Looks good Chris.

Looks great, Man. I'm at about the same stage with mine. Living vicariously through your progress photos!

Looks fantastic Chris! Next week it will be a roller again and you can move it to the new shop! :woot:

How long should I let the paint cure before I start putting the suspension back under it?

Chris the car looks great! What did you paint it with?

Funny you ask. I have no idea. I went to the paint store and told them I needed a PPG brand urethane paint for the undercarriage of my car and that I needed something durable that wouldn't completely break the bank. From there, I trusted their expertise. We'll see how it holds up in the long run.

Primer, paint, hardener, seam sealer, and a plastic car cover for $177.

Looking real good :thumbsup:

Any updates?

Yeah. It's sitting under the cover in my new shop. The undercarriage is painted and the car is on the suspension. It's gonna be on hold for a while.

I just closed on my old house last Friday and paid off my land, so I'm officially DEBT FREE!!! We were going to start building a house immediately, but my job is kinda shaky right now, so my wife and I have decided to section off half of my shop and make a 2 bedroom apartment to live in. My goal is to save as much money as possible over the next 3-5 years and hopefully pay cash for our new house. I hate to take on a $150K-$200K mortgage and then lose my job.

If there were more SMART people like you - we wouldn't be in the mess this country is in right now. CASH IS KING -- always was -- always will be.

I've tried to teach my kids - if you get $100 - spend half -- SAVE the other half. And I don't mean "save it to spend it" I mean SAVE IT.

It's nice to be debt free. you will sleep better at night and your money made money while you were asleep.:cheers:

Chris,
I just finished reading this entire thread and I've got to say what an awesome job you are doing:bow:
Before you started this did you do any welding at all? or did you just jump right in never having done any of this before, buying a welder and everything.
Keep the updates coming:thumbsup:

Thanks for the kind words. To answer your question, I had never even owned a welding machine much less weld. I bought the machine off of Ebay, then rounded up a few scrap pieces of sheetmetal from some builders I know and started practicing on plug welds, then moved into butt welding sheetmetal. Trust me, I don't claim to be a welder.

Hopefully the car doesn't fall apart when I drive it (IF I ever get to finish it!!!).

It's gonna be real hard not to spend it on the Camaro. I've got to budget a little per month to keep the project inching along.

Got my Stainless Works LS headers in yesterday. I'm used to the old SBC style header flanges that always bent and bolt heads that were right up against the header tubes making it interesting to tighten. These things are very well made. Can't wait to get them mocked up. I was expecting a 2-3 week turnaround and they showed up in 8 working days from time I ordered them.

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Way to go:thumbsup: - just read through your thread- good luck on the build!!

Stainless Works builds great stuff! :thumbsup: :cheers:

Good stuff man, keep the pics coming. I also like your debt free mentality and behavior. My wife and myself are working on getting debt free ourselves, it's the way to go. Everything I do to my Camaro is paid in cash, so it is taking longer to do things I want, but will be better in long run.

I know what you mean. I've been building mine on tax returns!

Hey Chris--reckon we could get Jody to allow DAVE RAMSEY to give us all
a lesson or 2 on here!!!! lol -- Nothin like gettin to the promised land of NO DEBT!!! U talked to CHEBY2 lately??? jim :yes:

No, I haven't talked to Terry lately. I need to check in on him and see how his car is coming along.

Any updates?

What an amazing thread! I am unfortunately on the up hill side of the same project.

My good friend has been telling me for a long time " it's only metal, if you don't like the way it comes out cut it off or fill it in".

You have th best pics of the Chicane I have seem yet.

Thank you for taking the time you have to post.

Awesome built and really like the color in the rendering.

By the way,what is the backspacing on the front and rear wheels. Are the fronts 18x8s or 9s??

Wow, what a monumentally inspirational thread.

I admire your commitment to doing things right on so many levels, besides just the Camaro.

I am curious if the Chicane write-up for Speedtech ever came to fruition?

Did you relocate the UCA mounts in the course of doing it or just clean up the welds?

I was formerly subscribed anonymously, but after rereading the thread to date I had to drop in and say Keep the Faith! You are doing very well.

PS Some of the best people I ever knew were from Larose, and owned the Telephone Company there. Mr. John and Ms. Clara taught me a l lot about being a good man. :yes:

WOW! I'm over a month late on answering this post. Sorry. I haven't been working on the car much, so I rarely get on the site to check this thread. The wheel specs are 18x8's with a 4.9" BS on the front and 18x11.5's with a 5.4" BS on the rear.

Sorry for the delay in answering this one as well. I'm not sure on the write-up for the Chicane install. I wrote a detailed procedure with pictures and sent it to Blake at Speedtech, but I'm not sure where it went from there. It was more of a starting point for them to tweak since nothing was out there on the install. I didn't relocate the mounts, I just cleaned up the factory gorilla welds and then used All Metal filler to kinda smooth it out a little.

I guess I can add a few updates. I've recently bought a 6.0L shortblock, stock F-Body front drive accesories, coil packs, and a Vintage Air kit. I'm concentrating on the engine build right now. I have just about everything except some engine sensors, the cam, and the wiring harness/PCM. I need to get the engine and VA kit installed so I can route the a/c lines and then the engine harness so I can get an idea on how/where to route it.

Sorry no pictures. I'll take some during the engine build.

I'm relly watching what I spend right now on the engine, so does anyone know a good source for the engine harness/PCM/DBW pedal at a jamb up price?

Alright here's the latest update...the engine

Specs:
Stock LY6 6.0L shortbock
ARP rod bolts
Stock L92 heads (decked .028")
ARP head bolts
Patriot Extreme dual valve springs
Custom cam by Futral Motorsports (228/236, 629/612, 112LSA)
Ported throttle body
F-Body pan (modified by S&P)
F- Body accessories

I still need to get the balancer all the way on.

I painted all the cast aluminum parts (with excetion of the heads and throttle body) so they wouldn't tarnish/stain over time. Should make clean up much easier. I'm ordering the transmission this week along with a few other small parts. The next photos should be of the drive train in the car.

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Motor turned out great Chris, she looks a whole lot better than when she left my garage. :thumbsup:

The motor turned out great Chris! I like all the painted parts too, it should help keep things looking fresh! :thumbsup:

Thanks, Jess.

Thanks, again. Still waiting on my transmission so I can put this thing in the car. It's supposed to be ready next week.

Hey Chris long time no chat.......engine looks awesome!

Thanks, Steve. I've been meaning to call you.

Engine and Tranny Installed.

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Hey Chris cars looking great. Im about to paint my floors this weekend getting closer to the finish line I hope lol. How you making out?
Steve

Hey Steve. The project has been on hold due to lack of funds. I'm so close yet so far away. Keep in touch.

Any updates on this bad boy?

Yeah I almost forget about this build?? :poke: