A mild pro touring 2nd gen Camaro Project

[cdoggy81]

The new shoes look GOOD!

[romanss]

So I am getting ready (slowly) for Hot Rod Power Tour this year.

I am registered and have 3 nights of hotels booked. I plan on doing Wisconsin to St.Louis. Woohoooo

I upgraded the starter to a Summit mini, high torque starter and wrapped it to keep her cool.

Next, my tank leaks so I bought a Ricks stainless tank. I got it narrowed(for the mini tub) and ready for FI, that'll be in a few years.

After that will be new front end parts, inner, outers, uppers and lowers. And while the front end is apart I will be cutting a bit out of the front coil. Any ideas how much to cut to get 1/2-3/4 of an inch of drop?

That should be enough for this year.

[CamaroMike]

So I am getting ready (slowly) for Hot Rod Power Tour this year.

I am registered and have 3 nights of hotels booked. I plan on doing Wisconsin to St.Louis. Woohoooo

I upgraded the starter to a Summit mini, high torque starter and wrapped it to keep her cool.

Next, my tank leaks so I bought a Ricks stainless tank. I got it narrowed(for the mini tub) and ready for FI, that'll be in a few years.

After that will be new front end parts, inner, outers, uppers and lowers. And while the front end is apart I will be cutting a bit out of the front coil. Any ideas how much to cut to get 1/2-3/4 of an inch of drop?

That should be enough for this year.

I run a 315 under my factory wheel tub just fine. I cant remember but I think one coil will get an inch or so

[romanss]

So I decided to do a few days of Hot Rod Power Tour. Madison to St.Louis.

It was interesting to say the least. Here are the coles notes version of my cruise:

3000 km (1900 miles) round trip in 4 days.

Day1.

-1000 km in 12.5 hours
- gas stations not open at 6am!! ran out of gas on th off ramp coming to a gas station, luckily I has a 5 gallon can filled in the trunk.
-sliced the side of my tire with my fender.
-stopped at autozone and bought a pipe to roll the fender. rolled it, then noticed that I dented the fender with the pipe, on both sides!!

Day2

- cruised for 10 hours.
- went through all kinds of towns, people everywhere waving at us like it was a parade
- had tornado and flash flood warning all day. Got a quick rain for about 10 minutes
- got a downpour and thunder storm at hotel for a few hours, lost power that night, until about 9am

Day3

-cruised for about 8 hours
-this day was hot, about 35 with the humidity
-got to St.Louis speedway after sitting in stop and go traffic for about 3 hours
- people started telling me that my reverse lights are on, WTH!! they were fine earlier. So I unplugged the flaming light bulbs.
- watched drag racing, burnout show and checked out the vendors

Day4

-set out at about 3:30 am
- fatality on highway made us try and take detour, closed roads sent us on a wild ride through gravel and dirt roads.
- lost starter at about 6am, the car ran non stop for the next 14 hours
- about 8 hours in, we almost lost the back wheel, it was held on by 1 loose lug nut. Lost 2 other ones, and snapped off 2 studs. It seemed odd that after 40 hours of driving I'd have this issue, but the show must go on.
- got home at almost 8pm


Now the car is resting after a long haul. She did me right. We figured that we stopped for gas about 22-23 times.

[romanss]

So I decided to do the LS upgrade this up coming winter.

I picked up a T56 with a McLeod street twin and I just picked up a LQ4. A 2001, so it's the aluminum headed version. I think that I'll be doing a turbo setup and seeing how I like that.

I'll be working on getting the engine and trans ready for a winter drop in.

[mikes70]

You won't regret. I sure didn't. My LS1 with long tubes, tune an LS6 intake, t-56, 3:73's in a 12 bolt i still got 24mpg at 80. From CA to Texas, twice (Goodguys road tour)

[romanss]

Hi Gentlemen

So I decided to do some updates this year.

Here is the list:

Replace both rear frame rails
install a DSE mini tub kit
install a DSE front speed 2 kit with steering box
new wheels and tires
brake upgrade kit



Drop the fairly new Rick's stainless tank



pull out the stuff in my way



Now I have some room to work. ;)

[DT69Cam]

Very Nice!!

[Zspoiler]

Nice car.It doesn`t take much to wake a Camaro up engine and /or handling wise.It all depends on the pocket book. Thats the reason why they nick name it .The "Hugger"

[romanss]

I like that nickname. I hope to help my car live up to that nickname.

Here are a few progress pictures:


It looks like a new rear cross rail is in my future. It looks like a drivers side trunk extension too. Sheesh



Some extra frame repair is needed also



Front suspension on the one side is all removed.

[1sikride]

Hey man, love it... where in ontario are you? im in pickering,

and you need to chop or order up a split bumper! stat!

[romanss]

Hey man, love it... where in ontario are you? im in pickering,

and you need to chop or order up a split bumper! stat!

Hi

I'm in Hamilton.

I like the solid bumper for some reason.

What do you drive?

[romanss]

Did a bit more work on the car.

Drivers side frame rail is completely removed.

Removed the D.S. trunk extension.

Got my new tires (BFG Rival S) mounted on the rims.

Slid the tires under the car to see how it would look (and to give me some motivation) ;)





Now to get the new trunk extension welded in, then the rear cross rail, then back to the frame rail, DSE mini tubs, DSE front suspension, Kore3 brakes, new stainless brake lines, new carpet (since I caught my old one on fire) POR15 everything

No problem. The list sounds huge when I type it all out. Sheesh.

[steve40]

Car is gonna look killer Roman. I'm digging the wheels on it

[romanss]

Car is gonna look killer Roman. I'm digging the wheels on it

Thanks Steve.

I still remember the first time I seen the C6 version of these wheels, I was at your place. I vowed to get them then. Here we are, LOL.

[steve40]

Thanks Steve.

I still remember the first time I seen the C6 version of these wheels, I was at your place. I vowed to get them then. Here we are, LOL.

think you'll have it out this summer?

[romanss]

think you'll have it out this summer?

Hi Steve.

That's the goal. That's why I didn't take on too much work. ;)

[romanss]

So I made a bit of progress on the car.

My friend Kurt is working on the front.



Gotta love POR15.



And myself, I've been plugging along on getting the drivers side frame rail back in. Almost there.

[romanss]

So now the front end is coming together with DSE front end and Kore3 brake upgrade.







Now I cut out the old inner wheel tub. I hope to install the new DSE mini tub tomorrow.



It's definitely a lot of work.

[BonzoHansen]

Nice upgrades. What size wheels are those? They look huge