69 Camaro Project - Dead Pool

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by OVRKILL

Keeps gettin cooler and cooler Ron!!

Good luck with your September date. Lol....I used to set completion dates

Haha Brent. I wouldn't be putting completion dates out there either if I was on my THIRD cam...

[OVRKILL]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Haha Brent. I wouldn't be putting completion dates out there either if I was on my THIRD cam...

Oooh saw that did ya? I promise this is the LAST one. Might swing down there next week to take a first hand peak.

Anything new on the coil braket situation? Let me know if I can assist....

[Cris@JCG]

Got a little bit of progress this week! One header..



Both headers are done & on the car for Ron to come check out.. The Kooks headers were a pretty good product to work with..

[Richio1]

Nice!

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by OVRKILL

Oooh saw that did ya? I promise this is the LAST one. Might swing down there next week to take a first hand peak.

Anything new on the coil braket situation? Let me know if I can assist....

Yeah, I guess I'd have a motor program too if I had unusally large cubes, C5R heads and multiple cam sponsors!

The brackets should be in early next year. Maybe we'll call your friend together and see what he can do!

Originally Posted by Richio1

Nice!

Thx Jeffio! I'm digging your sheet (metal) also....

[70rs]

Them there be some nice headers buddy!

[Ron in SoCal]

Meanwhile, back in Oxnard, CA…Cris is pounding away at the punchlist, and as he posted yesterday the headers are welded up. There’s still a little to finish, but I’m pretty happy with the way they came out. The issue has always been that besides AME there’s not much out there for a good fit for their sub and motor mount system. Sure, they make a nice piece but it only comes in 1 ¾” and I wanted 1 7/8” loooong tubes. Frank has been working on a Stainless works 2” set up, and that’d be great if I was building a drag car/motor. So months back I got a set of Kooks unwelded. The plan was always to chop and reweld to fit and that’s what Cris did.









As you can see, they protrude a little ( ~ ½”) beyond the side and bottom framerail, but I’m cool with that.





Also, Cris’ oil pan fitting was a hit and there’s plenty of clearance there too –



Cris is moving onto finishing the firewall fab and bodywork it so we can (hopefully) start reassembly! I’ll also run by the motor shop next week and post some specs/pics.

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by 70rs

Them there be some nice headers buddy!

Haha E, you beat me to the post by a couple of minutes!

[cencalc6]

Chris Did a fabulous job on those headers....Looking very Good Ron!

[Bryan O]

Very nice. I wish I could take pics like yous guys do.

I'll try and get a fix on the height of the sway bar for ya.