budget home built pro touring 69 camaro
 

here are some pics on the progress of my 69 camaro project. every part has been built by myself with a little help along the way from my stepdad scott who built the 69 sunoco camaro. I built my own subframe using modified stock camaro stuff power unisteer rack speedway engineering splined sway bar QA1 coilovers wilwood 13" brakes LS1 and T56. out back is a home built nascar style trailing arm set up with panhard bar and QA1 coilovers. 9 inch ford with a speedway motors posi trac third member 3.89 gear moser 31 spline axles. centerline wheels 17X11 and 17X9.5 with 315/35/17 and 275/40/17 rubber. most everything was done by me at home in my two car garage with the help of scott and brian kellison who helped me out with the paint and body work. the main goal for the build was to build a car on a tight budget that was capable of turning down some quick times on the road course and autocross and still be a pretty well mannered street car. just thought id throw up a few pics and see what everyones opinion was.
thanks, kevin.

Very nice i like the green with the carbon fiber hood.

that is very cool and your step dad is a great guy. :thumbsup:

Jody

I think it is cyber metalic grey. But it looks green. The door gap police were there tonight. said it was good.:lol: :

I'm diggin it, just hope you're a better driver than your step dad. :rofl:

beautiful work, be proud of yourself :thumbsup:

Kevin,

I saw the other thread on your car; been looking forward to seeing the progress. It looks real good.

Congrats on what you've accomplished so far. :thumbsup:

As fast as he is you think he was related to Mary Pozzi instead of me.He should be pretty quick in this car.It does not have a big block in it.:lol: :lol:

That's good, it takes a special person to drive a big block car and wipe up them LSX's. :unibrow:

Have you ever heard of such a person??? or is this a "urban legend" or Sasquatch type deal:lol: :lol: :cheers:

I ain't heard from the guy in a while.....:unibrow:

Looks good Kevin. Nice progress.
Keep us posted.:thumbsup:

Nice work Kevin, looks real good. Congrats

BTW I was hoping to autocross with you and Scott again at GG Kansas City this year but our best friends son is getting married that weekend. dammit maybe he'll change his mind;)

:woot: haha well hope you can make it im really looking forward to goodguys and hope to have my car out there too. thanks for the nice comments and hope to see ya at goodguys.

Todd Is this the guy????:D

Kevin sorry about hijacking your thread:_paranoid , I'll be coming down to KC this summer to visit sister, I'll get a hold of you guys and see if I can check out your Camaro.

You guys can good off in my thread...:unibrow:

I think this is the guy who thought putting a big block in the 1st. gen was a good idea.

looks good:thumbsup:

would appreciate more details about the modded stock subframe. Include pictures if possible..

Just re-read post and discovered that it's not a stock frame at all. You built your own around stock components. more details and pics would be appreciated.

Kevin doesn't visit here very much.But I can tell you a little bit.A few years ago I built my first sub frame using stock lower arms and tube upper arms & coil overs.It's stock geomerty, using gulstrand mod.Uni steer rack & pinion & speedway engineering sway bar.You save about 50#lbs. and w/the narrowed rails you can fit 10 inch wheel.Kevin used my jig to build his sub frame.Now we are building the sub frames to use C6 componets.Because the componets are about the same cost as the after market tube arms.But if you use the c5-c6 brakes that's where you can save some money.The AGR rack is 1/3rd the price as the unisteer rack so you save again ($250.00 vs.$750.00).We use QA1's or strange engineering shocks.Not as top notch as the Afco's but real good for the money.Kevin has some real good photo's of the bare sub frame I will see if he can post them up.Kevin's car look's even better in person.He's working real hard to have it ready for KC Goodguy's.:thumbsup:

appreciate the feedback.

I would love to see what you did with the A Pillers

Sorry you can no longer use the word "jig" it's a fixture

ps - I have a first gen front subframe fixture for sale

SORRY!! I am from the old school.

hey sorry it took so long to respond i have been busy and havent been able to get on here for a couple days. scott pretty much let ya know what all i did. on the lower control arms i cut out the stock spring bucket and welded in a plate for my lower shock mount. here are a few pics

we used 18 guage sheet and punch and flared holes in it and made it fit from the a pillar to the roll bar then tig welded them in place with silicon bronze. here are a few pics.

haha no prob its been pretty entertaining! :lol: but yeah definitely let us know when your coming to town. your car looks great by the way. i don't think we ever actually met at goodguys but i know i saw your car either last year or the year before at gg.