1973 Camaro Z/28 Build - by 91gti20v

6 minute(s) of a 50 minute read

Ok, so everyone clicking on this thread will be expecting to see a Camaro update. Well, I hate to disappoint, but this post has absolutely nothing to do with the Camaro.

A deposit has been placed on this:



I expect to close the deal after I return from my business trip in a week. I couldn't be more stoked at the moment. I assure you guys this will not distract from finishing the Camaro. I found what I feel is a killer deal on ever increasing aircooled 911's and it is a bucket list item. 88K miles. Pristine. Meteor Gray (961 Paint code) over bordeaux red leather. Never driven in the winter. Only nit to pick, one squeaky suspension bush somewhere. I may end up replacing the Cup 1's with Fuchs, only change I may make... Expect a ton more pics when I bring it home to hibernate until spring.

4/29/13

You had asked a while back about the locating brackets we made for the gas tank. I crawled underneath the car tonight to snap these.

I am ordering power cable for the trunk mount battery this week!

I will still need exhaust, but I will definitely fire it up with open headers. Cause why the eff not

5/4/2015

30 feet of 1/0 ordered. Who wants to help wire the beast up?!?!

I have got an American Autowire Classic Update harness, the EFI and the Vintage Air setup. Should be lots of fun!

1/31/2016

I haven't updated this thread in ages. This project certainly isn't dead, just a little stagnant.

I currently have the front suspension apart as I await for my JRi shocks to replace the QA1's. The DSE Quadralink came with JRi single adjustables, so I wanted the fronts to match. I won't get into it on here, but just ordering those shocks was a f*cking ordeal.

Here goes my exciting (at least to me) update for today. I will try and make this short and sweet. The Keisler shifter didn't come up perfectly centered in the opening in the floor. This was going to bug the isht out of me. I fired up Solidworks and drew this little piece up and then printed it up on the 3D printer at work:



Test fit in the car with the shifter:



The machined part was finished this week and I buttoned up the shifter linkage this afternoon. Please excuse me for the vertical video. With the shifter much taller than wide, it made more sense to shoot it this way. There will be some updates in the coming weeks as I finish tidying up the harness. Need to order my Amphenol bulkhead assembly for the Holley harness...

I should have my custom JRi's in two weeks or so. As soon as I have them, it will be back down on all fours. 

The cliffs of the shock ordeal... Apologize in advance if this is long winded.

• Remove QA1 shocks
• Measure QA1 shocks
• Call JRi and tell them my setup and give them the QA1 specs minus valving
• JRi tells me that since I have a DSE rear setup, I should deal with them
• I kindly explain to JRi that I DO NOT have a DSE front setup
• They still tell me to call DSE
• Call DSE
• First guy takes my info and says this shouldn't be a problem
• I wait a few hours. Get a phone call back from DSE telling me to go JRi
• Few phone calls and emails later, I finally end up talking to the DSE operations manager
• He agrees to help me out and deal with JRi to spec out shocks that will work for me.

I mean f*cking christ. I even admitted to both parties that I won't know squat about the car until I put some miles down tuning the thing. I very well may need to re-valve the shocks at a later date. Though they are adjustable, so I should be able to get close.

Also, once I have it on the ground, i will measure for the driveshaft.

You can try to picture it with all 4 down with these two shots:

1) After I mounted the 18x12's out back. The fronts in this pic are the 17x8's that are long gone.



2) Here are the front 18x9.5's tucked inside the carbon inner fenders

2/16/2016

There are only a couple of options for Minilite (NOT PANASPORT - Yes, I am looking at all of you that call this a panasport style wheel) reps in these sizes. ET and Vintage Wheel Works. VWW stops at 17x11. So my money went to ET. I also think the ET wheel is more attractive. VWW's spokes are almost completely flat in nature and do not curve out. The only thing incorrect is the lip around the hub pad. That was used on a slightly different Minilite variant and I am not sure why both ET and VWW chose to incorporate it.

Vintage T/A racing Minilite for reference:



VWW:



Minilite sport with the lip around the hub pad: