" Totally false statement. Most 4cyl cars are Toyota Corolla"s, Toyota Camry's, etc etc. Most 4 cyl cars do not have that type type of acceleration. Some expensive turbocharged I4s can do that, but saying "most" is a total inaccurate and bullshit statement of reality.
Being a 93" that computer system solely uses speed density there is no mass airflow sensor. These are one of the best 4th gen models to build into a drag car..
Nice as the Camaro looks, it couldn't compete with its Pontiac Firebird / Trans Am cousin. Both are stunning cars though. But be careful driving them in the rain.
I couldn’t agree more with everything you said, these f bodies are incredible, and IMO 1997 was the sweet spot for these Camaro’s, the interior was updated like the catfish but it still retained the recessed lights and aggressive look. I always thought I was the only one who loved these old f bodies nowadays 😄
I got a 1996 z28 camaro I use for my main car I’m 17 almost 18 and I love it it runs great and looks like new nothing to complain about some people just don’t understand that old cars are badass
At the time, the US DOT still had rules outlawing clear plastic covers over headlights [hence why the E-type Jag had gaping headlight sockets stateside, but the clear aero covers over them at home. Like Mr. Orsenigo posted, they probably sell covers for them now that that bit of idiotic red tape seems to have gone the way of the Dodo bird...
Good video and I really enjoyed it. My perspective, as someone who was heavily into the Mustang, Camaro and Firebird scene back it those days and still owns the 1994 Mustang that I bought in 1995, is that with these modern (for the 1990's) muscle cars it really isn't so much about what kind of power or handling that they had from the factory, but more so about the potential that they have when they're modified. These cars were fairly inexpensive to own back when they were new, had decent power and handling and responded very well to simple (inexpensive and expensive) modifications. Check out some of the old car magazine articles from Car Craft, Hot Rod, Muscle Mustang's and Fast Ford's, etc. from back in the 90's and it will put why people bought (and raced) these cars into a better perspective.
I love pretty much all American cars cause in Ireland the closest thing you’d ever get to a sports car is a diesel Jetta with a decat, but if I was able to choose any camaro it would have to be an iron-z
I’ll be headed to Scotland soon and I decided to bring my 1992 Z28 along. I’ll be in Edinburgh and only drive it on major highways and around town. I hate that it will never see the highlands tho and those tight twisty roads.
I don't think he actually pays the wizard for much aside from parts, the amount of free advertisement he's given the wizard is well worth doing free labor for Hoovie
The only hard repair was pulling the fuel tank , for 7 grand one could rebuild the motor top to bottom , new high lift cam,headers, simple porting of the heads, relap the valves, stiffer springs and have a 450- 500 hp motor, new tires, high stall converter + up graded fuel system.. Parts are dirt cheap for that motor. Wizard quotes high on every bill , he pissed around getting the fuel tank out as it was his first one. Anyone who has done it before knows you pull everything out less than 2 hrs out and in, unless it's a old rust bucket..Hovies channel is just about him doing stupid things and over paying, but, he can wright it off on his business expenses so it's not costing him jack shit in the long run. Everyone should have a tube business is what I see.
@@pkuudsk9927 Wizard quotes high because he wants to lay the foundation. When a poor sap comes in for work he can point to the video. He doesn't want anyone to think they can get a bargain. I mean it's great if you don't have local competition that will do the same quality work for less.
I love the 90's GM interiors they're well thought out with the placement of controls and how they operate. No stupid (dangerous) touch-screen bullcrap to deal with. Seats were comfortable, the cars weren't a fortune, and YOU had to be a good driver, because there was no electronic nanny's (traction control) to save your ass from screw-ups. I have no problems with the hard interior plastics, as they fit well, didn't try to blind you (no chrome/reflective surfaces) by reflecting mid-day sun into your eyes from within the car, and those plastics hold up to sitting in the scortching hot southwestern sun, unlike most soft-touch surfaces. The biggest problem with the newer camaro's (and all newer cars is the much higher belt-line, resulting in window openings that reduce visability, and also make it near impossible to rest your arm on the door while cruising down the road on a warm spring day (something that's easy to do in 90's and earlier cars). Older cars have a soul, which simply makes them fun, even if their performance numbers fall short of the modern numbers. Newer cas do have better numbers, with tighter engineering tolerances, but lack soul, leading to a rather one dimensional experience, despite the performance results. Don't get me wrong, I love the Camaro ZL1-1LE, and it's physics bending numbers, but their is something a out the 90's Camaro's and Firebird/TransAm cars that make for a great driving experience missing from the modern versions. The recessed rectangular headlights of this Camaro look much better than the rounded "catfish" headlights that came after this.
Do y’all remember the Pontiac Banshee, that capture the imagination. It was very futuristic - it would’ve been nice to push design from there instead of playing it safe later on.
It's terrible. As much as I love these cars, I can't make excuses for it. The interior is objectively horrible. I still love these cars in spite of that.
Probably because it's a 90's car and people think they are trash, so they treat them like trash, and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Everyone is in such a rush for the latest and greatest, they miss the opportunity to truly experience a good time.
I know a ton of people with these cars that are running just fine, it’s just how your treat it they were cheap for the power at the time and now nice ones are going up in price since they were built so well as to have taken 20 years+ of abuse. No one ever treated these cars nice sadly. The v6s are often in nicer shape than the v8s based on who drove them.
i should say the LT1 is a reliable engine if you do basic maintenance... i did spark plugs, distributor cap - rotor and water pump, and changed some radiator and heater hoses and it runs flawless. i drive it daily since its my only vehicle, and did many long night trips and never had poblems in the middle of the way... additionally 4th gen fbody owners are so helpful in the facebook groups, they share every single info they know, they helped me a lot when i have troubles. i feel proud to have a 97 z28... a great car and a great community.
