This is MY 67 Camaro

[Sonar Chief]

Got out to the garage and got the passenger door skinned, and did that ever make a mess, some rust in the corners of the frame should come out nice with some POR15. I cleaned and vacuumed the inside and thought I'd put some pixs of the floor that I DON"T HAVE TO FIX!


Floor that doesn't need fixing!


Ditto

Got the skin off the frame.

Rust in the corners of the frame, not bad

[settintrendz]

Welcome Buddy! Looks like a pretty solid foundation. Great job so far. Keep up the good work!

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by settintrendz

Welcome Buddy! Looks like a pretty solid foundation. Great job so far. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the welcome. It's the shops and the magazine coverage that have kept me going with my Camaro, you guys do some fantastic work and inspire me to do my best with what I have to work with. Now ..... to narrow done some of these choices.

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by CamaroBeau

WELCOME....

Thanks for the welcome.

[Sonar Chief]

[B]Happy New Year I worked in the garage last night waiting for 2400, I thought I'd post these pictures of my rotor that was rusted from sitting around (bought the 12 bolt already set up and never run), I used a plastic flapper wheel and used Eastwood's Fast Etch, soaking for an hour (?). Following the directions these came out pretty nice.
The dash in on my list, not enough bad rust to replace but definitely needs some POR15.

Wilwood rotors - not a pretty sight

Fast Etch really worked well, left a zinc coating!

The not so good dash
Thanks
Michael

[Sonar Chief]

Update 1/2 Nice day to work in the garage, got the back side of the dash cleaned and used POR15 to preserve the metal, when it gets warmer outside I'll spray some POR black on the dash and the inside of the passenger door. Really wished the factory would have galvanized more than the trunk drop off and the rocker panels - sure would have saved me some time!
One thing at a time and something every day makes progress!


Dash POR'd and better than new

Ditto

[Sonar Chief]

Logged some time in the garage Did some work on the firewall, used a circular disc and cleaned off the paint and surface rust in preparation for new cowl. Not sure if I'll delete any factory mods yet. Just getting ready for some epoxy primer when the weather gets a little warmer, don't have to worry much about rust issues here in CO!


Cleaning firewall


Getting there, looking much better!

A little time in the garage everyday helps!

[dinos67's]

Wow I respect your level of commitment looks great and its a home build look out your car is looking sharp

[Sonar Chief]

Originally Posted by makoshark

I'm not real familiar with the products like Lizard Skin. Those types of products are relatively new to the market. I haven't messed around with car audio very much since the early 2000's, so haven't kept up with the market.

One thing we have to remember is we are not building a Mercedes. There's a lot of great builds on this site as well as others. I think we are getting to a point where we are trying to refine our cars to meet the standards of such brands as Mercedes, BMW, etc.. To each his own though. For me, I like to add some refinements to our old steel, but still keep the car true to its roots.

With that said, I do plan to use UPol Raptor liner underneath my car and in the trunk area. I also plan to use Dynamat Xtreme along with a CCF. I'm keeping the jute padding on my carpet and not utilizing anything like MLV. That stuff is extremely heavy. If I were building a stereo system on wheels, then I'd go all out. However, its not really necessary for my build as well as many others.

I am not building a stereo on wheels .... I may do a radio delete and let the engine sing! I will use the 2nd skin on the underside and the trunk and their Firewall product for heat dissipation on the the firewall.

Originally Posted by dinos67's

Wow I respect your level of commitment looks great and its a home build look out your car is looking sharp

I do appreciate the comment, I hope people can learn from my thread as I have from many threads in this forum .... good people fer sure!

[spdcrazy]

hey uncle mike! Rob from ak here.

great build thus Far. glad to see I'm not the only car nut to post the life of my car/trucks facelifts on the internet!