'Streamline' 1968 camaro project

[nicks67camaro]

I like the front grill. Where is that mesh from?

[slimjim]

I like the front grill. Where is that mesh from?

straight from eBay

[expensivehobby22]

Looking great. Thanks for the fuel line pics.

[slimjim]

I'm still alive but the progress has been slow, I've been bending brake lines and flaring like no tomorrow, I'd planned to try keep the whole car AN fittings but wilwood uses SAE so I've got ended up with a mess of fittings in my brake lines.
One good thing about running 5th gen brembos is that I can buy braided brake lines off the shelf. with the help of a flare to AN fitting
and the prop valve didn't fit well, not enough clearance to the inner wheel well, so it gave me an excuse to hide it a little better, some people hide them under the car but I didn't like anywhere underneath and this current location will allow wiring to be easy underneath the trans tunnel.
I'm still awaiting my fender braces to arrive in the mail before this location is 100% final.

[ryeguy2006a]

Looking great! How do you like working with the NiCopp lines?

[slimjim]

Looking great! How do you like working with the NiCopp lines?

the Nicopp is great, bending is a breeze.
flaring is hit or miss, I initially got a cheap AN flaring tool, and I guess it's designed for stainless, because it damages the Nicopp(teeth marks etc), however I couldn't imagine how difficult it must be to flare the stainless tube by hand.
I bought a better double flaring tool that is amazing, I'd say I'm 95% done with my brakes now.

[slimjim]

Alright NiCopp update! finished up my brake lines this afternoon. I'm pretty happy with the end result considering I've never done this before, feel free to critique what you see.
I tried to keep it pretty similarly routed to the speedtech brake lines with the exception of the right and left front brake lines being separated. Gutter guard in all necessary places and even polished up the visible lines.







Now for the next challenge, to attempt custom door panels.

[JayinMI]

Now for the next challenge, to attempt custom door panels.

At first I thought that was 3/4" MDF, but the more I look at it, it looks like foam. Looking forward to the outcome.

Jay

[slimjim]

It's actually 1" Fibre Glast.. which is something I had never heard of, but its basically shaping foam, I honestly have no idea what I'm doing but taking it slow and researching as much as I can.

At first I thought that was 3/4" MDF, but the more I look at it, it looks like foam. Looking forward to the outcome.

Jay

[Gmc427]

hi,what make booster are you running and is it mounted straigth onto the firewall without the gm angled stand off?regards

[slimjim]

hi,what make booster are you running and is it mounted straigth onto the firewall without the gm angled stand off?regards

Currently it's mounted straight onto the firewall, however it's an aftermarket laser cut wall, it doesn't resemble the stock setup and I'll probably run Clayton pedals, hoping I can keep it this way. the Booster is from MP brakes.

[Sinnister69]

Alright NiCopp update! finished up my brake lines this afternoon. I'm pretty happy with the end result considering I've never done this before, feel free to critique what you see.
I tried to keep it pretty similarly routed to the speedtech brake lines with the exception of the right and left front brake lines being separated. Gutter guard in all necessary places and even polished up the visible lines.







Now for the next challenge, to attempt custom door panels.

Question , i have the same subfram and i am wondering how did you install the brake line clips? Did you drill and tap the holes? Thank you

[slimjim]

Question , i have the same subfram and i am wondering how did you install the brake line clips? Did you drill and tap the holes? Thank you

The two stainless clips on the crossmember are drilled and tapped, they're the only ones. but the pass-through sections are holes already provided on the subframe, since I'm using 5th gen brakes, I purchased Russell stainless brake lines off the shelf, then the AN fittings you see attach to those and are held to the frame with horse-shoe clips or whatever they're called.

[FLYNAVY53]

Never been a Camaro guy but I absolutely love your build...just read through all 16 pages!! Keep the updates coming!

[slimjim]

Never been a Camaro guy but I absolutely love your build...just read through all 16 pages!! Keep the updates coming!

Thanks a lot, I'm glad the car is received so well, no-one is more excited to see it finished than me, however updates are now on hold...

A couple of weeks ago I reinstalled the interior, cleaned up the garage and made a small shelter for the car. The only purpose of it was to prevent the garage door dripping on the primer while I'm out of the country.




SO... that is all for 2019...

for now the wife and I have flown to Queensland, bought a jeep, driven it as far south as we possibly can, caught a ferry across the Bass Strait and am residing in Launceston Tasmania as I undertake my masters degree to progress my career, a move that will surely allow for more projects in the future..

[Motown 454]

The lines look nice and neat.

[slimjim]

countless hours(days) later I have something resembling a door panel... It takes a similar design to the 5th gen but takes the dimensions of the 1st gen into consideration.
Still a long ways to go at this point. oh and then there's the driver door

[Motown 454]

Nice job it's looking good! Is that a hi density foam or rigid foam board. You did a nice job getting the opening edge straight.

[slimjim]

Nice job it's looking good! Is that a hi density foam or rigid foam board. You did a nice job getting the opening edge straight.

It's called Fibre Glast, came across it on eBay. I assume it's very similar to rigid foam.

[slimjim]

I've also been trying to come up with a new tail light design, something more compact that fits inside the 67-68 tail light mould as opposed to overhanging it. It has turned out to be quite challenging due to the poor stamping of reproduction panels, there are huge differences between left and right.