It’s a great car, an amazing timewarp and yes - a bit celebration of a time before cars became stupid and over complicated. New cars are tedious, controlled, over obsessed with ‘sportiness’
Your closing comment about America looking forward verse backward while standing in front of the theater with the "Temporarily Closed" sign was not lost on me. You just took your editing and writing to a new level. Kudos! Fun car too. :)
@@MrChrisbreezy10 You have the skill. You have the know how. You will make this car get Back on the road....when you blow the manifold studs. Hoovie approved, buy it right now.
I was always in the import camp but this generation of Camaro has aged well, especially this early model, and watching this video makes me feel like I've made friends with an old enemy. Us 90's kids are in our 30's and early 40's and starting to lust after the cars of our youth..
Your Camaro is bloody luxury. I'm currently driving a 1991 Toyota Corolla. It's a 1.6 litre carburettor version with about 100hp. Wind up windows, no central locking, no abs, manual gearbox and an original tape deck for the tunes.. Old Betsy is a joy to drive..
Not as bad as the Miata video where he finds a mint condition 30 year old car and immediately starts doing donuts in the dirt, throwing rocks all over the paint! On the other hand both the Z28 and MX5 are such mass produced vehicles that it really doesn't matter if one guy puts some wear on one. These aren't Ferrari 250 GTO's or something.
"It has no technology in it whatsoever, except what it needs to make it run."
I'm sold.
Don't let him lie to you I own one and once they've sat for a few years you get to find out there is more technology than you think
Build it to 450whp..
get an LS1
Silverado SS heads (799 code)
Trunions
Pushrods
Camshaft
Oil pump
Timing chain
LS7 or BTR lifters
Boom your at 400whp
Throw a clutch at it and send it to a transmission shop for service once...
5k plus price of car :\ Price of 450hp for most people's engine upgrades.
As somebody with a 2011 Sonata with so many annoying electronic shit broken in it now, I’m definitely sold. Hell, give me the hand crank windows too!
I own a 2002 Camaro with 97000 miles. I'm enjoying the hell out of it. Plus the ladies love the Ttop
Sydney if you can find one of these with hand crank windows do get it with them, the motors for the power windows on these go out so often due to the glass being so big and heavy for a little motor to handle.
5.5 second 0-60 is laughable? Damn, I must be getting old.
I was thinking the same thing, pretty sure that's still decently quick.
I had a 93 Z28 as my first car in 96. 5.5 0-60 used to be the fastest in the parking lot. Now, your turbocharged family SUV hits those numbers routinely.
In the 90's it wasn't.
@@meatbeansandcheese Yeah for $30,000 maybe. A clean stickshift LT1 car can be had for 10% of that. And you'll have 10x the fun.
My G37s with a few add ons does 4.5 0-60 5.5 well that was over 10 years ago.
One man’s “Junk” is another man’s treasure.
Absolutely
This car represents the era when we, as kids and young adults, absolutely lusted after our favorite "cool" muscle cars of the day. They were attainable, if you saved, and you didn't have to finance them for 10 years in order to pay them off. I fell in love with the Z-28 in the mid 90's after seeing them driven by people that I thought were cool. I still have my '99 Z-28 to this day, and don't plan on selling it.
*'90s
That's the way of thinking I like!
Man, I miss my 99 SS so much. Glad you've been able to keep yours. Those LS1 cars are just a blast.
I still have my 96Z28 convertible since 2000. It's a pita to work on but I still love it🙂
My dad's first "for me" purchase after finishing residency was to buy a convertible '95 Z28 M(anual)6 (brand new at the time) and "teenager it out" (his words) supercharger and he had a borla put on,. sounded mean, 450 hp. 17 year old me was a little nervous to ask for the keys, which he eventually let me drive. Was his daily until he parked it about 5 years ago because his commute was stop and go, and he was getting older, my younger brother is driving it back and forth to school now, or at least was, until it started dying under load. Love that car, I have a '97 35th Anniversary that I bought from a salvage place. Very fun car, not a lot to work with as far as space would be my only complaint.
Hoovie super jealous of high-school Camaro owners; drove a Mercedes-Benz.
benz and bmw were gay back in highschool. the cool guys had lifted trucks
@@jplandscaping5069 proof that no one is happy no matter what; is the constant yearning for what someone else is wearing; driving, looking like; when we could be more happy if we just looked inside
@@jplandscaping5069 I surmise you are about 15 years younger than Hoovie then.
I just finished high school last year. What people drive right now are VWs, BMWs, Subarus, and Civics or at least they do in Oregon.
@@losh330 Yeah, though "what people drive" and "what is cool" are two different things. Not to mention they change with time - and place.
"It cost way too much money" says the guy that spent tens of thousands of dollars on continual Mercedes Benz and BMW repairs. :)
Yea $4k doesn't sound bad compared to the $10-20k Mercedes or BMW repair bill
@Vend Master That's cuz "Audi". A VW in fancy clothes. They are gross.
That mechanic finessed him on that fuel pump 😂😂😂I just did mine. U can easily access it from the trunk behind the back seat on top of the gas tank☝️u just have to cut a square in the metal. Luckily mine was replaced before so it was pre cut
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv That's fine if you can throw a couple hundred bucks at a car every three or so weeks... Which is what you so with a gen 4 Z28. 4k is waaaaaay too much for repairs on a car that you can just buy another one for that price lol.
@@paulmahon1613 every 3 weeks? U must've gotten a lemon I don't spend that it's super reliable
Every single Hoovie video ever: This is why I love this car and it's the best car ever. Now that it is finally sorted, I will be hanging onto it for a long time.
One week later: So I am selling this car to buy a 1960s E class with 240k miles
Kody E needing $7000 in repairs that I will ditch when I find a lousy bmw. A different kind of crazy!
