Retro Review: 1992 Chevy Camaro Heritage Edition Prototype
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2017
- For '92, Chevrolet planned to build a limited run of Camaro Heritage Editions, to commemorate the car's 25th anniversary. Even though the plans were cancelled, we managed to get our hands on one of the prototypes for testing!
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Why couldn't they have just made this!!!!!!! This body style with the six speed is my dream!
Josh Winters just get '93 6 speed
sleepybird09 yeah I'd love this body style with a t56 ls1 swap just don't know how much work goes into all of that
Or and ls2 like you said. I'd have to get a hardtop cause the t tops body's sway
what like mine,lol
They butchered both bodies in 93 year and above. Sickens me. They looked like a washtub. Total shit. And the millennial clueless who grew up w bubble civic hatchbacks thought the 93 was hot. Was shit total shit looks. Trans am was worse like an ugly ass batmobile w a dash as long as a floorboard. Sad ugly fucking things in 93-2002
This is every camaro owners dream for this body style...
I love and want the Camaro thrid generation. My favorite
I owned a 1992 Camaro Z28 with the Heritage Edition package. Although nothing like this prototype, it was a BLAST to drive! Oh the memories!
I graduated college in 1991 and I remember this generation of Camaro quite well. The 270 HP 5.7 liter was Yuge in 91/92. I was driving a potent (for then) four-cylinder with a gobsmacking 105 HP. Nowadays, 270 HP seems quaint. We live in the 2nd Golden Age of Horsepower.
The 270HP tuned port 5.7L never made it into production chief. The L98 topped out a 245 HP in F-body duty.
LOL GOLDEN AGE
we live in the golden age of turbos squeezing out the life from engines. don't mix it up pal
GM shouldve made this car just imagine how many fox bodies wouldve been getting waxed by this beast
a 14.3 1/4 isnt going to "wax" any comparable fox body
Trap speed indicates that it likely w.ould The G92 5.0/5.7 TPI Camaros were already taking out Foxes with ease. Only real competitor was a stripped down LX notch back. The Camaro got a bad rap because of all the economy TBI engine options. Properly equipped TPI Camaros were as potent as the Foxes. The Foxes were a little lighter...which certainly helps.
Not quite accurate, BEBNC1. The 5.0 TPI Camaro was quite a bit slower than the 5.0 Mustang - over a half-second slower to 60 (6.7 vs 6.1) and could not get into the 14's in the 1/4. Even my 91 SHO could beat a 5.0 Camaro to 60. The 305 was never a performance motor - the skinny bore and small valves hurt the breathing. The 5.7 TPI was a little faster than the Mustang, but was only available with a slushbox, not a proper manual, and cost about $6,000 more than the Mustang. 6K in mods would make the Mustang quite a bit faster.
tons of foxes were waxed by the l98 cars and the lb9 5 speeds,my iroc 5.7 crushed dozens of stangs effortlessly
trillriff-axegrinder The only thing you crushed is donuts.
I really liked that camaro and the stang 5.0 lx, 2 of my favorite back in the day
Same.
I really dug the plain jane, non - R/S & non - iroc Camero,
as well as the striped down Mustang.
these are my favorite gen camaros.
The second gen body style will always be my favorite, but this is definitely still an icon of the Camera line.
I personally am more of a Nikon man myself, but to each his own
Honald Trinton can't beat Polaroid, it's classic!
Me too. My favorite camaro is the 90s IROC.
I always found the Firebird makes this car look really ugly when side by side.
No one going to mention cannon?
Imagine it would’ve been in the mid to low 13s with 3.73 and a six speed. But it would’ve been a vette threat. Can’t have that now can we.
The ultimate Camaro sleeper. I remember this car in the magazines of the day. I owned a 1991 RS arctic white, but it had the anemic 5.0 liter. Still, it was my first 8cyl sports car and I adored every minute with her.
Then they unleashed the '93 Camaro Z28. I do recall seeing a 25th Anniversary Camaro, in teal, at Reedman Chevrolet in Levittown, Pennsylvania, back during the spring of '92. It was nice enough and young ladies liked that teal color.
holy crap! the modified L98 prototype O.O I never thought id see this
I WANT THIS CAR....looks amazing and plenty of power...90s cars are the best
These 3rd gens are one of the best handling F Body's out there alongside the 4th gens. These cars cut corners with precise and perform even better with a few suspension modifications. The F Body's will forever be missed.
