awesome work all of your builds are amazing

 

awesome build. I love reading these cant wait to tear into mine. awesome build. good job. cant wait to see the end result

 

Finished welding the axle and started bolting stuff back on. Good to see it coming together again. I'm going to drop the axle and some other stuff I have off at the powdercoater soon. Also still waiting on my BMR arms and K member

 

i have a question in your camaro thread you mentioned you didnt like edelbrock, but in the second to last recent pic you have an edelbrock banner/sticker. and im assuming thats your garage you work in. so my question is do you have a secret like for them or was it a freebie that is just on the wall now? =)

 

It was a freebie from summit And it's nothing more than a cheap piece of plastic w cheap print on it, like a garbage bag.

I have edelbrock stuff and I like some of it, have a stn from them carbs and other stuff, I just don't like their bling bling stuff. I do like the pro flo. I don't detest everything edelbrock but over here, someone with a smogger engine and some edelbrock elite covers and a filter housing suddenly has an edelbrock nascar engine with 500HP. It's really sad.

 

i guess its a way for him to feel special, i wasnt trying to hassle you just thought of it, im basically in the same boat as you on my views of them

 

LOL, it doesn't get any better over here....Every time I see that stupid triangular air cleaner with the foam filter on someones car I feel the need to give them one of these:

 

lmaoooooo, i will admit my camaro has an edelbrock air filter cover, but not the filter itself, its more for looks though itll be gone once i rebuild the car

 

Got the stuff back from the coater and my subframe & arms came in







some misc. parts including the SFCs for my Camaro

 

Sweeet.

 

The crossmember needs a little wresting to get all the bolts started. I also don't have the upper spring mounts and it looks like without it you need spacers to make up for the difference. I want to use weight jackers and am contemplating building something from scratch

 

Hey, that K-member and A-arms looks very familiar! LOL, My K member needed all the bolts to be started loose as well, but I'm sure with how sloppy these chassis are from the factory, no 2 are the same. I like the black powdercoat. Did you do that or did they come that way? I know BMR used to offer black as an option, but only on the older units. Now it's just red or hammertone.

Anyways, car is coming along great man. I'm a sucker for all that tubular suspension stuff and bright red bushings! Looks awesome!

 

It's an older unit that I got from someone on here, I was expecting it to be hammertone and I would have stripped it down and have it coated black. I lucked out in that respect.

 

Time to get cracking here...stalled for way too long. I finally got my bedliner in, should have taken 3 weeks...took 3 months..what a nightmare. Always the same ole....same ole crap.

I finally finished the underside, sprayed everything and welded up that horrendous hole above the tank.

All the rest of the bolts and misc. parts are at the platers. I have new bearings and stuff for the 9 bolt rear. In the next couple of weeks I'll be able to put this thing back together.

 

how much bedliner did that take?

 

A full gallon can will do the whole car.

 

Well, got more bolts in from the platers and decided to (partially) assemble the rear suspension & axle. I still have to get a Fays2, a TA rear cover, brackets for 12" rear brakes and a bunch of other stuff. I also rebuilt the pbr calipers but I'm missing one parking brake cable bracket. It looks like the plater lost it as it was there before. Seriously pissed about that and hope I can find a replacement without having to buy a whole caliper.

More gold bolts and nuts (there's more than of this car, I always throw in all my spare bolts and nuts that come of various projects)



the calipers




rear susp, finally starting to look like something again

 

ho wi wish i had a lift to work under. what shocks are those? they look like bilstiens, but im probably wrong

 

bilsteins indeed

 

looks great, always enjoy following your builds

 

always great. i looked at the irocs build again and just thought about asking what is that rust covertor you use?

 

Rust convertor??? Do you mean the brush on epoxy I used? It's called brunox here but doubt you can get it over there. If you mean the black coating, it's EZ Liner

 

yeah i meant the brunox.

 

Are they V6 heater pipes you are using in this pic? Far end on the right, next to a stock V8 heater pipe.. I have been contemplating picking up a set of these, wondered if they would work so you dont have to run a rubber line down the side of the engine from the outlet on the intake manifold..

 

Those 2 on the far right are from a KC4 engine oil cooler setup, thse particular oens are 91 or 92 w/ the large head on the end that screws into the KC4 unit with a single screw, identical to AC lines on the compressor.

This

 

This is an awesome build. From what I hear you have some previous builds that are very impressive. I'll have to look them up some time.

 

What kind of thermal wrap is that by the way? I'm thinking of getting something like that when I get headers.