All the cars are sold for a profit, or used to generate TH-cam content.
@@ricky-sanchez stfu
He markets himself to gain subscribers. If you post a video about a car, add the secret sauce to gain subscribers. “This is why I love this car”. People that like the car search for it and are now hooked. Then he adds, I think I will hang onto it. Something the youtube audience is now interested in because they want to see him talk more about the car ‘they’ loved. With 11 million subscribers the secret sauce to youtube is working. Plus some squirrel videos don’t hurt.
Hoovie “if it breaks I can probably fix it myself”
Entire TH-cam community cracks up laughing
I'm sure the Car Wizard fell out of his beard on that one too
Hoovie fixing a car is successful as hitler going up against Russia in WW2.
I would love to see him try to swap out the optispark unit on one of these, I had that misfortune last year on my '97. I also chuckled a little when he said that parts stores had all the parts he would need, true for everything but said optispark.
Even decent self repair guys have some issues with the 4th...all Camaros and especially Corvettes. Idk wtf happened when chevy designed them but other than some things on the front of the motor all simplicity of repair when out of the damn window, HAVE YOU SEEN THE EXTENSION(S) YOU NEED TO GET THE TRANS OUT?!?!?................I love them all 🤣
@@SupaFlyJedi around where I live I can't pick up brake rotors without a store having to order them.
Its not junk, getting sick and tired of the 4th gen hatred from posers
It's fast, cheap, reliable, and practical (4 seat/cargo space). The only objective downside I see is interior quality... but should you really be looking at that when you're going fast? Old≠ junk.
Actually, I am probably getting one for my first car. Saw one a long time ago and fell in love with how it looked
It is JUNK. I've owned seven Camaros from '67 to 93 and the 93 was pure shit. Ran great, drove great, but pure shit. Kept breaking down and what a god damn nightmare to work on. Junk.
@@Mudbutbackwards do yourself a favor and don't. You will grow to hate the car, I promise.
@@jared2880 reliable and practical is far from what I would call my 4th Gen. LOL...have you even owned one??
I've had several 1993 to 2002 Camaro's, and I have enjoyed them all, even the V-6's are fun to drive, inside look cheap? yep, feels cheap? yep, fun as hell to drive, hell yep.
Exactly, sure the interior is crap and you might not want it for a daily, but it puts a smile on my face every time I smash the throttle and row through the gears and I couldn't care less about the crap interior. They're also pretty inexpensive to mod and the LS1 especially makes great power from mods. My 02 SS just has a cam, headers, and true duals and it's making 402 at the wheels, all for $1300 if you do it yourself. Add heads and an intake and you're in the 450-470 range and spanking newer Camaros and Coyote Mustangs.
That’s the beauty of it though. It’s cheap so it doesn’t hurt when you go to add your own touches. Upgrading seats and what not.
@@bongong1 I drive mine daily and I get daily smiles. Love my 94’ Z28.
Owned seven myself. Cheap at auction. Cheap to fix. Easy to work on.
@@MEGANODEHave a base 6 cyl 5 speed t top, runs great still gets a lot of thumbs up, black on black, planning on putting a sb 350 in it in the next y9
Definitely Not Junk. These are amazing versions of the Z28. I have a '94 with T-tops and it is the most enjoyable muscle car I have ever owned. Looking for a second one at this time. Love this Gen.
Got the same car in bright red
It's the best car I have ever owned
@@hazard4349 Awesome I agree. Red is so "Classic Camaro" in this gen. Mines Arctic white. I love the way the '94's have the black sail panel and mirrors to contrast the body color and give it the fighter look. I can't wait to get mine out of winter storage next month. Cheers!!
i ust picked up the same car, motor was built too just gotta put a tranny in it
I have a 94 with t-tops with 87K miles. I love it. The interior is solid, no rattles or sweeks. The plastic is heavier than new cars.
Instead of LS swapping into a cats eye car (93-97), buy a catfish and put the older fascia/hood on a catfish (98-02). You don't get the cool/unique dash layout, but the quality was quite good towards the end, and it's just way easier. The sail panel is a problem however.
There’s a lot of junk exotics too, at least this thing is affordable
True but it's not an exotic in any way.
Totally, you can afford to buy this, fix this (easy to fix yourself or pay the mechanic), find the parts and find the aftermarket stuff for it. And it still looks pretty good, better than most of the other rubbish from the same time period. I don't agree with Hoovies opinion of the new Camaro, but great video, keep up the good work. It's nice to see somebody take a good example, spend a little cash on it and show how much life is left inside it!
Eugene A. As they say with all the exotic foreign cars, if you can’t afford it new you certainly can’t afford it used;)
You sound like Jeff Goldblum. Good day.
Definitely one of the more affordable muscle cars, too bad fucking boomers are trying to sell V6’s for more than 3k
“Junky, but they’re special.” How many times have Tyler thought of this and then bought a car that was completely trash
Rico Garas I like it when he sells the car being slow as a good thing
His praise on this one is a stretch lol
98-02 were the best ones. New LS engine new body style. He should have got one of those
Tyler has money to burn. It must be nice
Dennis W and here I thought he’s making money with his shenanigans on this channel...
Tyler sponsored by a hairloss company oh no he's growing a mullet the Camaros getting to him
Well, he hasn't bought a mobile home yet....
Mullet America Great Again
Gonna be a 1977. GMC. FIESTA. FWD. Motorhome, like the one from. STRIPES
As a Mustang fanatic...I absolutely love the 4th gen Camaro...the front end👌🏾
I actually like the front end of the Mustangs from that era as well :3 still a Chevy boi though lol
He’s saying they are slow...
Hoovie: These are easy to fix.
