My 69 Chevelle NASCAR Project

[MidnightSpecial]

Some sexy **** going on in here

This should be pro-touring.com's slogan haha

[69-nova]

you dont happen to have a spare nascar style air cleaner laying around do u? or any plans on making a sheetmetal nascar style air cleaner. cause i would be interested

[Dave B]

Nice! I bet you'd rather work on your car, than slugging a furnace out of a basement..(but the money is better) cool to see another semi-local, heating guy building a car.

[shortrack]

Haha yeah, Im the service tech I fix. My guys do the installs

[shortrack]

you dont happen to have a spare nascar style air cleaner laying around do u? or any plans on making a sheetmetal nascar style air cleaner. cause i would be interested

No I dont check Ebay

[69-nova]

thats the first place i looked after asking lol. they have a few. thanks

[4eyedconekiller]

Ran across this thread this weekend... Love the work on the car. Def sub'd for updates!

[prosuperstar]

Goodness gracious lad! Ya sure do type a lot don't ye, might as well consider this a proper novel!

Cheers

[shortrack]

Goodness gracious lad! Ya sure do type a lot don't ye, might as well consider this a proper novel!

Cheers

Yeah but its a little more than some bolt on susp pieces lol

[shortrack]

Plumbing pretty much done. The coolant recovery tank needs the bracket repositioned and my neighbor who does alum welding is away so it is on hold. Came up with that spot for the oil filter mount, went through a half dozen different location scenarios. Settled on that spot it's not too vulnerable to rocks and s hit and it's out of the way of even the most ambitious future brake cooling hose set ups. You can see the cowl induction air intake starting to take shape.

[driveit]

Love the build. Have you gotten to drive it yet at all?

[Razorhead]

I love this car man ! Any progress ? I'm dying to see this one on tape !

[shortrack]

Love the build. Have you gotten to drive it yet at all?

No I havnt theres no wiring.

[shortrack]

Some updates, the next big thing is wiring while Im getting my ducks in a row and figuring out what exactly I want to have in the car electrically and then exactly how Im going to accomplish that Ive been working out some smaller details that have to be done at some point

I found when I dropped the engine in the oil pan sat below the front suspension cross member. If I ever had an off road excursion or even a run in with a speed bump I could clean the pan off the engine so I used some heavy washers as spacers on the solid motor mounts to raise the engine up . Plans call for a heavy plate steel skid plate to be fabbed and installed from the c member and fully underneath the oil pan

[shortrack]

Came up with a location for the oil filter that would be accessible to service, out of the direct path of s hit thrown up by the tires and out of the way of future brake cooling ducts and made a bracket and installed the oil filter

[shortrack]

Had been trying to figure out what to do with the inside of the roof for sometime. As it sat it was incredibly crude looking especially by the sail panels at the back, it looked like h ell. So I went to the local auto upholstery shop and picked up a big roll of foam backed headliner he had lying around from an 80s Chevy for $60. I glued the headliner directly to the inside bare metal of the roof with spray on adhesive. I made some rear sail panel covers out of heavy cardboard and covered them. The wrinkly bad looking stuff on the far side of the roll cage will be covered by the roll bar padding, you wont see it.You didnt know I was an upholsterer too did you? hahaha not!

The braces used to be the inside windshield braces from the race car. I fabbed up the mounts and installed them. As all the inside bracing from the roof was removed to make way for the roll cage I needed something to hold up the roof. Before the braces if you were to pound on the top of the roof with your hand you could put a permanent dent in it pretty easy and after all that work installing the new roof Im not going to let that happen. It is solid now. I like it looks pretty racy to me.

[shortrack]

My friends race car has no way of telling exactly how much oil is in the thing as there is no dipstick. Theres an oil cooler and all the lines and an Accusump and its line. They know how much the oil pan and filter holds and "guesstimate" how much oil to add to the engine for the rest. This is not acceptable to me eff that. So I got a twist lock racing dipstick from Moroso to go in the Moroso pan. This block has no provisions for a dipstick like a GM block so this is the only option. No instructions at all with this kit, nothing.. You get this plastic bag of hardware with all these little fittings and you have to figure out for yourself a combination of them that will work for you. I threw away the bracket that was supposed to hold the top of the dipstick tube to the valve cover and fabbed my own. Figured out I had to cut the tube to length and the dipstick to length to get it to work and a compression fitting holds the tube into the pan. Turned into an ordeal but I got it done but Im happy with it.

[shortrack]

Got the cowl induction finished. Had to cut out the brace in the back of the hood for a hole and make up a "bracket" to hold a piece of screen on the top of the hood. Then make an extension on the back of the carbon fiber Cup air cleaner to match up with the hole and rivet it on and seal it. Went with hood props as opposed to a lift off hood as that offers one man operation.

[shortrack]

Got the hood pins on and my cool rear licence plate that after at least a half dozen different ideas I finally settled on. That is a sticker over an old decorative licence plate that I had lying around. I had my buddy who owns a sign shop make it up for me the gray on the plate matches the gray on the bumper exactly. Some of the other colors/things I was going to do stuck out too much back there. I like this.

[shortrack]

And here is the wiring kit I bought American Autowire Hwy 15 kit. The kit is a bit of overkill for the car at this point but it was only a few bucks more than the lesser kits in the line and it can easily handle anything I could ever want to do with the car as you can see. The fuse panel itself is only slightly larger than their lesser kits so theres virtually no weight penalty. Im starting from scratch with the wiring as there is no wiring whatsoever in the car at this time. By all accounts the American Autowire kits have better quality hardware and fuse panels than their competitors so I went with them. So this is he next big thing. Thats it for now thanks for stopping by D

http://www.americanautowire.com/view...wiring-system/