67 Camaro project "It Don't Fit"

[tubbed69]

Wish you were closer would gladly help with the gaps,sure takes a lot of patience and maybe a few drywall repairs,good luck.

[makoshark]

Originally Posted by tubbed69

Wish you were closer would gladly help with the gaps,sure takes a lot of patience and maybe a few drywall repairs,good luck.

Thanks...I've run out of patience though. I haven't touched the front cap lately. As a matter a fact, I removed it all. I did finally get around to prepping and spraying the inner cowl with epoxy primer. I installed the Vintage Air unit. I then prepped the back side of the repop dash top with epoxy primer, then white spray enamel followed by some strategically placed Dynamat Xtreme. After all that, I finally welded the dash top back onto the car. Ironically, the dash top was the first panel I removed from this car. Years later, I finally get around to installing the new one. I removed the dash completely after realizing someone had sprayed an entire gallon of paint on it. I'll get it sandblasted here soon and then reinstall it.

I really would like to get the front cap fitted, as it should, before I put it back up on the rotisserie to finish out the bottom of the car.

Yesterday, I spent most of the day finishing up my rotisserie. It took me a while to find someone to CNC laser cut some plate for the roto I designed.

[makoshark]

I have gotten the slave side of my rotisserie mostly done. I still need to finish up some welds, weld on some gussets and some braces. Also I need to complete the extension arms of it. I never realized this roto would take this long to fabricate and assemble. The first one I built was done in two days. I believe I have about six days total already in this one. The master side is going to take a bit more welding and fabricating still. It will probably take me two or three more days to say I'm done with this project.

[makoshark]

I checked with a local restoration shop about aligning my front cap. He told me he would be a few weeks out in having time to mess with it as he was busy readying some cars for the coming show season. I decided to bear it and get back to tweaking on it myself. I don't know if the stars were aligned properly or what, but I managed to get a fitment that I can live with. I have nice gaps, not precision perfect, but well within acceptable tolerances. I still can't seem to get the fenders to tuck in enough to stay on the same plane as the doors, but I have them very close.

I recently purchased a 'newly tooled' Golden Legion deck lid as well. I installed it and the fit was terrible. There's one of two ways to get it to fit correctly. Either take a hole saw or cut off wheel and remove the installed deck lid to hinge mounts and reinstall them in a different position or remove my EMS billet trunk hinges and go back to the factory steel hinges, which I did yesterday. The steel hinges allow more adjustment, but still not enough. However, I can do some welding by adding a small bit of metal to the hinge so that I can move the mount holes over a bit. By doing this, the trunk lid will have a perfect fit!! This is the best fitting deck lid I have had out of 3 repops and 2 factory GM lids. It just needs a little ingenuity to get that perfect fit

I can now finally move on to finishing the body prep for paint!

I have some polished EMS billet trunk hinges that will be going up for sale if anyone wants them.

[Roberts68]

Congrats on the progress.
That has to be a huge relief

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[frankv11]

those gaps are definitely fun

[makoshark]

It's been a while since I have posted in my thread. I haven't touched my car other than mocking up my audio system to finalize speaker placement. I didn't bother with taking pictures as I'm sure most in this crowd aren't that interested in car audio. I did do a more extensive audio build than I originally set out to do. I haven't messed around with audio much in quite a few years, so I decided to do a high-end system on this car.

Enough of all that. Last week I finally broke down and decided I was tired of the gravel turn-around at my house. Years of driving on it had caused ruts and grass had taken it over, so it wasn't very attractive. I had 4 dump truck loads of dirt put in and 30 yards of concrete poured. I still have about 250 ft of gravel driveway to the street that I have not addressed yet. Maybe before the summer is over I can get that section taken care of.

Since I finally have some concrete outside of my garage, I decided to pull my car out so I can get a view of it from a distance. It certainly helped as I noticed some things I didn't notice before. Since I have installed the Ridetech rear 4-link in the car, I have noticed my car sits 3/4" higher on the drivers side as opposed to the passenger side. With the car out of the garage, I can also see the driver rear wheel is further forward in the wheelwell than the passenger side. You can see this in the pictures. Would that misalignment possibly cause the drivers side to be higher than the passenger side? I do not have the coilovers in the car right now. I made brackets to maintain ride height. The are all the exact length from side to side, so they are not causing the problem.

Another thing, do I need to tuck in the rear wheels a bit further in the wheel wells? They seem to be sticking out a bit far. I must say, I have been on the fence about my wheel purchase since I bought them, but I really do like the way they look standing off looking at the car. They certainly aren't the Forgelines I want, but they look good to me.

[Rick D]

Looking good!!

How wide are your wheels? What's the BS? If you can move them inboard some then you should be able to get them tucked up some?

As for the difference in height from side to side, have you measured the car from a flat surface? Set it up level and measure it at different pickup points on the frame, this way you can eliminate if the body is square or not. If its good then you can move on to check other areas, suspension, floors?

[makoshark]

Thanks!

The wheels are 10.5" wide with 295/18's on it. The car is minitubbed, so I have plenty of room to tuck them in more. The wheels are an aftermarket C6 Z06 wheel, so they spacing is based of of the Corvette. I have 1.5" wheel spacers on it now and was thinking of putting 1.25" on it?

I have measured the car on a flat surface and that is where I got the 3/4" higher on one side than the other. The front is only an 1/8" higher on the drivers side than the passenger side. I haven't gotten the car level and checked to see what you mentioned yet. Hopefully, I will be able to do that soon as I'd really love to get back going on the car. I sure missed a cool spring this year to work on it. I now have to deal with the hot summer temps with the high humidity of the mid-south.

[tubbed69]

car is looking good stance is nice