Three Camaro's! Ok now I'm really really jelous. If the rest of the car is like that floor your all set. Those pedals look awesome.

wow - here is the link and here is a picture of the old Curtain Wall

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Going to be a sweet Camaro man. I wish I had your garage, you got some space there. Pretty cool seeing those old pics of the Camaro, can't wait to see more progress pics.

great pics Marty, But I KNOW there are more, come on, quit holding out!!!! :unibrow:

Marty,

HELLO!!!!??!! What's goin on???


--Eric

Dude! Get off your bike and start posted up some REAL work!
:lol: :cheers:

I agree Greg!! I don't know whats with this guy.....:D

okay okay i will post a few updates this week

2nd Chance Camaro - Removing the Front Clip & Exhaust

Removing the Front Clip & Exhaust
Posted: April 26, 2011 www.2ndchancecamaro.com

Okay it's time to start posting some pictures.

Since safety is a big concern for me. The first thing I did was make a quick call to Race Ramps. I ordered up a set of 12" fixed height wheel cribs and an adjustable set of 12" wheel cribs. It's amazing how nice these cribs are.

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With the car on the wheel cribs I was able to get under the car and inspect the floors and work out a game plan. The first thing I need to do was remove the exhaust as I had already sold it and then start looking for rust problems.

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Scott (proTour73) was kind enough to come over and lend me a helping hand. He said it brought back memories of his restoration. Scott had the front end off in no time. I think he was hungry and I told him I was buying lunch at the local Mexican Restaurant so he worked really fast.

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Found some rust. Time to see if I can find some NOS sheet metal.

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You can see that Scott had the front clip completely removed before I figured out how to get the exhaust off in one piece. It almost made it up and over the rear differential. Sadly I had to remove it so I could get the exhaust out. Not a big deal as all of the bolts came off with ease.

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After a good days hard work this is what we ended up with. Not bad for 2 guys in 4 hours and that included lunch.

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Fuel Injected Media - Revolution Industries, www.rev-in.com
www.kdhotrods.com www.recoveryroominteriors.com www.carterhickmandesigns.com www.ridetech.com www.edelbrock.com
www.autometer.com www.bowlertransmissions.com www.billetspecialties.com www.kore3.com www.americanautowire.com
www.afcoracing.com www.techflex.com www.designengineering.com www.quickclips.org www.mikenorrismotorsports.com
www.hoodpins.net www.goodmarkindustries.com www.twistmachine.com www.kicker.com www.modoinnovations.com
www.cascadeaudio.com www.wmcdesigns.com www.seatbeltplanet.com www.precisionbilletconcepts.com
www.crossmembers.com www.protekpowdercoating.com US Collision & Autobody

Man I feel sorry for the guy that has to work on this rust bucket...:_paranoid

What do you mean, Mario? Marty said it's a rust free car LOL :unibrow:

Scott he got all that rust for free N/C...!!!: You no I have to give Marty a little grief...;)

Very nice. Scott is going to town on that car Marty!:thumbsup:
He deserves 2 lunches!:unibrow:

2nd Chance Camaro - Let the Project Begin[RIGHT]

Let the Project Begin
Engine & Transmission Removal -/- G-Force Crossmember
Posted: May 13, 2011 www.2ndchancecamaro.com

Happy Friday the 13th to all of my friends

Since the rear differential had to be removed so we could remove the exhaust. I figured I would install a set of 3" lowering block so I could get an idea as to how low the car was going to be once I installed the new Ride-Tech suspension.

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This is exactly the height I am looking for with the car. Low enough to look cool and still plenty of clearance to be able to be driven on the streets near me.

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Reference picture - Lets see how old my girls are when I finish this project. Anyone want to make bets as to how old they will be once I finish this project !!!

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Not only did she win Young Author for the entire 4th grade she is not afraid to get under the car and drain the fluids.

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Engine removed and even sold to Ron. Ron ( www.hoodpins.net ) is going to put it in his 70 Z28 project ( www.camarorsx.com ).

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Ron this picture is for you. Yes, my floor actually gets dirty.

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All done for the day and cleaned up time to ride the Bike.

