WOW awesome job!! What exact paint and clear did you use?

 

is that a big block!!

 

...sure is. What do you think?

 

^ one of my favorite cars on here

 

i love it! any trouble getting it in here?

 

Hey thanks man.

 

you need a vid of that thing running

 

Before all the work




Primed




And finally painted

 

here is mine i just finished up today.

 

^ That is ******* awesome!

Heres mine if nobody saw it...

 

here is a close up of my paint for those of you who want to know...its white with blue pearl and the stripes are chevy arrival blue(815k) with blue pearl all marblized.

 

sick work....if I ever upgrade engines I could see myself trying to tackle this kind of project.

 

freshly painted

 

Haha their ya go! Why bother with removing everything when you can just mask it off.

 

86superstreet, what is that color?

 

This... makes me happy! Love the smoothed strut towers.

 

@tylercamaro

its 2008 Corvette Z06 427 Special Maroon

 

sure as hell beats the maroon i was gonna roll with

 

its damn expensive ill tell ya that, for everything its got in paint and products it better come out lookin good.

 

guess ill just stick with my cheap paint thats right around that color, then a good layer of primer and clear

 

engine is gonna look sick sitting in front of that!! So you welded your u strut tower caps too???

 

Nope. Fiberglassed them. I have a stb and sfc's...

 

Your tellin me! My blue pearl i used is $200 for an 8oz bottle. Thank god i work at a body shop.

 

Sorry for bringing up an old thread/hijacking it, does anybody know where i can get those front lights from the orange camaro posted on the first page? I cannot find them anywhere thanks.

 

ebay

 

my uncle painted the car for me thank god but my dad and i bought the product and did all the labor. the clear with the hardener and catalyst was $400 luckily he had some of the color laying around but at his shop in the computer that paint was $98 for 1qt!

 

I also hid the headlight harness, mine is ran inside the frame rail, so no it doesnt get wet.

hers a bad pic, but you can see where is goes in.

 

How are you guys going about smoothing things such as strut tower? Fiberglass? Bondo? Other methods?

 

Here's mine. Filled all the unneeded holes and welded plates over the battery tray indentions on both sides. Relocating the battery to the spare tire well and not reusing the washer bottle. I even "smoothed" the fuel injectors! They are wired in the pic.

 

here's mine.

before:




After:

 

why didn't my wheel wells come out as smooth as some of the other guys in this thread??

Am I the only one who's camaro had ugly ripples on the wells? I tried my best to smooth it out, but it's not nearly as nice. What is the secret?

 

Lightweight filler, glazing putty, Featherfill G2. Three coats of BC, and three coats of clear.

Featherfill shot with 1.8mm primer gun bc/cc shot with a 1.4mm finishing gun. I use a deVilbiss siphon feed primer gun, and a Sharpe fx3000 finish gun. Pressure and viscosity have a lot to do with the finish takes practice.

 

Crazy lookin engine bay.....but smoothed out....hope ya like!!!!

Marc

I used my wife's 82 TA for mock up... this cover stuff is test fitted on her car....












Before paint



Here's the engine going in , just in case you thought you saw a turbo cover....remember, test fitting.



Hopefully before long, all will be in for a very smooth engine bay....Sorry so many pics...just hard to explain what I'm doing....KITT was supposely a Turbine engine. So, well, mocked one up for a carb , turbo engine..... Smoothed bay out and getting stuff all test fitted on wife's car, and can't wait to put in mine....Talk to ya soon...

NICE engine bays guys.....AWESOME!!! ALOT of hard work huh? OH YEY!!!!

Marc

 

I know its been awhile since anybody posted on this thread but was wondering how are you guys doing the blower motor for heat?.
My 92 RS had the A/c ripped out of it when i got it so not going to put it back in just need to get rid of the rst that goes in the firewall.
built a 383 stroker carbed for the car but wont look as nice as your guys cars

 

Either we are running no heat or a/c at all or using a vintage air® box that is universal that mounts under your dash inside.

 

is there a site for thre vintage air? because i love the clean look of the firewall's i need no air but perfer to keep a heater since i will drive mine when i can afford the gas too lol

 

http://www.vintageair.com/

 

really wished i had a shop to have done this might have been doen already.
But once i get a small shop i want to pull everything back out and redo the whole car.
Has a bit of rust on bottom side were it seems the car was wrecked at one time. I pulled the factory 305 and 700R4 out and built a 383 stroker and a built 700R4 raptor

 

Why do you need a small shop? I did mine all at home besides me taking it to work to paint

 

Don't need a shop. I didn't mine in my driveway while I had the motor out rebuilding it. All while working full time, and spending time with the family. Worked on the bay and my motor from 7 am to 9 pm every Sunday took me a little over a month to finish.

My car (along with many others here) isn't a daily driver. I have a 750 mighty demon with no choke tower, with a single plane manifold. Getting it to warm up is an issue in the cold. I don't drive it in sub 55 degree weather. So there is absolutely no need for heat, and I chose not to have A/C. I just drive back and forth to shows/meets and work a few times a week from april-october. No blower motor needed. Not to mention no radio, speakers, heater or a/c controls. My door handles, locks, gfx and bumper are also shaved and smoothed. Also have a manual steering box.

 

Me and 2 buddys got it knocked out in 3 weeks while they were layed off from work. Be prepared for every finger tip to be rubbed raw.

 

yea mine wont be a daily driver either with the price of gas so high but once its done i like to drive it as much as possible. but what all is done with shaving the engine bay besides removing all the ugy parts? and any idea were i can get the strut tower braces for a carbed motor?

 

Not to be a dick but you can search for the stb on here along with many other things yourself. Edelbrock makes the stb ur looking for. And besides removing all the ugly crap, their are about 12 huge holes in the firewall to be shaved, all the holes in the frame rails and wheel wells and some of us like myself have gone as far as boxing in the corners behind the headlights. All seams welded and smoothed out. And like said these are not daily drivers by no means but show winning vehicles. I dont recommend doing this to a daily driver with its potential break downs and oil leaks.

 

I used a copper spoon and welded all the holes shut that where smaller than a dime, and ground smooth, then finish sanded, and skim filled. All the other holes had blank pieces punched out of flat stock, welded in place, ground down, sanded and skimmed.

Battery trays where removed and fit with same dimension sheets of blank flat stock. welded, smoothed and filled.

All wires and harnesses where extended and routed through fender wells.

All dents and ugly, uneven bent metal was filled and smoothed.

Whole bay was finish glazed, primed with g2 filler/surfacer, re-sanded smooth, then painted.

The price of gas has nothing to do with whether or not my car is a daily driver. That's probably the least of it. Number 1 reason being is I dont want to drive a vehicle around everywhere that I have poured my blood, sweat, and tears into, not to mention countless hours of labor and last but not least $$$$.

 

You ran your wires through the fender wells? I drilled a hole in my floor pan to gain access to the inside of my frame rails and fished the wires through and pulled them out the front where the bumper bar attaches.

 

Yes, technically. Actually if you pull the fender off you will notice a small grove in which you can run wires. These wires are not able to be accessed from the engine bay or from the fender wells themselves. You have to unbolt the fender and pull it back slightly and all wires are at your access.

Easier to fix shorts, or broken wires, and less labor. For me at least.

 

The price of has does not dictate when I drive my car either, weather does. I too have pit a lot of time and cash into it, but when its all said and done its just a car and when weather is nice is drive the **** out of it.

 

Before:

After:

 

-resurrect- MWAHAHAHA

 

What are you guys running for an overflow tank?