My engine bay (Start to finish) thread
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My engine bay (Start to finish) thread
I decided to do my entire engine bay to make it look nice. Here is about what I started with, the guy i bought the car from swap in a TBI engine with the worst wiring job i have ever seen. i cleaned up most the wiring, swap to a carb setup added a few bolt on's and that was it. the things that bother me the most is an unclean engine bay and undercarriage of a car. i was always to embarrassed to open my hood
Degrease and power washed
This is what a leaky master cylinder does
Hand sanding really sucks
Patchs for the firewall
Degrease and power washed
This is what a leaky master cylinder does
Hand sanding really sucks
Patchs for the firewall
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
After welding who knows how many small holes i laid a thin coat of fibber glass down, and filled in all the factory stretch marks and over laps in the metal
I used a spray on most the metal
I changed my mind and shaved the wiring, and smoothed out the strut towers with fibber galss filler and then a thin coat of bondo
Set and ready for primmer/sealer
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
The color
The base coat
Clear coat
Masked off the painted bay painted the k-member
Painted the transmission tunnel
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
It took me about 4 months to get to this point, spent about 2 days wet sanding and buffing out the bay, i refinished all the parts or bought new and then detailed them. I detailed everything even if it was hardly visible. if im going to make the bay look nice might as well spend the extra time and make everything look nice too! There will be more updates coming
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
Hard to tell by the few pics you posted but it's looking real nice! Love the silver. Whats the plans for the rest of the car?
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
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i haven't decided on what engine i want to put in yet i have a few laying around like a ZZ4 short block that iv been hanging onto for sometime now, i ended up refreshed this one, put in a cam and did some small things to get me by till i decided on what i want to build but it is going to be a gen1 sbc since the car is already setup for one plus all the parts i just bought for it so i basicly have been sitting up a foundation for the next
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
Great work, I love all the attention to detail. Looks real nice so far!
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Nice job.....won't be so embarassing to open the hood now !
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
That looks great, don't you just love clean shaved and smooth engine bays? I did the same to mine. I can finally sleep at night knowing there are no holes!
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
yes its soo nice now alot of hard work paid off, hey stevo do you have a link to what yours looks like?
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
Thats 1 clean engine bay, i want to do that to mine 1 day.......really badly, great work
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
Great Job
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the work so far looks completely awesome man!..keep up the good work
keep us updated too
keep us updated too
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
Thanks guys! I got the engine running and it sounds great!! all post some new pics soon! i tried to cheap out with high temp painted headers, after a few mins with the engnie running the paint started to bubble so all be swapping out for some jet-hot coated headers this time around
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ive got a year to get 4 more camaros and mad skills and i can be just like you. dude thats some awesome work you could have fooled me that you dont like doing body work
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
looks awesome!
i have the same problem with the brake fluid spilled all over, are you worried about rust coming back in that area?
someday when life isn't so crazy and i'm not in a different state every month i'm tear mine down too and make everything nice.
keep it up!
i have the same problem with the brake fluid spilled all over, are you worried about rust coming back in that area?
someday when life isn't so crazy and i'm not in a different state every month i'm tear mine down too and make everything nice.
keep it up!
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no not at all. i used a 2" sanding pad with 80 grit on an air power tool, then some other 2" disc from the assorted pack and went down to bare metal it took care of all of it, then just to be on the safe side i used a rust converter followed by a rust sealer....
and thanks for the complements
and thanks for the complements
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Thank you
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That's what I'm about to do to my Camaro. It's a 1992 RS.
and I thought taking out Dynamat was hard...
and I thought taking out Dynamat was hard...
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At least you don't have to remove Dynamat! lol
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Beautiful work so far.......great job.
What colour are you using?
What colour are you using?
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hopefully you wont run into any huge surprises....
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thanks , its orange! lol
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thanks , its orange! lol
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
Well i finally got my headers from jet-hot after waiting a few weeks for them to arrive.
Might be going on the car tonight
Might be going on the car tonight
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Damn I cant wait to get mine, lookin good yo. Im having Jet-Hot cut my tubes and weld them shut and will have their Sterling Coating as well....then I have to buy my corsa cat-back...
Take care and post when the headers are in, maybe even a video when possible....later dude man.
Take care and post when the headers are in, maybe even a video when possible....later dude man.
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Im glade i got the first set uncoated. they worked great for pulling in and out and mocking up where i needed to cut to clear some of the header primaries before dropping in my new jet-hot coated headers... i had to notch the k-member and both ears on the k-member where the lower control arms bolt to. it wasn't all that bad or hard. heres some pics,
enjoy!
enjoy!
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those are hedman's right? i had mine coated and then had to modify the header on the driver's side. thinking of getting it re-coated, maybe along with the whole exhaust. how's that for not rusting!!!!
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yea there hedmans. och! your thinking about coating the entire exhaust system??
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What a pain! so after i started to bolt these down there was another part of the a-arm mounting point i had to cut out and reinforce.... im all done though bit of work to fit the long tubes how i wanted but at least i wont have any dented primaries
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That looks incredible! It's the same route I'm thinking of going and a similar color (I'm really liking the sunburst orange GM uses on the new vets). Do you work in at a body shop, have access to one or did someone spray that for you. Excellent attention to detail. Also, thanks for the heads up on the notching! Looks like I'll be busy!
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Thanks! I don't work at a body shop or anything like that, i did everything even sprayed the base and clear, i set up a makeshift paint booth out of PVC pipe for the skeleton and used clear plastic to cover the bay making it fully enclosed. i taped all the seams and taped the plastic to the floor, cut a peace out of the sheet to mount a fitter and a vent hole for air to go out a side window in the garage i used a high rated CFM fan and pressurized the entire box (pushing air our not sucking it in) and keep the floor damp when i was painting to get whatever dust or over spray down. anyway the cars coming along i just have some wiring to wrap up and some other odds and ends, I'm currently work on the undercarriage
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Re: My Camaro (Start to finsh) thread
Thanks! I don't work at a body shop or anything like that, i did everything even sprayed the base and clear, i set up a makeshift paint booth out of PVC pipe for the skeleton and used clear plastic to cover the bay making it fully enclosed. i taped all the seams and taped the plastic to the floor, cut a peace out of the sheet to mount a fitter and a vent hole for air to go out a side window in the garage i used a high rated CFM fan and pressurized the entire box (pushing air our not sucking it in) and keep the floor damp when i was painting to get whatever dust or over spray down. anyway the cars coming along i just have some wiring to wrap up and some other odds and ends, I'm currently work on the undercarriage
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Wow, the car has come a long way! Looks great!
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WOW!!! BEAUTIFUL work. This is what the hobby is all about!!! I hope to be doing the same to mine one day.
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Its time consuming when you want things perfect