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A couple years ago I had the pleasure to meet Stacy David (( http://gearztv.com/ )). Talk about a down to earth nice guy. I had just watched his show and they introduced a new product from G-Froce Crossmember www.crossmembers.com . He said it was a super nice product and I should look them up on my next project. So I took his advise and I called the Guys at G-Force crossmembers. I told them about my project and they said they had a crossmember that would work perfectly.

One week later this crossmember showed up at my shop.

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This special modified crossmember is perfect and talk about hugging floor and offering perfect ground clearence.

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I can't wait to show you guys pictures of the crossmember under the car.

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You've got a good little helper there, and a nice start to your project.

The camaro looks pretty clean. Cool little helper you have. Good luck with the build.

Wait a minute!.... I thought the Camaro RSX was your project??!?!?!




--Eric

This will make a awesome first car for one of them :D

Ron bought the green camaro for me and the domain and his plans are to to build it.

I went the another direction and planned 2nd Chance with Carter. Both of my daughter want this car so the one that helps me more get's to Drive her boyfriend to Prom.

2nd Chance Camaro - Cleaning & more Cleaning & New LS1
Cleaning & more Cleaning & New LS1
Posted: May 25, 2011 www.2ndchancecamaro.com

Good Morning all,

Since I am not a big fan of a dirty work shop it was important to me to get the chassis as clean as I could. Before I began mocking up parts on the car. I spent a few hours with my daughters cleaning all of the oil & grime off the subframe. Seems they are more then willing to spray a cleaner on the car, but not so willing to scrub the grime off the car.

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I stripped as many parts as I could off the subframe before the cleaning actually started.

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Safety Safety Safety. I can't tell you how much I like the Race Ramp safety block they built for me. Gives you a little more confidence when your working on the car in the garage by yourself. I surely don't want any of my family members to every find me stuck or godd forbid dead under my car.

I removed the drives side coil spring without any problems. However, next time I am going to just cut the coil springs instead of using a spring compressor. My wonderful Snap On spring compressor actually broke when I was removing the passenger side coil spring and of course I was straddling the spindle when it let go. Talk about scaring the crap out of me.

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No Reason for this picture other then the floating wrench.

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The previous owner was unable to figure out why the car wouldn't start. I have a good guess as to why it wouldn't start. When the motor mount broke it also took out the fuel line.


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Finally ready for cleaning.

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Engine degreaser and a some good old elbow grease.

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All done and ready to play with some new Parts.

When I took out the old shims I put them back in the same location. It's a good place to start with the alignment.

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More parts to pack up and take to my warehouse. I am running out of space in my garage.

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Time to open up some of my Christmas Presents.

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Passenger arms went on smooth as butter. I would have worked on the other side but the guys were going for a ride so off to the trails I go.

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I spoke with Travis ( Kenny Davis Hot Rods ) and he told me he had an LS1 sitting in the shop and I could buy it. So I bought it and two weeks later it was in my warehouse with all of my other parts.

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The motor has about 9,000 miles on it and should be perfect for this build.
Anyone need a set of Z06 Exhaust Manifolds

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and I found another thing my daughters like to do.

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Yep they painted the transmission housing.

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As I said is past posts. I've been collecting parts for this car for years. I pick up this intake from Barry Grant he had

listed it on lateral-g.net and I new I was going to need one for my next build.

So on the shelf it went.

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Nobody cleans a sub frame anymore -- BUY NEW! :rofl: :cheers: :woot:

Love it that the girls are helping!

My daughter was always out there with me -- #1 Son could have cared less. Must be bad DNA.:woot:

Nope not going down that road again. My goal is to show people that you can do all of these modification to your car and have a great driving car and not take you car off the road for more then a weekend.

However the car is going to be stripped to bare metal which is something that most people won't do.

Great updates Marty. Looks like some great progress there.:thumbsup:
Very cool that your daughters are helping you.

The trans looks good. They did a great job.

2nd Chance Camaro - Billet 2nd Gen Front Mount Battery Tray

Billet 2nd Gen Front Mount Battery Tray
Posted: Jun 20, 2011 www.2ndchancecamaro.com

Good Morning all,

It's amazing what collects inside of these cars. Hard to believe the passenger side was full of vegetation and it had little more then surface rust. So far I am very happy with this car.

