Flush 71

[Flush 71]

Hi my name is Brandon I have a 1971 SS Camaro, but to be exact it's a 1970 and a 1/2 being that it's an SS with a solid bumper. Anyways, there is some family history behind her, the car was my moms first car when she turned 16 back in 1981. She really wanted a mustang but thankfully being that is was more expensive my grandpa said no and she got the camaro originally it was gold with a black vinyl top. After so many years my mom got a new car and the camaro was passed on to my uncle who changed the color to blue with silver stripes and fixed her up somewhat but with hard times upon him he couldn't keep her up, so she sat in the driveway for the next however many years. My love for cars began when I was a kid always playing with my hot wheels, but when I was 12 and the first fast and the furious came out and the Charger Vin Diesel drove really sparked my desire for a muscle car. I was determined I would get one and always really liked my uncles camaro. When I was 15 my uncle started talking about selling it because he needed the money real bad so I begged pleaded and bargained with my dad to buy it for my first car. To my surprise he actually did, he bought me the car and at first said that he would let me fix it up myself and him just pay for the parts. But sadly my knowledge and skills weren't sufficient so my dad decided to take it to a local shop and pay them to do it and he let me pick out some of the stuff. Finally when it was all said and done, this is what she looked like.




As the years went on and I got a new daily she became a garage queen only driven once every couple of weeks. I lost interest in muscle and got into the drifting/hellaflush scene and had a few nissan 240sx, toyota ae86 corollas, and finally this last year I sold my 240sx putting some of the money back in savings and a $1000 towards the camaro for a new dse lowering suspension and a classic industries front lip to add a sense of hellaflush stlye to it. With a truck as my dialy and gas sky rocketing I traded in the truck for a nismo 350z and stopped working on the camaro again and went back to the hellaflush scene with the Z. A few months back I totaled my Z and got another truck, so now I've decided that I'm done screwing around with the import cars and am gonna start over with the camaro. Being that I'm 22 and don't make a lot of money yet this will be a 10 year project at best. Not a 100% on all the details of what I want for a finished project with the car so we'll she how things pan out. The only real ideas I have so far are to make a pro-touring stlyed car with a twist of the hellaflush design hence the name of the project and about 800whp. Here's a few pics I took last week of the car as it is now to start the project.





Picked up an Ls1 from an 02 corvette with only 42k miles on it for 1300


Just started tearing down the front end today to pull the 350 engine and trans out to give to my grandpa for his classic chevy truck.
Not too bad for an evening.




Hopefully I'll get some time tomorrow or next weekend to pull the engine and trans.

[MrQuick]

nice project, good to see a car with such family history get updated by the next generation. hope to see more progress.

welcome to the site
vince

[Flush 71]

thanks MrQuick!

[Motorcitydak]

just had to google what hellaflush is....lol. Good luck with your car, there are tons of parts available for that thing so you are only limited by your wallet

[Flush 71]

just had to google what hellaflush is....lol. Good luck with your car, there are tons of parts available for that thing so you are only limited by your wallet

Haha yeah, I thought about that after I made the thread! lol Pretty much the opposite of this forum, but I'm just gonna make the car sit as low as possible with still being functional! Thank you for the kind words, and yeah the wallet is definitely limiting things, thats y I set such a long term goal! =D

[solarguy09]

Way to go....I love the History behind the car, and that you are continuing it with modern updates.....

[Flush 71]

Way to go....I love the History behind the car, and that you are continuing it with modern updates.....

Thanks man, really diggin your project as well!

[solarguy09]

Thanks..

[CruizinKev]

very cool history behind the project! and good to see you back into american muscles!! nice powerplant! keep up good work!

[Flush 71]

Thanks CruizinKev! And I have a little more updates, I got some time this last friday night to work on the car and removed the radiator support and center console! Things are moving along smooth so far, should get a lot of time this coming weekend and will hopefully get the motor and trans pulled and possibly put into my grandpas 57 chevy truck!





Also a side note, got some historical document stuff from my mom and uncle such as the title transfer application, original dealership brochure, and owners manual!

[racedaddy]

That's a very clean lookin' car. Nice ride!

[SLO_Z28]

I absolutely love the color! Great progress already, looks like it will turn out very nicely when you're done!

[Martin71RS]

I had to look up what hellaflush means too...... but is that all show and no go??

Looks like you are making quick progress...keep it up!

Martin

[Flush 71]

Thanks guys! And no there are a few hellaflush guys in 350z's running turbo setups as well as ls1 engine swaps for drifting, but its mainly about sitting your car as low to the ground as possible, running an extreme amount of negative camber and your wheels being flush with the fender which is mainly what I want is the low and fender flushness since negative camber like that would be too expensive to run but I will be running wheels that are very unique to the pro-touring community! But right now I'm doing a lot of research on the ls1 and what forged rotating assembly I'm going to go with, any suggestions?

[Flush 71]

The engine has finally been completely pulled out, now time to save money for the build!!!

[srh3trinity]

How about a teaser on the wheels?

[Flush 71]

Can do, here they are the one on the left but in flat black!

[srh3trinity]

That will be awesome!

[Jeff70]

Where did you score the LS for $1300?

[Flush 71]

I got it from a local engine dealer but its just the motor no accessories or anything but only 40k miles! Are you local to Dallas or wouldn't mind driving there bc I can message you his info if you want?