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Old May 21, 2017 | 01:59 AM
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Looking great!
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Old May 23, 2017 | 12:53 PM
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this build is amazing.
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Old May 24, 2017 | 09:59 AM
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Looking great, love the attention to detail!
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YEa, its pretty amazing.
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Old May 24, 2017 | 11:20 AM
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congrats ok paint !!! What color?
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Old May 24, 2017 | 11:34 AM
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congrats ok paint !!! What color?

thanks all. Still undecided on the color. Got about 30 days to decide.
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ready for updates on this one!
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Old Jun 23, 2017 | 09:50 AM
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Yea this looks great. Where are those hood vents from? Did I miss that in the thread?

NM quick research and I found them. Hexvent and originally for 5th gen.

Look really good on there.
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Old Jun 23, 2017 | 11:20 AM
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ready for updates on this one!
Paint jail. They just started on it this week. Hope to have first stage and in primer by next week. Color is narrowed to these, or just black with stripe.
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Old Jun 23, 2017 | 11:25 AM
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Blue is my vote.
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Old Jul 1, 2017 | 12:30 PM
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Old Jul 5, 2017 | 03:49 AM
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Have you chosen a color yet?
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Old Jul 5, 2017 | 02:32 PM
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That looks like progress to me, nice.
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Old Jul 8, 2017 | 12:37 AM
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Allrighty then! I currently have a LS6-T56 mounted on their now I didn't notice your engine mounts- I will go back and look and I really don't see an issue with it being raised some and forward I may see if I can go forward 1" as that may help mount a small Sanden compressor as AC isn't an option in Texas it's a requirement! and with the belt system these have that would be a major win. I did speak to Detroit speed and when they designed the frame there was no LSA or LS 7? IIRC . I believe the factory manifolds will allow my rack steering shaft to fit fine
next my transmission issue is the std T56 wont accept the LSA dual disc clutch so that will need to go and that leaves me with modifying the TR6060 and possibly using the T56 tail housing for shifter mounting but also requires a longer main shaft to allow a slip yoke to be used and of course the T56 is couple inches longer than the TR6060 man this has opened a whole can of worms for me! I really have to rethink this! thank you for taking the time to explain
final question : so you did move the shifter closer to the transmission, by how much?
I'm doing the same swap into my first gen camaro and haven't picked which transmission I am going to run yet. but from what I am reading, you are going to change the whole transmission just to run a stock lsa dual disk clutch? Why not just use an aftermarket dual disk?
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Old Jul 9, 2017 | 09:21 AM
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Have you chosen a color yet?
no color choice yet. Poly coat.















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Old Jul 9, 2017 | 11:43 AM
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You gotta be getting excited!!! I'm looking forward to seeing this come together.
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Old Jul 16, 2017 | 02:36 PM
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blocking starts this week.










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Old Jul 17, 2017 | 05:56 PM
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Man that thing looks good. Any work on the color yet?
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Old Jul 30, 2017 | 03:35 PM
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Hardtop is going to be Nightshade Grey Metallic (still working on stripe), and the vert Hyper Blue Metallic with white bumblebee. The vert was really clean with the exception of the quarters and lower outer wheel wells. i opted to patch the outer wheel wells due to the amount of work and structure on the convertibles, combined with the fact the not a lick of rot an inch off the lips. everything will be aligned, cleco'd, and the quarter will be removed to scribe and cut the replacement lip for a clean butt weld..

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Old Aug 11, 2017 | 05:23 PM
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Final colors selection....in 2K to be blown apart next week for edging....about 30 days ETC.






















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