Those fit great!
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Those fit great!
I also bought a set of BMW M4 seats from F82. They are super comfortable and have buttons on the back of the seat to tilt the seat forward and move the seat forward/backward for rear passenger convenience. Right now I’m on the hunt to find a way to make all power options of the seat work. So far I was able to make the seat move forward/backward and up/down. I also figured out how to light up the M led logo (my upholsterer said he can make some badge to go there like a bowtie or ZL1 logo) devils in the details! The only issue I ran into is the center console from the 16 Camaro fits very tight with the seats. It’s very difficult to open the storage compartment. I’ll have to have the upholstery shave down the door of the compartment probably.
Enjoy the pics!
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This is the color scheme I plan to go with when I get the leather redone.
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Sidenote about the front seats. The local wrecking yard where I bought the rear seat, I have visited them at least 3 times already and I’m Russian and so are they so we have something in common. Anyway, I told them I was working on a 69 Camaro and I was going to put front seats from an M4 and they immediately asked me how I was going to make them work without the canbus. I told them I read that you can Hotwire them and the only functionality lost is heated seats. They told me they can order a little box that’s made in Russia that’s like a little Canbus and as long as I get the OEM switches for heated seats (and cars that have cooled) I will have all functionality of the seats. They said the box is like $100-$200 depending on what car/seats it’s for. So that’s something to consider and I’ll follow up with them if I can’t get full functionality of the seats myself.
great looking seats, they fit well
Awesome build!
I would really love to learn more about the side view mirrors. I have been on the hunt for something with those features for years.
The side mirrors are from 13-18 Lexus ES300-350 models. Here is a link:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Drivers-Pow...gAAOSw7t9d7byY
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Passengers-...cAAOSwQKlemQ5l
Here is a pic up close on the Camaro, to mount it, I just had to grind the inside of the bracket very easy to do and pretty self explanatory once you get the mirrors. Let me know if anyone has any other questions or needs to know what each wire does. The mirrors have defrost, puddle lamp, turn signal, and power up/down left/right.
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The rear seats are from an E92 Bmw. So far I only mounted the upper seat. I just simply welded on a piece of heavy angle iron to the wheel tub and welded a nut on the back. The seatbelt bottom is attached there as well. For the top, I used the BMW E92 seat brackets, they have a nice lever that mounts in the trunk to flip the seats down. The BMW brackets are spring loaded so when you pull the lever the seats in the car actually fold down. Another nice feature is that the center armrest comes down and there is a compartment there for 2 cup holder! LOL
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I didn’t like the look of the E92 package tray because it looked really plain. So I got one from a 2 series BMW I believe it’s F22. There is a mount for 2 4” mids and 2 1” tweeters. I got it for $90. Way cheaper than shop LLC and looks basically same. Oh and I also plan to make the child restraint tabs functional too. I have a daughter who’s 4 so I’ll need a child seat for her to ride along.
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very innovative, the factory appearance is right up my alley
Here you go Larry:
Side mirror
Pink- Positive turn signal
Black/red- ground turn signal
White- up/down
Red- left/right
Yellow- puddle light
Black- ground
Brown- defroster
Attachment 176012Here’s what the lever looks like that flips the seats down. Here is a link to the latches, try to see if they have the mounting hardware:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/04-2004-BMW...MAAOSwhEteA27I
Those mirrors look huge!
Andrew
Attachment 176039Hahaha, the mirrors actually fit the car really well in my opinion. Yes they are larger than the factory mirrors that you can’t see anything out of but these mirrors actually come even on Lexus smallest car the IS300/350. Here’s a pic farther away.
Fits like a glove! I’m not sure how wide the stock rear door panels are but I’m planning to have custom door panels anyway.
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Small update. I really hate how the stock seatbelts mount to the rear roof section so I bought BMW 1 series convertible seatbelts. Here’s what I did. For the mechanism mount, I welded in a piece of 1/8” angle iron to the thick rocker. The other mounting point is in the rear door panel pretty self explanatory and the bottom mount I used the stock location of the Camaro seatbelt. I used the bar the bmw seatbelts came with so the seatbelt can slide for/aft to allow for easy entrance/exit to the rear seats.
