1969 Camaro Restomod Project Thread

[frankv11]

Some excellent progress there

[will69camaro]

Hope there is more wiring progress this week. Not too much pretty stuff to look at but it'll be nice to get it all done finally!

[will69camaro]

Got back after it this past week/weekend and got a few things accomplished (mostly yesterday).

Tail lights Installed:




I have a C6 PWM fan controller, and wanted to find a good place for it that was out of the way. Core support went back on to see if the spot i wanted will work.


Lots of space!




Made me nervous drilling and putting nutserts in the beautiful shroud, but it needed to be done!








Next up was finishing the turbo drains and hooking up the power steering lines.

Hard to tell but the turbo drains are in place here, -10 90deg to -10 PTFE to the pan, and a 120deg fitting into the pan. That area is relatively flat but does have a slight uphil right at the end (passenger side mostly, to clear the starter).


Power steering lines were a PITA. To get them tight on the rack, I had to pull the rack hardlines to have access. They're done and hardlines are back in place.




Decided to tackle one of the jobs I was least looking forward to...Drilling the firewall for the ac bulkhead. I had to pull the AC back out and the glove box to have access to put these in place.






Since the AC was out, I mounted my bulkhead for the power cable from the top. Kept me from having to remove passenger downpipe to have access to drill it.

[will69camaro]

After getting those holes cut, I decided I'd take my chances and drill out the hole in the firewall for the wire pass through. I wanted to mount it a little lower, but lower and it would have interference inside, towards middle and it would hit map sensor, and other side had fuel pressure sensor and some difficult structure to work around.




No turning back now.






Pinned all the additional wires in the input/output harnesses for the holley and labeled them all.




Now i'll strip the rest of the loom off the original harness, lay these together and put it through the fiewall and start plugging it in so I can make the engine bay side all perfect length.

That's where she sits now.

William

[NvrDun71]

Nice progress man! Some time consuming stuff you got knocked out there, coming together nicely

[Centerforce]

That bulkhead was a good idea; it looks nice and clean. We're tuned in for the wiring!

[will69camaro]

Baby steps, small weekday projects.

Trying to make time to get into the garage and knock out small items during the week since I cant dedicate significant time to the garage (usually 2-3hours MAX during the week days).

I got out there yesterday to sort the steam vent concern. The kit I had I made look decent I think.







Plenty of room at the rear of the engine. Sits well under the map sensor/etc.


Front is a little closer, specifically the fitting by the fuel line crossover.


There is a gap, but it's paper thin.


The line off the tee fitting on the front will go back to the radiator here


I ordered the 1/4" NPT to -4 AN adapter so I can complete that line and have it follow the radiator hose route. Should be very clean looking once completed.

William

[will69camaro]

Small update:

Got the fitting in the radiator so the steam vents can be completed.


Decided I was going to dedicate time to get the wiring on the engine complete and loomed appropriately for the setup I have.




All injector wiring is secured to the manifold and as clean as I can make it. When its complete and just before putting intake on, I'll remove tags and add some split loom so you dont see the wires as much.


Looks pretty good considering in this picture all wires are run basically. Wills till have leads going to each corner for the coil packs and plug wires coming in, but should be able to make those pretty clean/tidy looking.


Pretty cramped under the intake, but it works.


Backside isn't the prettiest, but it'll work and is mostly hidden.




Utilizing the factory wiring off the coil pack mounts, and some re-taping, I cleaned up the coil pack wiring on the relocation brackets.




Moving on, I picked up my dash from powder coat so I started adding in the pieces. (I still need to paint the ac bezel satin black.


Wiring was started but on hold till a new crimper shows up for all the pins/connectors I'm populating.


Aside from needing to re-pin the map sensor for the 3bar map I have, and one Wideband that was damaged by ignorance, the motor is basically wired. I have my work curout for me inside the car with all that wiring remaining but it's close.

I also forgot a couple wires in that loom so it will be coming apart again and getting a couple wires added (AC signal, starter signal).

William

[randy]

are you going to color match the rear bumper or chrome?

[will69camaro]

Painter did the rear bumper in orange. When I asked him not too. Plan originally was to have it brushed to match the wheel hoops. Having issues finding a place locally to do that. Contemplating powdercoating it aluminum.