Awesome Al. Great work! You and your boys are setting a new standard. Any aftermarket pieces potentially coming from the build?

Great idea for the aerocatch bezel. I have a set to install on my carbon hood but have hesitated because I didnt want to cut out that large of a portion of the hood structure. I may just look into bonding the nuts into the bezel since a machined bezel is not available.

Thanks guys for the props, its been a while since we've updated the thread.

Here a few random pics of the details stuff.....

Custom made bracket for the Racepac data logger. All the bolts are ARP 12 point stainless that have been milled, blasted and nickel plated

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The Smart Wire eliminates all the fuse boxes and relays. It also uses half the wires you's normally would need in a harness. We calculated a weight savings of about 20 lbs .

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The floor mats were just placed for the pictures. Once installed, they will bold to the floor.


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The divider panel is just mocked up. The "R" is missing the center piece. It will be installed once the panels is bolted on.


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The extinguisher was painted a lighter shade of gray. The brackets were blasted and nickle plated.

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All the hard lines were polished


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The pass through grommet for the fuel line. We also put a grommet on the other side.

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All the brake line brackets were ethier powder costed or nickel plated.

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We replicated the factory tail light plastic covers in carbon and the plastic plugs with Ring Brothers bolts and washers. Only after blasting them and nickle plating them, LOL.

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We prep the roof to run a black candy stripe down the middle.

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This is after removing the tape.

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Next came three coats of clear fallowed by sanding and another three more coats. Final finish pictures to come.
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This connector was just used as a mock up to make the hole. The hole was drill exactly on the opposite side of were the steering shaft comes out of the fire wall.

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All the clamps were blasted and nickle plated


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I think attention to detail is quite the understatement!!!!

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We made a sub splitter out of aluminum to compliment the factory rear spoiler wicker bill. We also had them powder coated in the same color as the Forgeline wheels.

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Even the Cobra seats got some love.

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It looks amazing Al ! The Carbon part look great.

Al,

Beautiful craftsmanship.

Wow. Just wow!

Thanks guys! one more.... all the bolts and hard lines of the calipers were also blasted and nickle plated. The hubs were replaced with new Z/28 hubs and the studs were replace with the longer ARP. All the suspension bolts were custom made 12 point by ARP.

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Al,

You and your kids have lost control and I love it.


Marty-MJ

Amazing! I did a tiny bit of smoothing some parts for my car, and every time I see your project updates I can't believe the work involved in it. You guys do amazing work.

I think you guys are setting a new standard for how clean, and functional builds should be.


:king:

Thanks guys!

Extinguisher pluming.

Its all about summitry. A lot of thought was given to the routing process. Notice the lines follow the bead roll in the metal.

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This one feed the fuel tank


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Feeding the foot well

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Feeding the fuel lines in the engine bay

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Made some filler panels to fill the factory pockets.

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Nice work on the plumbing.

Nice work on everything!!!

Holy be-jebus Al! :lol:

I just stumbled into this thread. Holy moly, this is the most OCD awesome 5th gen ever built! I've owned 3 of the 5th gens, still have a '14 1LE SS. You have a great eye for detail, and obviously a lot of patience. I'd love to see your skills put towards a classic Camaro.

Tony

Thanks Wayne!



LOL Ron!

Tony, in retrospect, we would have rather put the work that has gone into G5.R onto a first gen. There’s not much left that is a Gen5 other than the body. This is just one of those things were it gets away from you.


Getting the paint work completed.

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A little over spray in the corner were its hard for the tape to sit.

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And the after:

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Cory is a hell of an artist and we are privilege hes is working on G5.R


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This is just one of the murals he is working on at the shop.



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Amazing work!

x2 Impressive work.

Nothing in the entire Universe can compare!

Thanks guys, she's getting closer to the finish line.

LOL, too funny bud!

The Tiger mural has to be going on the side of a 77 Chevy Van. LOL God that brings back memories of my youth.LOL

Straight up Boris Vallejo fantesy art. Nice.

It sure does bring back memories. Its a trunk for a 55 Chevy low rider.

Bingo, that's what the customer wanted.

Here a trunk he just finished for a 62 Impala. lots of detail!

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On the home front, wet sanding is getting completed.

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fantastic:headspin: :headspin:

Holy smokes that work is insane. Love seeing that talent put to use.

Wow!

Thanks for the props guys. We have some updated to do on the thread when we get a few minutes.

We are at the point were the project is most enjoyable. Most all fab is down and now we are just putting her together.

We received the trans back from RPM. They did their Stage 5 performance upgrade on it. We also replaced every bolt with ARP.

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We also replaced the stock slave with RAM's through out bearing.

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We also decided to replace the Mantic clutch with RPS twin disc carbon clutch. We have heard nothing but great things about this clutch. More expensive but worth it in the long run.

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We added a little heat protection to the starter.

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DC Powers made us this alternator to match the 8 lbs Braille battery. They made machined both end out of billet and we had them anodized gun metal gray before they put the unit together.

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We used ll Much vapor canister for both the gas tank and the diff. We located on on each wheel well.

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Here you can see the breather on the bottom side. Still need to connect the line to the tank in this picture.

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Becuase we relocated the gas fill to the trunk, we had to come up with a solution for the vapor line, we used this slick valve that will close if the car were to flip upside down.

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Had a bunch of interior parts painted to get rid of the plastic look.

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Smoothed and painted the underside of the hood vent black.

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There must be 100 hours into this hood vent! This will give you an idea what we start with. Each vent was slightly enlarged. We removed the 6 studs mounts as we are going to epoxy it onto the hood. Then it was time to smooth it. You just cant skim coat the part as the gray will show through on the to side. So had to build it with high build black primer and sand most of it off. This process was repeated four times before painting it black and cleared. The top side was given three coats of cleared followed by black candy and three more coats of clear. The end results is amazing but most wont know the amount of effort that has gone into just this one piece.

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Painted the down bars black on the carbon fiber grille.

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Couldn't leave the peddles unpainted.

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Could get these powder coated as the rubber would melt, so we painted them to match the powder coating. We might not use them as we are making billet drop spindles and new front control arms.

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This was like the fourth rending of the coil wires relocation bracket we made, LOL. Waiting on the ARP custom 12 point stainless bolts to replace those.

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We used the factory brackets for the emergency brake lines for the trans cooler lines instead.

The diff bolts were replaced with ARP studs.

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More ARP custom bolts. We drilled them for safety wire. Once we are done and know were not going to take anything apart again, we will wire them up.

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Those Penskes are sweet!!!!

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Few more pics.....

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Quick mock up of the dash. Going to the upholstery shop to get wrapped in black leather with white stitching.

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Al the car looks incredible. I am also looking forward to meeting your kids who have been busting there ass on this car.


Marty-MJ

Beautiful !

What brand of shielding are you using in the tunnel and on the starter?

Thanks guys!

DEI


Justin has been design a strut bar that will tie in the firewall to the strut tower. He 3-D printed them first before having them machined.

Camber plates with mount for strut bar. This was his first design rendition.

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He wasnt happy with the first design, so he made a second rendition.

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3D printed bracket that mounts to the firewall. He threaded the fire extinguisher nozzle to the center.

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this is a preliminary drawing of the 1" rear drop spindles we are making.

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You guys make some amazing stuff!