The Camaro Club (UK)

Gonna have a shot at getting the engine and trans in this weekend... will see how it goes.

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Cleaned up the transmission yesterday, made new oil cooler lines and found where a few of the leaks were coming from when I had the car on the road. Still need to fit a new dipstick and kickdown cable. Dug the new torque convertor out as well, B&M Holeshot 2400.

Finished putting new core plugs in, fitted the new flex plate.

Worst bit was the engine mounts didn't line up by around 1/4" each side. Got the bolts in after a while. Hope I don't have to take them out again....

Stuffed the headers on loosely as well just to see what clearance I've got, they're Hedman ones. Need shorty plugs and going to fit a mini starter. Other than that, all looks good. Ground clearance looks good too, bottom of the header flange is level with my SFC's

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Today I fitted the additional fuse and relay boxes on the firewall and plotted out a few other bits for the engine bay. Tried fitting the PS pump and found the return hose will clash with the pitman arm, so need to find another pump. Might have a go at making the subframe to firewall braces next weekend.

So thought I would have a go at the instrument panel. Seems like I have so much to do at the moment, I can't stick to one thing

I wanted to keep the stock dash, but fit up to date instruments. Got a set of Autometer ones for a sensible price, but no way I was forking out on an aftermarket custom dash. Still had the old gauge cluster and it seemed ripe for cutting up and making the others fit. Thankfully none of it's visible once its installed anyway

Cut an aluminium plate to fit in where the speedo and tacho were to give me something to mount the new gauges to. Then cut out the holes for the smaller gauges in the original cluster. Had to cut most of the back off the cluster, and still need to cut out some more to clear the clamps for the gauges. Got too cold outside at that point so I gave up for today

Quite pleased with the results.

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

That's look smart! Which autometer range is that, looks like sport comp but with black faces?

Did you scrub up the original finish on the front, or repaint balck with silver detail? looks new!

Cheers for the updates

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Thanks Ray

Its the Designer Black range. They are really cheap compared to the Sport-comp range too

Amazon Linky

That photo makes the original bezel look better than it is Its dusty and grubby! It's in quite goo condition underneath the grime though.

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Jeez amazon does the whole range of gauges from autometer, not even from a reseller, direct from amazon. wish i would have known - i found the exact same gauge set, worked it out with tax and customs added on, works out at half the price that i paid here in the UK, including the 10% discount i got! i'll go be bitter for a while

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Yeah, Summit list them at a similar price, but Amazon's shipping is a lot cheaper.

Off to collect some more parts tonight, so I can crack on and get this thing running by Christmas!

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Wired the dash up tonight, and tried getting a pic of it lit up as best I can. I like red illumination, so went with that option. Stock is white though...

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

Well finished the ECU and looms off tonight, and thanks to a mate I have got a trigger wheel and VR sensor. This weekend will mostly be wiring the engine bay once I have finished a couple of other minor jobs, like a lambda sensor bung for the exhaust and fitting said trigger wheel and sensor. Which may take longer than initially thought...

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.

I fitted the trigger wheel. I modified it to fit on the back of the damper as its a major job to space everything out if it's mounted on the front. Though it's far from ideal being mounted on the damper, it's good enough to get me running, in the mean time I will probably look at putting a new steel damper on then I can make a more permanent job of it and come up with some way of fixing it to the solid centre section. All that said people seem to get away with running them on dampers pretty regularly. Haven't made the VR sensor bracket yet, turns out BB and SB are quite a bit different



Spent the rest of the day wiring up. Still loads to do. Need to buy some injector connectors to finish the engine off. The rest is wiring up the new fuse and relay boxes, which I'll probably get on with tomorrow.

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My '80 progress thread - hugger orange! Now with LQ9 power - forged pistons, LS2 rods, 236/242, .621/.612, flowed and milled 317 heads. MS3X

4L80e, 12 bolt, 4.11, Moroso brute strength posi, steel shafts.

Subframe connectors, g-braces, solid body bushes, carbon hood and front bumper, custom door cards, Autometer gauges.