I absolutely agree. Own a 2001 WS6 for many years now, and still amazed on how well it handles today. The 2009 and later Camaros are nothing like the original F-Body.
I know man those 5th gen Camaros were nothing like the great iconic 1st through 4th gen F body's and same here I own a 2000 Trans Am and it handles like a dream cuts those corners and curves with very little ease on the wheel. The 5th gens were honestly my least liked Camaro they tried to do a retro throwback to the 1st gen's but was just a failure I never liked that boxed Zeta platform Styling. F Body's for life
how is your lt1?im sourcing one now for my car(1986 trans am,5.0/5 speed),i dont want an ls like every other tom,dick and harry and i can get an lt1 for a song in comparison.i love 3rd gens,ive owned 6 of them.
I have the LS1 but the LT1's were very great engines and swapping them into 3rd gens is definitely the way to go and they put down sooo much torque more than horespower which is insane. The only downside to the LT1's was the optispark and it can get damaged from the smallest things and you may need to get a replacement but other than that the LT1 is the way to go :).
Fury Trans Am LS1
Fuck that delco optispark spent almost $1k to replace it on my 96 SS impala shits ridiculous that's a LS1 motor easily lol 😂
Wow, I had never heard of this...
camaro never got this cause it would be equal to a corvette n thats a no no in gm
you scared that moron away by the look of it,his idiotic comments have been deleted
Joseph Loro yep very true which is why they stopped making the Grand National and also the 89 Trans Am GTA 3.8 Turbo GM doesn't want nothing faster than the corvette
The Corvette received the 300hp LT1 that year. It would have held its own...easily.
Zr1?
Well not any more the corvette team now challenges the camaro team to build the best car the can make there is nothing better then a siblings rivalry especially when the siblings can cost as much as 100k+ and be a track slayer I do not believe Ford would every start a siblings rivalry between the Mustang team and GT team although if Ford did they would make a in house mustang that could compete with the top of the line GM made camaro!
It's got a cop motor, it's got cop tires, cop suspensions, cop shocks.
and it runs good on regular gas! LOL
It wasn't a cop engine, transmission, or tires. The engine was the Vette's L98, Police Camaros don't come with a 6 speed, and the tires are also rom the Vette. Chevy should have produced this car but they were ramping up for the new (1993) Camaro, and didn't was to step on the new Camaro's performance numbers.
That comment went right over your head.
Fix the cigarette lighter.
: )
Jean jacket and mullet wig sold separately
michael dierks Free Def Leppard cassette in the glove box.
Got mine in the trunk
Michael Dierks yea
I wasn't worried. I owned a 70 charger r/t 440+6 in 1992. Paid 5 grand for it running and solid.
Seeing that the IROC-Z had an available 5.7L in late 1987 there were no special mods needed to be done to fit it in the already "tight" engine bay, this was a known fact, even by 1992.
Klasse Act. it IS the corvette version, though the only meaningful difference would be the intake ducting.
Jason Voorhees EXACTLY! Not well said there by John!!
The heads on the 5.7 where cast iron if going into a camaro, the vette got aluminium heads
IT's a SBC... so it has the same basic dimensions as the other SBCs....
the LB9 and the L98 have the same exterior dimensions.
Thank you for another GM review. It is appreciated. I totally forget about this car. It is interesting to see again. I hope to see more retro GM and Lincoln and Mercury and Ford reviews. I still would like to see more Oldsmobile. Thank you again.
I remember watching Motorweek as far back as 89. I always liked the show and the host. Still have some old tapes somewhere. I also remember reading about the 92 Heritage Camaro and how GM pulled the plug due to a recession and the car having to be priced higher than wanted. Good job on the show, guys and thanks for sharing the old episodes.
Was born in 93 but I absolutely love the 3rd gen Camaro. Hope to own one someday. Wish they went to 93 so I could get one that was the same year as my birth lol. But sadly I don't care for the 4th gen as much.
Those wheels look sick. Now I need to find a set for my 91.
