Someday, My 68 Camaro will be...

[ROBS6T8]

My first post!

How about a MOMO? I love the feel of it. Italian leather! Christmas present from the wife!


Liking the project and the background leading up to it. Keep it up. SOMEDAY will be there.... soon.

[Roberts68]

That's pretty sexy Rob.
Ya gotta love a girl that knows what a man wants!

I've certainly seen MOMO before.

It looks to be a really nice wheel. Are they easy to adapt? Being Italian my mind fills with metric thread issues immediately.

Who sells them? Any site sponsors deal in them?

SERIOUSLY? First Post?? Wow, obviously not new to the game... I have seen you on PT.com
...just to Lateral G I take it?

Welcome!

[ROBS6T8]

Originally Posted by Roberts68

That's pretty sexy Rob.
Ya gotta love a girl that knows what a man wants!

I've certainly seen MOMO before.

It looks to be a really nice wheel. Are they easy to adapt? Being Italian my mind fills with metric thread issues immediately.

Who sells them? Any site sponsors deal in them?


SERIOUSLY? First Post?? Wow, obviously not new to the game... I have seen you on PT.com
...just to Lateral G I take it?

Welcome!

They have a Grant/Momo wheel adapter. I purchased one from a member on Team Camaro. The car already had the Grant wheel. They don't have installation kits for vehicles older than 69! So I think grant intallation kit then adapter then Momo wheel!
My wife purchased it through Amazon. $232 The first one we got didn't have the horn button and such. She contacted them and they sent a new one out. It arrived the same day I shipped the old one back!
Yeah, Kyle Newman sent me over here. The Buttonwillow trackday in California just kind of fizzled out pn PT. He said to check in here. Sure enough there it was and with a lot of S*^T talking!

[Ron in SoCal]

Welcome to the jungle Robo-Orange!

[Roberts68]

Moved another item off the want list today with MATTS CLASSIC BOWTIES intro special on digitails.

Other than that I can still catch glimpses of light at the end of the tunnel but it looks to be a long winding tunnel... parts are piling up and I have some time off in a week. The garage is beginning to have a visible floor.

I also sourced another subframe a few hours away but finding time to retrieve it where my schedule meshes with the other guy is a challenge.

Grad parties every weekend in June and I am on call this week which means 12 days straight then 3 off, after which I burned a week of vacation intended for Camaro time.

[Bucketlist2012]

Originally Posted by ROBS6T8

My first post!

How about a MOMO? I love the feel of it. Italian leather! Christmas present from the wife!


Liking the project and the background leading up to it. Keep it up. SOMEDAY will be there.... soon.

That is the exact one that I have and i love it. Momo Race.

Congrats on building your car.

I had mine car 28 years and it sat for 15 years before i got back to it to have mods done..keep at it..

[Roberts68]

Originally Posted by Bucketlist2012

Congrats on building your car.

I had mine car 28 years and it sat for 15 years before i got back to it to have mods done..keep at it..

Thanks! I'm getting somewhat closer all the time. I have taken on a little bit of advice from another member and tried to live by it, "Do one thing on your car every day, and it WILL get done." Lots of days that is just a quick look at a part or perhaps ordering something, doing research or making a call, but it all adds up in the scope of the project.

I can't recall who I got this pic from, he was a member on one of the car forums and I think a pastor as I recall. It is a little pixilated when blown up but I still like it and it's various meanings. I use it as my Avatar on the local club forum.

[Roberts68]

I am mocking up some parts for my rear suspension and was evaluating a rear differential I bought last summer. I was pretty disappointed when I saw this when I took the leaf springs off of it. These are 1/2" U-bolts already.
Passenger side, good to go.


Drivers side, not so much...



While I realize the u-bolts are not even captured on some rear diff's and do the job just fine I was going to use Global West's mono-multi kit 1038 which uses some plates on top and 7/16" fine thread grade 8 bolts in place of u-bolts or the OEM t-bolts.
I do not like the sloppy holes on the drivers side where someone got over enthusiastic with a large bit and power drill, and it appears the holes elongated from there even. There was 1" lowering blocks drilled and tapped for locating studs or bolts but the studs to locate the axles were not found when I took it apart. I could move the drivers side leaf left to right 4-5 inches if I held the front eye and the u-bolts were only finger tight... although I do not know if they had been loosened prior to removal and just left snug.
My girlfriends little brother is a machinist and we are collaborating to make this right and I will be using a hybrid between what DSE and GW offer for mono-multi leaf conversions.
I'll post pics when we have some hard parts in hand.

[Roberts68]

I have a couple of acquisitions to report.

First, from 15 miles North of Duluth MN



The subframe has light surface rust on it from sitting for 15 years, but came from AZ 20 years ago as part of a '69 which donated it's shell to a restoration.

AND more recently, in fact it is in transit due here Wednesday...




Also, in the interim since posting we moved again ... back to where I lived before so setting up my garage how it had been was pretty easy, stuffing more parts in it not so much. I have most of the things on wheels or dollies now so moving this/that out of the way is less tedious.

Two moves in 10 months and all the time leading up to and settling back in from basically cost us a good year.

[makoshark]

Good looking frame. Who's radiator is that? Stop moving!