yes the car will have a/c. i tried my best to retain the stock compressor but the speedtech frame is just too narrow compaired to stock or even the DSE frame. alot of the problem was the steering gear being rear mounted so i had to move the engine to the passenger side because of the steering linkage. had i went with the DSE frame i would have been good to go.
been almost 20 days since the last update. had some things to do with my dad and some other projects going on like building a shifter kart.
even though it doesn't look like much has been done to the car the small stuff takes alot of time. anyways the firewall and trans tunnel are done. the frame is out of the car and speed tech's transmission mounts are cut off. tomorrow i'll grind the welds down and reinstall the frame and stick the engine/trans back in.
after power washing the house for the past few days i got to finish the engine/trans install.
didn't take any pictures but i cut the speedtech transmission mounts off the frame and then smoothed the old welds. then i installed the engine and trans to where i wanted it to be with the best fit for the rest of the stuff i have to do to the car. then i bolted the transmission cross member to the trans and the mounts to the member and rewelded them to the frame. about 4" back from where they were.
for the engine mounts i bent 1 3/4" .134 cage tube and built two uprights. i still need to finish welding and add two supports to make sure the engine doesn't move fore and aft just in case. i tried aftermarket mount adapters but they were not even close to fitting so i went to lowes and bought some steel plate and made my own.
lower part of my car is the steering rack. thats with the stock camaro oil pan
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