I got back to work on the car on Saturday. It really sucks now only being able to work on the car every other Saturday since I can't keep it at work anymore. So to check some clearances I put the block and supercharger in. The supercharger needs to move back about 2", but as you can see its already hitting the firewall.
So while I thought about how I want to handle this problem I went ahead and mounted the pedals, brake booster, and column along with the stock C5 dash frame work to get an idea of what kind of dash I can run. Now with two road blocks in my way I turned to the rear frame so that I can get the rear body mounted to the frame so it can come off the jig. I decided to tie the frame rails together since I cut off a large chunk of frame and marked it to where the floor height needs to be. I'm ordering some 2x4 frame rails bent 90 degrees the hard way so I can run jogs out to where the factory first gen Camaro frame rails mounted to the body. I think that about covers it for this go around of updates, on to the pictures.
I've finally got a chance to work on the car after about two months of not, which really sucked. I've been thinking about park lamps and turn signals on the car for sometime and I decided to steal this idea from DSE. I used the lenses out of a camper pouch lamp. and cut it down to size.
Saturday I was able to get a good start on my frame to body rails. I wanted to run the rails to the stock Camaro location and ended up with these. I started with two 90* hard way 2x4" pieces of tubing from Art Morrison. I ran out of time to get the driver side done so that will have to be another day. The passenger side is gusseted on the bottom to tie the cross rail, Corvette frame and the new rails all together.
Well I lost my shop space to be able to work on my car so I don't know when I'll be able to find somewhere to work on it or where. Maybe someday the car will get done. I went ahead and finished welding the frame rails to the body and supporting the trunk supports so I could take the car off the frame rack to get more room in my trailer. It looks pretty good on the ground, this is the first time its been on its on feet with this configuration. rocker height currently is 5 3/4".
I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say that somebody from this community is going to chime in and say "hey, Camaro AJ, I wouldn't mind having you manipulate your metal in my indoor real estate, and I'm not too far down the road, Bro." That might sound kind of weird, but hey, there's help here when you need it. This project's too cool to get killed at this point!
Not much of an update as I still have no where to work on my car. I did score a LSA core that has a spun #1 rod bearing. A dealer in Houston replaced an oil pan gasket on it and used RTV all the way around the pan. It made it to San Antonio before the oil pick up clogged and starved the #1 rod of oil. I’ll post some build pictures of that as I go along. It’s going to be a mild build, stock rods and pistons, LS3 dry sump crankshaft, cam, pulleys, and a ported blower using an LS9 snout. Shooting for around 700 flywheel hp, pretty easily attainable.
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
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