LSA Powered 69 Camaro -"Lou's Change"

[nkopper]

Never fun to run across unexpected rust, but I've seen a lot worse. You're in good hands with Kevin and his crew. The did an awesome job on the quarters and minitubs on my Camaro.

Nathan

[DOOM]

Lou don't feel bad. You made the right choice in keeping the car I got caught up in the whole sentimental thing myself.I said it before and I'll say it again your in great hands with Kevin and his crew!! Me on the other hand thats another story..

[V8TV]

That's a Deusey Mario! Whew!

And thanks for the kind words Nathan and Mario!

[Grnova]

Ok just got my resevior in and I need to know what the trick is to getting this resevior onto the pump?




For the steering pump, we bought a reservoir that has an extra return line port in it from Jones. We need an extra return line port because we are going to install a Hydratech brake booster.



That reservoir works best with the Corvette power steering pump so they made some slight modifications to the Corvette style pump to mount it in the LSA mounts.



The result….What we think is the World’s first LSA with ZL-1 accessory locations installed in a Detroit Speed Subframe….. TA DAAH!!



Frankly, the V8TV crew makes this stuff look easy. Can you tell I’m a happy customer?[/QUOTE]

[Lous69]

Tim,
I was at V8TV today checking up on my car now that it is back from the media blaster.

My list of questions to ask them included details of what they did to mount the Jones reservoir to the Corvette steering pump so I could post them here in response to your question.
I learned that Kevin already called you yesterday to give you the information first hand.

Now that's what I call customer service!.. or whatever you call the kind of support we enjoy from forums like this one.

For others who may have the same question in the future, Kevin said he plans to post the details here too.

[frankv11]

I like what you guys done with Ac compressor that's what I have in mind but can't bring my self to cut dse sub thats all ready powder coated. I also want to keep both on stock placement. I'm looking to modify an ls1 alternator bracket.

That is going to be a hell of car, great build!

[Lous69]

Well, the car finally made it back from the media blaster. I got pretty nervous waiting for it's return. Yesterday I was finally able to go see everything the blasting revealed.

Kelle and Kevin both went over every inch of it with me and explained their game plan to fix it all. I couldn't help but to wonder, how many shop owners these days spend that much time with their customers? I could see one of them doing it but BOTH of them?? I know I'm the customer and all but somehow, I almost felt guilty.

I'm confident that everything will be fixed properly and then some.

Of course we knew several areas like the dash and quarters needed to be replaced. It looks like we will also need some floor pan work and the rear tail was hiding some secrets under bondo.

That rear shelf will obviously need some work because I think finding speakers to fit those particular shapes may be problematic.



All the main structural portions including frame rails and rockers are very solid. The trunk floor needs to be replaced along with the rear panel and trunk floor braces. The rear seat area is solid as can be.



The dash is toast.



Luckily, the dash corrosion did not get into the firewall proper so a new dash kit will take care of all the decay in this area.



The corner of this door structure needed some TLC.



Those are Nick's talented hands carefully testing the fit of the patch he made for the first tier....



Welding it in...



Ditto for the top tier...



A little clean up and Bingo, no more rust here.



Looks like it was kissed in the rear at one point. Another reason I'm glad the major repairs will start by first putting the tub on the jig to assure everything is right when it all goes back together.



They walked me through their strategy of being very careful about their sequence of cutting things out and then replacing them to assure critical geometries are not lost and so that panel alignment is no harder than it needs to be.

I like Kevin's philosophy of retaining as much of the car's original metal (soul) as long as it does not compromise final build integrity. I know some people may consider the whole "soul" reference to be a little silly but I like to think of it that way too.

[Lous69]

Some more parts have been coming in. Even though we only plan to see something north of 700HP from our Lingenfelter massaged LSA motor, we're specing all major components from fuel delivery to cooling to be able to handle at least 900 HP. (You never know what the future holds should GM introduce new direct injected versions of the LS engine that we all can't live without...or something like that)

Here is our C&R cooling module complete with fans designed to handle up to 1000 HP and drop right in to the first gen. Camaro. It has the oil cooling and steering fluid cooling built in.













Here is our GT 500 intercooler module also complete with fans.













We decided on this Holley oil pan to gain some needed ground clearance.

[CarlC]

Is the radiator meant to hang from the top of the radiator support using the bracket shown, or does a lower support bracket need to be made? 1st-gen radiators mount with a side flange to the radiator support vs. the later (bettter) cradle design.

[Sonar Chief]

[QUOTE=Lous69;435517]Well, the car finally made it back from the media blaster. I got pretty nervous waiting for it's return. Yesterday I was finally able to go see everything the blasting revealed.

Kelle and Kevin both went over every inch of it with me and explained their game plan to fix it all.

Luckily, the dash corrosion did not get into the firewall proper so a new dash kit will take care of all the decay in this area.





Hey Lou .... you can definitely see 98% of the car after blasting, it's the other 2% you can't see that you should be worried about. Like this cowl to firewall junction ... see the pits were the rust has eaten away the cowl?
I would be skeptical of the firewall junction right below the rust where the seam sealer holds rust.

Just saying ...