1967 Camaro Restomod "Herja"

[TOlsenAK]

[ryeguy2006a]

Looking great, I was wondering what happened to this project. Was the IRS not worth swapping?

[TOlsenAK]

Ran into way too many headaches with the width of it and for how I wanted the car to sit with the wheel and tire setup it just wasn't going to work. with how it would sit in the mini tubbed wheel well area I'd basically be forced to run 20in rear wheels to clear the inside sway bar mounting while still fitting a wheel inside the wheel well lip. I think I have pictures stashed somewhere of it with a mock up.

[BonzoHansen]

Looking good. I do enjoy what appear to be snow tires for rollers.

Did you buy the rear housing with the RT brackets already installed?

[TOlsenAK]

I did, I got the whole package through ridetech all at the same time so it made sense and alleviated the stress of having to figure out the angle to weld everything on. Plus there isn't any powdercoating where im at within 300 miles =/




Also, 100% those are snow tires on the rollers I do live in North Pole, Alaska haha

[BonzoHansen]

Love it!

[TOlsenAK]

Well, bit of excitement and sadness with this update.

Good News:
My Tremec Magnum XL from Silversport Transmission arrived...



Bad News:
I cracked the aluminum bell-housing being dumb, ordered a new one, both times when trying to tap in the bell-housing offset measuring tool. Luckily I didn't at all mess with my trans yet. Did manage to at least learn how to do the offset measurements to get it within tolerance (both bell-housings were out of tolerance, was surprised by how much)

Even worse than the cracked bell-housings... I bought the block from someone who said it was from a 2002, turns out it was a 99-2000 LQ4 block, which means it has a longer crankshaft, so I have a crankshaft replacement in my future =/



For those that are looking at using an LQ4 block, if you have the long crank, you're super limited on what transmissions will fit. Got a work trip next week so engine disassembly time will have to wait, I did at least get it on the stand and its starting to warm up so I'll have more garage space to work with.

[ryeguy2006a]

Someone out there makes a spacer that you can use to go between the block and bellhousing that allows everything to work. Much better than getting a new crankshaft.

[TANKMASTERJ]

Someone out there makes a spacer that you can use to go between the block and bellhousing that allows everything to work. Much better than getting a new crankshaft.

I personally used a .625 custom made spacer. A machine shop friend made for me at 200.00. I did mine for 2 reason
1 i wanted to used the large roller bearing in the outer end of my crank instead of the needle bearing deep in the crank.
2 I wanted an LS9 dual plate clutch with Katech aluminum flywheel conversion from LS7. So because of the height of the dual clutch, the lack of room in quicktime bell housing, and the overall height of the tilting 6000 throw out bearing I need .625 more space. So rather than stack spacers that you can buy I had one machined. Everything fit perfect.
Call me crazy but the mcleod clutch for my car setup at the time was 1200 bucks and 10 week wait. The LS9 clutch was off the shf and about 500+.