This ride is still sweet just timeless
The B4C option is what he was talking about,I have a 1LE-B4C 1992 RS with a 350 stock under the hood.It is the cop car option.With Corvette breaks it stops QUICK !! It is one of 250 made. The H.D. package had the duel cats but only 3:23 gears.
Buying one next Friday. 🤘
This is my favorite pony and muscle car of the 20th century.
3rd gen is the best. Just needs to be modernized. Nice ls engine and 4l80e would be nice back by 373s. ac and all. New disk brakes etc. But keep it looking original
BornToBeFamed LS swaps in SBC cars are over rated. A decent head, cam, and intake with exhaust will do just as much as the average LS swap without looking as ugly. I don't know why people forgot that.
Nicholas Rodrigues o trust me i never forgot lol. I was just saying modernize it. Id stick a 11:5:1 388 stroker in it all day long with a FiTech injected system lol and call it a day.
Nicholas Rodrigues do that same head an can swap on an LS and that sbc doesn’t have a chance
I wanted to stay original as possible so I bought 350 TPI crate engine with some extra bolts and the result is 400+ hp and a lot of torque! :-)
3rd generation the best and my dream cars of Camaro
I had a '93 first body style for the 4th gen Camaros. Now I have 2010, also a first body style for the 5th gens. The '92 was badass though.
Great idea that never happened. Glad the '93 - '97 Z's got the LT1. I love mine and it flat out rips. Even though I drive it like a granny.
Love those cars
Awesome thanks
Preview of the '93 redo with 6spd and 275hp
The 100mph trap speed is excellent for a TPI ... well done
Except they didn't get any of that, just the B4C Special Service Package and the 1LE RPO codes. The L98 was still left detuned with iron heads for the remainder of the 3rd generation until 1993 when the LT1 was introduced, it never got siamesed intake runners as shown either, but it was an available aftermarket mod. The ZF 6 speed was a no show, though a T56 can take its place fairly easily, the 700-R4/4L60 was clearly the performance transmission as it was the only option available for the L98 to handle its torque. Never got the Corvette gatorbacks, nor the black multispoke wheels, they just retained the better looking (IMO) 5 spoke anniversary wheels. To find one with both B4C and 1LE RPO codes is extremely rare, but it comes with the benefits of what those packages have to offer, including A/C and aluminum driveshaft! Some light, cheap tuning and suspension upgrades can really call out the 3rd gen's potential, the rear control arms alone can be beefed up for less than $100. Camaros are simply sports cars with truck parts.
they should've put the LT1 in it. it was in the corvette in 92. it was the same size dimensionally.
1flynlow they did use the corvette LT1 engine on the new Camaro that came after this generation. But yea I agree with you they should have used it on this model year Camaro but still 270hp from that old corvette engine was really good back in the day, heck to me is even good for today and if I remember correctly I believe it made more hp then what the corvette made with that engine which only made about 245hp in the corvette, so not bad.....but thank god for the new LT1 that came in the corvette in 92 with its full 300hp
Not really a GM "fan", but I've always liked these.. If money was no object, I would have one of these, but with a modern engine, trans and drive line..
not really a fan of idiots who say "not really a fan but" who the fuck are you talking to exactly?
if you arent a fan did you get lost viewing videos of things you dislike?fucking moron
Thats the nicest camaro design of alll camaros
Omg those seats look like every skyhawk I've owned
Great car for the time.
I miss 1992😭😭
The 1994 25th Anniversary Edition 94 t/a is cool but just imagine if Pontiac built a 1992 3rd gen Firebird 25th anniversary edition. And just imagine if they would have kept the 3rd gen fbody for 1993 and built them with the 5.7 lt1 and 6spd from the factory. That would have been a car to buy!
Kinda like how the 08/09 Bullitt is basically the 2010 track pack Mustang GT before it existed... Mines an 08, and what a fun car to drive (video on my channel)
you had to get a pontiac firehawk from slp to get a 6sp behind a 5.7
I had a rare 92 model. V8 5 speed and a convertible! only made a few like that. insurance didn't like the soft top with a V8 5 speed.
they made probably 15,000 or so
Hey could you PLEEEASE post the review for the 1998 Z-28? Or was that already posted?
