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My 1985 Chevy Camaro project.

Page 1 - Purchase/ Early restoration (You are here)

Page 2 - Restoration

Page 3 - Recent restoration / competion

Page 4 - Work to complete

This is my somewhat first project. Im 18 and this is my 85 camaro

purchased August 09

sat in a field for 3 years

paid $500

2.8l v6 manual

sitting in previous owners field

parts already installed:

- kenwood deck

- painted red interior trim pieces (by previous owner)

- 9 1/2" (245) front tires, 10" (255) back tires

- looks like a cherrybomb glasspack muffler and new exhaust from the headers

- neon underglow lights

- crager 15" rims

- custom box for subwoofers and completely wired (4 x 10")

- alpina pedals

- custom front speaker box's (6 1/2")

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Time to restore

late august - september 13th 2009 (didnt work on it for a week at the start of september)

The Engine wasn't running when I bought it. I spent 2 days trouble shooting and fixing till I got er running. I changed the ignition coil and distributer and away she went. Then I had to correct the timing. I also changed all the spark plug wires, fixed some big vacuum leaks and an emissions hose.

removed interior.. the under carpet padding was wet in some places even when it has sat for three years

 Old trim removed

sanded off old chipped paint. Prepped for filler and primer

Bought and installed new steering wheel

fabricated and welded a patch on the driver side door

fab'd and welded a patch on the rocker panel (driver side)

welded a patch on driver side quarter panel

patch on passenger side quarter panel

took the interior out found some holes (ill take pictures when its lighter)

a decent size hole on the drivers side

- I went to a used auto parts place today and ordered the floor pan with floor support thats rusted out. The pan and support will be from a 82' firebird

Put some subs in the trunk and hooked them up to a 1000w alpine mono block (infinity perfect 10.1)

 Here's a short vid of the car and the exhaust.

I bondo'd the hood yesterday and ill have some pics on after the weekand

after i bondo and sand all 4 exterior patches and the hood the car will be in good shape on the outside. still need passenger side fender

Friday sept 18, 2009

went out to my dads to work on my car on the weekend. Heres what I did.

Started with this on friday evening

Removed black door trim piece

removed custom speaker enclosure

folded up the rubber mat. You can see the rusted out floor support

the broken off transmission mount and rusted out floor support on the bottom of the car. The tranny mount bolts to the floor support. the mount is bent backwards in the pic

Saturday sept 19, 2009

Got a little cut from the rusty metal aha..

starting to remove old floor support from the subframe

removing old floor support

Floor support mostly gone.. Time to get the new floor support from a 86' firebird.

Removing the new floor support from the junk old floor

Got the floor support off and took a pic of the old floor from where it came. The floor support is in great condition.

testing the fit of the support in the sub frame.. good fit

Removed seat mount because I have to repair the floor

Removed the last of the old floor support

Floor support in place :)

My drivers seat to drive up onto the ramps :p (cat litter container)

Transmission mount back in place. Had to use the winch on the quad to bend it back. Then jacked it up. :p

Floor support, Tranny cross member and seat mount all in place :).. This is how I left it on saturday night. Couldn't work on the car on sunday because I had to do a community hours thing for school.

Tuesday sept 22, 2009

 Welder came to weld floor support onto subframe

The old transmission support was welded to the old floor support and it looks like a mess so im going to get a new transmission support with new rubber mount.

I took the transmission support off and a bolt broke off in the frame so im going to have to get it out with ez-outs tomorrow when i go back out to my dads.

Im going to get the tranny support now.

Sept 24 - 27 2009

I got the new transmission mount with rubber from a scrap yard. (new on the right)

The new one was bent

So I used the original and grinded off the old welding

Old transmission mount back in place just to see if it will fit.. not done though. Still need to brace the other floor support because it is all bent up and broken, and weld a small plate on the tranny mount to make it stronger.

I couldn't remove the bolt from the frame with the ez-out so I moved on to some bodywork while I thought of what to do.

Page 1 - Restoration (you are here)

Page 2 - Restoration

Page 3 - Final pictures till completion

Page 4 - Work to be accomplished