Cool vintage pic of your dads old auto-x Camaro, keep the pics of yours coming.:thumbsup: :thumbsup:




Randy(D&Z Customs LLC.)
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Nice pic of your Dad's old ride. Boy does that thing have some rubber under it!! It's great that your going with a similar paint scheme too. Have you picked out what colors your going with?

Paul
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This is what I am leaning towards now. Hugger orange that has been lighted up a little with a solid black stripe with an outline stripe. Similar to the Dale Earnhart Jr Camaro DSE built, but the the stripe on the roof. My Dad's camaro had the single stripe over 35 years ago and I always liked it. His friend that he raced against had a 70 1/2 that was orange and black stripes, and I always liked that car also.

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The Edelbrock headers are nice pieces, but since the car is so low, we could not have the header so low. We had to shorten the tube length and slightly change the angle of the collectors. We also changed the flange.

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You can see that before we modified the headers, they were the lowest part of the car.

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After they were modified, they are now about equal to the frame.


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Tucked up nice and tight now!:thumbsup:

Nice job on the headers, its a shame they don't come like that already.

Because the car is so low and the transmission and rear end are tucked up much higher than stock, the angle of the drivetrain makes the headers worse. They are probably good for most applications. Don't want to rip on Edelbrock. Modifiying their quality headers was still much cheaper than making them from scratch.

Awesome, awesome project. The tie-in with your dad's car just makes everything that much better. Thanks for sharing, I'll definitely be watching for updates.

I agree, an awesome project, and the tie-in with your Dad's 72 makes it just that much cooler.

The exhaust system is just about complete. The edelbrock headers go into an all stainless steel pipe with a custom built cross over. There are two Magnaflow straight thru mufflers and then go into one pipe. After they merge into one pipe, the exhaust then travels thru a large straight thru Borla muffler. The goal is to get good flow and keep the car fairly quiet. The exhaust will exit out the quarter panel, between the door and wheel opening. I will show photos of that later. The tunnel had to be expanded for the exhaust.



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