Gen 5 Camaro External Bolt-On Tech - Project Cleaning the Clutter in Our Engine Bay

Hi guys, I'm working on cleaning the the factory crap you see when you open the hood on a modern car. The end goal is to end up with a compartment that looks more like an engine and not a computer or plumbers convention. I've documented the entire process on Camaro5.com. I will be updating on this thread as I have time. In the meantime, here is the link. http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188393

Here a few shots as a preview:

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Hope you enjoy,

Nathan

Wow; looking great!

looks cool. powder coating all that stuff has got to cost out the wazoo.

Just got the intake back from Mike and all I can say is WOW! Mike did a killer job and have to send out a big shot out for him. I couldn't be happier.

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I also changed all the washer to these machined stainless.

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Mike did me a favor and powder coated the washer on the Katech tensioner wrinkle black. Looks killer in the sun. I might end up changing the pulley.

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Thanks again Mike for all the help and patient in doing test panel and mailing them back and forth. Service is second to none!

The only sad part is that I thought I be done by the time I got the intake back and now I'm further behind than before,

Wow; looking great!


Thanks

looks cool. powder coating all that stuff has got to cost out the wazoo.

I haven't updated this post yet but other than the intake, everything I've done has been with rattle cans.

If you read through the thread at http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188393, you'll see all the details of the build.

Parts are starting to come in....... Other than the header studs, got the rest of my ARP bolts today. The rad should be here tomorrow. If I wasn't monkeying with the passenger side tower, I could start reassembly pretty soon

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very nice work. could only dream of doing this.update?

wow thats some go craftman ship. Should make that engine bay look killer

Any enginebay pics of the finished product? I would like to see how it all turned out.

this is going to look outstanding.

wow thats some go craftman ship. Should make that engine bay look killer

this is going to look outstanding.

Thanks guys!

Any enginebay pics of the finished product? I would like to see how it all turned out.

I'm in the process of pulling the engine to paint and detail the whole engine bay.

Here's a few pics of the front drive mocked up with the ARP bolts, new 8 rib pulleys from Innovators West, etc...


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Looks cool

Thanks,

I haven't been really good about keeping this thread updated but here are a few pictures in no certain order........

The will be at SEMA next year in the main hall and hoping to get into the Optima challenge.

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