68 Camaro Project

[johnnymac46]

I removed the floorpan spot welds and started on the passenger toe board

[johnnymac46]

Nothing new just better Pics, I have to finish the passenger toe board and install the driver still. I took the last few days off from the car because of a memorial for some fallen friends.... and now I'm waiting on this Hurricane to pass to get some more work done.







I had to move everything inside including all the scraps from the original floor. I have the chainsaw on standby for this storm.


I sold my silverado I kept my wheels if they wont work on the 2010 I'll be getting rid of them... if anyone is interested feel free to PM me.

[johnnymac46]

I got the one piece floor in and much to my suprise the subframe bolted right up and everything went well on that end.

Yesterday I cut out the trunk pan, the more I looked at the tailpan the more I knew it needed to be replaced aswell. I saved myself about 100 spotwelds by just cutting it out as one piece. The previous owner did a pretty terrible job doing Qtr skins which left me 5 spot welds on each side of the tail pan, and a huge discusting bead weld on the bottom of the qtr I needed to cut.

I started to mock everything up in the trunk area, I still need to make some fill plates for the trunk floor. I am waiting on a new outer wheelhouses, tailpan and inner panel. I am still debating if I want to replace the Qtrs while I'm in there. I dont do it now I think I will kick myself later.

Has anyone had any issues with Qtrs from National Parts Depot? I got my floors there figured I would use them again.

well on to the pictures

[72Z/28]

Originally Posted by johnnymac46

I removed the floorpan spot welds and started on the passenger toe board

Nice progress.
Just wondering about the firewall fill plate shown here, did you go with DSE fill plate to smooth the firewall or you fabricated plate by yourself?

Is the fill plate welded on both sides or from inside only?

[Beach Cruiser]

Forget the truck! Go with the AME, and an LS crate motor complete with harness. It's taken me 5 years to replicate it because I have no money, I wish I could be in the order a part and bolt it on club!

[johnnymac46]

Originally Posted by Beach Cruiser

Forget the truck! Go with the AME, and an LS crate motor complete with harness. It's taken me 5 years to replicate it because I have no money, I wish I could be in the order a part and bolt it on club!

The only part with the order and bolt club is it takes forever to get the funds to Order, then I have to wait til Im home to Bolt lol. I have a solid 8 more months til I can start wrenching on my car again. I've been making up for it by keeping our vehicles here running.

Something about this country makes cars run in Dog years. 1 year here is 7 years for a car. Maybe its the Rocks/Moon dust combination.

[johnnymac46]

Originally Posted by 72Z/28

Nice progress.
Just wondering about the firewall fill plate shown here, did you go with DSE fill plate to smooth the firewall or you fabricated plate by yourself?

Is the fill plate welded on both sides or from inside only?

I went with the DSE plate, its a nice piece, I cut out the inside to avoid rattling, then welded 90% from the outside and the rest from the inside in the difficult areas.

For some reason the computers over here wont load the pics in the forums, which takes half the fun out of LG but I think I know what you are looking at in those pics.