The Camaro Club (UK)

lol, this is the race lightened version. front sheet metal is just unecessary weight

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is the inside of the engine bay painted in good old red lead?

Ah red lead! This is 2k red as was the body, but with a nice coating of dust should be fun trying to get the shine back in the engine bay!

@flak monkey - sorry i missed your reply!! A nasty side swipe covered up with many years of body filler is what happened I had to grind between 1/2 and 1" of filler off the door, and almost the same on the fender! So had a loooot of metal work to do. I really did learn my lesson about stripping a cars paint job down when you start a resto. All that glitters isn't gold as they say. Had i discovered this back in 2010 i would have got replacement parts, but it's so far into the build, i must be stubborn and persist

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So another step back - managed to dent one of the mirrors, which meant taking apart the housing to get to the dent. In doing so, the screws holding the unit together were seized, so had to put a lot into getting them freed up, which meant a broken mirror glass. So actually 2 steps back, as need to order mirror glass from the states, find some sort of glue that will hold it in and of course knock the dent out.

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On the other hand, i did decide to take apart and clean and paint the blower motor unit. why? insanity most likely

Forgot to take a pic of it painted, will do so later.

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You really are having a bit of bad luck at the moment aren't you? You might be able to get a mirror glass over here. Most car accessory places sell replacement mirror glass, well it's not actually glass but plastic, which can be trimmed to the shape you need hth

cheers..Nige

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Too much power...not enough hands!!

lol it doesn't stop there - when i trimmed the springs so it would look less like a monster truck, i did 1/2 a coil, then it sat better, but looked too high, so i trimmed a 1/4 of a coil. Then before installing back in, posted on here about which way up the spring should be as i was having a lot of difficulty with it. Someone posted saying pigtail down, flat side up in the chasis rail. Now, i had been putting the coil pigtail up, as that's how it came out the first time. That explains why the car was probably so high in the first place! needless to say, didn't need to trim the extra 1/4. Now i have to take apart the front suspension again to get an isolator in there to lift it back up.

Thanks for the tip on plastic mirror, i'll try and find somewhere local as that would save a lot of hassle!

Front ride height when i got the car: (used the wood block to get an exact measure on the height of the tyre, rather than tying to guess by eyeline)

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Ray, which mirror glass do you need? I might have one in the workshop

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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.

Ah mate that would be brilliant! I'll check tomorrow, can't remember which side it was, thanks

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Went into the garage and completely forgot why i went in there

Will check tonight!!

Made some progress yeserday with getting the rear seats retrimmed.

Frames were dersusted by hand, then painted,



Foam was in good condition but wrapped them in cotton batten for a nicer finish



Let the battle commence!



Almost done



done



the rear set complete

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