BobbyJay car and driver has something on that just search on UA-cam
Type of car to find cocaine residue on the dash
& a clear plastic cassette box with blade inside
dash is too angled for proper cocaine ingestion as the windshield hits you in the head,you need to carry a little golden spoon on your oversized gold necklace.(dont ask how i know that and dont look at my car either)
best comment I've ever read lol
Jean shirt, Kentucky Headhunters tape, and mullet not included.
pretty sure that's about 80% of all cars from that era
I wanna see that 454 Camaro mule from the same year. In white also if I remember.
1:35 Gawd damn! That's the way those cars should move.
Nice.
With a more aggressive rear axle this is a high 13 car.
Does this guy start out pronouncing the "H" weird?
It's difficult to believe that video was made in 1992, and the Camaro has been around, more or less, for 50(!) years now.
its amazing how few of these awesome cars are left that arent destroyed,scrapped or ghetto modded.
i got very lucky and picked up an ultra clean 1986 t/a with no mods other than a fiberglass hood.
The sharp looking fog lights are missing!
The heads where cast iron if going into a camaro and aluminium in the vette..otherwise they are identical engines
Cool
I've never seen one of these on the road.
because there arent any,did you watch the video?
Basically, they built this L98 engine almost to LT1 hp numbers with the Corvette's ZF 6 speed. Beautiful package for the RS Camaro, but to build something to these specs or better in a 3rd gen package for maybe cheaper, drop in a T56 6 speed with an LS whatever. Me personally, I would probably stay close to this car's specs and probably modify this L98 even more probably with just bolt-ons. Heads, cam, stealthram intake, and long tube headers instead of the stock exhaust manifolds that are on this car, or maybe drop in a modified LT1 but people are really sleeping on that LT4 engine that came in the 1997 SLP Camaro SS. Got my imagination going wild. Lol
Good point! By '92 everyone was ready for the LTx motors, but then by '98 we got the LSx motors and now are incredibly spoiled :) The L98s are great but run out of breath at 4500 rpm on cue. My grandpa had an '87 Vette L98 and it would be great off the line, and even with 2.59 or 3.07 gearing it just didn't have any high-rpm surge. The LTx motors brought peak power to about 5500 and the LSx motors got it to 6000 ('97 Vette LS1).
hilarious put up against the '92 Nissan 300ZX and Rotary RX7
rotary pile of shit on wheels,its hilarious
Those tpi runners
Didn't recognize the dragstrip without the weeds
When this came out it was so friggin cool. Looking back on it though, mhhh. The cars coming out today are 10x better.
Oh yah I know... I was just thinking back at how awesome this car was. The ones coming out now are just light years ahead of it. Kind of amazing how advanced they've gotten in 20 years. In 20 years I bet most cars on the road are electric or some other new found fuel. Should be interesting.
Haaaang on.. Those rims are just Trans am GTA rims painted black with a different centercup-sticker. I have gta rims on my Camaro, they're identical except for the black center of the rims are the usual trans-am gold.
TA WS6 wheels were black. GTAs were gold. Basically just TA WS6 wheels with stickers
14.3! My Toyota Camry does that now! That was fast for 92. lol
Bigchuck678 who cares? This was over 25 years ago
Bigchuck678 No Camry runs a 14.3 unless it has a 100 shot😆
CC Ryder If thats all a Super Bee does is a mid 15 sec 1/4, then you pulled two plug wires before the run. Lol.
What 16 inch wheels are those?they nice.
TA WS6 wheels from the 1988-1992 era
I feel like I had one too many Member Berries from watching this review.
Member the F-Bodies? I member!
If I had the capacity I would be building replicas .
The last generation the Camaro looked uniquely American and this good. Everything that followed (to this day) went down the drain.
the police pull it over and they're like, "ok, who's head is that in the trunk?"
the old fbodys up until 2002 will always be better than the camaro of new.
instent classic that never was.tipical gm. bean counter rule.
Isn't 270 hp kinda on the low side to produce 5.7 60 times and 14.3 1/4 times???
Eks calybur ya I think so but it could have 350 tq lol
I'm thinking lack of traction had something to do with that.
331Grabber I was thinking he ment it's fast for only 270 hp rating
It was the torque that made these cars fly
No because this car doesn't weight 4000+lbs like modern cars do.
