Tu, thanks!!

Love the pic with the little one, my girls love to "work" on the cars, I just keep hammers away from them :)

Gui

Oh come on Gui....hammer fixes everything! :D

Jason, I hear ya :) The girls loved "helping" on the Jeep since little, but stoked all of our little ones are interested in cars.

Tu, do you have more full side shots of the bird with the new shoes? Did you end up adding spacers?

thanks!

Great build thread! I completely identified with so many aspects of the build. Looking good and keep up the work. I am subscribed. BTW, what rotors did you use with your 4th gen firebird brakes? I might need a set coming up soon. I just received my hardlines from Tobin. Once I finish up some metal work in the trunk I'm moving on to running hardlines. Great work!

Tu, just read your entire thread. Purchasing a car in this condition (top pic) and restoring it to it's current condition (bottom pic) pretty much all on your own is an amazing accomplishment, absolutely outstanding. Beautiful car, glad you made the switch from imports. You know if you still lived in the great NW you'd put fewer miles on your car :lol: well done :cheers:
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I used SSBC rotors.

Hi Lenie. Thanks for the compliments. I sure miss the NW, but won't miss the rain. I'm sure you can relate. But as Greg Weld can attest, it sure rains hard down in Texas.

Your Firebird is awesome. Wish I can look at it in person.

Some updates
 

I got several Summit gift cards during father's day weekend, just enough to place an order for a DSE roll bar.

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Removed the dynamat and welded on the floor plates.

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Main hoop tacked in place.
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Main hoop and down bars tacked welded, removed as one unit, and fully welded. As usual, my prettier welds won't be seen.

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Mocked up and welded on the harness bar.

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With the package tray opened up for the down bars, it was flexing a little, so I tied the package tray to the down bars.

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I also made an amp tray that mounts to the down bars in the trunk, similar to several builds on here.

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Not as pretty as some builds going on here, but the amps are off the trunk floor.

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With the seats out, I decided to lower the SCATS seat mount adapters. I cut off the old mounting ears and welded on some flat 3/16" steel. Not the best looking, but the mod lowers the seats by 1".

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That's it for now. I picked up a gen5 camaro console from the junkyard, and will be working on mounting it in the car in place of the original console. Will start on that later when the weather cools down. I got tired in working in 90 degrees plus heat in the garage.

Very nice work, thinking of something like this for my car as well. You were able to slide the whole thing in place as one unit? That is good to know...Nice to be able to do the majority of the welding outside the car.

Yes, I was able to slide the whole thing in and out as one unit. In fact, the DSE instruction mentioned it. It was tight though. There maybe 1/8" of clearance at the window opening, and I had to jack the car up so I can maneuver the main hoop down on the ground.