69 Camaro street car build

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Hey everyone,

I'll use this first paragraph to tell a little about myself so a lot of you may want to skip this part. My name is Scott and I am your typical 45 YO dad and car guy. I grew up going fast and have never outgrown it. I like to build all my own stuff although I do use a lot of catalog parts. My boys have always been into sports and I spend a lot of my time chasing baseball along with some health issues I deal with it cuts down on my car working time so this build will not progress at a decent speed but I do what I can.



I purchased this car a while back as a running & driving car. It had a 383, t-400, 9" rear, decent brakes and a horrible R&P steering setup.




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The first thing I did was remove the engine and trans and sold those to a local guy.

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I then purchased a DSE front subframe and quadralink rear suspension. You all know what those look like. Currently I have been working on the installation of the quadralink and hope to have the car side of that complete this weekend and then will start on the housing brackets.

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congrats.. subing to follow along

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Well health issues shut me down for a bit but I was able to get back to work this past weekend. I started off by pulling my 9" apart. It was in the car when I bought it so I did not know for sure what was inside the case.
Appears to be a 31 spline Trac-Loc. I have had good luck with these in 8.8's so I will keep it. I will probably put new clutches in it just to be safe.

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After that I got back to the quadralink installation. The upper mounts are in so I moved to the shock crossmember. I stared at this for a while trying to figure out the best way to get a tight cut line with the irregular shaped trunk floor. What I ended up doing was cutting the front side and the cutting a relief at the rear corners that let me slide the cross member close to being in place.
This ended up working fantastic. It is all fit now and has a very nice tight fit. I am going to hold off on welding it. I want to place the shock mounts and tack them in and then remove the assembly and weld the shock mounts with the cross member upside down so that I am welding down instead of trying to weld them under the car upside down.

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Well I have been slowly been progressing on the car. I am almost ready to coat the underside. My wife came out into the shop the other day to this:
She had last seen it when I drove it into the shop. She was not impressed!
BTW the stool is not holding up the car!

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I decided to go with a new fabricated housing with a full floater setup. After some research I decided on the MillerBuilt setup. After discussing with Jason I ended up sending him my DSE brackets and having him install those with the housing in his jig. I received all the parts this week and I must say that they look fantastic.
I was also impressed that he returned all the documentation, fab spacers and even the plastic bag that I sent to him. To me that is attention to detail that I rarely see. Not a big deal obviously but I found it to be very professional.

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I'll let Jason explain this pic:
"Once all welding sequences are complete 24”billet machined plates are installed onto both ends of the completed housing to check measurements at 12 o’clock and 6 o’clock, and then again at 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock. This is the final check to make sure both of your wheels are running square/parallel with the differential. You would be surprised at how many housings are ridiculously out of whack if you were to test them out at that radius..."

[C Presley]

Very nice.

[tubbed69]

Very nice work so far,you will be very satisfied with the DSE parts.keep the pics coming.

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Anyone have pics of the DSE vintage air bracket installed? I am not sure if I am missing something or possibly just stupid but I can't figure out the passenger side mounting of the bracket to the car.