This car came from a Salvage Yard in North Texas
...it was a 4 year project (2 years on the body alone). Complete frame off resto including completely stripping all metal, coating with "POR-15"
Replacing both Qtr's, complete floor pan, both inner and outer rear wheel houses Firewall smoothing, and many other details to make it right
Then came the color..Millineum Yellow with black stripes seemed to give the bang it would need
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The interior of the car was very important to us, that’s the cockpit or the control module and we wanted it to be especially comfortable and feature packed. Started out by insulating everything, including the roof with R9 value insulation. Then the floors and some of the side panels got sound deadening treatment, with new carpet. The wiring harness was provided by “Kwik Wire” and is their 24 circuit deluxe kit. The door panels are “Year correct” with the exception of the addition of electric windows donated from a ‘78 Z28. Seats were specially picked, they came from a ‘97 TransAm and feature all the power “goodies” that you could want. The original console didn’t even come with a cup holder, much less any other niceties, so we opted for a unit out of a ‘94 Camaro with welded brackets and all. We topped it off with a B&M Mega Shifter to accommodate the overdrive transmission. Most of the dash is OEM except the dash bezel is a carbon fiber piece from Covans Classic and it houses all Autometer “Ultra-light Pro-Comp” gauges, to include a hide-away “shift light”. Didn’t have quite enough room for all of the gauges needed, so I hand fabricated a Dual “A-pillar pod” (they don’t build them for a 2nd gen Camaro) to accommodate the “O2 sensor” gauge and the “Tranny Temp “ gauge. Then all New “Factory Tinted” glass was added to finish off the Interior. And a “Code Alarm” alarm system was installed that also gives the Car a“Remote Start” feature. Also just added an Innovate Motorsports Wideband system with a DL-32 Datalogger to keep things safe on the NOS..really getting fun with the re-opening of the Local 1/8th mile track!!
The suspension mods are "Calvert Racing" Split Mono Leaf springs with their adjustable Bars, QA1 adjustable shocks on all four corners, and SSBC Force ten disc brakes on the front.
And last but not least is the power plant. Balanced and Blueprinted 434 cid SBC built in my Garage with the help of friends. It features a forged non-twisted eagle stroker crank, and Eagle EST-H-beam rods. Wiseco 10.6:1 forged NOS pistons with file to fit Mahle rings, a custom ISKY Solid roller, and Comp "Endure-X" Roller lifters to follow it’s curves.
A set of AFR 210 Eliminator heads with 2.08/1.6 valves, Isky 1.550 roller springs, and Comp "High Tech Stainless roller rockers work together the match ported “Super Victor” intake to send signal to the “PRO-Systems” Pro-950 Carb with Down-Leg boosters and fully tunable main body and billet base plate.
All of this is fired up by “MSD Pro billet Distributor, 6AL box, and an MSD pro HVC II coil. Finally Hooker 1 3/4" Super comp headers dump into 3" “Spin-Tec” super turbos for a mellow yet throaty voice. THis HP is getting to the Ground through the "Level 4" 700 r4 tranny from "Bow Tie Overdrives" a 3.5" Aluminum driveshaft with 1350 spicer yokes connected to a "Moser Engineering 12 bolt with 33 spline axles and a Detroit Truetrac differential. Then I went to the junkyard again, and bought a rear axle from a 98 Trans am, and pulled the rear disc brakes, and made the needed mods to get them working on the Moser Axle ...FInally getting all of the pieces in place
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After being done with the car since December of 2004, the rewards have been many and the recognition at shows and cruises have been very much appreciated...but it's the 2 Magazine articles that are the icing on the cake.
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All in all this car was hand built with lots of parts from E-Bay, help from friends and the never ending patience of my Beautiful wife Kay to allow me to spend the time it took to bring this salvaged car back to life. If it hadn’t been for folks like Troy Adams, Ric Brown, Ed O’Neil, Chris Simons, Keith Wiley, Grant Banta, Todd Kay, Alfonso Campos, and many others I think I would have gone crazy long ago. Until you have truly built a car ......from scratch..... the detail that it takes is unimaginable. If it hadn’t been for friends and family, this one would probably still be in piles...thanks to everyone, I couldn’t have done it without you!
