Re: Need help - 69 COPO Camaro?
 

You can view the rest of the pics from the above link. I'll add more pictures through the day. If there is anything anyone would like to see to help identify the car, please let me know.
Thanks,
April

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April - please use your macro setting on your camera so that you can focus in close (your fuel line is in focus but not the stamping). This is the setting that looks like a flower or tulip. good luck.

Re: Need help - 69 COPO Camaro?
 

I played with adjustments a bit to try and enhance the first alpha character....



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...s/BEaxle-1.jpg

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Hi Sam,
Wish I had a macro setting. :-) I just have a pretty simple camera. I was hoping I would get a better image but if you stare at it for a bit and let your eyes focus you can see it. At least I can, lol, but maybe that is because I know what it looks life in person. Thanks for fiddling with the image. Maybe that will make it easier for someone else.

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Take a picture from way further back and then crop it. The stamping may be clearer then. Is the speedo 120 or 140 MPH? Any conclusion on the sway bar?


Jason

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April - if no macro setting, back your camera up (i.e. move away from the axle) in order to get a clear focus and shoot at a higher resolution. I can then help you crop your stamping photo so that we can get a close view of it (just send it to me digitally griffithjs.ap@mac.com or I can even alter it to some extent on photobucket). Experiment with and without flash from different angles watching for washout/glare caused by flash. Without flash, illuminate the axle stamping with a flash lite or other lite source and shine it so that it is at a different angle than the camera. This sometimes helps to highlight the stampings making it easier to read. Good luck.

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Okay, I'll try that with the BE stamp. I have added a few more pics and have a couple more to add but I'm stopping for lunch - at 3 :-)
Sway bar is 11/16 so I'm not sure what that means.
There's not two sway bars, right? What's the other bar that is behind the springs? Because it's bigger.

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Wow, that's really a downer if that weld is actually covering the "B" in "BE". If only they would have welded those ladder bars about one inch more outwards! I think that there was also a "PE" rear axle code also that could also be a candidate for your 12-bolt. I'd have that rear axle cover removed in seconds to see if you have the good COPO "BE" spider gears and clutch plates. There's a good chance that factory stuff is still in there because there many 10-second COPO 427 Camaros that were still running factory 12-bolt Posi carriers instead of spools. That's how durable the factory COPO "BE" components were!

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By the way, the other bar behind the springs is probably the center link you're speaking of.

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Mark,
I saw the PE too, but it came with a 10 bolt not a 12 bolt from what I'm reading. I also saw the PE meant a 3.08 gear ratio which would have been too small. I appreciate the advice about removing the rear axle cover but I would be leary of taking anything apart. We may have to if that turns out to be the only way to rule out a PE.
You lost me on the center link. I'm not sure what you mean or what I said that would refer to that. :-) Unless, you're referring to my question about the sway bar, but that's in the front. ?