well i figured id start my own little thread since the car is nearing completion. shes come a long way since i got it. that was two years ago, hiding under all that pretty paint the po put on it was a pile of rust and half assed repairs and not to mention the paint itself was a crappy job. amazing how good a crappy car can look in pics. so i got it in august of 2007 unaware of all the previously mentioned problems. i drove 6 hours to get it and 6 hours back. then over the next month i spent roughly 2 grand on a new floor, two new rear wheel wells, a new windsheild, four new tires and a few mounts and bushings and stuff just to make the thing road worthy. i got to drive it for a few weeks then it was time for winter storage. so winter passes by and i take it out and everything is running good and strong, i have it out about a week someone backed into the front drivers side fender, left a huge dent. so i get a new fender and before i get it painted and put on the following week some doofus cuts me in a silverado and i end up with this: spent the rest of the summer rebuilding it, needed a new hood and a new fender along with the latch support. the rad support was bent and is now straightend and everything is perfect. you would never know this car was in an accident. so i was left with this: and boom its winter time again.

so in the fall i find a motor, 4 bolt main 5.7L:

and over the winter me and my dad rebuilt it into this:

just a stock rebuild for now to replace the worn out, tired 305 and i also had the tranny rebuilt and we got it in and running strong:

ok motors done, so the car is 100% rust free now, runs like a champ and all the panels are straight and line up perfect. now im getting excited. time for paint and body work.

and here i am now:


so she is now all prepped and ready for paint. its going to be pretty much the same color with silver gfx and the sides of the cowl are going to be silver. heres the paint mix if anyone is interested its a custom mix:

and when paint is done its straight to the exhaust shop. i ordered the headers and y-pipe last week. i will be updating as things get completed. any suggestions, comments? if it was hard to read i apologize, i was never good in english class.

Give props where props are due. Look's good so far.

It looks like it's coming along nicely. Be sure to add more pictures once it's been painted. I'm sure it will look great.

got the tail panel under the bumper cover painted with rocker guard and shot with the blue. looks good so far. pics later

Nice job! Looks like your doing great so far.

heres the tail panel. this is what the final paint will look like minus the rocker guard. my camera really dont do the color justice.

and bye bye old 305 exhaust to make way for my custom 3 inch with flowmaster muffler and hedman headers (hoping they arrive from summit next week)

no the tips arent blue thats over spray from painting the tail panel

got some more done today. shaved the antenna and masked everything off:


and sprayed the primer:

assuming everything goes as planned the car will be sprayed this week

Looks good bro. Time pays off eventually! Way to keep at it...

got the body + spoiler + mirrors + gas cap painted to day!! ill lets the pictures do the talking its crappy cell phone pics that do this nooo justice. illl have em up later im busy right now

pics as promised, upon close inspection a bit of dust settled on the hood any ideas? :




reassembly starts tomorrow! (and if you havent noticed i changed my mind on the silver)

car is shaping up nicely, keep the updates coming.

Hey Brennan,

Car looks great, are you a member of nf-fbody.com?

nope, i might have to check it out now. where you from?

another update. pretty well done, still contemplating on the gfx color. ill let the pics do the talking:
there a little dark but what the hell


hedman headers and y-pipe which will be modified to a 3 inch

installed:

new catch can. this was the best place i could find to mount it it cost 15 bucks from summit and is 100 times better then the old yellow catch can that used to be on the car.

hey brennan

I'm from mount pearl, I have a silver 84 camaro here with a 400sbc and a th350 tranny with shift kit. Car still needs alot of work but seeing yours all painted reminds of me what the end result will be.

do you know of any good junk yards out that way? im going to st. johns for labor day weekend with a few friends and i really need to find a non a/c blower motor box and a few fourth gen parts would be nice

humm, i'd try kenny's in kilbride, i know for a fact there is at least one car there and I know they have parts, for fouth gen, try autopartsnetwork on topsail road, you don't have any spare stuff kicking around do ya?

not really just a few misc. engine parts parts, you lookin for anything?

Thanks for your posting, Brennan. Very good thread, and I like the engine build and bodywork. Good job, bro. I have a thread sort of like this one, which is a bit older, but you might enjoy it. http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/bo...ore-crash.html (My Camaro Before Crash, After Crash, and In the Body Shop)

man the only good thing about wrecking the car is you can buyild it back to whatever you want. the other day i got all the gfx painted ( Mercedes alpine rain effect is the color, its a metallic silver with a blue tint) and installed it yesterday but it was raining so this is the only decent pic so next step is the exhaust shop.

I've never thought about painting my car blue, but the blue you picked looks good. I'm gonna go with a sweet red that you find on the new Caddys and also GMC vehicles. It'll be close to the red I chose for my last Camaro from that post I gave ya, but it'll be a brighter hue.

been a while since an update. ive been busy driving it! exhaust is done i wanted a 3 inch single pipe but they couldn't find the proper muffler so they stuck a jones fullboar (identical to flowmaster super 40 i think) on the the y-pipe and ran two 2 1/4 inch pipes back from there with 3 inch chrome tips, sounds amazing!! anyway gave her a quick rinse today. still needs a power steering pump and im shopping for a new interior. are these things ever actually done?


got my antique plates!

Wow Brennan you must be very proud!SHe looks freakin' AWESOME!
You did an excellent job!

I think I wanna keep my gfx on my 84 silver now. Looks AWESOME. I love the hood. I wish I went bigger, o well the 3 inch will do.

I can tell you love your car! Nice job on all the repairs and paint! I really like the silver rockers.

WOW! That looks awesome. Are those tail light covers or are they tinted?

Damn dude, car looks great. A new set of wheels would really throw it off.

thanks for all the compliments, theres alot of time and money and blood, sweat and tears into this thing.
covers. the brand is avs i think
after i get a new interior thats next on the list, lookin for 17" chrome 5 spokes with a bit of a dish to em. look up sinisterz, his car has the rims i want.

kind of an update, got a new wheel. so in a very small way i suppose i started the new interior.
before:

after: grant gt challenger wheel,

the horn button went on crooked and i have no idea how to remove it and it doesn't feel like it can twist anybody that can help?

Awesome car nice work and the color is great.

your best bet is to just use some muscle until it turns.

I had the exact same wheel in my camaro and thats what i had to do.

I used to have the same wheel on my 84.... i was able to remove the center cap by punching the crap out of it haha... only came to violence because the horn got stuck in my neighborhood at 2 in the morning!!!

did u need an installation kit for that wheel. they would happen to be a direct bolt on wheel would they?

yeah, im pretty sure all the grant wheels need the grant wheel adapter. its only $25 and its more then a few nuts and bolts so you need it.

any updates ?

Unfourtanatly no not really I've got a new steering colum to replace mine which won't start the car unless it's tilted all the way down. I'm shoppin for a new interior but pieces in new or even decent condition are hard to find. I bought my self an 06 duramax last month to so everything else is kinda on the back burner.

make sure there is no play in your steering wheel column and make sure that the ignition switch on the steering wheel column is installed correctly... I had that problem on an 85 camaro, but I don't remember if there were other steps involved.. I know though for a fact that the steering column was NOT replaced...

what interior pieces are you looking for?

I'm in mount pearl.

One day while the interior was out to put the new floor in, the Key wouldn't turn back or come out. so we got into the colum and found a peice of plastic jammed in the gear on the end of the ignition cylinder ever since then the colum been like it. Any ideas?

looks great!

any chance i could get a close up pic of your center caps, i've seen the chrome like center caps but have no idea where to find em, i just dont like my black ones anyone know if these are for sale anywhere or if they came on some camaros and not others or something?

A picture would really help...