My 80 Z Clone Pro Touring in progress

[J. Chris Davis]

Both front springs have been checked and are in proper position. I haven't done much about it yet. Kinda keep working on other stuff. I have not done anything with the parking brakes yet either. Hoping I'll have some time this winter to mess with that.

[J. Chris Davis]

Been quite a while since I've last posted. Got the Camaro out today and snagged some pictures.

[J. Chris Davis]

Here are some more pictures from a couple of weeks ago at the park.

[J. Chris Davis]

Got the fiberglass front 3 piece spoiler in last week. Still need to get the fiberglass front and rear bumper yet.

[Zspoiler]

Looks nice ! with all the modifications you have made.Would you consider putting a "splitter" on your front.spoiler?.There are some pictures Of some members cars with it. If I didn`t go the way I did with the IMSA look on my car.I would of done it.

[J. Chris Davis]

Thank you! I probably won't go that route with this car. I do have a 3rd gen IROC I've been considering doing that to when I get to that stage.

[Zspoiler]

You can never have enough Camaros

[J. Chris Davis]

HaHa! That is true!

[aps63]

Looks GREAT, keep up the progress!!!

[J. Chris Davis]

Thank you!

[J. Chris Davis]

I've been working on this little mod on and off for a few months. I don't like having stuff hanging from my visors so I've always had my garage door remote in the center console. That gets annoying digging that out every time. So I cut out a hole in my ash tray and mounted a 99 Cadillac Homelink garage door remote that will be wired directly to the car.

[manicmechanic]

Nice Mod, like to see how that works out.

[J. Chris Davis]

Thanks! Hopefully in the next day or two I can get it wired in. Just needs a 12v+ and ground.

[J. Chris Davis]

Got the homelink garage door opener put in the car Saturday.

[813Demon340]

Love the clean opener install, very nice!

[J. Chris Davis]

Thank you! I could not find a better place to put it and it makes use of my ash tray.

[J. Chris Davis]

So for my next project I am going to work on this winter will finally be the parking brakes. I won't be putting a parking brake handle in the console like I was originally going to do. I didn't really want to cut up my console for it and still wasn't sure I liked how it looked. So I have found a 2" stroke, 225 lbs force linear actuator that I'm going to most likely mount to my welded in subframe connector and use the Lokar cables I got. I'm still looking at other possible locations. I'll wire up a momentary rocker switch and hide it on the bottom side of my dash. This is the actuator I found. Also including a Youtube video of the exact thing I'm doing that someone did with the C2 Corvette which is where I got the idea.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-12-Inch-Bl...53.m1438.l2649

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkBFKdNHqIo


Here's a picture of the actuator after I got it and put the boot on. Also have the switch that I'm going to use to run it there.

[mert.celet]

I'm looking forward to your progress about the actuator operated e brake setup. Still haven't sorted mine out and this is so eccentric

[J. Chris Davis]

The only issue I see having is the mounting of the actuator to the frame rail since I will not be able to get behind that frame rail to put a support plate on the other side of the bracket. I'm still working on that minor detail. Might be able to cut a hole and weld a plate in with nuts welded to it for the bracket to mount to. I probably won't get started on this for a few months.

[mert.celet]

Welding a plate... Exactly what I was thinking as i was about to read your description. I'll be looking forward to see your progress.