1969 Camaro Restomod Project Thread

[will69camaro]

The car has been put on the ground with driveline in and sent to the turbo shop to have the piping done.

Still waiting on the RCI intake. Should be shipping in the next day or so.


Front sheetmetal all went on so they know the limitations on the piping.


I gotta say it looks pretty good on the ground.


Enroute to turbo shop!


Car has a new home for now.


At least it's in good company!


William

[tmadden]

Just plain sick! Can't wait to hear it.

[will69camaro]

Well talking to Kevin at M2K, it does look like those intercoolers will be a restriction so looking at going BIGGER.

Little disappointed that AutoRAD knew the power goals with the car and said no problem only to give a setup that looks like it'll support about 850hp at the flywheel (625cfm/ea). This was the biggest they could run and keep the stock hood brace, but the stock hood brace doesn't fit with these either.

I understand typically the people that they're building a setup like this for are "1000hp" but never push the car much, and I cant fault them for that.

M2K is going to be upgrading the cores from 7" x 11" x 3" (625cfm rated) to 10" x 15" x 3.5" (945cfm/ea) and may try to push it a little bigger if we can. And build a hood support and latch to work off the intercoolers since they're rigidly mounted.

New sized intercoolers should have me efficiently covered up to around 1300hp at the flywheel which is right in line with what I'm hoping it will make!

Does anyone have any advice or leads on what to use for a hood latch? I like the ones I'm seeing posted on Lou's Change and Stielow's cars but cant find much detail on the latch itself and how they made it work. I saw one that was on screaming performance
but it appears they're out of stock...

Any help there?
William

[67RSRAG]

I believe its out of VW Jetta

[rickpaw]

Will,

Here's a thread from pt.com on how to obtain the parts and build your own.

http://www.pro-touring.com/threads/1...hood-latch-diy

[will69camaro]

Yea it's funny, Casey (MEENAggie) already sent me that link in a PM. Doing a little more research and seeing if M2K can build a bracket off of the intercoolers to hold the hood latch and just eliminate the vertical brace all together!

I like the idea of an internal hood release.

William

[NvrDun71]

Man sorry to hear about the Autorad/Intercooler issues, but sounds like it is in the right shop to address those issues. Awesome to see this thing moving forward again! You might hit up the guys at Sled Alley to see if they have any suggestions on the hood latch since they have been doing alot of the fab work on Stielow's latest builds?