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01-28-2014 #1Registered User
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67 Camaro build (C5 suspension and transaxle
So its about a decade later and I am finally underway on my 1st gen build. A quick background. I bought this car back in 2003 when I was in college. I had just sold a 69 Pontiac LeMans and had "big" plans to build a pro-touring car when I was finished school. Its funny how much plans change. I found an old thread I started back in 2007, https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...ect?highlight=.
Like I said a decade later and I'm finally underway with the project. I quess you could call this more than a change of plans, https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...on)?highlight=.
So here are some pics to show progress and current status:
Spent quite a few hours with wire brush attachments on an angle grinder removing years of gunk! After the wire brush treatment, moved onto several rounds of chemical stripping. This car had three paint jobs from what I could tell, original maroon (based on vin), blue and the "fugly" black mess when I bought it.
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01-28-2014 #2Registered User
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Some of the cancer spots
Front and rear windshield channels need to be replaced
Deck filler and package tray are toast
Nice previous repair work on the driver side quarter / door jam
My personal favorite. Both rear wheel openings (quarter panel and outer wheel house) were cut then patched with fiberglass and bondo to make room for an A-body 12 bolt housing with 10.5" slicks which stuck out past the openings about an inch on either side. I guess this was easier than narrowing the rear and or getting wheels with the correct backspacing.
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01-28-2014 #3Registered User
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A new home for the car and some long overdue soda blasting
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01-28-2014 #4Registered User
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So its time to start some sheet metal work. The floor and firewall are surprisingly solid as are the rockers. Here is a list of the work that needs to be done:
Partial trunk floor
DSE mini tubs
outer wheel housings
quarter panels (lh and rh)
trunk latch support brackets
deck filler panel
package tray
front and rear windshield channels
trunk weatherstrip channels
various small spot repairs
Hopefully this list doesn't get too out of control
My plan of attack is to start on the rear of the car while it is still on the rotisserie. First order of business trunk floor. I'm doing a partial because the close outs and rear frame rails are in good shape and seem to be solid. I figured this would be less work and certainly save some bucks on replacement parts.
I want to get the trunk floor in place then go to work on the mini tubs. I am thinking it would be best to leave the outer wheel houses in place to locate the mini tubs. Once I get the mini tubs in place I will take the car off the rotisserie and block it up on jacks stands (placing the jack stands where the body mounts to the factory subframe and leaf springs).
While the car is on stands I will start work on the quarter panels. I am going to set the doors to the rockers and door jam area on the existing quarters (which I am hoping are original based on the lead at the interface with the roof skin). I figure this will give me a good foundation for installing the quarters. While the quarters are off I will place the outer wheel housing then finally finish weld everything.
Once I rough cut the trunk floor out I realized it gave me access to many of the hard to reach spots involved in installing the mini tubs.
So I decided the car seems to be stabilized pretty well on the rotisserie and since I can stand in the hole in the trunk at this point I might as well at least rough cut the inner wheel housings out at this point. (Sorry for the poor picture quality all I had on me was my phone today).
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01-28-2014 #5Registered User
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While working on cutting out the inner wheel housings I noticed that flanges where the inner and outer wheel houses meet (at the top of the tubs) pretty difficult to get to in certain spots. Also, I am really having trouble finding the spot welds along this flange. On the driver side it seems like there is a ridiculous amount of very small spot welds along the flange spaced very close together. On the passenger side I am having trouble finding them at all. This car had been worked on and painted several times over the years so who knows what could have been done hear.
Does anyone have any tips for separating the inner and outer wheel housings along this flange? It almost seems like some people are trimming the inner as close to the flange as they can get it and installing the new inner tubs butted up against it. Is this true?
Not really sure what I am going to do here just yet. I am contemplating on installing both inner and outer housings while the car is on the rotisserie with the existing quarter panels in place. Though the quarters are pretty jacked up along the wheel opening edge so this mat not be the best course of action.
I am certainly open to suggestion if anyone has any good input or advice.
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01-28-2014 #6Registered User
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