2nd Chance Camaro - Let the Project Begin

[Johnny Blaze]

Sorrybif I missed it, what's the color?

[Motown 454]

It came out so nice Marty! I love it!!

[syborg tt]

Sorrybif I missed it, what's the color?

Not sure if you did as I don't think I ever posted it.

It came out so nice Marty! I love it!!

Thank you very much

[Johnny Blaze]

Very cool! Reminds me of a play on the factory 71 camaro color Ascot Blue.

Love your overall build!

Enjoy it!

[syborg tt]

Thank you and that was the goal as the car was originally blue. At some point in time we may paint the car with a gloss clear just to change things up a little bit. Kenny sprayed the core support in gloss and we liked it so much it stayed gloss. Maybe when we add the Scott Mock subframe we shoot the car wit the gloss clear.

This is the only decent picture I have of the core support

Very cool! Reminds me of a play on the factory 71 camaro color Ascot Blue.

Love your overall build!

Enjoy it!

[Johnny Blaze]

Awesome! I like your style ;)

[syborg tt]

Awesome! I like your style ;)

My goal is to keep this car for a few years and make small big impact changes every couple years instead of
building a completely new car every couple years.

Stage 1 - Bolt together Driver

Stage 2 - Interior

Stage 3 - Chassis

Stage 4 - Street Machine of the year type build ( Gloss Paint )

[syborg tt]

Apparently I am way way behind on updates.

So I am not a big fan of chrome or polished wheels as I really don't like cleaning them and on certain cars it just looks good. For me I just
didn't like how they looked so the wheels and the trim came off and were coated in a Titanium color to give the car a more industrial look.

[syborg tt]

Before the car left Kenny's to come home I asked him to make me down bars in the engine bay which would eventually hold the remote reservoir shocks by Ride Tech.










Now that the car has been home for about 7 months and the first punch list is complete I figure I should do some back
posting to catch get everyone up to date on the car.

When the car left Kenny's the car had some motor issues. No fault of Kenny's but after 6 months Kenny & I decided to give the car to my
buddy Don at Village Auto. Kenny and Stan were able to fix the main issue but were unable to figure out why it would idle and had terrible driveability.

Well after many hours of screwing around with the car Don and the guys at Village Auto figured it out. The Holley HP carb that was our problem and it seems
no matter what we did the carb would dump fuel into the motor when the fuel pump kicked on even if the car wasn't running. So with a quick call to Summit
we ordered up a new old school 650 Holley carb and all of our problems were solved. The car now runs great and it is a tire smoking king which I am certain
is going to get me a ticket or two.

[syborg tt]

So when the car came home back in October I gave it a bath for the first time and Satin paint is really easy to wash. Just make
sure you use a Boars Hair brush as you don't want to polish the finish.





Test fitted the fat bike on the 70 couldn't get it to work on my Rocky Mount tray.

For now I swapped my Kuit tray and it worked but it's a bulky tray in the car.

So I will be modifying the tray and hoping I can get the Rocky Mount tray to work.

[syborg tt]

So first thing that we needed to figure out was how to get rid of the old car gas smell.

First up replace the gas cap. The tank I received from Goodmark was for a 71 and up and the cap we had was for a 70. I big thank you goes to the guys at Goodmark for helping me figure this out.




Next up was a filter/vent on a budget.







So 2 months later and no smell. Sometimes budget fixes work great

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Last year Victor was kind enough to do a rendering for me.

[kimosabi]

Great work! Loving the bike rack, I like mountain and trail biking myself! Seat covers from TMI?

[syborg tt]

So I took the car to a local cruise night. People really seemed to like the simplicity of the car.

[syborg tt]

Next up...

I wanted to change up the feel on the inside of the car so the plan is to experiment with steering wheel and steering wheel dish so I
ordered up a new Grant Steering wheel in Suede. I like the feel and the new locations of the wheel. However I may consider one with
less dish next. But for the time being this should work fine.



Okay, I finally ordered up a set of header studs and let's not talk about the bolts that are currently on the motor. Remember the 1st
version of the car was to be bolt together and so is the second version. Lets call version "Attention to Detail" phase.





Okay, it happened... "the might as well" since I am here thing.

My goal is to quiet down the inside of the car so I called the guys at DEI and ordered more BOOM MAT. Which of course meant
that I need to remove the Seats, Carpet and Tiger Cage and of course I might as well order a few 12 point ARP bolts to put back
in the Tiger cage.



It's a good thing I have good company while I am working in the garage. Not sure why I didn't get a new dog sooner even though they
can't talk it's nice to have someone just hanging with you. His favorite spot in under the brake pedal.

The first thing I need to do is isolate the interior from the trunk which should help reduce the sound from the Edelbrock electric fuel pump
and the general noise from an old car trunk. My plan is to make patterns of all of the opening and create close-outs with a thin high density
board and then line-x over it so it looks like part of the rear firewall.





And of course in short order my garage was full of cars and parts.

[syborg tt]

So as ya all know I love these seats and I have been looking at these for a long time. Here are some of the ideas I have been considering.



Considering using these for my upper & lower radiator clamp.



Stealing this idea from Porsche.





Since I would like a 3 Point seat belt in red similar to this.



I'm looking at having Morris custom make me a set in red.





Need install my Kicker iPod controller.



More stuff from DEI to reduce some of the interior & engine bay heat.





Don't worry not going this crazy



Considering padding and leather wrapping the cage.



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And I love this finish and I am considering doing this with the center console and lower dash.

[syborg tt]

Next Up...POR15 Bed Liner (this stuff is hard to get off your skin)

I plan to do a bed liner in the trunk and keeping with the budget friendly and do as much as you can I going to try to use POR15 bed liner for the trunk.



So I prepped the trunk and started by brushing Por15 in the trunk floor and inside of the quarters.





Holy shine batman.



And yep I got it on me

[syborg tt]

Great work! Loving the bike rack, I like mountain and trail biking myself! Seat covers from TMI?

Thank you and yep the Seats are by TMI

[yellow1098Greg]

Wow those interiors rock! Where does one get those sparcos in the first pic? Excited to see how the POR15 comes out

[syborg tt]

Schwartz Performance usually stocks them www.schwartzperformance.com and there price are really good.

ps they are Recaro Sportster R seats with Sparco harness's

Wow those interiors rock! Where does one get those sparcos in the first pic? Excited to see how the POR15 comes out

[Hotwire]

Looking good Marty!! Glad to see you're still rolling on this one, looking at the existing seat, you're getting some smiles per mile.