2nd Chance Camaro - Let the Project Begin

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by HWY Nova

Wait a minute!.... I thought the Camaro RSX was your project??!?!?!

--Eric

Ron bought the green camaro for me and the domain and his plans are to to build it.

I went the another direction and planned 2nd Chance with Carter. Both of my daughter want this car so the one that helps me more get's to Drive her boyfriend to Prom.

[syborg tt]

2nd Chance Camaro - Cleaning & more Cleaning & New LS1
Cleaning & more Cleaning & New LS1
Posted: May 25, 2011 www.2ndchancecamaro.com

Good Morning all,

Since I am not a big fan of a dirty work shop it was important to me to get the chassis as clean as I could. Before I began mocking up parts on the car. I spent a few hours with my daughters cleaning all of the oil & grime off the subframe. Seems they are more then willing to spray a cleaner on the car, but not so willing to scrub the grime off the car.



I stripped as many parts as I could off the subframe before the cleaning actually started.




Safety Safety Safety. I can't tell you how much I like the Race Ramp safety block they built for me. Gives you a little more confidence when your working on the car in the garage by yourself. I surely don't want any of my family members to every find me stuck or godd forbid dead under my car.

I removed the drives side coil spring without any problems. However, next time I am going to just cut the coil springs instead of using a spring compressor. My wonderful Snap On spring compressor actually broke when I was removing the passenger side coil spring and of course I was straddling the spindle when it let go. Talk about scaring the crap out of me.



No Reason for this picture other then the floating wrench.



The previous owner was unable to figure out why the car wouldn't start. I have a good guess as to why it wouldn't start. When the motor mount broke it also took out the fuel line.




Finally ready for cleaning.



Engine degreaser and a some good old elbow grease.



All done and ready to play with some new Parts.

When I took out the old shims I put them back in the same location. It's a good place to start with the alignment.



More parts to pack up and take to my warehouse. I am running out of space in my garage.



Time to open up some of my Christmas Presents.



Passenger arms went on smooth as butter. I would have worked on the other side but the guys were going for a ride so off to the trails I go.



I spoke with Travis ( Kenny Davis Hot Rods ) and he told me he had an LS1 sitting in the shop and I could buy it. So I bought it and two weeks later it was in my warehouse with all of my other parts.



The motor has about 9,000 miles on it and should be perfect for this build.
Anyone need a set of Z06 Exhaust Manifolds




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[syborg tt]

and I found another thing my daughters like to do.



Yep they painted the transmission housing.



As I said is past posts. I've been collecting parts for this car for years. I pick up this intake from Barry Grant he had

listed it on lateral-g.net and I new I was going to need one for my next build.

So on the shelf it went.

[GregWeld]

Nobody cleans a sub frame anymore -- BUY NEW!

Love it that the girls are helping!

My daughter was always out there with me -- #1 Son could have cared less. Must be bad DNA.

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Nobody cleans a sub frame anymore -- BUY NEW!

Love it that the girls are helping!

My daughter was always out there with me -- #1 Son could have cared less. Must be bad DNA.

Nope not going down that road again. My goal is to show people that you can do all of these modification to your car and have a great driving car and not take you car off the road for more then a weekend.

However the car is going to be stripped to bare metal which is something that most people won't do.

[tones2SS]

Great updates Marty. Looks like some great progress there.
Very cool that your daughters are helping you.

[waynieZ]

The trans looks good. They did a great job.

[syborg tt]

2nd Chance Camaro - Billet 2nd Gen Front Mount Battery Tray

Billet 2nd Gen Front Mount Battery Tray
Posted: Jun 20, 2011 www.2ndchancecamaro.com

Good Morning all,

It's amazing what collects inside of these cars. Hard to believe the passenger side was full of vegetation and it had little more then surface rust. So far I am very happy with this car.



Top side of the Quarters have some surface rust. Shouldn't be a problem for the media Blaster.







All that is left for me to remove is the rear bumper and Deck lid. Then I can actually start mocking things up on the car. I can't wait !!



At some point in this cars life it took a little hit to the drivers side rear. The body work they did back then was not that good as you can see in the pictures below.





It's hard to tell in this picture but the floor still has a wrinkle in it.



New Project - Billet Battery Tray ( www.hoodpins.net)

Since this car is truly going to be a driver and I really couldn't care less about putting the battery in the trunk. I wanted a nice billet battery tray up front to put an Optima battery in. So I called up Ron at www.hoodpins.net and told him that we need to make a billet battery tray. He agree and off he went to his computer.

Here are a couple pictures of the prototype.







If there is enough interest I will make a few extra for people.

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