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Top side of the Quarters have some surface rust. Shouldn't be a problem for the media Blaster.

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All that is left for me to remove is the rear bumper and Deck lid. Then I can actually start mocking things up on the car. I can't wait !!

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At some point in this cars life it took a little hit to the drivers side rear. The body work they did back then was not that good as you can see in the pictures below.

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It's hard to tell in this picture but the floor still has a wrinkle in it.

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New Project - Billet Battery Tray ( www.hoodpins.net)

Since this car is truly going to be a driver and I really couldn't care less about putting the battery in the trunk. I wanted a nice billet battery tray up front to put an Optima battery in. So I called up Ron at www.hoodpins.net and told him that we need to make a billet battery tray. He agree and off he went to his computer.

Here are a couple pictures of the prototype.

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If there is enough interest I will make a few extra for people.

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Now that's purdy right thar! :thumbsup:

Bla-Bla-Bla quit whining and get this thing done!!!!!

Hurry up and get that old 69 out of your shop so you can fit my 70 in there. Looks like we need to do some body work on this baby.

Marty, I am interested in the battery jewelry. Can you pm me $$info when you have time please?
Also, I listed the part# for those headers in the other thread.:thumbsup: and sent you a pm too.

pm sent

Battery Tray
 

I'm in for 2 of them..... Here are a few shots of the tray in my Z28

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It fits very nice!

2nd Chance Camaro - Installing the Ride Tech Front Suspension

Installing the Ride Tech Front Suspension & DEI Boom Mat
Posted: July 25, 11 www.2ndchancecamaro.com

Good Morning all,

Steady working on the car just haven't had the time to post up pictures it's hard to believe how far behind I am on updates.

Some of the little things you need to do when installing the Ride Tech lower controls arms. You are going to have to trim the rubber grease boot so they can tuck nicely in the lower arm ball joint pocket. Ride-Tech did a nice job planning for this.


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Once Installed they look perfect.


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The upper arm went on just as easy as the lower arm on the passenger side.

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I wanted to know what the ride height would be once I put the car back on the ground. So I asked Dennis over High Speed Welding made me up a couple mock up shock rods so I could set the ride height.


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When I went to install the lower control arm on the drivers side the bushing didn't fit in the frame. Most likely because the car still had it's original bushings and they just kept tightening the bolt to take up slack in the worn out bushings.

This is a cool little tool I made up years ago when working on Syborg. Just slip it in and open up the bolts evenly and it will do a good job of keeping everything square. Just make sure the washers are large enough to distribute the pressure.


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Make sure you opened the gap up at least a 1/4" further then you need as the metal will spring back.


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Lower control arm fit right in after I spread the lower control arm pocket

Funny in the old days ( late 80's - early 90's ) I would have got out the dead blow hammer and just beat it in. Most likely damaging the paint, the bolts and my skin. However hitting things with a hammer sometimes just make you feel better.

Checking the fully compressed height - wow is the car going to be low.

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When I was at the Good Guys Columbus show I headed over to DEI to check out there new sound & heat insulation product. Talk about a full line of stuff at 1/2 the cost of other guys. I can't wait to start installing this stuff.

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Marty,that's great you are making progress on your project.The ride tech componet's are great pcs.:thumbsup:

Looken good Marty, nice to see you moving along. Now can you please resize your pictures they don't fit on my laptop screen :P

lol - just call them super sized. :thumbsup:

Nice progress my friend! Are you going to run stock spindles?

Yes at this time - unless you have a suggestions

crap! that looks like it'd fit in my 56' chevy nicely...:thumbsup:

nice pink jack stands BTW....my wife would approve of them

Luke (L&H) was suppose to be building a set for second gens... didn't see where he's had time to produce them yet though... that's the only link in my suspension I still want to upgrade at some point.

Something stronger than 40 year old spindles that will bolt up easily and accept C5/C6 brakes... Anybody making upgraded aftermarket 2nd gen spindles yet? Buehler? Buehler?? Buehler??? :_paranoid

Maybe Gonzo could knock us out a couple sets in his spare time? :lateral: