tmadden 69 Camaro project

[MuscleRodz]

Board member Tmadden contacted me late last year to see if i would finish up his build for him. Already in paint, rolling gear and drivetrain were already installed. Arrangements were made and picked the car up around Christmas. We started on it around mid February. If you frequent Lateral-G, you have seen the updates. I am now bringing the build current over here. Enjoy!

Here is how it arrived.



here is where the fun begins......



First item on the list was the firewall. Several issues led to the changing of it. The factory hanging points for the vintage air were gone and did not want any exposed hardware. The DBW pedal was mounted too low and would have interfered with the carpet once installed. Lastly the firewall itself had not been seam sealed before paint, it was badly warped, and looked like a sack of walnuts around the tunnel opening from a wreck many moons ago.
First thing was to protect the paint on the car by wrapping it with spark deflection paper

here is the center of the firewall badly warped

unfinished edge and not sealed

unnecessary holes and not pretty to boot

out came the firewall a little too easy only to find bare unprotected metal

firewall and panel weld through primed, and welded in place. I also welded on the clutch cylibder bracket to further prevent flexing of the bracket

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Firewall was finished up and sub reinstalled to relocate column and other components





More to come later......

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Time to bring back to top with another update with where I left off. accelerator pedal was mocked up and installed and studs were welded to firewall to mount vintage air unit



firewall was then prepped and painted





quicky color sand and reundercoat floor to cover previous overspray and touchup where sub frame connectors were added.

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subframe cleaned up and reinstalled



with outside fixed moved to interior. rear package tray area was yellow and really need to be gray so we rehot the gloss dash matte and fixed the rear.

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This is how the mount was installed when it showed up. Mind you Tony PAID to have all this work completed and final installed before it came to my shop. See anything wrong?????:headscratch:

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Progress continues. Got the engine mounts flipped back over where they belong, all high strength hardware installed, only to find out now the Autokraft pan won't clear the rack. Call Heidt's and say to use 4th gen pan. Those dont exist used anymore so a new one ordered up, installed, and we now have the clearance we need again.



While waiting on the pan to come in, started assembling the core support after it was repainted charcoal to match the car.



Using the factory hardline kit, I rebent the high pressure line to reroute behind fender.



This is next on my list to fix....

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Time for next installment. Referring back to the last pic I posted, all the flex line was not going to cut it for the brakes. After removing all the flex, I relocated the wilwood prop valve to a more suitable location and fabricated a new bracket to hold it.



This unsightly mess of fittings was removed, proper fittings installed for a cleaner look for the new hard lines to attach to.



new rear lines were fabbed to tie into the existing hardline

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finished the front brakes lines and a/c lines, still have to secure the brake lines

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That is it for now, all caught up until next installment.

[birdsandbowties]

in the second pic ,,,,what is the red truck in the background ? how about a few pics of it , looks like its gonna be a killer camaro !!!!

[MuscleRodz]

in the second pic ,,,,what is the red truck in the background ? how about a few pics of it , looks like its gonna be a killer camaro !!!!

53 International grain truck. Full restoration, family owned since new. More pics of it on Facebook