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[Blazin]

Drool Drool, I love your Camaro. Very very nice!

[REVINKEVIN]

Oh, thank you very much.  That was my last project.  It just sits in the garage anymore.  My 3 year old daughter sits in it and listens to the stereo until she falls asleep.  I started out building this truck to pull this car to the track and shows.  That is an old picture.  It has changed some.  The truck and the car are going to be a matching set one day.  The motors look pretty much identical.  Same Kenwood head units, same exhaust, same headers. The car does have a Tremec TKO 5-speed where the truck has a 700R4.  It gets painted black with a matching Goodmark Cowl hood later this year.  Anyway, thank you.  That car was a lot of work.

[Blazin]

I used to do the Camaro thing until I got the 55 thing!

[Captkaos]

That is my favorite style Camaro's.  Anything 70-73... 

[Blazin]

70&1/2 with the small rear wing, the only year Camaro in my opinion

[Captkaos]

Well if you are being picky then yeah, that's it.

[Blazin]

As a matter of fact
 My first Camaro was a 70 SS, 400, 4 spd. 3:73s

[REVINKEVIN]

Hey.  That's a lot like this one.  It had a four speed with a 350 when I got it.  I now has the Tremec with a 408sbc with coated Speed Pro pistions, 10.6 to 1, Comp Cams solid flat tappet cam, .525 lift and .250 duration @ .050, well Comp Cams everything as far as roller rockers, timing chain, hardened push rods, matching springs, you get the picture there.  On this motor, I used larger AFR heads than the truck.  It has the 210cc cnc ported version.  The intake is a highly ported Victor Jr, with a modified 850 double pumper.  Same electric fuel system as on the truck.  This motor was built for more high end HP, while the truck was built for more torque.  It also has a Lakewood blow proof bellhousing, .373 12 bolt posi, and the Hotchkis TVS Suspension kit with Koni shocks.  It also has MB Quart speakers with a 600watt Kicker amp that I made to look like it floats in the trunk.  I spent a huge amount of my spare time on this car last year.  I must add that once again, Jason at My Mechinex loaned a huge hand on this one as well.  I really thank you for the complements on it.  It was crazy hard work.  As you can see by the truck pictures, I just can't leave well enough alone.

[JRConnieK10]

My wife's first car was a 71' she didn't have it long though it got ran over by a cement block truck with her in it. She says camaro's are her signature car so she's had several but when I get time and finish my son's truck thats going to be my next project to build one for her either a 67' or 70' not sure which depends what I find when I look.

[78 BIG TEN]

Welcome to the site. You have a very nice truck to start with.

[Fordeatinz71]

nice truck and Camaro!  i'm into the F-Body's too...even though i love them all, the 2nd and 3rd gens are my favorites...got any stock pics of the truck?  before any teardown started?

[REVINKEVIN]

Here is a pic.  I added 2 to my photobucket.  I need to add more.  I want to do a build of the truck on that site so people can get a just of how hard some of these projects are.  This truck is going through some major changes.  I hope this link works.  If not, the 2 stock pics I have on this computer will be on the photobucket link.  Thanks for the complement.

[eventhorizon66]

Just out of curiosity REVINKEVIN.  Have you checked to see if the endlinks of your front sway bar hit the spindle at full lock.  My ADDCO kit took out a full turn of the wheel out at full droop and over a half turn at rest height.  I had to remove one of the bushings between the bar and angle bracket and shim the bar down 3/8" at the frame mounts (to keep it as level as possible at rest).

I'm diggin' that Camaro.  Polished Z06 rims would look killer.

[REVINKEVIN]

Hey.  I am glad you brought that up.  I have only driven it around the block so far.  I was sitting on a 5 gallon bucket at the time.  The truck has yet to get on the road due to all the work being done at one time.  I will check that soon.  I am in the process of cutting out the tailgate for the Sir Michel's tail gate relocator.  This is some hard work.  Weak compressor makes it very time consuming.  I am also going to fit the front roll pan and get it ready for welding.  That looks like another fun job.  I have only had 4 days off so far this year.  I start another major turnaround at another chemical plant on Monday.  I have lots to do so we can push it over to the paint shop. 

I have thought about the chrome Z06 wheels.  I think the black ones would look cool as well.  I was really wanting to get the same rims for the car and the truck.  I will have to see how that goes.  I need a few more turnarounds before that happens.  Thanks for the kind words.

[cjtimp]

HOWDY from East Texas........