'69 Camaro Temper 2.0
 

So my old build thread for this car I hosted all my pictures with Facebook and since they have changed some settings and all the picture links are dead. In the mean time I moved to Texas from Ohio and haven't made any real progress in the last year and a half as the car is still back home in Ohio. So I've been doing some parts collecting and changes in how I want to build the car since I can't work on it right now. The plan is to get the car down here in the next month or so and get to work on it. I'm not going to post all the old pictures from the build, but I'll hit on the highlights.

The updated build plan:
LS7. Not sure on anything on it yet as I've just started collecting parts for it.
6-speed trains with cooler pump. Likely T56 magnum with the TR6060 pump
Lateral dynamics 3-link
Speedtech gen 1 subframe with ATS spindles
C5Z abs and stabilatrac
Forgeline wheels
The GMR C6 hybrid rear hubs
Vintage air
Power windows
Modern door latches with locks
LED tail lamps with Marquez designs lenses
Anvil carbon fiber front clip
Infinity box wiring
Speedhut gauges
Dapper lighting headlamps

With all that onto the pictures. Renderings from Kris Horton
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...aro/image.jpeg
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Engine set back 7"
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The GMR C6 hybrid hub adapter
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4th Camaro dash. Not 100% I'm going to keep it right now
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I'm thinking iPad control for the infinity box
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Battery relocated to the trunk
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Rear diff and trans cooler housings
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Wiper motor relocated and upgraded
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_23.jpeg

Tri-y stainless headers I built
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Speedhut CAN buss gauges
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_14.jpeg
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Infinity box goodness
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Decided to build my own engine harness
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Some weight reduction stuff

Autorad radiator and core support
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_34.jpeg
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Anvil parts that have come in so far
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Titanium hood pin
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Dimple die work on some front end parts
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_22.jpeg

My tail lamps
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_18.jpeg

Laying out the LED's
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Buck for the mold to make carbon fiber tail lamp housings for the LED's
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Washer reservoir I made to fill between the exhaust cut outs
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The interior with 3 link and package try delete
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5th gen Camaro z/28 emblems for a modern update
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NACA ducts to the rear coolers
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It's gonna be awesome! Welcome to Texas..

Awesome fab work.do you have the center console for the interior? if not i have one.

Really neat build. Love the rendering. Good luck with the move and getting the car down there, too.

I love the rendering! This is great to see AJ ! Man those are some nice parts you've got there. I'll be in San Antonio for a few days in mid April. I would love to see the car.

Thanks guys.

Mike, I have a console, but thank you.

Wayne, the car is still in Ohio. Hopefully I'll have it here before April so message me when you come down.

NICE!!!!!!!!!!! Really like the rendering!!

Thanks I will. It looks so amazing.

I thought I would be the only one in SA with the new Z/28 theme on my car... You car is very nice, can't wait to see it!

Welcome to San Antonio

Thanks guys.

The new emblems are a nice touch to bring the car up to date to match all the modern stuff that's inside the car as well.

Awesome AJ! So glad you're pushing forward on this car. In the early days your creativity inspired me on my build as well. :thumbsup:

Love the look of the naca ducts too.

I'm glad I was able to inspire creative changes on someone else's build. I have some more ideas that I want to change on my car already. I've had a lot of time to sit and think about things on it and how I want to redo a few things.

They move a crazy amount of air when I put a fan at the front of the car blowing down the side. You could feel it coming out of the outlets more than you could feel the air movement down the side of the car.

I love it when a plan works!

Very impressive car.


Marty-mj
www.garagescene.net www.syborgtwinturbo.com www.2ndcamaro.com

Damn. Engine set back 7"...

Nice fab work! That's going to be a killer looking car!

Thanks guys, getting a list of parts to get ordered this week for it.

Yup, if you look at the sub frame you can see the black plugs where the stock motor mounts would have gone.

Nice fab work, and creativity. Welcome to Texas!

Tony

Thank you.

I like the duct flowing into the rear gills. I have always thought there was some potential to do some inventive things. Just when you think you have seen everything that you can do to a 69, somebody steps up. You have some cool ideas and it looks like the talent to back it up.

Agree with others . Great fab skills, especially those cooler housings " may steal the idea "

Thanks guys. I hate when I see non functional stuff on cars so I'm pretty happy with my vents.

There is a lot of other good ideas I have for the car, but money and/or skill keep me from going doing more.

Awesome build. You are doing some nice work there. I too did the wiper motor conversion under the fender. I have been having trouble with e transition arm. Any thoughts or advice on that? Any pics of what you pulled off?

I used the DeVille wiper transmission arms and ball studs to get rid of the stock steel clamp so that the system operated quiet and smooth. I did it almost 4 years ago so I don't remember all what I had to do other than shorten them and twist one of them. I do remember that I built the whole system using the stock long arm cut in half and installed it onto the car and welded a rod between the cut parts to get the correct arm length. You can kinda see it on the top arm on the left side of the first picture.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...roAJ/WIPER.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...oAJ/WIPER1.jpg

Nice, my wipers on my 69 sound like a bucket of bolts rolling around.

That would drive me nuts.

Thanks. That's awesome.

Great fab work on the vents! Did you fab up the LED tail lights?

I did, then set them in potting epoxy to protect everything

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AJ, are the part the wiper arm connects to ( not sure of what they call it) still the Camao part or are they Deville too?

The ball studs? They are Deville. The arm mounts are Camaro. If I remember right they just knocked out from the back side like they are pressed in then I welded the Deville ones back in. If you do this swap like I did when you get everything you'll see how much bigger the newer parts are vs. the old stuff.

color
 

I like that color of blue. What is that?
Thanks
Jonathan

Electron blue metallic. Its a C5 vette color.

My car showed up last week and it was good to play with it a little after not seeing it in about 20 months. Started by bolting the trunk lid on to check figment. Not too bad but will need some metal work to fit like it should.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_40.jpeg

As I sold the engine and transmission as soon as the car got here I got to work rough cutting the area for the LS7 oil tank

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_41.jpeg

And since I'm going with a different transmission the trans mount had to go as well.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_37.jpeg

Since all my fab tools aren't at work yet I started to make patterns for the fuel fill that I stole from ironworks and the diff cooler I stole from hellfire

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To wrap things up on this update I bought a new toy to help build some higher quality parts with. The rest of the dies showed up after I took the picture so now I have a full rack

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8.../image_42.jpeg

Aj this is some impressive work your doing , it's going to be over the top cool ..

Nice update AJ. Nice new toy too.

Thanks guys. Hopefully someday I'll be able to drive this thing.