Fiat 1500/1800/2100/2300 they had 4wheel disc brakes since 64` and mercedes also from 68`.
Um whats your point?
Wow
What! the 1992 GMC Syclone beat up the Camaro and Corvette....?
The Syclone was only a 1991 model. The Typhoon however was a 1992 model
@@mattingly50187 really didnt mess with those models...Back then I had a S15 little Gmc Truck 4x4 with a 2.8L 700R4 with a Gypsy pkg....today-current: I got a 94 Z71 350 and 88 Camaro Iroc-Z 305-speed
Even at rest , looks like its moving.
So, its a late-model Firehawk... LT4
How do you no if your car is heritage
I wanted one of these so bad, and then Chevy pulled the plug.
Surprised I dont see any "my v6 charger would smoke this thing" comments...
A set of 3:73 or 4:10 gears would have this in the sub 5 second 0-60 times..
They could of made the RS more respectable and worth more this how it should of been
Does anyone know of somebody that put a LT5 5.7 DOHC all aluminum engine in this car? Be nice if GM put that into this car instead of the Tune Port.
There were all sorts of crazy test mules running around the Milford proving grounds. The testing engineers could raid GM's cookie jar (parts bins) and put together insane combinations of drivetrains. I would say 90% of what these guys got to do would not even feasible for actual production. We could only have dreamed they did.
Dimitrios F Yes, it has the zr-1 drivetrain. It just sold on ebay not too long ago actually.
Yes. A friend of mine went to Arizona to look at buying in the 2000s
Decent 0-60 for 270 hp
If it were mine and that dude was roughly dry shifting like that, he'd get a smack upside the head.
Found this Camaro with 383 Stroker with 35000 original miles and pristine shape!! Owner wants 15k or best offer!! Any comments??
offer him $5,000, extremely low miles on a old car is not always a good thing rubber needs to flex or it will dry rot, and cars have rubber everywhere body grommets, coolant hoses ,A/C heat system, ball joints,weather striping, gaskets, other gaskets, and few more gaskets . Any moving metal parts could have seized and rusted together then later broken apart but it will leave pitting and scoring like in the cylinders, brakes fluid gums up ruining the brake system, water pump=bad, radiator=bad, need to flush the block cause its going to be full of rust, gas tank/fuel lines are going to be gummed up with varnish=trash, and thats just scratching the surface without getting into the interior or transmission. Sitting is one of the worst thing for a car, if you have one now start it up once a week and drive a few feet and let it come up to full temperature, i sure wish i did my Pontiac had all those problems plus some after just sitting in FL for 5 years
and now we have the buyable ZL1 camaro lol
I wonder where this car is today??
I believe this car went to the crusher. They made 3 or 4 prototypes 1 got crushed 100% sure of that, another 1 was turned into a crate engine test mule painted yellow and GM putting their ram jet 350 into in the late 90s. The other ones I have no clue
Interior was designed with an etch a sketch. The camaro almost always out performed the mustang but the camaro always suffered from two things. The corvette and the fact that gm never stayed with a formula, looks wise, price wise and simplicity. Even going out of production for years. Ford sticks to the formula, fun, fast and cheap. Long hood, short deck. Etc... These camaros were great performers but they looked like the corvette's little cousin. That's why the mustang historically outsold the camaro, as well as being more affordable.
why was it not made? same reason the 89 TTA was killed. Same reason the 2nd gen fiero was killed. Same reason the 82 Turbo Trans Am was killed. It was faster than the corvette.
The fastest third-gen
Both the 1989 TTA and 1991-1992 Firehawks were faster. It is the fastest 3rd generation Camaro though,
14.3? Stock L98 auto cars done that. Should have turned a 13.5 with a decent driver
Changed the corvette engine how? The 350 is the same size out side as the 305. The 270 hp came from a hotter cam. They didn't make this car because the new LT-1 engine that came in the 93 Camaro. Would have had a redesign engine that only made 5 more hp than the old.
GOOD OL I_R_O_C
Uh...... sooo you needed to change the 350TPI which was already in these cars.... to fit.... in the car....
Is this GTA rims? I like it.
Pontiac Trans Am GTA-ish wheels....
🚙 The F-Body camaro are the best and fastest camaro of all time
Lol
Can you say underrated?