My 80 Z Clone Pro Touring in progress

[J. Chris Davis]

Well I got the Camaro to the alignment shop last night and got it on the rack. The alignment guy and I were trying to figure out what was with the high toe out that I had and the inner tie rods and bumpsteer kit were fully threaded in as far as they could go. Got Dave with PTFB on the phone right away and started measuring everything. We determined the sleeves in the bumpsteer kit I received were too long. They were 10" long when the kit was supposed to have 8.5" sleeves. Dave found a couple that were the correct length and is getting them shipped out to me Today. Not a big deal other than having to take the car back home and reschedule with the alignment shop. I at least got to drive the Camaro back and forth across town. Those control arms and brakes with my same master cylinder work great so far (haven't tried any really hard driving or braking yet). Can't wait to get it aligned next week and be able to see what the car can really do.

[J. Chris Davis]

Got the new bumpsteer kit sleeves installed. They are both 9" in length. I was able to get the wheels straight with about a half inch to and inch of adjustment left in it. I do like that these new ones are powder coated.

[J. Chris Davis]

Got the car back from the alignment shop this morning. Haven't been able to drive it much yet, but everything seems good. I still have a lean from left to right. I think I might try to redo my shackles and see if that helps any.

[J. Chris Davis]

Haven't done much with the car lately. I did replace the spark plug wires with some Taylor wires that I cut to length and routed I think a little cleaner than the other premade wires were.

[J. Chris Davis]

Took a few pictures last night in front of the local Drive-in. Just had their last movies of the season playing for their dusk till dawn Saturday night.

[cbpldc]

For some reason, I can't see your pics. Anyone else have that problem?

Chris

[J. Chris Davis]

I'm not sure what the problem would be. I can see them with no problems. I also have these picture links on my other thread in a different web forum and they seem to be viewable by others.

[cbpldc]

Awesome! I can see them now. It looks great! I'm watching, as I have a later 2nd gen as well.

[J. Chris Davis]

Thanks! Got a build thread going for yours?

[cbpldc]

Not yet. I'm waiting on parts to arrive. I'll start one soon. I'm also in the middle of a massive rebuild of a 65 Riviera, so I spend more time driving the Camaro than working on it.

[J. Chris Davis]

That's cool. I had a 76 Riviera in high school and would have kept it, but the frame was getting pretty bad. Spent its whole life in Northern Illinois. I do have a 98 Riviera though that I got about 5 years ago. That gets used as my daily driver for the most part.

[J. Chris Davis]

Been a while since I have posted. I installed the Billet grilles yesterday that I purchased almost a year ago. They will be getting powder coated flat black to match the headlight buckets. I also have been mocking up a junk center console with parking brake. Looking for opinions on it at this point. It will function fine, but not sure how it looks. I also picked up some speaker kick panels which is another reason I am considering moving the parking brake.

[J. Chris Davis]

Got my parts back from the powder coating today. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. I should be getting these back on the car tomorrow. Had to let the glue dry long enough on the sill plate tags when I reattached them this afternoon.

[J. Chris Davis]

In other updates to the car. I have bee busy replacing the stereo speakers and the stereo with a Pioneer Bluetooth CD player. Replaced the rear 6x9's with Polk Audio, still working on the kick panels, but bought Polks for those too. Added radio power off timer and dome light fader dimmer. I also added led courtesy lights and replaced the gauge lights with LED's. I don't have a picture of the courtesy lights, but here's one of the dash.

[J. Chris Davis]

Installed the sill plates today.

[J. Chris Davis]

Got my Billet grilles powder coated flat black and installed. Also installed some Lokar pedals. The larger surface area of the new clutch pedal for my foot is nice.

[Josh@Ridetech]

Clean car! Nice job on it.

[J. Chris Davis]

Thank you!

[cbpldc]

Where are your door panels from? Mine just have a generic looking armrest with integrated grab handle, but they're just kind of flat.

[J. Chris Davis]

Where are your door panels from? Mine just have a generic looking armrest with integrated grab handle, but they're just kind of flat.

That's how mine were stock and I never liked them. That grab handle always pulled out of the door. I ending up putting door panels on it from a 70-72 Camaro.