Thirdgen track car
 

Building a LS powered 88 Camaro, hoping to do some track days and some autocross.

I wanted one of these so bad in high school. The IROC with T-tops to be exact.

Bitchin, looking forward to seeing your progress. You really stuffed that LS back! Curious about your rack and pinion set-up. Will you be using the factory spindle arms?

nice having a blank slate like that. :gitrdun:

I've built a simple cage and fabed up some headers.

Welcome to the site. Good luck with the build.

The only car I ever regretted selling was my '90 IROC.

Nice build .Do you remember the IROC and Trans Am cars of that era?

I feel the same way about my '87 Trans Am.

Where in the Hills are you? Do you have a shop? I get out there occasionally.

Me too, my 85 Iroc Blue with Leir Sigler interior hardtop... Im still looking for on.. I search every day, literally everyday. I will find one..

Actively looking as well. Mine was white G92 350 hardtop, grey interior, 16" wheels, decal delete car, had 17k when I bought it.

Where are you going to park it? LOL...

Don

Cool build! I'm building up a track-oriented third gen myself... not quite as involved as yours though. Good luck with it, I'll be following along for sure.

guess you havent had many cars! :)

looks like third gens are still fresh in everyones mind! my son still has my 87 TA that I bought in 91 and I'd like it back to do a LS swap as I already did STB, SFC, 1LE brakes, LS1 trans am seats and a 383 with SLP full exhaust, man that could take corners! if I look at any more 3rd gen builds... :badidea:
Nice track car your building sorry to hijack - It's got me thinking

my goal is to keep the headers and exhaust from scraping the ground. And I have the rear end mounted.

With some more money and time I got a little more progress. I have the battery mounted and most of the interior made.

Wicked.

Yes, I bought that and a watts link from you. You didn't have your Big Book out when I started this project. I think if you had I'm not sure I could have resisted cutting the front off and using one your Track-Warrior front ends. In my opinion those are coolest front ends I ever seen.

Thank you.

We have a Dealer that's planning a 3rd Gen Camaro build with on of the Track-Warrior front clips, as well as the rear. He might keep the factory floor or cut it out & make it smooth. It's not in build mode yet.

I know the strut front end will never be on par with a double A arm front end, but I thought I would try to make it better than it was. The Sweet rack is the right length and I made a spindle that corrected all the short comings of the stock spindles.

You have done some impressive fab work on this track toy and it looks like it will be a lot of fun.

Now that you have revised the issues with the stock strut and spindle setup you won’t be dissapointed much by the lack of am SLA.

I can tell you from my own experience with a strut based track car that any weak point around the strut spindle connection will be exposed very quickly once you mount reasonably sticky tires and get on a fast track. I had a failure in the same area on my setup (thankfully not a breakage) so I would heed Ron’s advice on swapping to the steel Strut housing.

Neat build.

Someone sent me this recently... :D

https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-...-QwQNk53-M.jpg

Thanks for the heads up. I bought the struts over a year ago and if it was a option I was unaware of it. Thanks again.

It was not an option a year ago. They only came aluminum bodied. Now, after we had one break, they are not available in the aluminum body any more. Only steel.

:cheers:

I started on the exhaust and with limited space I decided to go with a large single.

I also took a pic while it was on the ground.

Nice work on the stainless--a single is staying true to form with the car! Great work so far!

Nice! Those look like the super deep concave Forgestars...

You're right I am trying to keep costs down a little. I have done everything myself so far except some machining and when the time comes the wiring. The thirdgen is not real popular, but I want to try to make one that is somewhat cool. Cool to me anyway.

Nice build! I'm definitely staying tuned in on your progress. If you don't mind me asking-- What are the dimensions on the wheels? The wheel fitment looks great.

18"x11" with 6-1/4" bs

What size tires are you running? I'm thinking of 275/35/18 on all corners.

:trophy-1302: nice

315/30/18

Can you fit these on the front?

I have altered several things to make the fit, but yes that’s the size in the photo.

How far back did you push the engine back?