The Camaro Club (UK)

Looking darned good.

How are you going to blend the Hugger front with the wings, if at all ?

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Thanks Stu

The standard 3 piece front spoiler spats go on the wings first, then the hugger splitter fits over the top of that so it should all blend together nicely. Like this:

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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´d love a set of those wheels......

I think I've got some of those front spats, as I bought them just for the centre section I used to make my old front spoiler.

Let me know if you need them .

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Covered head to toe in GRP dust tonight. Whoever fitted the hugger spoiler had glassed on a lip to hold dzus fasteners, but made a right mess of it. So I cut it off and returned the bumper to stock shape. Now gives me the option to use either the Z28 style spoiler or the hugger one. Not decided yet.

Need to do quite a lot of repair work tomorrow. Got a few cracks to deal with in the lower section, nothing too difficult though. After that a little filler and some primer. Should have it fitted on the car over the weekend. Then sort all the body lines out.

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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.

It's funny how we have this slight optimism that the last guy did a good to decent job, when that's never the case lol. Sounds like you have a fun week of glassing ahead of you. A few days ago i was covered in GRP dust, only, as it was hot, i was only wearing shorts and thought i would use an abrasive disc on an angle grinder instead of hand sanding to speed things up. I couldn't sleep that night because using the angle grinder has actually embedded loads of tiny pieces of glass all over me and i was itching like you wouldn't believe. Lesson learnt lol. Sounds like you'll be on the body lines by the end of the weekend then?

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I know what you mean Ray. But then I am really quite fussy, it has to be just right, or not bother at all.

Spent most of the day yesterday repairing the bumper with new GRP, then today prepping the front bumper for primer. Got it done in the end, still needs a bit of work before fitting it, so doesn't look like I will get it on there this weekend. But I can still crack on with other things. Does look better in one colour though.



Then spent a couple of hours prepping and finish painting the mirrors. Seemed a good part to test the colour on anyway. Pleased with the colour choice. Varies from orange to red depending on the light. The base coat looked really red before I applied the clear. Spent a bit of time dialling in the mix and gun set up and and just for a change I am pleased with the results straight out of the spray gun.

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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.

Finished off the filler on the bumper/nose today and squirted it with Green Ti. Just needs a quick rub down and a blast with epoxy tomorrow night then it can be fitted back up.



Spent the rest of the day messing around trying to get the body lines right. With so much new sheet metal, and a lot of patching it took a while. Fairly happy with the results. Looks a bit patchy where I've blown over the new filler with epoxy. Sharpened up all the lines and sorted the fit of all the panels. Next thing to do once the bumper is on is fit all the flares so I know they go on ok.

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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.

Doing good there sir, it's really starting to take shape! That mirror came out amazing Seriously, no flatting or anything..? That's flat as hell, what gun did you use?! Not even the faintest of orange peen on there

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Thanks Ray. The mirror is as the paint laid out of the gun, pretty pleased with it. Shame I don't really have the facilities at home to spray the whole car. The only big workshop is the one used for woodwork, as you can imagine the atmosphere in there isn't ideal!

I am using a Sata Jet NR95. Getting a bit ancient now, but it's a good gun. Getting clear coat to lay flat is a PITA, I don't always get it right

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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.