Every LT1 owner: laughs while elbow deep in optispark and spark plug changes. Bloody knuckles and all.
Daaamn man... I replaced the opti spark and plugs a week ago... I really know what you mean 😂😂😂
David Pike he should have goten a ls1
I’ve had both. And the LS1’s are easier to work on and make power with. But in stock form with flowmasters. The LT1 sounded meaner.
I have an original opti and still runs strong. It is the1996 opti that was vented. No problems here...
@@montesaab5293 I know they're better, but that front end looks SOOO bad! I think the issue wasn't as bad later on. My choice for 4th Gen would be the white 30th Anniversary from 97 in TTop or Vert.
I fell in love with that car along with the Firebird when they first came out in 1993. Absolutely a huge improvement over the previous gen, especially the "Vette" drivetrain. Just came out after I got out of high school and was in basic training. One of my drill sargents had one and he would drive it to whatever activity we had going that day. I remember day dreaming and fantasizing every time I saw that car. I think the perfect muscle car of that era would have been a Camaro exterior with a Firebird interior.
I agree with you about falling in love with them. I graduated HS in 91. January 97 I bought a 94 Firebird and drove it for the next 15 years! Put over 240k miles on that beautiful beast.
4:03
"The 5.5 second 0-60 with 275 HP is pretty much laughable nowadays"
Spoken like a man with money, and the will to spend it on brand new cars.
Yeah, that's 275 torquey, naturally aspirated horsepowers, too. Plenty of real-world power.
@@dizzywow My 4 cylinder Cadillac makes that much and I paid about the same as this pos cost tyler
@@nitefinderm16 this car will walk the lac
@@nitefinderm16 Yeah? It's a 4-banger, and it's turbocharged. I know which engine that I would rather have.
@@dizzywow Yup, these things made 325 lb ft of torque (or 441 N m for the Aussies out there)
"Automakers are too afraid to take styling risks"
BMW: Slaps a big ass ugly grill in every car
Cybertruck
@@lawnmowerdude Totally forgot about it
I rather like the big grille on the 7 series. Looks ugly asf on the x7 tho
But you gotta rep the *brand*
**looks at Lexus**
IRONY = Guy who buys hoopties that cause him to pull out his HAIR in frustration, gets sponsored by a Hair Restoration company :)
Also irony: Guy who seems to have a lot of money, yet lives in Kansas.
I own a '93 V8 camaro with T-tops and I gotta say this video is very spot on! It's been my daily for 3 years and it has been quite a pain in the ass to fix up, but when it's running fine and it's a cooler day outside the rides are unforgettable! Very fun to zip around in, and the 'cock-pit' feeling adds a layer of coolness to the car 👌
The Heartbeat of America... That's yesterday's Chevrolet.
China chevy FTW!!!!!
I thought the whole "America is on life-support" problem was what got the angry orange man into the big white house?
@Squirrel_McNuts lol my 2002 35th Anniversary Camaro was manufactured in Canada. Absolutely zero % American.
@@gittyupalice96 Yeah because... you know, the second a Canadian touches it, all of the american built parts, american design, etc all goes out the window and now it's a foreign car. right?
@@gittyupalice96 Umm, North American, eh hoser?! You've got your numbers all wrong. If you need to remember what a zero looks like, go look in the mirror. ZING! jk man
“I could fix pretty much anything that breaks”. Spends $4000 dollars at a mechanics shop to “fix” it. 🤔
Mark Dietrich should admit to us and himself that’s not possible
David Sanchez yes , so silly. At least my mechanic knows what he’s doing and talking about!
What he probably meant was: There are some older performance cars that are hard to get parts for and/or are hard to fix because of how they were designed. So even if you have an ace mechanic you might be in a hopeless situation if something breaks. The 90s Camaro Z28 ain't one of those cars.
I'm done with this phony guy with his fake videos.
@David Sanchez he has more car's then you ever will. He's more of a car guy then you.
I had a 95 Trans Am. I could only imagine what GM could have come up with if they kept evolving the Camaro/Firebird instead of shutting down production. Even today they make good drag cars
Catfishes don’t make good drag races or anything on road with how bad they’re blind spots are.
5.5s 0-60 is laughable? Goddamn, as a European that statement just sounds so strange.
Well a base 2020 mustang has 4.5 second 0-60 while the gt500 has a 3 second. So you can see we're a little spoiled lol
No, your just ill informed. Im a European aswell, and it is laughable to have 5.5 0-60 for a performence car like this.
The upcomming Golf GTI is going to have a similar performence, and that's a FWD hatchback..
@@johnnysouza5601 Yeah, here in Europe a sub 7 second 0-60 time is considered fast. I'm personally happy if my car can do it in less than 9, lol.
It's still better than average in the US by today's standards.
Orcawhale This car is 27 years old.
Honestly I think the shape and design is pretty timeless. I truly think they're beautiful cars, esp 93-97
Designed by the same person as the Enzo!
Say "Fighter-Jet" one more time... But seriously, that 'maro looks really fun!
Jets that fight
Fighter-Jet
Looks like a fighte.......errr
The torque, and sound of these V8 cars is what makes them so enjoyable to drive. Especially in the T-Top cars, you don’t have to drive that fast to have a good time.
That and it feels lower to the ground. Don't know if it's true but it feels that way. Also having no blindspots you can switch in an out of lanes fast, responsibly of course...
Hope it doesn't flip over from bad weight distribution. Always check your car on various safety sites before purchase.
Not much sounds better than an old Chevy V8.
ricky sanchez no one buying a 30yo sports car cares about safety, obviously
@@bruhice6058 Sorry, just reminding people that this car was a dangerous piece of shit.
That rug really ties the room together
Yeah dude 😂😂😂
Dude
This is like a private residence, man
HOOVIES or the RUG ON THE FLOOR?????
