WELD builds another Camaro - Lateral-g Forums

rwhite692 · #1 08-21-2012, 10:17 AM

Looking good GW (and Rudy)! I remember seeing this car at Tim's a few years back, You guys do nice work

**GregWeld** · #2 08-21-2012, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by rwhite692

Looking good GW (and Rudy)! I remember seeing this car at Tim's a few years back, You guys do nice work

Rudy did all the dirty work... I'd save the "here! you're going to clean that down to bare metal"... and "help me lift this"... and "get inside there and get all that Dynamat off there!"

We had many many enjoyable weekends together... it was fun to see his delight in getting much needed new parts... getting his first REAL motor and running it on the dyno... and then that first drive... OMG! The grin he had when it actually went STRAIGHT down the road... had a nice WORKING suspension... was "quiet" as in squeak free and rattle free... but had the big blower whine and 3" exhaust note. Priceless! He was tentative to hammer it... so I booted his sorry butt and showed him how it's done! Just blip the throttle and it lights those 18" wide tires like they're 2 ply nylon 7:75 X 14's.

Frankly -- even I was surprised at how well it runs and drives.

**Sieg** · #3 08-21-2012, 11:19 AM

Nice work Greg!!

Very impressive, especially for an RF.

**waynieZ** · #4 08-21-2012, 12:22 PM

Nice write up Greg. You guys did a great job. Its nice to see you and Rudy are good friends and enjoy the same things. I'm lucky to be close to my family too, except I'm the only one crazy enough to try a build like this.
Way to go!

**Rybar** · #5 08-21-2012, 12:51 PM

Cool story and very nice work Greg

youthpastor · #6 08-21-2012, 01:46 PM

nice work as usual! love the stainless lines. This is pretty much what we find. A car comes in and you end up chasing all the "ugly" stuff...wiring, etc- hard to know where to stop

**GregWeld** · #7 08-21-2012, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by youthpastor

nice work as usual! love the stainless lines. This is pretty much what we find. A car comes in and you end up chasing all the "ugly" stuff...wiring, etc- hard to know where to stop

Yep.... can't tell you how many of my friends drive around in complete denial. They stop by and see if I can help them with some issue or another -- and one look and you just want to back 'em out of there and close the doors. Ya kinda hint that "maybe..." something could be done to fix that hole in the floor... or that a complete wiring kit really isn't very expensive... but they're "fine" with the way it is. Then what do you do? You really can't fix the entire friggin' car in a half an hour.