Today was not one where I felt like driving my Permobil power chair to the gym. But the bus was crowded, and that turned out to be one of my best saving graces in a long time.
Mostly because some of my greatest, collector car treasures have been found on the sidewalks, and our featured 5th-Gen is no exception. This super clean, ZL1 Camaro was spotted on the corner of Reseda and Dearborn Street, in Northridge, California.
I spotted the supercharged pony on my way home from CORE Centers, across the street from Cal State Northridge. The owner was no where to be found, but the car appears to have been purchased from Motor City in Bakersfield, California.
To the untrained eye, it's just a 5th-Gen Camaro. But for anyone who's ever studied their Camaro history, the "ZL1" option has been, since 1969, the nameplate's most radical entry into the pony performance market.
Rick Seitz never fails in bringing, to the E-Verse, some of the best in late-model, GM performance. As editor-in-chief for both Timeless Muscle and GM EFI, Seitz is a guru in virtually everything fuel-injected.
But his latest F-Body catch, an '84 Trans Am with an LS swap, has got to be one of the pro-touring world's greatest builds. That's because Rick has joined forces with Scoggin-Dickey out of Lubbock, Texas, and as one of our nation's largest suppliers of GM crate motors, SD Parts has not disappointed with our featured LS3, stroker V-8.
As it currently stands, Seitz' LS3 mill is stroked from a stock 376 cubic-inches, housing a 4"-inch crank that brings the motor's displacement up to a staggering 416 cubic-inches. Seitz claims that his radical LS3 puts out about 600-horses, but in the near future, he hopes to bolt on a blower from Magnuson Products.
The late pony's undercarriage is considered as well, as Rick's Trans Am currently houses a front, A-arm assembly from BMR Suspension in Seffner, Florida. Rick's F-Body is also supported by an "S60" rear end, built by Strange Engineering out of Morton, Illinois.
It'll be interesting to see how the whole thing turns out once blown, but until then, Rick Seitz is responsible for one of the LS market's most outrageous builds, and he's taking numbers...if you're willing to lay it down!