@@gertraba4484 you're out of your element Donny
“I could fix it myself”
I had a beater one once, try reaching the spark plugs.
Exactly.
😂😂😂 especially in older V8 GMs smh🙈🙈🙈Satan himself did the blueprint for the engine bay🤣🤣🤣 limited space 👎👎👎 that's where Mustangs V8 have the upper hand☝️more space to work with under the hood.
I fixed mine myself. And I fixed it...and I fixed it...and I fixed it... and I dumped it. It was perfect inside and out cosmetically and it ran like a bat out of hell, but I couldn't get 3k for it when I sold it with only 89k miles on it.
Remove the right catalytic converter spark plug become a walk in the park I’ve had 3 of these cars have an 02 ss spark plugs aren’t that big a deal. Installing an Automatic transmission which im doing now is a complete pain in the ass. Just rebuilt my engine easy to work on after you pull engine and trans out of the car.
@@davidwidick1218 Oh really,..
how hard is it to rebuild if you don't take them out of the car 1st?😁
I love the budget Jay Leno's Garage vibe.
Take a shot every time Hoovie says "fighter jet."
This car is the greatest car to ever exist , love my 95 camaro 💙
Yea I got one it’s a 94 love it
I own a 95. Love it!
When I was a teenager these were the only cars I didn't break... the only thing to me that was "junky" about them was the interior plastic that made tons of noise. I'm no gm guy, but compared to fox bodies I owned, these were much better cars.
Seemed like all cars of that period were rattle traps.
Charles Dunne My grandmas chevy corsica rattled like a can of quarters, my 94 firebird does aswell and im trying to figure out how to stop it.
@@misterbuklau4053 one of my buddies had a GT mustang and it about drove him insane chasing down rattles!! It may be a never ending task!!
when you put an exhaust on you don't hear the rattles lol
Wes Green Straight pipe i wont hear it unless i start moving shit around, center console is the worst thing, i dont know what sounds worse the rattles or the loud ass straight pipe 3.4 v6 at idle it sounds fine but stomp on that gas and it sounds like ass
The engine and exhaust noises brought back childhood memories of riding passenger with my dad in his 94 T/A.
Never was a big Camaro fan but agree that that 4th generation was definitely a forward-looking design. We need more of that and also not just making things with sharp edges and loads of plastic bits for no reason.
Back in 95, my buddy took me for a rip in one of these, I thought it was fast as shit 👍
@@danielknepper6884 they were lol. Liked the both, just end up loving the foxbody myself in the end.
Daniel Knepper Ford really dropped the ball in the 90s in hopes of marketing the modular engine. These cars were rated at 275 but a dyno proved their adjusted crank while stock was really 310+.
@@matchboxcody I'm aware 😂I know it says only 280 hp but I can feel it's faster than that lol cuz I had 02 Camaro SS and my 95 Z28 feels like it faster 🤣it's also a 100lbs lighter ☝️spins tires easy
@@02mp9696 there's pros and cons to both😂☝️I owned both. Camaros are faster and have more power stock but they limited engine bay space and harder to work on. I think I like Chevys cuz they're faster lol
@@danielknepper6884 Ford: Found On Road Dead
Hair loss sponsor... Meet red Camaro. A perfect fit. 🚗
V-8 rumble never gets old.
I watch to see that expensive rug get bunched up every time he launches.
It really ties the room together.
It's not an expensive rug.
I bet if you dug into that car you'd find a "No Doubt" cd somewhere! I actually had one of these only it was a 95 with the LT1 which was a lot of fun to replace the distributor on.
At least you had the vented optispark. I had the 93 formula. I have changed a few optisparks. They were great cars though.
@@cnutella9947 agreed, I miss mine quite a bit and I actually think Hoovie's 93 is a nice find.
I did the fuel pump on my '94 last spring and now it's time for a new optispark. Every year it's a new PITA but I'll keep it.
I’ve actually been hearing good things about the msd optispark, it’s about the same price and supposedly pretty reliable, thinking I’ll put one in my 95 trans am if it’s opti goes
Exactly my lt1 impala had the same problems That distributor is no joke
I was born in 1991 and I was an huge fan of this Camaro in Gran Turismo 1. Now I have mine, a 95' Black Z28 with 6 speed transmission. What a car! Its like a little Dodge Viper for only 13 000€ in France. Crazy V8 sound, drifting everywhere, crazy look and all Kids are like "wouaaa look look !". So this Camaro is juste a lovely old sport car.
Nice I remember that game too!
The Mapquest just reminded me that Kids under 13 probably don’t know what that is.. yikes
I'm in my early 20's and I have no clue what that is. My girlfriend is 25 and she has no clue what that is.
I've heard of it, but I've never actually seen an instance of it in real life.
Maybe it was an accessibility thing, some parents used it while others didn't?
By the time I was just becoming a teenager we already had the first Iphone.
A 13 year-old today would have been 1 by the time the first Iphone came out.
I'm sure my 30 year-old brother does know what that is, but you're probably a decade off.
@@ViolentMLG Back before everybody used GPS on their phones (or in their cars), if you wanted to go somewhere and have directions, you went on MapQuest and printed them out.
Later Google Maps came around, and now with phones you just use them to navigate.
I remember having to use slow dial-up to get onto Mapquest. Those were the days
56k
@@maxfly7079 Which was really more like 53K. I think my fastest modem was 33.6K before I jumped to cable internet. It just wasn't worth the upgrade...
Anyone remember when cellphones had free nights and weekends minutes.?
@@AndrewAMartin A.M....thats when I finally jumped on the internet and 56k was the fast connection for land line....there was a police substation near me so there was a really strong land line signal, the Napster downloads were fairly quick on a 3 gb computer...22 yrs. ago...lol...KaZaa was the best.
