Roadster Shop 2nd Gen Camaro Build
 

I have been getting a lot of questions about this car when it was seen in the background of a few other pics that I posted. I was going to wait until we were further along with the build to post, but here are some early stages of a 2nd gen that we are building for a new customer from CA. The car features one of our new Fast Track chassis and will be powered by a twin turbo LS shortly. It should be a pretty unique car.

Ride Height mock ups - The goal was to get this car sitting low with larger tires than most are runing on their 2nd gens. We really like the way a 20" x12" wheel with a 28" tire looks under the back of these cars. Front will be either an 18" or 19" x 10" with a 295 tire. We were able to get a ride height of 3.75" at the front of the rocker and 4.5" at the rear of the rocker. This thing just looks bad a$$ sitting there!


(The car had already been primed and the fenders painted when we received it. All of this will eventually be re-done.)

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Here are a few shots of the completed chassis. This is part of our new Fast Track chassis line up. We are building vehicle specific chassis for 1st and 2nd gen Camaro's, 62-67 Novas, 64-71 Mustangs, challenger/'cuda, Chevelle/GTO/A Body and a few others.

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What is involved in getting that chassis under the car? Does the entire floor have to come out and be rebuilt differently?

Great looking project.Can't wait to see more.:thumbsup: Scott

Body on the completed 2nd Gen Camaro chassis

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Mock up LS motor instaleld

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Because of the shape of the floor on the 2nd gens, this chassis does require fabricating a new main floor section in the car. The rear rails will follow the stock trunk floor so that can be used from the package tray area back, along with a stock gas tank. We are going to go with a different route for the tank so we fabbed a new center section of the trunk floor in this car.

The crossmember is designed so you can fab a dropped floor in the car which will keep the driver seat low like the original floor and give you plenty of head room.

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Will love following this build. Any target date for completion? Looking forward to seeing the FAST chassis on the road/track.

Wheel tubs were fabbed to clear the 345 rear tire. We also fabbed complete outer wheel houses to get the tires out closer to the edge of the 1/4...more on that in a minute.

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Cool shot of the trans mount we fabbed up.
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Dang....That is one sweet looking setup...nice work! :hail:

We widened the top section of the quarters to again get the wheel/tire out closer to the lip of the quarter. When we sat the car this low with such a tall tire, it ended up hitting the body unless we moved the tire inboard 2-3 inches. That made it look like a bad pro-street job, so we started to work.

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This is probably one of those things that most people will never notice when it is done... but everyone would have noticed if it wasn't done.

In the end it is hard to tell that the quarters were altered at all. Here are some "down the side" shots of the car once the work was completed.

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Hey Marty, I made sure the back ground on this one was blurry so you couldn't see the "other car" that we are working on across the aisle!:unibrow: :rofl:

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Nice work guys as always. Its going to look killer with a 20 in the rear.

Thanks for all the detailed info. I appreciate it.
The quarter treatment is really cool. Great solution for the tire issue.

So I'll take one chassis as shown, floor pan as shown and trunk floor as shown. I'll let you know just as soon as I hit the lotto numbers to pay for it....:D

Amazing work!

Quarter work is sick :thumbsup: I like the 28's back there

:hail: Looks awesome

No target date yet. We are really just getting started on this build and there are still a lot of decisions still to be made and a ton of work ahead of us.

TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!.This is going to be really fun seeing the process.:thumbsup:

Beautiful fabrication work. The frame work looks very nice and the stance is awesome. Great job on the quarters and wheel house! Thanks for posting and I will be watching :drool:

Wow, another home run guys. AMAZING is an understatement.
Keep us posted on this killer build. Thank for posting.:thumbsup:

Awesome work as usual guys!

Once again - Phenomenal work! :thumbsup:

I guess the race is now officially on....:yes: the floors and quarters look awsome

Did you say RACE!!!!!!!!

2nd Gen's and Mustangs... Its on! :beavis:

Is this a race to get the cars completed, or actually running them on the track? I think I'll be faster on the track since we are running a rear sway bar on our car.:unibrow:

Okay I deserved this comment and it's about dang time you posted up some pictures of this beast.

So it looks like i am going to need to bring my spy camera with me the next time i visit

Didn't you build our Mustang Chassis????

Curt I was including you in that race as well.... You are off to a head start. That mustang looks sick. Post some pics on here already!

I don't know if the camare will get by the new airport security system we installed for guys like you. :lol:

Hey is that a mini truck across the aisle!

Very nice build, the chassis looks killer and nice job on the 1/4's and tubs. :thumbsup:

I like the Boze Forge Mesh wheel you have on there!!:thumbsup: Are those the wheels your going to use for the build??? I'm using the same wheel for my 69 ,,,,,

Great looking 2nd gen Phil.:thumbsup:

AWESOME Build. Subscribed........:thumbsup:

Nice build! Any more info on the mustang chassis?
Mike

Thats bad ass, love the sutle 1/4's

thats pretty B.A. set up you guys have come up with ready to see more updates...how much does something like that suspension usually run?? for a second gen camaro that is

Dammit Phil......why do guys like you, come up with awesome setups like that complete chassis AFTER a guy like me finishes his build??? I've already been watching this one on your website.

Awesome build, looking forward to more progress

Scott,Just start another build.:lol: Scott

Scott, if it were only that easy!!! To tell you the truth, I just can't stop doing stuff to this one!!!

You beat me to the post on this one!

The mustang chassis is currently available. Our web site is being reworked this weekend and should show more info on that today or tomorrow. You can also check out RPM's or Goolsby's web site. Both are building mustangs with that chassis under them.

The base price on either camaro chassis, nova, Chevelle,challenger or the mustang is $15,495. That will be basically as the chassis appears in the first few posts. Brakes and 9" center section are optional. Several coil over upgrades, brake line packages, and rear suspension upgrades are available. We do a 4-bar, triangulated 4-bar, or 3-link for the rear. A HD 9" with 31 spline axles is standard, but we also offer a few options there including a full floater.

Shoot me a pm or email if you have any other questions.

-Phil