Updating my '69 Camaro

[Ron in SoCal]

Gonna be sweet! Love the combo w your car color and wheel finish...

[slenning]

She's gonna look awesome man!! You know I love the wheel choice

[buickfunnycar.com]

re-hoop was a great decision...

[Rybar]

So the other updates I have going on are some on-going minor problems. The car has been making a rattling noise under acceleration for a little while. I had a buddy go through the car trying to figure it out. He ended up doing the following:

- Installed solid motor mounts. (for some reason my car has trashed 2 sets of poly mounts)
- New poly trans mount
- Fixed some wiring and gauges
- checked the entire exhaust for leaks and tightened everything up
- new header gaskets
- installed a new GM t-stat and did a coolant flush.

While he had the car, he had a tranny shop listen to the noise, well the owner convinced him it was the tranny for sure. So he ended up pulling the Tranny and we had it rebuilt with the Stage II kit from The Gearbox Co: 600-650 hp capacity

http://www.thegearbox.org/catalog/it...17/7824166.htm



Once the Tranny was pulled apart it ended up needed new 5th, 6th and reverse gears and sychros.

I also ended up going with a brand new Spec Stage 3+ Clutch. 900+ ft lbs capacity

All in all, cost me about $2k to rebuild the tranny and clutch. But it now feels very solid, the new clutch engages really nice but the damn noise still persists.

[HotRod68Camaro]

I considering doing almost the same mods as you. Still deciding on the G-link (gonna take a better look at my frame rails first), but definitely Mini Tubs, and Fikses.

[waynieZ]

Those are my alll time favorite wheels! They will look sweet. How does the tranny shift now

[Rybar]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Those are my alll time favorite wheels! They will look sweet. How does the tranny shift now

Thanks guys, Tranny shifts alot firmer and notchier. But feels very solid and strong. It's still in the break-in stage so I'll know better once I go WOT.

[Vegas69]

Digging the updates man. Those wheels are one of my favorites. Did you notice a difference with the solid mounts?

[Rybar]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Digging the updates man. Those wheels are one of my favorites. Did you notice a difference with the solid mounts?

Thanks Todd, I haven't driven the car that much but I honestly didn't notice a massive difference in feel.

[66_Restomod]

If you are using a billet short throw shifter, they need to be rebuilt sooner or later. If your trans needed a rebuild, I'd look at rebuilding the shifter (or just buying a new one). My Steeda Triax shifter was loose shifting, and rattling under acceleration, on my TR3650, but I just sent the shifter to Steeda and they rebuilt it and the loose shifting and rattle are all gone now. Shifter might have had only 20k (hard) miles. HTH