@@maxfly7079 You sound like me, back in the early 2000s.👍
I just picked up a triple black 02 35th anniversary with the badging Z28 with 55k miles leather,auto and it’s drives like a dream. For $6k it’s like a new car.
That's a steal! I have a 02 SS on my channel check it out sometime
I adore 4th gen f-body cars, when I was a kid my best friend’s dad had a firebird firehawk and it was the coolest thing around, which is what led me to buy a 95 trans am as my first car
Love the 95 Trans Am. Here's mine
th-cam.com/video/NV3pOQfc4Pg/w-d-xo.html
@@pdennis93 Nice car!
Had to get rid of my 97 Trans Am a few months ago. The 3rd and 4th gens turn heads like no other
I used to own a 93 Camaro and I honestly cried when I had to sell it was when the economy tanked And I had a dead end job at the time I really loved that thing😢
What? No standard traction control? No electronic steering or brakes? No computer doing everything? No radio that, when it fails, prevents the AC from working? You mean I actually have to DRIVE the vehicle! What? What a piece of junk!
Whatever!!! I had a 97 SS that was an awesome vehicle!!! Got great gas mileage, had plenty of power, didn’t handle bad and looked great!
Once it was out of warranty I did a 396 Lingenfelter, installed a full suspension kit from bilstein, added a x-brace from a convertible, strut tower braces and subframe connectors. After all that it was a beast!!! Walked away from many Vipers and corvettes!!!
Maybe the new America’s heartbeat is too weak to be felt?
Lovely Camaro❤️ Always wanted one!
My mom has a red ‘96 z28 convertible so I’m fanboying so hard right now😂
If it has a stick she is a badass, I am buying a black '96 z28 convertible with a stick as we speak.
Great car, great motor, spanked every mustang that was na with mine. I would like another , but the ss with a six speed. just a Camaro nut. glad u got it.
No doubt
The interior aside, this design has aged spectacularly well. Thanks for bringing this fine example back to life.
Adding to its appeal is were all use to seeing gray SUV's.
Yeah except for the rear in my opinion
He is so right about current days movies and designs not looking forward....
Ahem.... cybertruck
@@juljasmaharchive The Cybertruck is looking into the kiddies toy-box for design inspiration...
1996 Z28. LT4 Hotcam conversion. 6 speed. Skip shift delete. Reflashed 95 ECM. SLP headers. Stainless works exhaust. Love it. Owned it since 1999. Same color as hoovies.
My '97 Z-28 was a fun car, especially when you are topping out at 154 MPH in the middle of Death Valley.
BTW: I'm driving a '14 SS convertible now.
Which is more fun? What do you like about each?
@@polycarp87 The 97 got light at high speed whereas the 14 is much better planted. The 97 was more raw and the 14 is a bit more civilized (being a vert). The 97 did get up to 154 but took way longer. I can get the 14 up past 100 in no time.
I tried for years to justify getting myself an SS. And now I'm getting priced out of them!
AHEM, UM JUST LETTING U KNOW 2006 - 2010 HYUNDAI SONATA 3.3 V6 CAN DO 152 MPH LOOK UP V33 SONATA ON TH-cam AND A GUY IN ARIZONA WAS TICKETED FOR 147 MPH IN A 2006 3.3 V6!!! 😁 SONATA
Google Account .... yes because everybody at the cruise ins and car shows and such are like wow thats a sweet Sonata.... that is what this is about... being proud to be a car guy, it is truly lost in today’s market.
When we will see the Z3?! Hatch 😭😭😭
vmmdi yea I wanna see the clown shoe.
He refuses to talk about it
Yeah it's been in videos recently and everytime I check back in the older videos to see if somehow I missed it
Or that fn awesome Corrado in the wizards shop!
I think he might be storing it for a friend. He's done that in the past
"It's kinda-like-nowadays" ...thank you. 90s does feel like the last great decade.
Tyler: this car is slow
Car: makes 5.5secs 0 to 60... Thats not slow at all.
That’s actually pretty slow considering most 4 cyl cars can do that. My bone stock Subaru does 0-60 in about 4.7
back in the early 90's that was very fast. today its still peppy and respectable. if 0-60 is what you desire swap the gears get rid of the 2.73's, 3.73's will wake these cars right up...… but then the gas mileage, forget it its gone LOL
@@jaredchampagne2752 "most 4 cyl cars can do that" Totally false statement. Most 4cyl cars are Toyota Corolla"s, Toyota Camry's, etc etc. Most 4 cyl cars do not have that type type of acceleration. Some expensive turbocharged I4s can do that, but saying "most" is a total inaccurate and bullshit statement of reality.
They're head turners too, especially if they've been taken care of.
@@andrewdonohue1853 you could probably do 3.42s for a good compromise.
Yeah I've got a 96 z28 with 300k on it
THEY ARE ABSOLUTE PILES OF GARBAGE but I love it
300k that’s pretty impressive
@@Jak2bossbf3
Thanks
Technically it's at 298k right now so I've got 2k to go lol
Damn.. how many optisparks have you gone through lol
How about is trail of failed bmws that break constantly constantly constantly. Laugher
Being a 93" that computer system solely uses speed density there is no mass airflow sensor. These are one of the best 4th gen models to build into a drag car..
This was my first car at 15 and I loved it until someone hit me and it was totaled. This videos have me thinking about getting another one
"It's easy to fix." Unless you need to drop the gas tank or pull the engine or even just change spark plugs.
True, the rear two spark plugs were nearly impossible to get to.
82-92 was much better for do it yourself.
Honesty not bad, my first car was my 94 Firebird still drive it. Easy to do plugs just gotta know how.
