well after years of having a white door and no spoiler im finally starting on the bodywork phase of the camaro. Theres a lot to be done but heres a few begging pics.

Starting with a 120 grit wetsand then to a 220 wetsand on the whole car followed by a coat of high build primer.

 

Nice, bro. Goodluck with that. Do you plan on filling in the RS spot on the GFX?

 

No I'll either put rs ones back on or make some

 

nice work man while ur at it u may want to cut the front bumper cover center out like orroc did on his to get more airflow threw the intercooler ill have to dig up a pic to show u what i mean

 

 

thats pretty cool looking, but im keeping my grill on the car and if i cut that out id have nowhere to attach the grill and im keeping my fogs. so with all that in there you wouldnt be able to see the intercooler anyways. i kind of like having a "sleeper" so seeing the intercooler isnt that important to me.

i imagine cutting that part out would make the front bumper a bit weak, i bet if you accidently hit a curb or something with that it would flex in all the wront places

 

and the z28 spoiler im using, has an LED brake light in it. ive had this thing forever to i cant wait to see everything on the car

 

looks like someone got idea's from my Z....

 

Haha yea I got the vent idea from u and flynlows, the spoiler is just coincidence
Funny thing is I've had all of it for years including the vents just was never able to get it done, I pulled the vents back off so it would paint better and not have hard tape lines around them.

Only difference is yours is actually a Z and mine is a v6 Z killer

 

 

a few updates some block sanding on the hood and a bit of work in the decklid

thanks kev(deadbird)

 

yea, your wavy hood can still bite my -ss....

 

got the donor bumper off the parts car last night and stripped down this morning

deadbird did some more block work on the hood last night, hes right we could go surfing it has so many wavs..its looking WAY better than it did but will definitely need more work, got to love fiberglass parts

<~~~~ my hood

 

yeah it makes the lower lip very weak but a lil support bar offthe intercooler fixes that and it cant flex at all , the pic of my car is just a photoshop i did i never actually got around to doing it though orroc cut his out like that and it looks even better then the photoshop

 

lol i thought about doing this to mine a while back

 

haha i hope you changed your mind

 

well im stll thinking about it i think that with a bellmouth/80mm turbo inlet sticking threw the bumper there would look pretty good , and im going to a water to air intercooler so i dont need airflow threw the front for an a/a intercooler

 

little progress today, pulled the front bumper off my car...might work on switching the parts to the donar bumper today if i get back off the couch

slowly but surely getting somwhere, itll be ready by next year lol

 

well got the old bumper stripped down and with all my parts combined i am captain planet... sorry bad joke

going to sand them all down before i put them back together losely, also going to paint the headlight bar as it looks like poo

kevin(deadbird) did a little art work on the window

 

which grille to use?

i just scored a "camaro" grille and i already had the bowtie grille....will probably paint whichever one i use silver and teal for the bowtie or camaro

 

bowtie, though i would have both painted this way if one gets damaged u can swap on the other one

 

i was thinking about painting both just incase i wanted a small subtle change every now and then

 

..keep both. Put the Bowtie on first.

 

well as most of you know i have a donar parts car...well it just donated some skin thanks to mister saw zaw

maybe NEXT time it will remember to put the freaking lotion on the SKIN!!!

i have a touch of skin cancer behind passenger side wheel so i figured id keep the panel just incase the cancer is to deep i can just patch it up

 

"we dont neeeeeeed wheels where we're going" ~doc brown

had to put them on the scarp car till it gets hauled away so it would be a "roller" and i had a back to the future flashback

 

some sanding on the ps fender, not much but progress is progress

 

Lookin Good.... keep it comin

 

so i had a random paint scheme idea, looking for opinions(thanks kev for the photoshop)

 

thought about a sliver on top as well, if anyone can PS that

 

worked on some more stuff and....spray paint is fun

i dont think they look bad next to each other...maybe even a gunmetal grey who knows just playing around with some options, still a ways out

 

black and silver or black and gun metal would be cool as hell

 

has to be teal in there somewhere

 

well not much has been accomplished, but i did get a little work done on the door. had to sand out some old key marks. not sure how much more will get done since its getting cold and i have no heat in my garage.

 

Are you block sanding everything by hand? I've been sanding mine with a block by hand and it is taking forever, I was told by 2 body guys to use 320 grit wet. I see you are using 120 followed by 220, I assume that makes it alot easier to sand? I was told by the body guys that would be to coarse

 

yeah im doing mine by hand as well, and it is taking FFFOOOORRREEEVVVEEERRRR....

im doing the 120 to remove as much as the non stock paint job that i have on the car(this will be the 2nd aftermarket paint job) then the 220 to smooth it back out before the high build

im no body guy lol, once the primer is on ill be doing a lot higher grit sanding

 

I'll talk my body guy at work tomorrow, I been bugging him with questions almost daily since I started my paint project, im a mechanic this is my first try at body work. Looks like me and you are in the same boat mines in the garage the same way on jackstands and yes its getting cold out! Anyway looks like you got a good start keep it up, I know you need to be careful on the bumpers with that coarse grit! Maybe some body experts here can chime in!

 

im no body man but when i painted the 85 z i jus sold i used 220 on the factory paint then primmered then used 400 wet then painted it looked good but wished i wld hav used a 600 wet b4 the paint went on

 

little progress...filling in the old spoiler holes making from for the high rise spoiler

 

and more

much thanks to kev(deadbird)

 

yes and no...

I hate your car, btw

 

ha ha well it loves you

few more pics

 

and one shaved antenna

 

On your antenna, did you weld in a plug, then bondo over. I need to do same thing with mine and also my rear wiper

 

Made a backer to fit under, tacked in place in the 'notch' parts (where the antenna escutcheon went to keep from spinning) then made a filler plug and welded in. A backer and fill with body filler would be just as well but, I prefer minimal filler when possible.
In the long run, it's about equivalent time weld/grind/high build vs backer/filler/sand/high build.

 

Reminds me of one I saw on here a while ago, but done in pink and black. Looked really good actually

It's a nice paint scheme, I like it

 

i know u guys used a plug on the antenna , but how about the spoiler holes?? or did u just weld in a backing plate and fill with filler ??

 

For any holes, I usually make a backer piece and then and a plug due to the fact I'm using flux.
It's way to tough to just make a plug and cleanly weld it in place, without pinholes, with such thin metal using flux. Mainly because it makes a really dirty tack weld (kind of like arc), unlike mig.

Mig or Tig, I wouldn't bother with a backer. I'd just tack and cool a plug in.

 

thanks i have my flux machine and a tig machine i may try tack some plugs in with the tig

 

Take your time on the taking//welding as to not warp the pannels. I learned the hard way. As for block standing it is going to take some time but will look a lot sharper that just using a da and painting. Another note just incase you don't already know, when your blocking your body filler and the paper gets cloged you can use a piece of scotch bright and run it along the paper and it will clean most of it out so you don't have to use a lot of the expensive paper on every spot