Project Fool's Gold

[ParkerRS]

After getting the interior mocked-up and built ready to cover the car went back to the body shop.

After reading about James Shipka's One Lap Camaro and Steve Rupp's Bad penny which both use the same three link rear suspension, it was evident that a rear sway bar would be needed to tune it in. I'm not sure what rate bar will actually be neccesary, but fitting one before paint is easier. I sourced a bar from Helwig which was designed by David Pozzi for the OLC car. The clearance for the end links was the problem. We cut the rear floor pan and built two pockets which will both mount the end-links and provide clearance for the bar ends.







Hopefully this will give a good start, as the rear bar is adjustable. If it doesn't work out then helwig can make a different rate bar by this pattern, which would make it a simple swap out with no fab work to be done.

Friday the bottom of the car was painted.







The filling and smoothing of the firewall with one of the new weld-in DSE close outs was finished today and will be sprayed tomorrow.

Once that is done the car will get back on it's suspension for the final time. Painting of the top side will begin then as it has already been blocked 7 times while assembled and mocked-up.

It's starting to feel like Christmas. The ceramic and powder coating came back today. The tank and annodized parts will ship in next week. I used the previous tank when switching my grey 73 to fuel injection. This allowed me to order a new one for this project with the all new Vaporworx fuel system including the Pressureworx PWM controller.