Made good progress on my 68 Camaro :)

[Chad-1stGen]

Update (see bottom post & cardomain) 3/18/07

I have some pics at:
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2334689/1

Though I need to gather all my pics and upload some more.

Over the past month I've:
-Installed hydrolic clutch master and lines (it even works!)
-Installed front brake lines
-Installed front to rear line
-Installed rear disk brakes, had to send one of the calipers off to get another passenger side to fit staggered shocks
-Installed bilstein shocks
-Installed lokar throttle pedal & cable
-Thoroughly cleaned, inspected, and installed door and quarter windows
-Installed Damplifier Pro sound deadening in the outer door skin of the doors, rear fenders, floor pan and plan to do inner door skin and sail pannel area and possible trunk. Also have Overkill sound proof foam
- Installed the dash pad
- Installed all new lock cyclinders and replaced driver side lock assembly
- Installed door and trunk weatherstripping
- Installed front and rear bumbers
- Mocked up and istalled new Arizen racing seats

Have a whole lot more work to go but making progress!

Word of warning to anyone working with foil backed sound deadening. Use gloves that stuff cut my hands like whoa.

[73z-6sp]

Looking nice! Great job!

[Tim_in_NC]

Looks Good ...

What size TTII's and Tires are you running? What ride height?

-TIM

[Chad-1stGen]

The rims are 16" Will have to get back to you on the specific tire size as I don't recall off the top of my head.

The car has hotchkis drop springs front and rear. Fronts are 2" drop, rears are either 2 or 3"

Thanks for the comments guys. If I can find my USB thumb drive with all the pics I'll post some more.

[rockdogz]

Looks good, nice progress!
:cool:

[colt zantop]

lookin good!!

[Dust87ss]

Sharp. Where did you get the 4 hole gauge pod?

[Chad-1stGen]

I'm in the process of adding about 100 new pics which will show the build up of my car from beginning to end (when the end comes :fingersx: ) so please check it out.

Keep the comments coming too :)

Regarding the 4 guage pod it is actually two, two guage pids :) I'm still not sure if I'll go with that set up long term though. Just can't decide if I like it. If I get ambitious I'll either build or have someone build me a center console with a spot for the guages.

[Chad-1stGen]

UPDATE 12/11

Added a few pics from Thanksgiving work. I finally have driven the car!! albeit just around the block but it sure felt great.

-Installed front windshield (was total disaster)
-Installed touring classics rear disk kit
-bled brakes and after 3rd M/C have working brakes!
-Installed new steering wheel
-Installed Lokar shifter boot.
-Reconditioned E-brake mechanism and installed under dash
-Installed all new e-brake hardware
-Installed the rest of the sound deadening and sound proof foam on floorboard
-installed carpet (still need to trim sides)
-installed Arizen seats

Probably forgetting some of the smaller details.

Looking forward to time off over the holiday's to turn this thing into a real driver.

Check out the link in my sig for updated pics.

I've now got a lot of shots showing the build up of the car along with some before pics.

[ProTouring442]

Very nice!

Shiny Side Up!
Bill
'72 442 "Inamorata"
www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442 (http://www.FQuick.com/ProTouring442)

[6'9"Witha69]

Dude, it looks great. Very nice work.

[Chad-1stGen]

Well as of 1/21/07 I've done some more work. Don't have pics for it all though I did finally add some good shots of the exterior of the car. This weekend was the 1st weekend I've washed and waxed the car now that all the glass and weathersripping is in :)

Since my last update I've:

-installed all new steering components (tie rots, etc)
-installed about 70% of my vintage air. Heater is working but I need different hoses for the A/C to work with my custom routing. Check out my site for pics of the firewall. I routed all the hoses out of the original blower hole and over the fender for a much cleaner look.
-trimmed the carpet and installed the kick pannels and sill plates (no pics of that yet)
-reinstalled the front glass and trim clips. As it leaked the time before I haven't installed the trim just yet.
-installed the rear window and trim
-removed the T56 transmission to have it rebuilt (I hate taking things apart for repairs!)
-installed the roof rail weatherstrip retainers and weathersripping. Still working on door glass alignment (it is not cooperating so far...).

Just click the link in my sig to check the car out.

[Chad-1stGen]

Updated my cardomain page with some more pics and have made some more progress on the Camaro!

Have about 1800 miles on the car now.

-T56 has been reinstalled since the rebuild.
- Front window trim has been installed
- finished routing all the ducting for the vintage air system and isntalled all of the dash vents
- Installed center dash trim and ash tray. Car originally equiped with trim package so center trim and ash tray are woodgrained. How does it look? Since I decided not to install the original center consule there is nothing else with wood grain on it.
- Installed arm rests and window cranks
- Installed rear seat tray upholstry
- Got the car aligned with +4* Caster, -1* Camber, 1/16 toe out.
- Installed wide band 02 upgrade.

Here is an interior shot. About 100 pics total at my cardomain

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