I Picked Up A 3rd Gen Camaro Cheep! Will It Run? 

I have a soft spot in my heart for these cars. My little brother passed away in 2013, he had an iroc in the early 2000s. It was far from stock and fast as hell. RIP Levi. I'm looking forward to the shenanigans on this car.

I love Isaac's smile and jubilee the moment the engine runs and he knows his $700 was an awesome deal.

Man this was a steal for 700.00 dollars For some reason I always liked the look of the 3 gen camaros . Keep up the great work Ike👍

This Camaro looks like it would be right at home in a Mad Max movie.

Ike, I had an 88 Monte Carlo SS with T Tops. The problem is the seals shrink and become brittle. If the seals on your tops aren't torn or raggedy take Vaseline or petroleum jelly (same thing) and run generous amounts around your seals and let it soak in and that will take care of your leaking T Tops. I've owned a few T Top General Motors vehicles and this little trick always worked1 Take Care and I hope you're doing well.

And Bro Isaac, again I'm so sorry for you and your brothers loss of Dad man and definitely feel your pain of loss. Lost my Pops this past July and it isn't something that you easily get over, especially when we lose our loved ones and the wisdom they've always had for us growing up! God Bless and I hope everyone is doing as well as possible. Grief takes its toll, but we must keep moving forward with life as well, otherwise we'll be consumed by the Grief itself! And this isn't what our parents would want for us. Much Love man and God bless brother. ❤ 🙏

Chuck "The Mullet" Jenky should've gone nuts over this car!😂 Right up his alley!

An absolute icon of an automobile!! Used to cruze in one when I was like 10-11yrs old with my best friend and his Aunt. Was metallic candy apple red, t-top car. It was so awesome when she'd take us out, made great memories.

Third gens are a ton of fun. I have an 83 that i bought when i was 15. I still have it 19 years later. Im in the process of putting a t56 behind my 6.0 in place of a 4l65e.

I had a 91' RS back in the day ( got wrecked by an illegal u turn ) loved that car . It's awesome to see you saving another one .

I was hoping for a Cars and cameras Grand Prix lap time!

Watching Isaac's videos, and cars and cameras just put me in a good mood, been watching since 2015, I literally watched all of the videos on cars and cameras, as they came out since 2015, keep up the good work:)

Makes my heart happy to see John in the video not the other way around on cars and cameras lol you guys always make a good team

Today was a hard day because my grandma passed away about a year ago, and this vid along with the one from CarsandCameras made my day along with the smile you made after finding out the black bike had led lights, and John said something like "That smile means he already likes it" also nice to know that Mechanics with things like OCD or ADHD/ADD doesn't really affect them which encourages me to build something bigger that just a Mega Motto 212 for when I'm old enough to work on a Drumroll please.............Dodge Charger 2008.

Great video really enjoy watching you repairing your never ending conquest of budget priced cars I think if you live to be 206 you will have them all on the road running at the same time. Congratulations on getting another resurrected. Have so much respect for you how you tag all your videos at the end with the memory of your Dad, God bless him Bill in Fort Wayne Indiana

Little trick I came up with getting stuck wheels off. Offered to do brakes on my friends 2018 4Runner a few months ago and spent more than an hour trying to get one single wheel off, all 4 were SUPER stuck. I think they use hubcentric wheels and there was quite a bit of corrosion on the hubs once I did get wheels off. Anyway, I loosened all of the lug nuts about half way, jacked it up high as I could and put a 4x4 under the inside edge of the tire, dump the jack fast as possible. The tire landed on the 4x4 and instantly came unstuck. Might be a good trick in the future. Love the car, what a smokin' deal man!

Awesome find Ike! Little tip I learned from VGG: use 2-stroke fuel to help lube the cylinders at the first start in who-knows-how-long! Love your videos man I’d love to find a 3rd gen Camaro or that square body for cheap! We live and breathe this stuff man! Happy wrenchin’!

To get that wheel off, you'll have to spray the hub and lug bolts with kroil and let it soak, then hit the rim from the backside with a big dead blow hammer. Then clean the rim hub and axle with a wire wheel and remove the corrosion, then liberally coat the hub in anti seize. I did that with every wheel i did when i was a tech at a gm dealership and Goodyear

Knowing this is a vid and Isaac can't hear me, at 19:58 I got up to get my fire extinguisher. I need more coffee.

Not bad for a running driving Z28 , can't wait for more on this.

