1969 Camaro RS.R - a new project from the OLC Team

[camcojb]

pretty evil looking James!

[fleetus macmullitz]

Originally Posted by James OLC

Just seeing if anyone is paying attention...

Ben did up this great rendering that captures some of the ideas that we're working on for the project



Construction continues at Ironworks, working on fitting front wheels/tires now while we wait for roll cage materials and the fuel cell...

As I'm sure you realize, getting peoples attention will be the least of your issues..

After all, it is a '69.

[Track Junky]

Originally Posted by James OLC

Just seeing if anyone is paying attention...

Ben did up this great rendering that captures some of the ideas that we're working on for the project



Construction continues at Ironworks, working on fitting front wheels/tires now while we wait for roll cage materials and the fuel cell...

I'm not 100% on the gill location/design but needless to say, you nailed the airdam/splitter. Looking forward to seeing it completed

[ironworks]

Well I will share some of the work we have been doing lately on this project.

We have the cowl vent cut out from under than dash and smoothing up the cowl vents from the car. This will give more interior room for the rollcage and steering dash bars.





We got the brackets on the housing welded in place and custom made the bracket to land the torque arm on the Fab 9 axle housing.






We are working on figuring out exactly what has to be done to put 315 tires all the way around. We are getting closer. Some mock up pics of tires we have around the shop.





We are waiting on the pedal assembly and getting the fuel cell set up figured on on the car also. Hopefully the Bullet will arrive from GM performance parts any day.

[bulldog19]

Nice work Rodger.
That front wheel is awful close!

[ironworks]

Originally Posted by bulldog19

Nice work Rodger.
That front wheel is awful close!

Yeah that is the 7" Back space wheel. That seems to be just about the limit on backspace with an 18" wheel. With a brake rotor hat t would come out about a 1/4". But that is only a 275 tire and with in a 1/4" of the desired OD of the tire James would like to run.

[James OLC]

I think the inner clearance is perfect - it's about bang on what we have with OLC1 and as long as nothing hits there's no issue. Besides, the only time (knock on wood) that we're at full lock is when we are in the parking lot.

We are pushing really hard to fit a 315/30-18 - same wheel & same tire - all around. I'm not sure if it's going to work quite the way we hope but we're going to try.

[James OLC]

Rodger - any chance that you're going to teach your guys to weld one day?

Seriously - that's awesome work on the brackets and really shows the skill level that you have over at Ironworks right now.

[ironworks]

Originally Posted by James OLC

Rodger - any chance that you're going to teach your guys to weld one day?

Seriously - that's awesome work on the brackets and really shows the skill level that you have over at Ironworks right now.

Thanks but let me see if we can do better. There is never good enough. Just so you know.

[Greg from Aus]

James love the car, and direction. I am bulding my car to compete in Targa West and Targa Tasmania, here in Australia. Can't wait to see the end product.

Regards
Greg