Excellent progress 'X' . :thumbsup:

Nice job!! I'd say weld the brackets as well.

for Ratman67 this is where i measured for ya... 115".

ECU and DBW
 

Today I made up a floor mount for the DBW and then made a bracket for the ECU. I have to wait to get my gauges in so I can make sure the ECU location works. If its good clearance wise I am thinking of just welding it to the cowl
Not a lot of room with the AC ducts right there....

Took the day off.. got a good amount done... started with wiring made a lot of progress then decided to make some changes that require weatherpack connectors I dont have... (if anyone now a good source let me know)
Got the clutch master hooked up. I took a slightly different approach. I shortened the rod on both sides, then drilled into the fat end and ran a tap into it. Then ran a Die over the small end. this gives me about .5 to 1 inch adjustment.
started on my gauge panel.. too some 3" exhaust pipe slash cut them @45 degrees this is a rough in it will be much better fitted into the dash before its done. hoping for a factory look when its done.

Guages in
 

working my way through Dash Moc up.

Lots or wiring on the bench
 

completed my wiring on the bench.. now time to MOC it into the car. Fist step Batt.... (BTW Optima no stickers with a new Battery? ) the cutoff is removable goes through the lower bolt hole of the bumper for track days.

The gauge cluster looks Great! The battery install looks good too.

Bling
 

Brown truck delivered some Bling this week :G-Dub:

Definitely some nice work so far,keep it coming:thumbsup:

More deliveries Drive train almost all here
 

Thanks you Mr UPS man

Guess whats in the Box
 

I feel like that "Hump Day camel".... so excited...
:ups: :hello:

Progress or lack their of.. Update: I have coined a new phrase.... most of you are famailar with the expression C##K blocked and or Body shop Hell... well this is a combination of the two.. it called Parts F###D its when you're waiting on parts forever and it completely stalls progress and momentum.

:bang:

Here is something that I learned long ago. Unless your building the car for a specific show or race then what is the hurry. In the end you beat your self up because we make these unobtainable deadlines that could only be met if we had millions of dollars and an entire team of people building the car.

So take your time and work on the details of what is next and just make sure you have everything planned out for the next phase of the build. Make sure you have all the parts you are going to need when the car comes home from the body shop so you can start assembling the car right away and you won't go into sticker shock when you have to start ordering parts.

I personally plan each phase of the build to every minor details. During the disassembly I am already planning what parts need to go where and what parts are going to be sold so I can fund media blasting and powder coating.

Look at it like a job and while it is in the body shop you should be ordering your wire harness and everything you need to put in the shell of the car before you hang the doors, fenders, decklid.

The move forward to the engine bay / sub frame. Build the subframe in your head and make sure you have everything you are going to need to put it together and have all the parts painted, powder coated or even polished.

So there is a lot you can be doing right now. I am certain your engine is sitting on a stand somewhere waiting to go in your subframe. Look at it in detail. Is it exactly the way you want it to look when it's in the car. If not now is the perfect time to change the nuts and bolts to some cool ARP fasteners and maybe even look at the colors of the motor itself.

Heck if you look at the motor in 2nd chance the block is black so all of the hardware on the block is polished and the heads are aluminum so they have black hardware and where there is red paint there are polished bolts.

In the end there is plenty you could be doing right now it's just not what you want to be doing. Life is really like a box a chocolate. You never really know what type of chocolate your going to get unless you read the instructions.

Most people don't know but when they drizzle different designs on the chocolate candy it actual is telling you what it is.

okay enough of my long winded rambling

Dear Tremec how about some quality control!
 

Was prepping to drop motor and trans in for moc up

Glad I took the shifter off found the seal under the shifter torn...
Then I found this post. http://www.pro-touring.com/threads/8...m-shifter-HELP

Booooo Tremec :sarcasm_smiley:

I think that transmission isn't worthy of your build anymore. Just put it back in the box and send it to me....:ups:

$&@#%, stupid quality control issues continue
 

The good ..... The engine dropped in perfect F body oil pan worked like a gem
Stainless works headers fit like a glove...

The bad the harness fits like crap it's defiantly short and two wires fell out of their connector without so much as a tug on them. It's a good thing I found it now because it was the cam sensor connector which would cause a no start and likely drive me nuts

:waveflag: :waveflag: :hairpullout:

Stainless works fit perfect

Those headers look good. I love the look of burnished stainless too. So once they burn in, they'll look even better.

yep!

looking good

X2...very nice. :thumbsup:

More quality control issues
 

Forgive me for bing bitchy and with recognition that this hobby is more about making things then bolting things together that you take out of boxes...

But when you spend good money on things that simply don't work as delivered its bullship ... See what I did right there :secret:

In this case vintage airs bracket .....designed and delivered as an assembly isn't even close and theirs not enough material to alter the holes to hack it together.

:bigun2: :bigun2: just pissed that everything I touch is less then what it should be... These are not cheap parts fellas ...

i maybe numb to it but a hammer adjustment seems to be the norm for every damn thing. Made in the USA right?

Your used to it I guess but I hear what you are saying... I was able to finesse this together with some tweaks and bends but not over ally impressed with VA at this juncture :hairpullout:

It just seems to be a fact of life when dealing with cars when modifying them. I think it's to the point where if you don't go numb to it, you'll go crazy. Don't let it get to you. Just use it as a reason to buy more tools and equipment and do it yourself. That way, you know who to bitch at, lol.

Good luck!

I've started working on my 2010 Camaro and being honest the fit and finish on the parts for these cars is light years better them on my 70. So far everything has been a bolt on. It's also nice working on a clean car and not having to wash my hands when I want to eat the chicken sandwich on the bench.

Thanks Vince at mean streets
 

Got my clutch and flywheel... And the radiator suggestion you made... Freaking awesome real nice piece!

Fits nice

All the holes line up with no hammer-age right? :underchair:


glad to have helped!!

What radiator is that? The cap is hard to read.

Typical!
I love "bolt in" stuff.
That's why order cheaper stuff or junk yard dive when I can. I just do it with the realization that I'll have to modify it anyway. Then it doesn't make me feel so bad. Of course, there are always those parts that you've got to have that are supposed to fit. When they don't, I always call the company and tell them the issues I had, hoping it will help the next guy.

Oh, Cars looking good BTW!

looks like a griffin cap to me.

this one.. http://www.summitracing.com/parts/gr...t/model/camaro

Starting to come together
 

Moc up of the Front Runner....

Looks good, let me know if you're up for some beer drinking or need a hand wrenching. I am not that far from you, in Chester, NH. I have a few projects going. I have a 70 GMC C10, a few Jeeps and a few bikes.

Got my rear shocks I mocked in... Looks like I have plenty of interference clearance on compression... Their was a fear that the watts ascushion was going to mash the watts crossmember... Still want to drop it down a few turns but plenty of room now I think

That's certainly good news. Rear suspension is looking pretty, too.

Is that at ride height?

You have a lot more clearance on the driver's side than I do. Looking at the picture below, you can see that the mount for the upper Watt's rod on the driver's side is about 3-4" further out than on yours. That caused me some grief trying to clear the shock...

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...pssi8mnl6k.jpg