My Top 10 PT Lesson's Learned (a condensed build thread)!

[MattG]

1.Looks easy on TV, I can do that.
2.Just because you bought a good welder doesn’t mean you’re a good welder
3.Figure out what it will cost and add 50%
4.Like Steve Rupp said, if it says bolt on, it doesn’t
5.I can lose the nut off a bolt quicker than anyone
6.My back sucks and I’m not getting younger
7.Figure out a time line and double it
8.My wife is an Angel for putting up with this
9.Rewiring the car really wasn’t that bad, thanks AAW
10.When you want to blow up your car, walk away, have a beer, and start again tomorrow!

I really want to thank everyone here and at PT and Lat-G cause without you guys, I couldn't (and shouldn't) have done this!
I only copied what so many others have done before, so no real need to go into full detail...
A special thanks goes out to my old neighbor Herb Lumpp for all of his help, Matt's Classic Bowties for a ton of parts (and patients), and my tuner Ed Hutchings for making this thing purr like a kitten!



Stock LS3 crate motor
LS9 cam with stock valvetrain
Magnuson TVS 2300 for a 2010 Camaro ported and fit for a Wegner 10rib front runner setup by Casey Wegner
Injector Dynamics ID 850 injectors
12 pounds of boost
C&R heat exchanger for 1969 Camaro (Ed said it was Very efficient)
Kooks 1 7/8 headers with 3" exhaust
Magnum t56
Moser 3.73 wavetrac 12 bolt rear
Ricks vaporworks tank with Camaro ZL1 pump and regulator (pump is maxed out)





So after 2.5 years of building my first car, I am finally on the road and enjoying my first full build. Still a small list of punch out items, but she's driving really nice and burnin rubber. I'll spend the rest of this year getting the bugs out, and next year I'll hit as many events as I can!!!



Thanks again,

Matt

[Later-A-body]

Very nice car. I had to laugh at the "add 50% to the cost". Make it 100%....I left 50% on the side of the road about 2 years ago.

[MattG]

Very nice car. I had to laugh at the "add 50% to the cost". Make it 100%....I left 50% on the side of the road about 2 years ago.

I'm scared to actually add it up, cause it's probably at a 100% over by now!

[SSLance]

My advice...DON'T add it up!! :D

The rest of your list is spot on. Congrats on getting your build on the road, now go enjoy beating it like a rented mule, that's what you built it for!

[Yelcamino]

Congrats Matt! I'm happy to hear you're enjoying your creation!

[MattG]

Thanks Herb, certainly wouldn't be the same without you! Tell Carol I said hi.

[CampbellshotrodsAZ]

Lol, yeah, double the price is more like it. I know I stopped adding up the receipts once this "double" point was reached on the Mustang.

[instro84]

congrats on getting it on the road nice looking car.

[fxdlryan]

Matt - Good to see another PT project happening in Ashburn and yours is definitely looking good.

[armourmark]

anxious to hear how it performs on the track!

[MattG]

anxious to hear how it performs on the track!

Me too!!!

[Yelcamino]

Thanks Herb, certainly wouldn't be the same without you! Tell Carol I said hi.

I wish we lived a little closer so we could hang out more. I'll tell Carol.

[MattG]

I wish we lived a little closer so we could hang out more. I'll tell Carol.

I'm still coming out with the Camaro, what, 6 hours... That's close! Aimee says hi.