I had a 1986 trans am man. I had so much trouble with mine, but I did enjoy my t tops in mine

.Great find Issaac. Aluminum rims may look nice,but try to change a flat.When Dorf had the tire recall in the 90's,3 mechanics took turns with the big sledge hammer like you used.I finally grabbed a 4 Foot wrecking bar and pried between the rim and brakes.That's how we had to do over 100 trucks and cars.Aluminum rims weld themselves to steel hubs and brakes.

hell yeah bro love it when its running right that thing is going to be a fun ride . would love to see more of this car.

Was completely surprised about the sleeper Z . Great purchase

I was shouting at the screen"carbs on fire" waiting for the leaves n stuff to catch🤣 😂👏🏻👍🏻🇮🇪

Thanks for the videos! 👍👍

Love that generation of camero! Would love to have one! Great video!

Was waiting on this guy to open the garage door but I guess he like breathing in exhaust

I been waitin on this video 👍

I'm so glad you got a good deal!! Great video. I'm sorry for your loss. Lost my Dad January before last.

The complete autozone aisle of performance parts on this I love it 😂 spectre hose covers the air cleaner the edelbrock carb and the old duralast gold top battery feels nostalgic for me I worked at the zone for over a decade and recognized a lot of that stuff under the hood thanks for that bud love your videos keep em up brother!

Great find!!

God bless you brother. You are amazing

Hey Ike, You always have great videos! To help loosen up a stuck wheel, Try loosening the up the lug nuts a bit & just drive it around a little bit, snd that should break it loose! Worked for me!

That I believe is actually a Z 28 with the TeaTop option I have the Z 28 hardtop. The Iroc’s was a different option. The Iroc’s should’ve had the tune port engine.

Dude! Another sweet find! 👍

Nice beefy car Isaac....glad your feeling better...That camaro is a beast!

I had an 83 with Iroc rims from the junkyard. Man I wanted those t tops so bad back in the day. Great find!

Such a cool car man good luck

Great find! The 3rd Gens are by far the most popular Camaro/Firebird builds now, Atleast out here in the Southwest/West. I'm starting to see alot more of them show up at Cars and Coffees, Cruise-ins and Local car Shows

$700 MAN! That's a GREAT DEAL!!! It's gonna be a smoker!! Tires I mean LOL.

Hey Ike ! Love your videos man, you are an incredible engineer/mechanic ... so thats the one in the yard all this time ! I had no idea it had such a shiny engine ! Hot Dang

Love your channel. Thank you for changing the music.whatever the old stuff was I had a hard time with. The camaro is awesome.that would be my dream find.

Great find Isaac!! F-Bodies RULE!

Love this one 👍

Nice find 🎉 ❤

Oh how i wanted one of those beauties in high school, had to settle for the next best things a 85 Corolla lol. Another great video thank you

THX IKE!! 🙏 Be safe and drive careless! 🤪. 👊✌️❤️🤙🤙🤙

I own a 91 firebird and 91 gta trans am, both third gen's as well. They are awesome and reliable cars and handle great I daily mine. Love it! My trans am sat for 20 years with a bad fuel pump before I got it, new fuel pump and fired up like it never sat

great stuff thanks, nice score on the car

The suffix code will tell you the exact Info on the stock motor. Right behind the alternator on the flat tab where the water pump mounts up.should be some numbers ending with 3 letters like say CKB. Every motor we ever bought for our cars "Novas". That's the numbers we used. Tells the stock hp and all the goodies info. So we wouldn't end up buying a 140 hp 350 or weak 305.

Such a beautiful car @issac it'll be fine , its one of Dream cars im looking foward go seeing what your gonna do with it

Keep up the work Isaac 👍👍

I absolutely love the custom exhaust on that Camaro

You killed it with this 700 car man. Very nice and worth 6 times that.

Cool car and a great deal.

Sounds like it has a decent bump stick in it, someone definitely put some love into the drivetrain

They were always red as I remember ,nice find

Early Irocs could come with the carbed 305, TPI 305, or TPI350(and later a 305 TBI)...so the setup on this Iroc was probably originally a carbed 305. The drum brake rear is also kind of a hint it was the base Iroc. The Firebird counterpart Trans Am GTA only came with a TPI 305 or TPI 350, but the Formula could get a TBI 305, TPI 305, or TPI 350. All the TPI 350 equipped f-body cars also would come with a Borg Warner 9 bolt disc brake posi-trac rear end. For 700 bucks, you did good. The problem with the rims being stuck is common. The aluminum rims start to corrode and basically freeze up on the rotors/drums(well, actually part of the axle that pokes out of the drum center on the rear) at the center. Get a Harbor Freight port-a-power kit and some PB Blaster lube to get them freed up. Spray the centers and on the inside thru the spokes, and then set up the porta power from rim to rim and a little push at the rim(put a 2x4 board between the rims and the rams so to distribute the pressure and reduce the possibility of damaging the rims) and they should pop loose.

