Project Fool's Gold

[thedude327]

Tommy,

I'll bet you can't wait to try out that new suspension setup. Any thoughts about marketing a 3- link kit for second gen camaros? Oh and I don't know if I missed it, but what type of trans are you planning on running? Great project and looking forward to more progress pics !!!

Paul

[Bakaruda]

Man that is one heck of a cool project.

[ParkerRS]

Originally Posted by thedude327

Tommy,

I'll bet you can't wait to try out that new suspension setup. Any thoughts about marketing a 3- link kit for second gen camaros? Oh and I don't know if I missed it, but what type of trans are you planning on running? Great project and looking forward to more progress pics !!!

Paul

The 3-link was manufactured as a kit by Lateral Dynamics. The transmission is a Tremec TKO 600. Thanks for the compliments on the build, I appreciate it.

[89 RS]

Nice project! That suspension is already looking killer. Look forward to seeing more...

[tones2SS]

Wow Tommy. I just read the entire thread. Can't believe I missed it all this time. Car is gonna be sick. Motor is an awesome piece of machinery as well.
Keep us posted and keep up the great work.

[CRCRFT78]

Any updates?

[70rs]

Hey Tommy, anything new with this? I would love to see any updates you may have.

Your roof swap is going to be a huge help for me. Thanks for taking the time to document and post it here.

[Ron in SoCal]

Great build Tommy. Just read the entire thread. You got me...ing

[ParkerRS]

Like the header says, I've been missing for way too long on this project. Several things held me up.

Scheduling and getting the car in at Bell's chassis for the roll bar work sucked up a couple of months. Then I went to my interior guy's shop to mock-up the custom interior. This really got out of hand, we've been friends since high school and I was helping at night and it was going good. Then my friend found a new girlfriend that he was very serious about, this was the end of working on it at night. I told him to just do it during the day like any other customer and charge me, well friends figure that friends will understand and wait while they do other projects. This meant my car stayed on the back burner for way too long. Every interior panel is hand built and fitted, door panels, qaurter panels, package tray, seats and console as well as modifying the dash of my choice to fit the down bars. All of this held the car up for 14 months, way too long.

Now it is back at the body shop where several other custom touches have been added to make it have a sleeker appearance. The car has been primed and blocked six times fully assembled, then completely disassembled and placed back on the rottiserie. The bottom is recieving final detailing and prep and should be sprayed next week. After that I'll finally have some update pictures.

Once the bottom is sprayed, I will place it back on the suspension and it will be ready for color. It also spent a few weeks at Exotic exhaust having headers and 3 inch exhaust with X pipe custom fabbed.

[ParkerRS]

Ok guys I finally have some pictures and a real update.

I wanted to stiffen the car with a bar for track time and auto-x. DSE sells the main hoop, cross bar and rear down bars as a kit. They however do not sell the forward portion of the bar like the one in their 70 test car due to the age of the cars and body variations. This meant that I would have to do this part myself.

Since I don't have the equipment to bend 1 5/8 DOM tubing, and I'm also not a TIG welder and don't have a tig, I contracted Bell's Chassis here in north Georgia to build it to my specs. A life long buddy of mine owns and operates a machine shop, so we turned and milled a pair of heavy steel bolt together fittings for where the bar comes through the firewall. After that I left the mocked-up car with Joey Bell for a few weeks. Man do they do nice work, and it came out exactly as planned.











All in all it came out really tight, nice and how I envisioned.