Been super busy and haven't had time to touch the car. Tomorrow is work on car day.

Thanks Vince, not going to use firewall plate. My intention is to have working heat and defrost in this one.

A little more progress today. Installed driver side header, mounted the radiator, power steering pump, and belts. Installed distributror, spark plugs and wires.

Still waiting on Autometer gauges that I ordered before I fire it up. Also need to mount coil and MSD box and then pick up some pretty wire looms and an air cleaner.

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Looken good :thumbsup: Is that a NYES eng? I hear they build some good stuff!!

Yeah it is. How'd you guess? I'm also running an NYES aluminum small block in my Orange '69.

Made out the letters on the VC

My new center console showed up last week and I wanted to be sure the new Corbeau seats wouldn't conflict with the center console so I set them in place. Looks like everything should fit fine.

I also picked up a Covans dash insert so now I need to make the decision of putting gauges in dash or console gauge pod.

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I'm surprised not a whole lot more people out here haven't heard about them. I had some oil leak issues with the first motor they sent me but I sent it back on their dime and so far I'm really happy with it.

If you start down loading a video of that eng running now. We'll have it in time for dinner :D

LOL, yeah, I'd love to, only my gauges haven't showed up yet and I want to be able to monitor oil pressure and water temps.

I was told they should show up the week of the 26th so hopefully I will be able to fire it up then.

I've got my kids baseball games today but tomorrow I'm going to try and mount the MSD box somewhere under the dash and mount the coil either on the intake or bolt it to the firewall. I still need to secure down the thermostat housing but I'm waiting on temp gauge. If I install housing first it might interfere with temp sending unit that I will be installing in the front of the intake since the spout for the thermostat housing
is bearing a hard right.

Just busting your chops Tracky.. The water neck should clear the water temp sender at least from what it looks like in the pic.. Car is looking good

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Thanks bro, more to come soon.

I mounted and wired the MSD 6AL box and Blaster 2 coil yesterday. Also wired up the one wire alternator and ran new battery cably to trunk area. Going to pick up wire looms and air cleaner today.

Made a phone call and my Autometer Sport Comp gauges should be showing up tomorrow. If my day work doesn't get in the way I should be firing the motor up this week.

Got the pretty little wire looms put on today along with the new air cleaner. Hooked up the battery and turned the lights on to make sure I got power to the car. So far so good. Went to turn the ignition switch and got nothing.

With a little help(Thanks Vince)realized I either need to bypass or install a neutral safety switch. Well, since this car is up for sale I dont want to take any short cuts so I ordered the neutral safety switch.

Wont be long now!!

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glad to hear you got it together....is the neutral safety on the clutch pedal or at the base of the steering column?

happy to see the plug wires loomed too.

I ordered the whole kit from Steve's Camaro's. From what I understand so far is that This will be a clutch operated neutral safety switch. The switch bolts some where around the steering column and the purple wires tie in at the switch. I believe the switch has a lever on it. A rod attatches to the clutches upper arm and the lever on the switch. When you push the clutch in the rod attatched to the upper clutch arm and lever move forward activating the ignition when the clutch is pushed in.

Not sure this will work But give it a try. See where the red arrow is pointing just in front of the key..

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grab a hold rt there and turn that clock wise until it stops if ...it moves at all,, you may have to hold it ) and try your ign again. I have had that slip counter clockwise and the Ign does nothing. I had this issue when I had automatic Camaros without the OEM shifter or converted to a stick

This was an original 4 speed car to start with so I dont think thats the problem but just fot ****s and grins I'll run down and check it out.

Just trying to help. Hope it's an easy fix for you

I hear ya brother, thanks. I just finished installing the neutral safety switch. What a major pain in the f'ing ass. Good thing I didn't have the seats bolted in.

Going to finish wiring it up tomorrow and if all goes well (I know I've said this before but....)I should be firing it up tomorrow.

Got the Camaro fired up today but looks like the used carberator I picked up needs some work. I still need to install rear drop leafs and the rest of the center console parts dont show up until Oct. 5th.

Gonna have my buddy Vince at Dreamspeed help me out tomorrow so I'm taking the car to his shop to work on some details.

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Hey that thing is lookin pretty good on the ground! :thumbsup:

Maybe I will swing by and see you and Vince tmrw (today)... it's not far from me and I've been meaning to drop by there anyway.

What time you heading down there?

Just left there and I am at my mother-n-laws now.

