I thought doing that but the drive back to town to get screws was going to take a lot longer than cutting that down....had around ten minutes in it. It sucks living in the country when building a car!!

Yours is looking good...looking forward to the results!

 

the Z is looking good man. Cant wait to see some track times.

 

Thanks guys!

And yes, I still have the MSD cap/rotor for a 94'.

 

Thanks, I was trying to get a "baseline" time on the car before I started to do major work to the engine/trans/rear this past weekend before the opti went out. Maybe next couple weeks I will get a chance to get some times as is.

 

Took a little break from the Camaro for a little bit. After friends bugging me to get the GTO running again, I spent the past couple nights putting the engine back together. Got it all cleaned up. Just need to get the Judge decals, fix the spoiler (one of the column support cracked in half), weatherstrip kit, and redo the interior and I think I would be happy with it. Drove it around town today and got tons of waves and thumbs up.

My buddy offered me a set of 17 inch Torque Thrusts 2s with the center painted charcoal. What do you guys think?

 

very nice car, looks bad ***

now get the camaro running damn u, lol

 

Damn the GTO looks awesome i say go for it and get the TT2's. I think its time to get the camaro done already I wanna see that thing run. lol

 

Think Im going to take a gamble and use my buddys ac delco opti he ran for 2 years with not too many miles on it. Ran out of money so going to try this and im just out my time if it doesnt work. Fortunatly with my engine bay gutted, it doesnt take too long to get the opti out. Hope to have it running this next week. Also want to put the new MSD plug wires/coil and B&M ProStick in too.

 

Have you thought much about the engine you are going to put in it? are you going to spray?

 

I am doing things in reverse order, so starting with the chassis, then rear end, trans, and then the engine. Im probably going to go with a 396 LT1, but if the right deal on a LS engine came along, i'd jump on it, same goes with a SBC gen 1 engine. I plan on spraying into the 9s, would like to hit 10s on engine.

 

Thats the way to doit man. Build up everything else then get a bad *** power plant. Nothing like having 500rwhp and only running high 12s like so many people do. Delco opti's are pretty good arnt they?? Doesnt delco make the OEM units??

 

Did a little simple modification today. Bought the over the valve cover wire brackets made by Made 4 You. I am really happy with this mod, cleaned up the engine bay and plus routed the wires away from the headers.

Also did new plug wires because before the OTVC wire mod, I burnt a plug wire on the header. Went with MSD 8.5 plug wires with boot protectors incase of header to plug contact.

Simple mod for under $100...Highly recommended

 

lookin damn good, hopefully you stay ltx

 

Looks pretty good. I wish i went with a set of MSD 8.5's instead of the shitty over priced Taylors i have. Did you just buy a set of cut to lenght MSD's?

 

That's actually the way you should do it. You can run a lot quicker with a shitty engine and a really good suspension that you can the other way around. I am working on getting my 93 setup as a rolling chassis and then worrying about the engine.

I have a lot of extra parts laying around so I am probably going to build a temporary engine for it that should cost right around $1000. At 2800-2900 lbs it should be pretty fun and it will actually run.

 

where in mchenry do you live? I work at Gary Lang

 

About a month ago, my friend and I attempted to paint the new cowl induction hood. Took several pictures along the way...

Took the hood off the Camaro after test fitting it. I had to trim the front edges of the hood to give it a more factory look to the hood. I did have to trim the underside of the hood to clear my LS1 airbox, but other than that, nothing more than just basic block sanding.



My friend Frank getting ready to spray the basecoat...



The hood is painted (although tons of orange peel, more on that in a bit)





Ended up being really humid that day and the paint had major orange peel on it basically looking like a matte finish. So we just stopped at the basecoat, I let it cure in the sun outside for about a month so the paint would harden so I could sand it.

Basically neither one of us has any idea on colorsanding new paint, so if we missed something or Im doing something wrong...PLEASE LMK!!

Started sanding the hood with 800 grit to get the major orange peel out. This was the most time consuming. But was able to get a relatively smooth surface to continue wetsanding. Next I moved up to 1000 grit, that basically took any remaining orange peel "pits" out of the paint...



Next I hit the hood with 1500 which when talking to a friend told me I should stop at this point and spray the clear, but it has a very dull finish and alot of sanding swirls. I dont know if I can clean all this up with some compound and a buffer or if I should move up to 2000 grit. Basically on hold right now till I figure this one out. Here is a picture of the hood after wetsanding with 1500 grit...

 

Actually just used a set of MSD wires my buddy had on his SBC that was in his 70 Camaro. I ended up putting the LT1 ends on them though, but they seem like they are the perfect length...just a thought for anyone getting OTVC wires...

 

sand on man... i would think thats the only way to get rid of the swirls.. worth a try

 

great thread, I appreciate you going through details like the wiper arm removal and air bags. Im gonna be walking this road in the next couple weeks. Keep up the good work!