Project Obsession

[Todd in vancouver]

Project Obsession



"Hi my name is Todd, and I am a car and PT addict".

The timeline will be a little out of whack as I am going to do some cut and pasting to bring my posts here up to date. Please excuse the lumping of all the information in the begining to get caught up.


Actually I had joined the PT site and found a number of references to this site and I've got a lot of really great tips to help me build my car. I already had an idea of what I wanted out of this car but once I saw what some of you guys are building and the fact that some of you guys are doing these build right in your own garage I thought, "what the hell I can do it too".

I've decided to call this project Obsession. The definition is "the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc." and since starting to use this and other sites, I think about what I am going to do with this build and it is on my mind 24/7 and keeps me awake at night thinking how I can proceed and what I should do next.


I bought a '67 camaro right in the middle of building a V8 S-10. The S-10 went away and I started on the Camaro.



The engine is already built and ready to go;
355 SBC
10.8:1 compression
Steel crank, Eagle rods, forged pistons all balanced
Edelbrock RPM Performer heads
Crane roller rockers, chrome molley P/rods
Voodoo Solid roller cam
Stealth Ram MPI Fuel Injection




Mated to this is a is a TKO600 trans to a 12 bolt rear diff.

I've started collecting parts and pieces for the car like a complete TCI front clip set-up




I've started dismantling the car and getting ready to flatten the firewall. The whole reason I came accross this website;




I've stripped down the firewall and get ready start some welding;



Time to test fit the TCI front clip and make sure it lines up before it goes out for powder coating;[/SIZE]



Today I picked up a few tools I needed to proceed with Project Obsession.

A few basic hand tools that I somehow have managed without my whole life;


and, the piece de resistance I have seen numerous times so fanally brokedown and bought a rotisserie;





I finally start cutting out the firewall making the next step to start welding in new metal;
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[Todd in vancouver]

So I continue my quest to flatten the firewall so I picked up some 18 gauge to start making my own template and weld in piece.


After looking at a bunch of other builds on Pro-Tour I took the jig saw to my firewall and swiss cheesed it.


Starting with some cardboard I built a template for the tin so it would match the firewall how I wanted it


Traced out the cardboard template onto the tin


Voilà I have a rough metal firewall layout

A little trimming to get it to fit how I wanted and drilled a couple holes for the fender mount bolts and it is ready to weld in



The firewall is ready to be installed and it's time to start welding it in. As I haven't done any welding in a long time I thought it best to take some of the sheet metal cut offs and do some practice welds before I start on the car.


Once I was warmed up I started small stitch welds around the new firewall;

[Ripped]

Nice to see another lower mainland car nut in here.

It looks like a very cool project.

Good luck with it and hope to see you cruisin' around soon

[fleetus macmullitz]

Welcome Todd.

Looks like a good start to your '67 project.

[strtcar]

Nice looking project

[Firebirdsteve]

Originally Posted by Ripped

Nice to see another lower mainland car nut in here.

It looks like a very cool project.

Good luck with it and hope to see you cruisin' around soon

Agreed!!!

[214Chevy]

Welcome Todd!! You're off to a great start. Always envious of a man who can do his own work. Keep the pics coming!!

[KPC67]

looking good so far Todd.
The running gear you have in store looks awesome!
What kind of rotisserie did you buy?

[FlameBroiled]

Welcome to the club.....waving at you from Delta

[Todd in vancouver]

Originally Posted by Ripped

Nice to see another lower mainland car nut in here.

It looks like a very cool project.

Good luck with it and hope to see you cruisin' around soon

Thanks and I'm shooting for summer 2014

Originally Posted by compos mentis

Welcome Todd.

Looks like a good start to your '67 project.

Yes but man is it going slower than I thought, must be age catching up with me

Originally Posted by Firebirdsteve

Agreed!!!

Thanks Steve, and your car is killer and makes me wish i stilled owned my '78 hurst Edition T/A

Originally Posted by 214Chevelle

Welcome Todd!! You're off to a great start. Always envious of a man who can do his own work. Keep the pics coming!!

Thanks, and I'm doing a lot of learning as I go as I'm not a pro, just a garage hack

Originally Posted by KPC67

looking good so far Todd.
The running gear you have in store looks awesome!
What kind of rotisserie did you buy?

yes my little 350 seems to be ready for the challenge but wait till you see the dyno numbers the little bugger pulled. Still want an LS427 though. The rotisserie is from KMS tools and the box had Auto Twirler Plus stamped on it

Originally Posted by FlameBroiled

Welcome to the club.....waving at you from Delta

Cool, another local guy. there is going to be a hell of a cruise night if we can all meet up


Thanks for all the comments guys, it is very motivating to keep going. Although it may appear like I'm blazing along I'm just getting the build thread caught up and you will see my progress come to a grinding hault once I get my typing caught up to my build

I did some more welding on the firewall. As someone else stated on their build this is great practice for the parts that are more obvious.




Started laying on the mud






Next step is to shoot some primer after a couple more rounds to straighten out the sheetmetal and then one more test fit of the TCI front frame before it goes out for powder coating.