Vince is going to finish cutting the latter bar cross member out for me because i couldn't get a full cut on it safely without putting it on a lift and I want the latter bar set up to come out of the car clean so I can hopefully resale it later. Also need to cut a portion of the front leaf spring buckets where the previous owner had welded it at one location and I cut a portion of that also while it was up on jack stands but once again couldn't complete a clean cut safely without puttng it on a lift.

Got the opportunity to take some bottom pics. Disregard any loose wiring as all wiring will be clean and tight before car is completed. There are a few little surface rust spots that will be cleaned up before sale also.

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Bolted up the exhaust, hung the battery wire nice and tight to the frame rails, put the driver side corbeau tracks together, bolted the tracks to the driver seat and it was all over from there.

Few more things to do but was having to good a time driving it around so I said screw it and drove it around for awhile, LOL.

She'll finally be done by this weekend!! :woot:

please make sure to run that gas tank dry the next time you come out. :D

can you take pictures of the new leaf mounts, i forgot to get after pix....
vince

Darn it, forgot about the trunk pan!! Oh well, add another week to the completion date.

Yeah, I'll take those pics for you but I think I will be back down there in two weeks anyways.

Been a busy couple days but she's almost done. Center console and gauge pod wired and complete, bolted the new Corbeau A4 seats in and replaced the carberator from the 850 to a 750. The mouse that was living in the trunk snacked on some tail light wiring so I did a little work there.

Still need to install shocks, swap rear tires after borrowing wheels for Buttonwillow, get a trunk pan put in, and then give her a bath.

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She's looking really good ! What inch drop did you use in the front and rear?

OH.............................. VIDEO !! :willy:

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Thanks Jerry, those photos look alot better than the ones I posted.

I left the original big block springs up front and cut 3" off of them. Going to see what they feel like after I throw the shocks in and If I dont like it I'll pick up another set of springs.
In the rear I picked up some Detroit 2" drop springs but them darn drop springs never drop the car what they advertise so I added a 1" block. I'll have to measure the rear but right now I'd say the drop leafs probably lowered the car 1" so at this point I'd have to say with the 1" block 2" in the rear.

As far as video goes, I never have any luck getting them uploaded but that is with the GoPro. I'll try using my camera tomorrow and see how that works out.

G-man , that daddy is looking purrtty good! :thumbsup:

Let's get a burnout vid or something. :D

Thanks Dave!

Sorry, but the burnouts will only come from the Orange car. This white one is up for sale and the tires have been listed as bran new, lol :D

We'll see how much luck I have posting up some video of some exhaust tone. I was tuning the carb yesterday and reving it up while it was in the garage. It was only about 5 minutes of ideling and reving and my neighbor came outside and started yelling at me from his porch. I couldn't hear him but I could see the disgruntled look on his face and his lips moving. I turned to him and gave him the finger, lol. Wish I had some video of that!! lol

As you can tell me and my neighbor have been buddies a long time, lol.

The white '69 is now registered and insured!!:D Been non-op since 2000.

Installed QA-1 single adjustable shocks on all four corners this morning and then drove her in the pouring rain. Thanks to the new weather stripping throughout no leaks!!

Scheduled for an alignment tomorrow. Trunk pan install scheduled for this weekend.

Going to be driving her around this week quite a bit to check for any quirks or bugs and if all is well will probably drive it to the bay area for its scheduled trunk pan install.

Got the alignment done on the car today and it drives great!! I'm really impressed with the Baer Track Plus brake system. I've had to adjust the proportioning valve three times now and can still probably use more bias towards the rear.

I started with running an 850 Holley carb but then started thinking fuel mileage and switched to a 750 Holley. After driving around for awhile I've decided to switch back to the 850 as I noticed a loss in power on the top end with the 750 which is typical of dual plane manifolds. They tend to like big carberators.

Trunk pan work completed!! Thanks Vince!!

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Looks good, nice stance

How did installing the heater box on the firewall go with the car all bolted together ?

If you have any more, can you post a few more pics of the trunk work? I am in the middle of mine and I wanted to see where the main pain was trimmed in reference to the extensions. Thanks!

Oh yeah, how do the front springs feel? Will you be changing them out?

Car looks great, by the way!

shoot me an email and i can give you a run down and a few tricks t o make it easy. [email protected]

Is that a "Wink Mirror" I see??

It didn't. Still need to pull fender off to install heater box.

Front springs actually feel great but I cut to much and have a bit of rubbing when leaning into to the corners so I will be raising the car an inch.

Thanks for the props.