Cowl update
 

Up front, we’ve removed the dash panel, the upper cowl, the lower cowl, and the sides of the cowl panel and replaced them with new steel. We’re close to welding the new pieces together. Notice that the whole upper structure is detached from the firewall. Once the dash and cowl pieces are solidified, we’ll transfer them to the new body structure on the frame fixture.

Chassis 1
 

Meanwhile, the chassis for the Royal Sport comes together at Schwartz Extreme Performance. The Schwartz Precision Chassis is a true bolt-in road-race style chassis made specifically for a variety of vehicles, and this is first-gen F-body chassis #1. The whole chassis is designed to attach to the Camaro’s underbody in place of the subframe in front, and between the factory rear rails in the back. The two arches are the front. It utilizes off-the-shelf road race suspension parts, and we’ll be assembling the whole shebang soon. Parts include tubular arms from Coleman Engineering, a NASCAR spec Ford 9” from Speedway Engineering, BAER brakes, Bilstein coil-overs, and rack and pinion steering. We’re setting it up for a GEN-III small block and a 5-speed manual tranny.

You can follow the build on the Royal Sport Camaro on our show V8TV airing on The Men’s Channel. We’ve got a long way to go, but at least we’re finally putting things back together!

Chassis
 

By the way, the tranny crossmember is upside down in the chassis pics above... it just got set on there that way.

Thanks for all the encouragement!

Back to the shop!

- Kevin Oeste

Lot of work in that project...Just keep at it...


-Paul

that looks......
 

like a bit of work. I do not get you show on my cable. Please keep us posted on the installation.

Very Cool!! Keep Us Updated!!!!!!!!!!

I sure wish I could see the TV show...

We sure wish you could see it too!

damn driect tv!!!

but what are you doing as far as inner fenders, im trying to picture how the mount for the strut would be worked around... care to explain?

Brian -
 

I think we'll do a better job explaining the front sheetmetal fit when we get to that point. I'll post some pics when we make it all happen. We still have to locate the core support on the chassis, and we'll probably be doing a little dancing here and there as we fit the inners, but we'll keep you posted. How's that for a non-answer? In all reality, we're going to be back on the chassis / suspension assembly the 2nd week of July. Right now, we're trying to get the body tub together so that we can go to paint in August.