Looking good! Do you have a part number for that steering column mount? Mine was all mangled up and I need to do something similar.

I made it. Well, the big aluminum plate. The ball mount is by flaming river. Allowed us to angle the column away from the headers by placing it much lower than stock.

Hi John....do you have any pics of the steering link going through your headers? I let the column position on the firewall be determined by the upper mount...but don't have my headers in yet. Wonder if I have a redo in my future.

Hi John,

It doesn't go through my headers. I am using Stainless Works "Wayne Due" headers, if we left the stock Camaro column orientation, it would hit the last tube. We were able to angle it down and away by moving the bottom lower point.

It's the lower mount that controls the angle through the front sub frame. I am using a stock upper mount, with clamps welded to it, that bolts into the stock location on the dash support. For some reason, my "bolt in" Flaming River steering column didn't have a provision for the mount. You could probably shorten up the top mount and increase the angle, but I wanted to have a lower steering wheel.

Normally, they mount high through the lower mount. As you can see, I had to lower it about 2.75" and build a new mount that uses a Flaming River orbital that will take a whole lot more angle. It really wasn't that hard, just a bit of time and 3/16" aluminum that I had on hand.

I added a few pics that shows the orientation.

I am away, so my buddy is working on the final steps. Since we had the front sub frame open, he welded nuts on the inside of the sub frame. Yep, my down bars were anchoring to tapped box tube, nothing on the inside... I think it's a bit better off now. He also sealed up the cuts... and now has a lot of flap disking to do. I feel sad for his nose, cause it's going to be black booger time. I am glad to be away for once :).

This is the lower column mount I put on a piece of aluminum.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/f...0101/overview/

It allows more angle than the stock, or aftermarket replacements that used stock geometry.

The attached pic is the one I bought, that is all stock location. My finger is where it actually needed to go through. So I used the black one as a template.

It came in clear aluminum, I had it it anodized, only to find that I had to re-do it.

All welded up, flapped and painted.

Thanks for the pics John!! I used the eyeball mount from IDIDIT but I let the upper mount locate the lower mount. I didn't have the headers mounted up yet so I sort'a guessed, we'll see, I think it should be good. Appreciate the pics you sent! Your car is looking great!! I think I might need to buy you a beer and get the low down on how you get your friend to work on your ride while you are away!!! That's a good friend, keep that dude!!

Oh that one's easy. He's my shop foremen, working out of his home garage on my project, for side work.

We're also prepping for SEMA, which is always iffy.

I am going with a TCI interior, considering that they've been doing them for 30 years.

Mostly done with wiring and plumbing.

Time to bring it home.

Now for final body work, fitting the nose, the deck lid, etc.

Then interior.