@@pmedwards42 My dad has a 95 Z28. He MIGHT have changed the rear spark plugs once. Might be original cuz he couldnt get to them lmfao
@@barrytidmore2345 They're not that hard to get from underneath
Nice as the Camaro looks, it couldn't compete with its Pontiac Firebird / Trans Am cousin. Both are stunning cars though. But be careful driving them in the rain.
I couldn’t agree more with everything you said, these f bodies are incredible, and IMO 1997 was the sweet spot for these Camaro’s, the interior was updated like the catfish but it still retained the recessed lights and aggressive look. I always thought I was the only one who loved these old f bodies nowadays 😄
I have a 97 SS with a 6 speed and I totally agree. Had to update the headlights to led
Ocairy Dreke
I had a 97 too great car
That’s a good call on the updated interior of the 97, I had forgotten that. I was always partial to the 96 SS for some reason.
@@LeoM-zt3pl me too.
I agree with Hoovie, the American automotive industry has lost sight of automotive designs
The American automotive industry is somewhere in China.
Same with many European makers IMHO. It's all aggressive angles over elegant styling, even on s-box boggo cars.
@@garethjackson4364 I call it "The Angry Bug" look.
Its just a "transformer" styling fad, same with consumer grade power tools
"The best times are behind us."
That's correct, though.
That's a self-defeating mindset; you gotta get over that nonsense. The future is whatever you want to make of it!
@@mrflippant The future is ruined by the comfort of safety.
88-92 camaro iroc was my favorite camaro
Hoovie can always put a smile on my face even tho I’m on lockdown and unemployed at the moment 🖖🏻
i have a '97 3.8L v6 rs for about a year now, it's absolutely so much fun, idk how mines running but it's insanely fun
Are we ever going to hear about the BMW Z Coupe?
puking noise...
Just what we need....more BMW videos. Or not.
When you get tired of it let me know. I am a local boy. That is a special car!!
Love your videos,
I got a 1996 z28 camaro I use for my main car I’m 17 almost 18 and I love it it runs great and looks like new nothing to complain about some people just don’t understand that old cars are badass
Despite how aerodynamic this thing may look, it's a shame the headlight sockets added like .10 to the drag coeffecient.
I was thinking the same thing. The aerodynamic mirrors are outweighed by the headlights.
I was thinking that. The peanut Camaro more aerodynamic?
I bet they sell some plastic covers for that if you wanted.
At the time, the US DOT still had rules outlawing clear plastic covers over headlights [hence why the E-type Jag had gaping headlight sockets stateside, but the clear aero covers over them at home. Like Mr. Orsenigo posted, they probably sell covers for them now that that bit of idiotic red tape seems to have gone the way of the Dodo bird...
@@paulorsenigo8395 Yep, they offered them pretty quickly in the aftermarket back then. Either clear or smoke tinted.
“The earlier you start using keeps the better”
*is Hoovie going to use keeps on his infant?*
They had a girl so probably not!
Kennith Chapman oh, lol
yeah don't you?
He should donate some to the 'wizard' for a real test.
Baldness is in the genomes. Keeps cannot repair centuries of male pattern baldness. Another cheap foreign product. Like raid shadow legends.
Good video and I really enjoyed it. My perspective, as someone who was heavily into the Mustang, Camaro and Firebird scene back it those days and still owns the 1994 Mustang that I bought in 1995, is that with these modern (for the 1990's) muscle cars it really isn't so much about what kind of power or handling that they had from the factory, but more so about the potential that they have when they're modified.
These cars were fairly inexpensive to own back when they were new, had decent power and handling and responded very well to simple (inexpensive and expensive) modifications. Check out some of the old car magazine articles from Car Craft, Hot Rod, Muscle Mustang's and Fast Ford's, etc. from back in the 90's and it will put why people bought (and raced) these cars into a better perspective.
The most underrated and under appreciated car by the TH-cam community good job.
I love pretty much all American cars cause in Ireland the closest thing you’d ever get to a sports car is a diesel Jetta with a decat, but if I was able to choose any camaro it would have to be an iron-z
IROC Z (International Race Of Champions)
I’ll be headed to Scotland soon and I decided to bring my 1992 Z28 along.
I’ll be in Edinburgh and only drive it on major highways and around town.
I hate that it will never see the highlands tho and those tight twisty roads.
@@hockeyhelps3910 Why not take the road trip up there?
Roads too narrow.
I’ll be there for 5 or so years so I’ll use a Fiat or something tiny. Now if I had the whole road to myself...
Currently shopping for one. I'm excited. It's always been my favorite car.
Without the Wizard giving him the "homie hookup" it would have cost over 7,000 do all the work on this car... 😎👍🏾
I don't think he actually pays the wizard for much aside from parts, the amount of free advertisement he's given the wizard is well worth doing free labor for Hoovie
Wizard is a mechanic and mechanics always charge
@@WestSide1207
I'm sure he isn't paying full price but the wizard aint working purely in exchange for "exposure bucks" either.
The only hard repair was pulling the fuel tank , for 7 grand one could rebuild the motor top to bottom , new high lift cam,headers, simple porting of the heads, relap the valves, stiffer springs and have a 450- 500 hp motor, new tires, high stall converter + up graded fuel system.. Parts are dirt cheap for that motor. Wizard quotes high on every bill , he pissed around getting the fuel tank out as it was his first one. Anyone who has done it before knows you pull everything out less than 2 hrs out and in, unless it's a old rust bucket..Hovies channel is just about him doing stupid things and over paying, but, he can wright it off on his business expenses so it's not costing him jack shit in the long run. Everyone should have a tube business is what I see.
@@pkuudsk9927 Wizard quotes high because he wants to lay the foundation. When a poor sap comes in for work he can point to the video. He doesn't want anyone to think they can get a bargain. I mean it's great if you don't have local competition that will do the same quality work for less.