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Adjusted gaps and some nip tuck action on the front bumper. Hopefully next week I will be sending the car for seamseal, undercoat, paint interior, and firewall.
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Looking great! I need to do that with my bumper next
Something exciting is happening. Anyone care to guess what it is? Obviously besides different door handles. LOL
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BAM! Tesla Model 3 door handles
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Looks great.
Don
Car went to body shop last week to be seam sealed, undercoated and painted inside. In the mean time I dropped off all suspension to powdercoating. Started painting the rear diff. Came out excellent. It’s a VHT metallic fire red. Paint looks super thick and shinny. Everything under the car will be satin black but the driveline (engine, trans, driveshaft and rear diff) will be metallic red. Since the outside of the car will be like a candy apple red. This is the closest color I found to a candy apple red and I’m really really happy with it!
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Painted the engine, this was a huge hurdle for me. This is my first time taking apart an engine so I was very nervous about disassembly. So I took off 1 part at a time, labeled and took pics. Hopefully I can reassemble everything as quickly and easily as it all went apart. I’m still in the process of painting the supercharger and the accessory drives.
The VHT system seems very high quality. I normally hate painting because 90% of painting is prep and I just don’t have the patience to prep properly and get pretty poor results. Luckily my engine is fairly new (15’ pullout) so it was fairly clean and obviously unpainted. I prepped with brake cleaner and wire brush. Then scuffed with a pad and then again a very liberal spray of brake clean. Let everything dry then sprayed 3 coats primer. Next day wiped off any dust and sprayed 4-5 coats of color. VHT recommends only 3 but since this is a metallic I had to use really really light coats to prevent runs. It was also hard to get into all the nooks and crannies which is another reason I had to do light coats. Then I put about 4 light coats of clear and the result is amazing! 3 hours later I was scared to touch it because it looks super wet but it was already dry to the touch. I’m really happy with how this turned out and basically needed only minimal prep to get almost a show quality paint job. If I had taken some sand paper and grinder to remove the casting imperfections and smooth everything out it truly would be show quality paint job.
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I took apart the supercharger snout to replace the isolator with a solid one and to my surprise it was already solid. My engine is from a 15 ZL1 which was the last year of the LSA perhaps GM started putting in solid isolators? I also bought a griptec 2.38” pulley which required a 3 jaw puller to remove the stock pulley. Rented that for free from Advanced Auto, it came out super easy, but the new pulley doesn’t fit the snout and needs to be machined. My dad said I was crazy to do this but it only required 1/16” all the way around so I marked it and started grinding it down with a grinder really slowly. Took me about an hour to do it, then I filed down the grinding marks, then used some sandpaper and it came out awesome! Pulley fits with no rubbing! Now I just need to press on the new hub.
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man that engine came out nice, great work
She’s all dressed up with nowhere to go. Body is still stuck in bodyshop. They told me a couple of weeks and it’s been a month and they said to give them 2 more weeks. Attachment 181766
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That's a body shop for you. I had my mother's truck in for a paint job, was told 1 month and it took 4. They uncovered a few hidden issues that had to be fixed in order to get it right, which extended the body prep time. Plus, your job isn't the only one they have to work on and being a for-profit shop they have to prioritize each day to make the best use of their time. The wait was worth it though, because it was stunning when complete. No pics though, because I wasn't thinking about posting anything on it at the time.
Unfortunately, the restoration part of the body shop is only a 1 man show and the owner, the person who promised me couple of weeks has been out for a few weeks because he’s sick. So far they scuffed everything down and seamsealed. Undercoating and painting inside and firewall is next.
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Nice. What accessory drive are you using.
It’s stock LSA, with the CTS-V steering pump. I’m also running a dirty dingo low mount AC. I painted everything satin black. Shoulda powder coated it but it’s too late now.
Hand painted those letters to match the metallic red on the engine
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Nice job it all looks great!
Thanks! Can’t wait to start assembly!
Excellent attention to detail there! I'm following along as I'm in the middle of an LSA / TR6060 (magnum hybrid) swap myself.
cool build!