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Old 12-28-2017, 10:30 PM
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I love the project, and What a sweet drive train!! Awesome garage too.
Thanks Wayne, I appreciate the encouragement! We have a long ways to go with this one...

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Wow, nice build. You're moving along quickly so far.

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Nice looking car, lots of good parts lined up, looks like you had some good stuff on there in the old build,
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Chris this is going to be a fun project.I like the LT-4 choice as well...I'll be following this build for sure seeing as I'm just North of you.

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Wow, nice build. You're moving along quickly so far.

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Thanks Daniel!

Unfortunately things will slow down considerably when I go back to my day job next week.

Working on clearing everything off the firewall today in preparation to smooth it.

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Nice looking car, lots of good parts lined up, looks like you had some good stuff on there in the old build,
Thank you Steve! I do have some nice parts coming off the car. The engine/transmission will be going into my 1968 C10. I'll be selling everything else..

[QUOTE=Dave Pratt;670958]Chris this is going to be a fun project.I like the LT-4 choice as well...I'll be following this build for sure seeing as I'm just North of you.

Thanks Dave, appreciate you following my mayhem!

I should have more pics posted up this evening..
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Another day in the shop and finally the dismantling project is mostly complete. Thank goodness, four days in a row of taking a car apart and I'm wiped out...

The Ridetech dampers showed up today, and I got a kick out of Ron Sutton's sticker on the outside of the box. It's so true, I've been super anxious to see these things. They look amazing.

next on the agenda is to tackle the DSE mini tubs and the Speedtech firewall smooth kit. I have the tubs, so that'll be first.

I'll be taking a road trip to Utah as soon as the Speedtech parts are built to pick them all up. I'm excited to meet Ben and Roger and see their shop.

Lucy, my shop Labrador, is a little bewildered why I've been spending so much time in the shop this week. If she only knew....
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Ugh, back to work today so the Camaro progress is going to slow down considerably. My hope is to start the mini tub installation next weekend. I've never tackled installation of them before, so it'll be a new adventure for me. Here they are sitting and waiting to go..

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Also, I've been thinking a lot about safety and what kind of trouble I'm going to be able to get into with an LT4 in this car. Specifically, do I install a roll bar or not. After a ton of reading and learning from Ron Sutton's post on roll bars, I decided to pull the trigger today on a Chassisworks pro touring roll bar with removable side bars. I plan to take the car out on the track, but not enough to warrant a full cage. I hope...

From a chassis stiffness perspective I think it should be much better than stock with a 6 point roll bar, Speedtech weld in subframe connectors, and downbars from the firewall to front subframe. If anyone has run a similar configuration in an f-body and wouldn't mind sharing their experience with their car I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Thanks again for following along!

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Hey guys - I had a chance to work on the DSE mini tubs today. It's a slow go for a guy with no sheetmetal experience but I'm learning...

I got the drivers side factory tub removed and everything cut out in preparation for the new tub. One suprise I found was a ton of sand in the rocker from when I had the car sandblasted 17 years ago. Not sure I'll every have a car sandblasted again after seeing that. Also got ride of an old shock cross member that was installed back in the day that won't be needed any longer. Oh yeah, I also learned that 17 year old Dyna mat is a royal PITA to remove!
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Nice! Keep at it. Car is going to be awesome.

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