here is what I are working on, its a 68 camaro getting the drive train, and all the creature comforts of the 06 GTO.... The owner wanted a fun to drive nice cruiser, that is comfortable, and able to roll with the power tour....
here are some pics of the front subframe, wilwood brakes, and the new drive train..... the subframe is a martz, thats been powdercoated... the eng/trans is a LS2 (stroked, 408)/ t56 combo...

 

and the drivetrain getting the Don's killer customs treatment

 

the tear down, and clean up

 

the GTO oil pan had to go, and we switched it to the f-body oil pan.... while in there, i checked out the bottom end on the 408 stroker motor...all looked good...so the engine and trans got painted/cleared

 

once everything was painted/cleared it was time to set it in the subframe.....once i had it mounted in the subframe, i set the drive line angle to 3.5*, so i could make a trans crossmember to maintain that angle...

 

and here is the sweet custom trans crossmember, its was inspired by the old 'woodies' wagons

 

or not.....the trans crossmember is made of 1x2 tubing, to match the motor stands already welded on the frame...i also made it so the exhaust can pass through....here is some pics of it, then it was blasted, painted, and installed

 

Great project!!

 

then the engine and trans were installed, and started reassembling the engine..

 

and finally the car arrived, i gota jump start on the subframe, and engine trans... but now the fun will begin, the car came to me with the firewall smoothed, and the front clip just, temp bolted together....so i started the complete tear down of the car

 

out with the old

 

Awesome project can't wait to see more.

 

bolting up subframe into the car..

 

i then started the disassembly of the interior, to get it to the bare bones...

 

here is the donor car, and the new dash/ interior being retro fitted in.

 

first thing i did was to fit the center console in, since the shifter was in the spot i wanted in, once i had the console where it needed to be, i made a mounting plate for it... drilled and tap the plate for the console to mount to...

 

once i had the console mounted, this gave me the reffrence as to how much of the dash i was going to have to cut off, the GTO dashes were way longer then the camaros were...here are a few pics of how i trimmed the dash.... once i had it trimmed, i removed the dash cap, so i could work on making mounting points for the underlieing structure...

 

and the dash pad installed, you get the idea of what it is going to look like...

 

since this is going to be a cruiser, it has to have a/c and heat, so that massive heat/ a/c unit was removed from the donor car..... more brackets were made, and some trimming here and there, and i managed to get that beast installed (kinda see it hiding under the dash)....

 

once i had the dash bolted in, i turned to getting the steering column in, the brake pedal, and the gas pedal installed...i had to smooth the driver side of the firewall, to get that clean look we were after, and to delete all the unused holes.... here are a few of the process pics