New Feature Car: Phil's Camaro

[Raige]

Some beach..

[Teetoe_Jones]

That is a crazy looking firewall. You are right that it hides the setback rather well.
Here is what a 6-1/2" setback looks like on my car:


It just seems like mine is set back less than yours, but sits under the cowl panel by a bunch more.

Love the pedal master cylinder covers, I may need to work that one into my project.

Tyler

[PhaseShift]

Looks like you are really diggin to the car there man. I am looking forward to seeing that machine running down the road.

The amount you have moved the motor back is really evident in your car. Looks like to me that you are going to leave a lot of the stock firewall and I suppose the stock parts in place. That is going to be a lot tougher to accomplish than the job that was done on my car where the whole thing simply re-engineered and fabbed up.

Subjectively, to me your car looks like it has a TON of setback and mine looks like it has almost none. I have added an outlook item that is a reminder to look at this with a tape measure when I get back to the car next time.

And to be totally honest- Your question did set me off a bit. Not at you, but at _me_ for not verifying my info to make sure that all is fact. I appreciate you calling me out on this. I live in a world of facts, the micrometer and the stopwatch and all you did was point out an oversight. I can dig that as it pushes this project a bit closer to being really good. Thanks.

[Teetoe_Jones]

The only parts left stock on my car, are the very end caps of the firewall, the roof, A pillars and 1/4 panels. All else is fabricated and/or replaced with carbon fiber pieces. The entire floor, trunk, firewall ect is hand formed, so I won't be able to put anything that was stock back in place.
I built my car with a stict goal in mind- No messing with the geometry of placement of parts other than the way the C5R guys had it. So I built the entire car around the frame- this includes me widening the rear 1/4 panels by 2" per side to fit the wider track width of the transaxle/IRS setup.
That is why we call the car 50/50. The car is half Camaro and half C5 corvette, with a perfect 50/50 front to rear weight distribution.
I didn't mean to ruffle the feathers at all, just was curious on where you measured from to obtain that figure.
Keep up the good work, and get the car in the same country as you so you can beat on it!
Tyler

[Steve Chryssos]

It's a great car. Congratulations on the design and execution.