“Because I have sponsors to help pay for the bill” *smiles awkwardly* *smash cut to ad spot*
I died 😂😂😂
Shit makes me mad as hell, really.
Terry Hesticles why....?
No one does an ad transition better than Samcrac
I love the 90's GM interiors they're well thought out with the placement of controls and how they operate. No stupid (dangerous) touch-screen bullcrap to deal with. Seats were comfortable, the cars weren't a fortune, and YOU had to be a good driver, because there was no electronic nanny's (traction control) to save your ass from screw-ups. I have no problems with the hard interior plastics, as they fit well, didn't try to blind you (no chrome/reflective surfaces) by reflecting mid-day sun into your eyes from within the car, and those plastics hold up to sitting in the scortching hot southwestern sun, unlike most soft-touch surfaces. The biggest problem with the newer camaro's (and all newer cars is the much higher belt-line, resulting in window openings that reduce visability, and also make it near impossible to rest your arm on the door while cruising down the road on a warm spring day (something that's easy to do in 90's and earlier cars). Older cars have a soul, which simply makes them fun, even if their performance numbers fall short of the modern numbers. Newer cas do have better numbers, with tighter engineering tolerances, but lack soul, leading to a rather one dimensional experience, despite the performance results. Don't get me wrong, I love the Camaro ZL1-1LE, and it's physics bending numbers, but their is something a out the 90's Camaro's and Firebird/TransAm cars that make for a great driving experience missing from the modern versions. The recessed rectangular headlights of this Camaro look much better than the rounded "catfish" headlights that came after this.
5:03 “The perfect blend between old and new”
I thought your choice for that was the Buick Park Avenue Ultra
I'd take the buick Park Avenue ultra, over the a USED Camaro(anyyear) anyday. Hoovie knows what he's doing.
A 0-60 in 5.5 seconds is still impressive even today :)
Do y’all remember the Pontiac Banshee, that capture the imagination. It was very futuristic - it would’ve been nice to push design from there instead of playing it safe later on.
for me it was the first brave step to create 4th gen firebirds and camaros... very very brave and futuristic move from gm.
These would be perfect if the interior was just... not complete garbage
It's terrible. As much as I love these cars, I can't make excuses for it. The interior is objectively horrible. I still love these cars in spite of that.
I love the look of the interior but it’s is some cheap ass plastic
That lasagna sized airbag on the steering wheel is what always got me.
But then it wouldn’t be a Camaro, lol
Most american cars of this era right up until recently are like that though.
Wow, I didn't know these were so good. Every time I see one it's thrashed and running on three cylinders.
I’ve always appreciated them. But yeah late 90s American cars just fall apart and poor build quality
Probably because it's a 90's car and people think they are trash, so they treat them like trash, and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Everyone is in such a rush for the latest and greatest, they miss the opportunity to truly experience a good time.
I know a ton of people with these cars that are running just fine, it’s just how your treat it they were cheap for the power at the time and now nice ones are going up in price since they were built so well as to have taken 20 years+ of abuse. No one ever treated these cars nice sadly. The v6s are often in nicer shape than the v8s based on who drove them.
i should say the LT1 is a reliable engine if you do basic maintenance... i did spark plugs, distributor cap - rotor and water pump, and changed some radiator and heater hoses and it runs flawless. i drive it daily since its my only vehicle, and did many long night trips and never had poblems in the middle of the way... additionally 4th gen fbody owners are so helpful in the facebook groups, they share every single info they know, they helped me a lot when i have troubles. i feel proud to have a 97 z28... a great car and a great community.
I personally love the plastic-fantastic interiors of the 90s
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Weight reduction bro 👌
@@kevinrodriguez9701 you know too much
It’s a great car, an amazing timewarp and yes - a bit celebration of a time before cars became stupid and over complicated. New cars are tedious, controlled, over obsessed with ‘sportiness’
Your closing comment about America looking forward verse backward while standing in front of the theater with the "Temporarily Closed" sign was not lost on me. You just took your editing and writing to a new level. Kudos! Fun car too. :)
I've seen that clown shoe BMW in the background for months now, when are we going to hear about it?
Well when you don’t want the “junky special camaro” I’ll take it lol 😂
Up charges for repairs.
Sold! lol
@@MrChrisbreezy10 You have the skill. You have the know how. You will make this car get Back on the road....when you blow the manifold studs. Hoovie approved, buy it right now.
I was always in the import camp but this generation of Camaro has aged well, especially this early model, and watching this video makes me feel like I've made friends with an old enemy. Us 90's kids are in our 30's and early 40's and starting to lust after the cars of our youth..
I love the look of this car, and the awesome v8 sound.
The Miata in the background just smiling 😊
Why2k Approved! Long live the 90's musclecars!
Is a video ever going to come out on that black (z3m) bmw m coupe?
Your Camaro is bloody luxury.
I'm currently driving a 1991 Toyota Corolla. It's a 1.6 litre carburettor version with about 100hp. Wind up windows, no central locking, no abs, manual gearbox and an original tape deck for the tunes..
Old Betsy is a joy to drive..
".....not as nice as THIS one"
*proceeds to continue abusing the car*
Not as bad as the Miata video where he finds a mint condition 30 year old car and immediately starts doing donuts in the dirt, throwing rocks all over the paint! On the other hand both the Z28 and MX5 are such mass produced vehicles that it really doesn't matter if one guy puts some wear on one. These aren't Ferrari 250 GTO's or something.
It's a irony that some guys who love cars abuse them.
@Stan Dup revving is enough, burnouts and donuts are retarded, which is why they fall apart
@Stan Dup Boomers probably know more about engines than any of us.
I like these Camaros more than the newer ones
I've got 3 of these cars and love em I'm redoing 2 of them right now though so right now only one runs and drives