Loosecannon's 1967 Camaro RS build

I know it took a while but I got the mistakes corrected and here is the video MISTAKES WERE CORRECTED

Looking great man!

Dang that looks so good. 

Oh that is pretty. 

Some people online have been giving me a hard time for not having provisions for harnesses so I feel that I need to explain what I'm up to. Obviously, there are always compromises when building a street car that is also track worthy on a limited budget. Everything is weighed for practicality, performance and price. I am not planning on adding harnesses because I feel that a 3 point belt is fine for a car in a street tire class and I don't want the extra weight of a harness guide bar or the inconvenience of using them day to day or limiting access to the back seat. This same theory applies to everything else on the car, too. I will have to sacrifice some performance to make the car better for day to day use. Here's the latest video on coating the bottom with bed liner PROTECT YOUR BOTTOM

In awe as always....very well done even the underside is a thing of beauty and a joy to behold.....hey did you ever decide on the type of induction for this? ITB's perhaps?

In reply to 759NRNG :

Whatever comes on an LS7, maybe upgrade to a Holley high ram intake.

Bolted a whole lotta stuff onto the car today, a video will be made once there's more things attached 

Sexy looking beast coming together sir.

Sorry Loose what is the forward attachment point on the door bars again.....yes that's MR PITA thank you very much...  

759NRNG said:

Sorry Loose what is the forward attachment point on the door bars again.....yes that's MR PITA thank you very much...  

They bolt directly to the frame

Remember that cool pass-thru. Made for the steering column? Today I found out that there is only a couple of thou clearance between it and the upper control arm bar-yikes! 

Hopefully your alignment doesn't require shims on the backside!

Lookin' good!

In reply to Run_Away :

That is at full caster and a 1/4 inch camber spacer. Reducing caster gives me more clearance and I could always trim that big nut if I had to

loosecannon said:

In reply to Run_Away :

That is at full caster and a 1/4 inch camber spacer. Reducing caster gives me more clearance and I could always trim that big nut if I had to

You could probably get a reduced-thickness locknut for that LCA.  Most inch sizes come in Grade 8 thin.  Grind down the A-arm stud just a touch too, if needed.

Also, it looks like the cap-screw on the steering coupling might hit when rotated.  Did you verify clearance there?

loosecannon said:

Remember that cool pass-thru. Made for the steering column? Today I found out that there is only a couple of thou clearance between it and the upper control arm bar-yikes! 

Could you convert the bolt head to a Torks style head to resolve that problem?

Half height aircraft nuts. 
 

One of these solutions will work if it does land up fouling on the nut

The rest of the suspension is installed! There were no instructions on how to mount the brakes so it took a few tries to get it right, and the surface where the axle seal rides on was powdercoated so all that had to be sanded off, but eventually I got it all done. Also, the heavy duty Strange aluminum center section was different than a typical For 9 inch so the torque arm bracket needed some modification. These are the risks you take when doing custom work. There's a video about the whole process Here

this is at the house or the kart spdwy???

In reply to 759NRNG :

My garage, Pink is at the kart track

I used thin nuts on the upper control arms and now there is no problem with clearance for the steering. I also have the doors installed and the electronic gas pedal is in, too. I should get my fenders back from epoxy priming tomorrow then I can start assembling the front end. 

I chose to build a CAM-T car because the rules seemed to put the emphasis on the cars being street legal and that was good for me because I didn't want to build a dedicated race car that also happened to be street legal. I'm ok with putting a removable wickerbill on the rear spoiler and a moderate splitter on the front because they won't kill the look of the car but today the SCCA chose to allow wings in CAM-T. This is a mistake IMO but for me the worst part is that somebody will build a CAM-T with a giant wing and ground scraping splitter and nobody will be able to touch them. I'm not willing to put a wing on my car and therefore can not really compete against someone who has one. 

In reply to loosecannon :

Seems like CAM-T is staying sans wings for the time being. I'd run one if it was allowed, but definitely prefer if we keep from going down that rabbit hole. Those who really want to play with aero can always run CAM-C instead. Downsides there are that it may result in losing those who would otherwise run CAM-T and makes bumping up to CAM-C if the T field is small a less competitive endeavor. 

It'll be interesting to see if pax for CAM-C and CAM-S get updated and by how much. That may change some minds in those classes :-). 

In reply to JMcD :

Yes, rules were just released and I'm thrilled that wings are not in CAM-T. It's interesting how they worded the rules for wings and diffusers. "For all classes EXCEPT CAM‐T, all off‐the‐shelf commercially available wings, splitters, air dams, and diffusers that are vehicle model specific and installed per the directions are permitted with the following exclusions: o There are no currently excluded products"

I bolted the fenders and grill in today, looks so good!!