Transition Camaro

[MX145]

Originally Posted by AtomicFirebird

Very Nice Build!! Very Nice!!! I like to see home built cars, it lets me at least think I have a chance on working on my own car, instead of pain someone. Your skills and thought processes are impressive. I like the way you approached everything while working on your ride. I was at a standstill on how to approach certain things on my car, Qtr panels, outer wheel wells, Roof, and Truck. If I follow your process, I can finish the rear of the car. I was not sure how to tackle the cowls with sealant. You showed me when and how. I want to thank you for documenting every step of your build. You have helped me in more ways than you can think. Thank You!!!

Thanks for the compliments. This forum is a huge help to me so I'm glad I can provide a little insight in return. There's a lot of great guys on here with quality advise. Since I saw your comment I browsed through my build thread. There's a few things that have changed and a lot of blanks to fill in. Someday I intend to make it more complete. One thing that stood out to me is advise from guys on lat-g has been spot on. I've made changes along the way because of that and every one of them was for the better. Dave, Frankie, Brendon, Vince, Wayne,.. I'm sure I'm missing some, but those guys have helped a lot.

[awr68]

Nicely done! Congrats on getting it to this point and on the road! Hope to see it around next year!

[WSSix]

x2 Congrats on getting the car back on the road!

[XLexusTech]

Just found this thread.... Awesome work.. love to see the DIY efforts like this.. keeps me motivated..

[MX145]

Thanks guys! The feedback and compliments are much appreciated.

I've slowly been acquiring parts. I bought a true-trac today so I can get my other 3rd member back together with 3.89 gears. I've also started to look at how I'm going to seal the tunnel back up. I'm hoping to make a section removable but it depends on how it works out where the tunnel meets the firewall. Tying this together looks challenging.

[Tuske427]

This must be a great idea because I plan on doing that to my car, too, ha ha! (I'll need to do this when I remove my bellhousing next to align it better) If it helps inspire ideas even though I haven't built mine yet I plan on making mine with an overlap of the sheet metal and using rivet nuts so I have an easy way to thread bolts down from the interior of the car. I'll use something like a 3m weather stripping putty to seal the panels yet still be removable.

Here's an example of them from amazon if you're not familiar- these things are awesome and are available in many thread sizes.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_12ywgmbnmw_b

Hope this helps!

[MX145]

Brendon, that's what I want to do. Thanks for the link to the fasteners. I think those may work better than dzus fasteners depending on how I can create the flange. Im trying to figure out a way to put the offset in the metal. I have an air tool with offset jaws that may work but I need to test it out first.

[Tuske427]

Understood. Of course, if you're covering this with carpet/ dynamat, etc. you may not even need a flange. A simple overlap should do the trick and should be hidden underneath. To quote Doc Brown " please excuse the crudity of this sketch...." Its rough, and I think I have way too many rivet nuts...

[MX145]

Originally Posted by Tuske427

Understood. Of course, if you're covering this with carpet/ dynamat, etc. you may not even need a flange. A simple overlap should do the trick and should be hidden underneath. To quote Doc Brown " please excuse the crudity of this sketch...." Its rough, and I think I have way too many rivet nuts...

Dude that sketch is awesome! I stared at the car for a few minutes yesterday and thought why do today what I can do tomorrow. I also looked at the kick panels trying to figure out a good way to seal them as I want to keep the vents. At the end of the day nothing got done. Back to the tunnel.. I'm planning to do something along the lines of what you are. I was thinking flange so water would have a harder time making it into the car.

[MX145]

Eaton True Trac showed up today.