LSA Powered 69 Camaro -"Lou's Change"

[waynieZ]

Lou the car is coming out great. They do very nice work over there. I love the drive train your using. Sweet ride.

[MX145]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

Lou the car is coming out great. They do very nice work over there. I love the drive train your using. Sweet ride.

X2! Very Cool

[Lous69]

Happy Fourth of July everyone!!

The car is officially in body and paint now!!

The paint booth has been loaded up three times with all the miscellaneous parts and those are all painted now.

The bottom of the body tub is next.

Color is not far away!!

As you relax and enjoy your Holiday, here are some of the latest videos of the build for your viewing pleasure. Kind of like one of those cable channel holiday weekend marathons!!

So glad all the rust is finally behind us now. For all of you still in the middle of rust repair, stay the course. There is light at the other end of the tunnel.







Here are videos of the mock up for the Detroit Speed QUADRALink and the Wilwood brakes.







ENJOY!!

[waynieZ]

Its coming a long nice Lou.

[Lous69]

Things are coming along. The bodywork has officially begun.
The engine upgrade parts supplied by Thomson Automotive have been installed by Tony, my favorite, fully certified Chevrolet technician. Tony is the only person I would let work on my Z06 and my daily driver.
He takes great pride in everything he does and he loves his work. In fact, everyone I have talked to at Weber Chevrolet in Waterloo, Ill. treats you like they are glad to see you. I have purchased brand new cars from both Mercedes and Lexus. They have nothing over the customer service and attitude I experience in Weber's service department.

Here's Tony looking proud of his work, like the engine is his baby. (Actually, he and his wife are expecting their first real baby very soon!)



While delivering the engine so they could paint it all up nice too, I snapped a few pictures of Nathan and Zach's handywork preparing the body tub for paint.

When I noticed how they are making sure the rockers are perfect all the way around to the floor pan I complimented Nathan. He calmly replied that he has noticed some body men can get a little lazy in those areas and that has always been a pet peeve of his.



I love how the firewall turned out. We had to recess it a bit.







My son Dan assembled the grille he designed and printed in Renntech's 3D printer. He is also a perfectionist when it comes to his craft so he wants to make some final tweaks but it looks like it's going to turn out exactly like he wanted it to. Here's a picture he sent me from his cell phone. We'll post more on that as things progress.

[214Chevy]

Great pics!! Everything looks great. A couple of questions:
1) What update did you do to the engine.
2) What is the custom grill made of...fiberglass, metal, carbon fiber, etc.? (can't tell by the pics)

[Lous69]

Engine upgrades include Cam, valve springs, injectors, pulleys, solid coupling, damper and matching tune by Dave Mikels who works very closely with Brian at Thomson Automotive.

Dave and Brian are great to work with too. They sent the parts overnight delivery just to make sure we could get them installed in time to avoid any delays in body and paint. I especially appreciated their willingness to help us out because their main business is selling complete engines not selling parts.

Dave helped us figure out how to do a lot more with the ECM than just tune it for the performance mods. He also helped us enable things like reverse lock out using vehicle speed sensing, PWM fan control and AC compressor pressure sensing for cooling fan control.

The first grille prototype was printed in ABS plastic.

[Richio1]

My son Dan assembled the grille he designed and printed in Renntech's 3D printer. He is also a perfectionist when it comes to his craft so he wants to make some final tweaks but it looks like it's going to turn out exactly like he wanted it to. Here's a picture he sent me from his cell phone. We'll post more on that as things progress.


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Love the grille Lou. Looks fantastic. Classic yet modern at the same time. Would love to know more about the process. I imagine its all CAD and laser...

I wanted to do the same with mine. Custom one off but not too out there. We made mine out of metal which was very time consuming with several tries to get right. Looking back CAD would have been way easier and faster. We just didn't have that option.

The joy of modern technology

Keep up the great work. Car is already bad a$$ and can't wait to see color on it. Kevin and the team are doing amazing work.

[Rick D]

Holy crap!!! I've heard the term 3D printing but never really new what it was. That is so f-in cool!!