Someday, My 68 Camaro will be... - Lateral-g Forums

intocarss · #1 05-30-2012, 07:15 AM

**Sieg** · #2 05-30-2012, 07:44 AM

Good stuff Robert.

Regarding the SPC's - While I was measuring my spare subframe last night and realizing the upper left control arm mount appears to be pulled outward the value of SPC's adjustability crossed my mind.

Regarding brakes - Give Tobin at Kore3.com a chance to bid a system for you. His knowledge and customer service is equivalent to a 30% discount and his components will perform at least on par.

Good seats and a steering wheel are your connections points to the car. Don't save money there and make sure they fit like a good glove.

Roberts68 · #3 05-30-2012, 10:46 AM

Thanks everyone

Good Advice Sieg,

I have been in contact with Tobin, in fact I referred to Norwood in conversation. I will recommend him as often as possible.

The SSBC kit I have listed is among the parts I bought last summer. I consider it temporary as I do have the Wilwood stuff I listed already, but have not sourced a rear setup yet. Somebody told me I could run drums and not feel inferior though.

As for seats and what I have for steering wheels I am making a few compromises in order to arrive at seat time sooner, and will be applying double the elbow grease in those locations as a penalty which I accept.

I like to think of it as having a blurry line between stages 1 and 2... or am I on a different number already as it has been 23 years? Wait, Was that stage 1?

**Flash68** · #4 05-30-2012, 11:32 AM

Robert, your perseverance is impressive.

23 years is a long time and glad you've held onto it... you've got a good plan and keep pluggin away.

Roberts68 · #5 05-31-2012, 05:42 PM

I know you guys like to be fed with pictures, so to make up for my longwinded first post I will just throw a few pics out tonight with captions. I am not so good at brief explanations but I will try.

After this and a pizza I am going to head back to the garage... the Girlfriend had an outta town softball game for her daughter and tomorrow night is her sons Graduation ceremony.

Not that everybody here cares about odometers since most cars are heavily modded and thoroughly gone through... but Someday has 121,531 actual. Motor was done around 117k as I recall but I have it written down somewhere.

If you read the intro you might have caught the comment about Someday being something of a draw for fires... more on that later. Here is evidence of another close call I had almost forgotten. No fuse blew, the repro cig lighter I had just bought melted so I tossed it out the window. It was not a good test but I learned why the original was probably nonfunctioning.

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I bet your eye went to that rockin' downtown Kenwood pullout!!

Did you even notice the factory AC? That little bit you see below the off and de-ice is a special limited edition vibration dampening anti-annoyance device made entirely of compressed wood fiber. It originally came with a small collection of incendiaries from an adult drinking establishment back in the day.

Here is another sign of Somedays history with fire. That is a heap of buffing compound sitting on smoke residue that has not been cleaned off the hinges yet. It has been 5 years and I still find that crap lurking in places.

Roberts68 · #6 05-31-2012, 07:12 PM

UPS delivered the last of my kit from American Powertrain today.

I was also greeted by a small box from Global West, PN# 1038 mono to multi-leaf conversion kit~Aluminum.
Lower shock plates should be in from DSE on the 5th and the rear end swap will be a go as part of the TH350 to T56 Magnum conversion.

Tonight I removed the carpet and console. I have to say I am pleased with my floor. I had seen the passenger side last year when I was wiring and ran cables to the trunk. The drivers side was equally rewarding. The silver lining to having a mechanical oil pressure gauge leak inside the cab? The passenger floor boards are rust proofed!

That is all oil stain, there is no rust to be found... unless you look at the trunk pan that is.
Somebody has some cleaning to do on Someday before Thermocoustic barrier goes in.

**Swain** · #7 05-31-2012, 09:03 PM

Email me

I may have some wheels for ya.

Roberts68 · #8 06-04-2012, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sieg

Good seats and a steering wheel are your connections points to the car. Don't save money there and make sure they fit like a good glove.

Can you make a suggestion on what sort of features to seek in a steering wheel?

I nabbed this pic off of a Google image search but it is similar to the one I have which is a 13" as I recall. It is a bit on the go-kart side sizewise but it makes getting in/out with a non-tilt column easier.

I know there are some tacky feeling higher end wheels out there but I really don't know where to get them or what to look for off hand.

tango68ss · #9 06-05-2012, 02:44 AM

Rob,

I went with a "Classic Industries"- bought wheel... 14", OEM-style.. looks and fits great!

Roberts68 · #10 06-05-2012, 04:25 AM

Thanks Tango, that wheel has topped my want list since CarCraft 2011 when I saw it in another Camaro.

It seems 14" is the ticket and I read a comment by Mary Pozzi that indicated there are size restrictions in some event sanctioning rules? (IE. Must be larger than...?)

It was something about someone being dq'd for having a wheel 1/4" under the rule.