68 Camaro built in a single car garage!

[89 RS]

Nice ride man. Look forward to seeing more pics.

[durrettcustoms]

Man she looks great!

[nvmyss]

Looks good. We need more details.
Looks like you assembled the motor what all did you do to it.
What your wheel combo/spec's

[Nick]

Originally Posted by nvmyss

Looks good. We need more details.
Looks like you assembled the motor what all did you do to it.
What your wheel combo/spec's

The motor is a L92 long block out of an escalade, complete reseal with new bearings and rings. The reason I got the engine was because of a scrape in Cyl #7, had a new sleeve installed to fix that, not sure how that scrape got there?? but anyways, everything else on the engine was fine. I removed VVT and the original cam and replaced with a Comp Cam (#54-414-11) with valve springs, installed a Corvette intake & TB and the engine is cotrolled using the GMPP LS3 controller kit. The acessories are LS1 Camaro, wicked deal on that, 75$ box of parts found on local classified and had everything but water pump!!!

Wheels are OEM C6 Corvette take offs, 18x8.5 front with 245/45zr18 and 19x10 with 275/35zr19 rear. As for offset/backspacing, don't remember off hand, I can dig up though. I did use wheel adapters, will try and dig up thickness as well.

Note that for the rear, I used a 8.5" GM rear end out of a second gen camaro. It gave me 2 extra inches in width reducing the required adapter thickness for the vette wheels, and the 8.5 is better than the 8.2 that came with the car.

Thanks

[Rhino]

Nick, are those 5th gen SS badges in your nose stripe, or are those painted?

Congrats on getting it buttoned up, it looks great.

[vmatt350]

Nick,

Can you tell us about your brakes? I was looking at doing something like that but don’t know that much about it.

Is it a package you can get from somewhere that has all the brackets?
What size wheels are required?
Do you have a parts list and possibly instructions for the upgrade?

Thanks
Matt

[Nick]

Originally Posted by vmatt350

Nick,

Can you tell us about your brakes? I was looking at doing something like that but don’t know that much about it.

Is it a package you can get from somewhere that has all the brackets?
What size wheels are required?
Do you have a parts list and possibly instructions for the upgrade?

Thanks
Matt

As for parts, used CTS-V Brembo callipers (eBay!) and the Rotors are C6 Vette Z51 rotors all around. I mated everything to the Original Drum brake spindle and hub, and machined custom calliper brackets. For the rear parking brake, I used LS1 Camaro parking brake assemblies along with custom calliper brackets.

As a note, the front drum brake hub needs attention before running the brakes, I needed to turn down the center section a bit to fit the rotors and then machined the rotor mating surface to ensure 0 runout. I had to do the same with the rear axles because they where used units from a drum brake car.

Unfortunately, not a "off the shelf" parts list, but if you have access to a milling machine, making your own calliper brackets makes for a very cheap big brake swap!!

Hope the info helps.

Cheers

[vmatt350]

Thanks Nick! BTW, your car looks amazing!