 

Those pics are from my 87 IROC build thread. It's thermotec black wrap however it's more gray than black. NEw it's darker in color but I like to wrap my pipes with wet wrap and then heat them to pull the wrap tight. Some of the color washed off.

 

Holy crap! Thats crazy!

 

Someone told me those wraps are bad cause they can cause holes in the headers from overheating . I thought it sounded kinda crazy , ever hear of that ? I think I like them

 

Yah, that doesn't sound right to me. The only reason I can think that they might cause holes in the headers is because of holding in water, causing rust. Overheating doesn't make any sense.

 

Wait, TT, are you in the Netherlands? As in Holand?

 

yeah hes in the netherlands, and the wrap reduces heat in the engine bay, if there covered in water for a long amount of time i suppose they can rot out a manifold or header, but id only use header wrap on a car that isnt a dd, because with that amount of dirt and stuff i imagine the wrap would get fairly nasty. just my 2 cents

 

Ahh! This thread is too amazing! Don't know how it's slipped past me for so long. Subscribing. Can't wait to see it finished.

 

I can say from experience that that turbo wrap is excellent at what it does. With my car running for 5 minutes or so, I can literally hold my hand on the exhaust piping in my engine bay...and thats on a turbo car where the pipes are hotter than normal! The rust issue I have never heard of. Probably another internet myth that someone started who had never even used the stuff before. The ONLY issue I have ever heard of that comes up with it is if you spill oil or something like that on it, it stays in the wrap and can cause a fire in the engine bay by getting hot enough. I sure as heck don't let my engine get that dirty though where that would ever be an issue!

 

Yup, Holland isn't really a correct name, it's called the Netherlands and there's 2 provinces called north and south holland.

As for that Street & Performance Multiport. It's a no go, it doesnt fit under the hood and I'm hellbent on keepig the power bulge hood. I could cut some off the inner structure but I really don't want to. Have a spare PB hood but still. The duggans are a no go mot likely too, they have tiny 38cc chambers and E85 is not available readily here. I'll probably get a stroker LS for it, probably w/ L92 heads and a carb spider intake and some of those nice pontiac scripted valve covers. I'll also have to get an LS T56 then. Into the spare manual tranny corner the other T56 goes

I have ran cars with wrapped headers and never had a problem and it's pretty humid/wet here. I will take the reduced temps over the deterioration of the steel any day. If the header fails I can simply buy some new ones. Stainless would be ideal in this case however.

 

I don't know the science behind it, but header wrap keeps the heat in, causing the metal to fatigue at an accelerated rate. Many times when you unwrap the header, the metal is oxidized and falls apart. It could also cause the metal to crack.

 

It's not the water but the trapped heat that causes the deterioration. I spray my wraps with silicone so it doesn't become a wick hen oil leaks onto it, keeps water out too.

 

I'd love to have all those bolts/nuts in my junk bucket lol

 

Isn't silicone spray flamable though? Or is it just the propellant that's flamable?

And would you suggest these wraps for a soon to be daily driver? I plan on having an open element air intake, and I live in Texas, so I have enough heat in my engine bay already. These wraps would seem to be very benificial. Plus I plan on going cheap on some headers.

 

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID

 

Now you've got my attention! The duggan setup was very different, but nothing beats the street car driveability of an LSx.

 

id say no on the dd for heat wrap sorta a stupid idea to me, and the propellant is flammable in most cases

 

I wouldn't wrap my dd either unless you get some cheap stainless chinese headers. I'd wrap those without any hesitation.

 

Found this...someone wrote a small article about this car


http://www.streetlegaltv.com/news/th...old-treatment/

 

nice job bud

 

Sweet.

 

Amazing work buddy

 

Very nice work so far.

I'll be starting my undercarriage restoration and suspension upgrade build in the spring and using some of what I've seen here to help me.

Thanks

 

Major problem here...the wheels don't fit with my C5 brakes bolts that hold the 3 pieces together hit the caliper and I'd need a serious spacer to clear. Not going to do that. I ahve 2 options, swap to 1LE hubs w/ C4 Corvette J55 (13") rotors and use a set of baer PBR calipers (I have a spare set and a set of grand sport corvette calipers) but I'd like to retain the eradispeed plus rotors and C5 calipers so that means new wheels.

I just bought a set of deep concave wheels for my camaro and shopped the same wheels under the TA and changed the color to gold. The Camaro has matte black wheels, these are shopped off a set of silver ones (internet pic)



What do you say?? Mind you, I absolutely have to have gold wheels LOL