Nothing more 80s than a T-top car. Nice 3rd gen.

You didn't go wrong with that one. Wow. Do the Chevette!!!

I had an 85 base model flat black 383 stroker and at a car show for HotRod mag it got stolen It's never been seen again. I made a fiberglass hood scoop and fender flares to fit the massive G-50-15 Micky Thompson tires and it ran 9.30's every pass. Get sub-frame connectors or she will twist. I'm sure you will love it as I did mine.

race bullets and side exit exhaust, nice!

Had a 92 bone stock with a 305 and the big wing on the back when I was 18,,loved that car

The car sounds good 👍👍

On the inside of the car behind the back seat,underneath the carpet there should be a rectangle shape on the sheet metal. If so, the fuel sending unit is right under it. Most people cut it out and go to the junkyard and cut another one out, just a bit bigger,so you can make a trap door for it. It beats dropping the rearend out to change out the intank fuel pump and sending unit. Good luck

Seeing Issac in working on the car with music similar to fallout 3s in combat music had me rolling laughing for a second 😂 I was yelling at my screen saying the carbs on fire😂😂 that's possibly a timing issue with it backfiring through the carb (too advanced) it could be the old fuel though. Stuck floats? Gotta love that ethanol 😂😂. Bring back leaded gas

Love to see more on this car

I have an 86 z28 camaro 305 TPI that is in the shop getting swapped to a carburetor because the previous owners butchered the wiring and it would run now and then but mostly not run. I'm hoping the carb will make it perform better and be a lot easier to work with.. I absolutely love the 3rd gen camaros and this video was very enjoyable to watch.

That was interesting the way you got the old gas out

It looks like a real iroc. The only way to tell for sure is to look up the rpo codes in the center console.

Ike you’ve got the coolest damn car collection.

I'd probably pull that motor and go thru it...run your vin to see if it is a true Iroc...your title should say,but you should already know that....love ya'lls videos, content keep'em coming guys..HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM TENNESSEE

This will be a fun cruiser for next years run what you brung!

Grew up with one of these. Dad got it fully loaded. My Mom hated it (lol). I remember the new car smell being very distinct. And the hatch liked to either not close or open by itself randomly. But it was kinda fast so I thought it was cool as hell. Edit: side note: the T-tops leaked even when it was new.

Nice camaro that was what I bought my son for his 16th birthday one tough car

That's cool I have a 87 IROC Black and gold t top regional 350 car. on my channel Nice to see another one gets saved.

When i was a teenager my mom bought a brand new 89' IROC with a 305 auto with a performance chip from GM and out ran all my friends with 5.0's. I have always wanted one since then.

Made me laugh hearing Ike laughing at it starting.😆

This is a hell of a pickup. But damn get you a fan going in that shop 😂

Chuck Pre-approval 😂 I had a 3rd gen fb 84 well balanced car 👍👍☮️

Cool IROC time for the Smoke wrench to get those wheels off

You made a good purchase Ike.

Old school "Dune Buggy" steering wheel. Just missing the "Suicide Knob" to make it complete.😁

Sad to see those old Mulletmobiles go downhill with each sucessive owner. Maybe this one will return to its former glory!

IKE YOUR ON FIRE 🔥 😊😅 FIRE FIRE FIRE

Friday!!! best day of the week!! Have a good weekend ike!! im a day late :(

Hey Isaac I hope you feel better now I just watched the last few videos that I missed hope you're having a great week and talk to you later

you over looked the hose covers that only some 1 from the 80s would recognize my uncle had those on his t bird

"He lives on my block And he drives an IROC But he doesn't know who I am And he doesn't give a damn about me 'Cause I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby Yeah, I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby Listen to Iron Maiden, baby, with me, ooh"

Very cool. Sounds like Hot for Teacher!

I love T-Tops. Been trying to get my hands on a 83 T-Top Mustang.

awesome.God bless.

I like the opal gt in the back ground. Iroc's came with tuneport 305's

Nice 😊

Super jealous! That was my first car back in 1999. Isaac! Those rims are wider in the back the front are a half inch thinner. I can’t remember

Great video l think it might be a z28 it has drum brakes on the rear unless someone changed the differential and was a disc brakes rear differential at one time still a nice Camaro..... Cheers

Would you take 800 (; Awesome deal on the IROC You are the man Isaac .

I've had several 2nd gens and a 4th gen.....I think I need to come take that one off your hands 😃

Isaac another great find. Easy to see how happy you are 😂. This Old Man hopes to see it when you bring to Washington. Always loving your videos. 🛵🧔💝