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71 camaro
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Hi, ive been a member for a while but never really posted. I picked up 71 camaro rs as a project may'be less then a year ago now. Its been a little tough making progress going to school full time with a 19 and now 20 year old budget. haha But I love it. It has a L-78, 4 speed, and 8.5 in. 10 bolt. It has a dual carb offenhauser that came with it, some of these things are not ideal for what i want but they'll be fine for now. Plans include a hotchkis suspension and hopefully big bear brakes all the way around... here are some old pics from when i first got it but i will post some updated ones later...
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looks like a fun project.:thumbsup:
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sweet project...looks like a pretty soild car..keep the pics updated..
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Good choice in the second gen! I am doing a 70 rs myself. Thanks for posting and keep em coming! :thumbsup:
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Thanks guys for your comments. Yeah its a pretty solid car, i got pretty lucky. This is basically what the car looks like now more or less, i had the car wired up just trying to fire the engine since it was rebuilt by the previous owner who never got the chance to refire it. The previous owner ended up passing away, and thats how I ended up buying the car. I decided i wanted to start on some body work so i eneded up taking much of the car apart again and thats pretty much what you see now...
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Cool. Nice project.
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keep on going
nice project, makes me miss my 2 70's i had a 70 SS and then a 70 R/S - cant find them anymore! :thumbsup:
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little update
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I have a little update... it''s been a while since I last posted an update. I have to practically stop working on the car because I was in season. I play football in college and between that and full time school, it pretty much took all my time. But recently I was able to get back on it and im excited. I have the engine rewired and am waiting on a steering column to fire. I also have almost the whole car stripped and most of it primed. It takes a while to strip a car all by hand... Ive completed some of the metal and body work. I painted the firewall, subframe, and half of the bottom of the car. I've got a long way to go, but I'm excited... I don't really do a great job at taking pictures, I dont know how some people do it, I just get carried away in my work haha
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Its coming along nicely. What do you plan on filling up that third stall with once this Camaro is done?
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Looks like a very solid car, great work!
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It's looking great! I was wondering why we had not heard much on this one. Sounds like you have/had a very busy schedule. :cheers:
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glad to see you keep making progress on it, looks like it's going to be a great car when done.:thumbsup:
Randy(D&Z Customs LLC.) [email protected] 1-262-347-9741 |
Very cool. Moving right along.:thumbsup:
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Your Proj. looks great!! Have you picked out tire sizes and brand yet?
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I've been working on the car just not updated the thread. I'm learning as I'm going so it seems like everything is an experiment to see how it turns out. Then it seems like I do almost everything three times lol. I'm having a lot of fun learning though. These pictures aren't all the way updated, and I'll try to put up some more updated ones. I'm also hoorible at stopping to take pictures sometimes. Sometimes I just want to work lol. As far as updates the pictures kind of speak for themselves... finally got my welding outlet in my garage. Also found out the cars been hit in some way in the quarter panel. And the job wasn't done right to fix it. A new partial quarter was riveted onto the old quarter... fun. Im not all the way dont with it and actually have redone some of it so I'll update that when i can.
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I also started the car for the first time! It started right up! Stopped it. Tried to start it up again and was having troubles. I played with the timing a bunch. Took off the valve cover and turned the motor. The intake and exhaust for cylinder 1 weren't opening and closing. Felt the rocker arms and they were loose! So took apart the valvetrain and had a bent rod. So then I checked the sizes on the rods and they weren't the correct sizes. Took some advice from my dad and just rebuilt the valvetrain with new rods and lifters. I wanted to redo the whole top end to be safe because a mistake like this worries me. The engine was rebuilt by the previous owner, and from the looks of it, never got it refired. He passed away so it's hard to get any real good information on it. I did find out through some research that it is an L-78. Something that was unknown at the time of purchase and pretty cool. I haven't fired it up again yet but it's all ready to go.
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So I've been shaping, bending, cutting, welding, and testing to try to get this quater to fit and look right. Just trying to do the most with the tools I have. Still a work on in progress and some of the pics have been redone since... I wish I had some pics when it was really bad, but they are on my old computer that isn't currently working.
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She's coming along good. Keep up the good work!:thumbsup:
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It’s been a long time, and a lot has changed. This project has taken much longer than I thought it would originally. This is probably due to two things: going to school full time to be a mechanical engineer, and saving up enough money to finish the car. I calculated that I would finally have enough money to finish the car right before I would be transferring from my junior college. I would also not be taking summer sessions at school for once, so I would have more spare time to work on the car. The plan was made to finish the car before I moved away to college.
I lost a lot of photos on my old computer when it quit on me. I will try my best to document what was done on the project. I did everything on this car myself. The car got a full hotchkis suspension and baer brakes. I’m currently a mechanical engineering student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I’m on the Formula SAE team at school. It’s a cool project, and we will be using a 450cc single cylinder turbo charged engine running on e85. This where I started in the summer: Painted the firewall and the bottom of the car http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc031.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc033.jpg Getting the rearend squared away: http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc037.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...onepics223.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...onepics041.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc095.jpg Painted the engine: Lots of orange http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc025.jpg Front Clip: http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc043.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc048.jpg IMG]http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b581/mdutra34/12-7-12CarDoc044.jpg[/IMG] http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc050.jpg Engine in: Can't believe I don't have more pictures of it going in. http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc066.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc112.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...2CarDoc140.jpg |
Lookin good.Mig welds are ok for exhaust work.:thumbsup:
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update part 3
I painted the car myself in my home garage. These are few pictures after paint. First time I painted a car.
http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...onepics415.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...onepics425.jpg http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/...onepics432.jpg Sadly this is where the project stopped before I had to leave for college. I lost about a month of my summer vacation time because of a surgery I had to have to remove all my wisdom teeth and school obligations. I just completed my first quarter at Cal Poly and will be going home in about a week after I complete some work on the Formula SAE project. I will then have about two weeks to hopefully finish the car and bring it with me to Cal Poly. I'm near the end of this project and because I have been removed from it, I tend to reflect on it more. I have a lot of project seperation anxiety. I have learned a lot from this project. I honestly don't think my father thought I would finish this car, or make it this far when I first started the project. He didn't even trust me to work on his car lol. He has never taken on a project of this scope, and hasn't done many of things I've done on this project. Because I wanted to prove I could do it to him, I told him not to touch my car lol. As the project went on, he became a believer and has been very supportive. We have grown a lot closer because of our love for cars. I hope that we can complete a project together someday from start to finish. I was in high school when I found this site and began reading about Mark Stielow. I was inspired by his builds and his job. I think that's what has inspired me to build my own camaro and go school for mechanical engineering. I've really enjoyed it. I would also like to thank the members on here that have documented their builds, modifications, and answered questions. I have learned directly and vicariously through your efforts, and a lot of this may not have happened without you. |
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Looks great, congrats! Good luck with school.
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Very well done. Love the color too.
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Thanks guys!
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Bitchin car. Love the engine choice and the colors. Doing it all yourself is huge and you deserve that great payoff that's right around the corner. Congrats.
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^^^^^What he said ^^^^^ :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Thanks guys! I will try and get a video posted when I can. I will also try to get some better pics of the car.
NOPANTS68 I actually live in Roseville, Ca also. The blue nova you built was bad a**. |
Nice work, I can't wait to see more.
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