Discussion Forum - Northstar Chevelle Club

Very nice, should get the job done for you.

What are these COP things you speak of?

Coil over plug, getting water in the plug holes = misfire and junk coils.

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They feed off donuts and bad karma. Typically try to avoid, especially after 2 am.

-- Edited by Enganeer on Thursday 13th of March 2014 07:36:17 PM

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 Sheesh, no kidding.  Stopped at the Zumbrota Kwik Trip to fill up this morning at 2:40am and there were at least six squads there.   

-- Edited by Back in Black on Friday 14th of March 2014 10:56:38 AM

Most dealerships have a person who can do specific seaches for vehicles based on the build. Call us www.friendlychev.com and tell them what you want. We have a gal Janelle who's job is just doing "dealer trades" to get specifically built models that may be located at other dealers. I don't know the exact process, wether it's searched by build codes or by packages, but they can usually find what you want.

I typically send people to salesman Mike Swords because he's good, but whomever you do, drop my name. Thanks!

I've looked around on Findcars, autotrader, and carsoup... Findcars and autotrader let you pick the number of doors, and all of them let you pick color and number of cylinders and 4x4 and sort by price, etc. It would be helpful if they let you sort out the 4.8s from the 5.3s. I don't expect the dealers to all enter in everything down to the gear ratio, but it would be nice to at least kick out the 4.8s, especially when searching further out than just the midwest.

Do they list the VIN? 8th digit from the left is the engine, otherwise give me a VIN and I can decode it with ratios, etc. Give me a list of them even, no biggie, takes seconds to do.

Lost in the 60s wrote:

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Lost in the 60s wrote:

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When I "acquired" my '88 IROC about 8 years ago, I had entered a bid and was watching the counter go down during the last 2 minutes of the auction on ebay. My wife walked up and said "don't you DARE buy that car", so with 6 seconds left, I pushed the mouse away but my finger accidentally clicked the left button. The house was VERY quiet for the next 7 days...

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Mitch, to the casual reader that somewhat implies that you released one of your carriages back to the general population at some time in your past life.

“but my finger accidentally clicked the left button” now that’s an interesting technique, can you use that one more than once?     

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 I sold the IROC to buy the GTO....

Um, the finger slip resulted in a seven day "penalty", if you know what I mean, and I haven't had any desire for that to happen again.

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 That can be good or bad depending on how you take it!  

I put a deposit down on this one today.

 

Just have to wait for them to do some paint work to fix the blistered paint where the previous owner attached mudflaps.

It has the important stuff... 6.2L, 6-speed, 3.73 gears, HD axle, HD cooling, factory trailer brake controller, and room for the kiddos in the back seat. It's a 2011 with 53,000 on it.

My first ever vehicle with a warranty.

 

-- Edited by Derek69SS on Saturday 12th of April 2014 09:27:32 PM

Very nice! And what are we going to be towing? I was going to say the boys will learning to drive in this truck but they probably already know how to.

As a side note here, I took some of Bryan's advice and tried to get my local dealer involved in locating a truck for me.

As much as I wanted to support Friendly, I figured it would be more convenient to go local in Rochester, and also support a business that has given me some work. There is a Chevy dealer in Rochester that just built a new Subaru showroom a few years ago. I designed all the windows in the Subaru showroom and when they remodeled the Chevy showroom, I designed all those windows as well. Then changed jobs during that project, and managed the fabrication of all their windows too.

I went in, asked for quotes on a new one equipped like this one, and also asked for them to help locate a used one for me... then nothing. No calls, no emails, no contact whatsoever... guess they didn't want my money. I know 6.2s are hard to find, but they couldn't even get me a quote on a new one?

Derek69SS wrote:

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I put a deposit down on this one today.

 

Just have to wait for them to do some paint work to fix the blistered paint where the previous owner attached mudflaps.

It has the important stuff... 6.2L, 6-speed, 3.73 gears, HD axle, HD cooling, factory trailer brake controller, and room for the kiddos in the back seat. It's a 2011 with 53,000 on it.

My first ever vehicle with a warranty.

 

-- Edited by Derek69SS on Saturday 12th of April 2014 09:27:32 PM

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 For a minute I thought you bought the truck I traded in.  Then I noticed the 6.2L.  I think they sold my truck about 2 wks after trading it in.  Is that Gross in Black River Fall?  That where I got my  new truck.

It's at the Marshfield location.

We bought the G8 from Gross Motors in Niellsville... just a coincidence both times we were looking at rare option combinations and they were the only ones around with both of them.

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Lost in the 60s wrote:

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I didn't know the 6.2 was available in a 1500.

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 The 6.2 was ONLY available in the 1500. They're rated at 403hp/417tq and get 18mpg (some sources say 19mpg)

The gas engine in the 2500s and 3500s is the 6.0 rated at 360hp/380tq and get around 13mpg.

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 Ah, I thought it was the same gas hog engine as the 2500 series.

Guess that's what I should look for in the future too.

Picking the truck up on Friday afternoon.

I may have to pick up the compressor some night next week. I bought some Miata parts in Plymouth that I need to pick up too, but he'll be at an autocross in Milwaukee all weekend.