Yet another 2nd Gen Camaro - Project/update

[slenning]

Originally Posted by gerno

Marty - All good advise. Thank you for the comments

Roll cage will certainly have some padding on it. Current Roll bar does already though the cage will have the SFI padding. Luckily Slennings has done an awesome job with his cage and its the same layout I was thinking. Hopefully I can get close to the quality of work he's done

Dutch boys car is certainly a car I am looking at for ideas. I'll have to check out the D&Z car too

I am interested in the header you have. Can you PM a pic and price for it?

Hey Steve this is awesome!! Way to dive into the deep end.

Thanks for the comments on my cage, that was my first attempt at doing one and am pretty happy with the way it turned out. If there's anything I can help you out with, specific pics, measurements etc. just let me know. I'd be glad to help with what limited knowledge I have LOL

PS Marty sure seems to be upset about my seats

[carbuff]

Originally Posted by slenning

PS Marty sure seems to be upset about my seats

Those aren't easy to find! I was looking for a set when I got the seats for TOW, and no one had them in stock. 12 weeks was the estimate. I like the ones I ended up with though, but would probably have liked these a little more.

[WSSix]

Good luck, Steve. Sounds like a good plan you have worked out.

[gerno]

Originally Posted by WSSix

Good luck, Steve. Sounds like a good plan you have worked out.

Hopefully I can stick with the plan and it all works for me.


Made a bit more progress. Subframe is torn down and sandblasted. Started welding up the frame seams. I'm taking it slow to make sure I don't warp the frame. Welds aren't all prefect but are getting better than they used to be. I was pretty happy with this one in particular. Others are close to the same but not quite as good. Let me know if I'm wrong and I should be doing something different with my welds.


Next step is to flip the frame over, finish welding the seams and jig in on the table at ride height so I can move the LCA mounts and remove the UCA mounts. Also will need to decide if I'll be mounting the shocks to the frame or the engine bay bars I'll be installing

I also started to clean off the firewall in prep for smoothing but I won't proceed further with that until I have the frame complete

[SSLance]

Ooof!! Now that is taking on an ambitious project in a tight time frame. Good luck with all the updates! Sounds like a good plan so far!

[WSSix]

Welds look good to me!

[gerno]

Originally Posted by WSSix

Welds look good to me!

Thanks, it does feel nice to not have the giant glory welds I used to get when I started. Amazing what little prep and fine tuning off the machine can really do.





Made a bit more progress last night. The frame is mounted on a table as level as I can make it. Now its time to move the LCA mounts and cut off the UCA mounts.