68 camaro kitbash

Great work so far! Are you sure the lever on the shifter is for clutch though? I thought it was a throttle blipper for downshifts...

Bryce wrote:Great work so far! Are you sure the lever on the shifter is for clutch though? I thought it was a throttle blipper for downshifts...

That's what I meant to say. Thanks for the heads up Bryce.

Update Time..
I've been working on the engine bay and during all of the dry fitting I noticed that there was a lot of day light showing through the front area so I decided to box it in.


An advantage to this is that the radiator bulkhead now has an area that it can be mounted to rather than vaguely sitting where it was. I have also extended the sides of the rad bulkhead so it comes closer to the inside of the body shell. I was going to take pics of it too but it cracked and is now under repair.

Wheels and Tyres
After the peeling probs that I had with the rear tyres I had to substitute the duds with wider tyres from my stash but I had to cut them down. I cut them down the centre and removed about 1.5 - 2 mm then glued them back together. They're not 100% but close enough to not really notice too much. Before and after.

I have fitted the rear drums with ther backs to the rear wheel back halves.

These are the wheel and brake components.


I have cast the wheel and brake parts myself from various sources and the tyres are from Perry's Resin.

I've been slack in getting the body painted but I hope to do it this week. There is not much fabrication work left to do, just the grill, oil cooler and brake ducts.

CheersSS

Did well on the tyres, wouldn't even know. Keep up the good work.

Hello all. I have finally made more progress on the Camaro, managed to get the body painted at last and have completed the interior.





I decided to go with two racing seats to help make it more race car than road car. It looks like it might take a couple of more weeks to finish this thing as I like to let the paint sit for a while before I polish it up.

CheersSS

Cool, great work on the interior.

Kane wrote:Cool, great work on the interior.

Man , That's comin' along beautifully Great work ! :

This is a work of art, soooo realistic. Very nice work
The engine looks spot on and so does the interior, oh yeah, love how you narrowed the tyres, great job.

every thing looks immaculate!!

Wow thanks for the kind words guys. I am still slowly chipping away at it and have managed to get some Alclad sprayed this arvo too so hopefully there will be more progress pics soon.
cheers SS

That is brilliant work, can't believe I missed this thread! Top notch all around, keep it up!

....Fark, awesome work SS!! I'm locking this one in for the duration

Bloody Nice work so far keep it up

wow frickin WOW
mate this thing is replica to the max i love it
just wow
cant wait to see her finished and wish i could see her in real life
great job so far mate

Thanks for the kind words guys. I'm still making progress on the Camaro. Here's some more things done.
Wheels, brakes and tyres are done.

Front suspension is done and glued in place.

Chassis and rear suspension are painted and detailed. The diff and springs etc will be glued in after the chassis is installed into the body.

The radiator bulkhead with the oil cooler and oil lines in place.

The kits radiator has some ejector pin markings in the mesh which on a standard road car would be covered by the fan shroud, so I replaced the centre with another from my spares box. Also visible is the breather tank which was made from the AMT Camaro's Battery. It will have some lines running from it to the front of the rocker covers.

The front grille has been a right royal PITA. I carved, cut, ground and sanded the crap out of it. Will be replacing the kits moulded in head lights with parts from the Revell Camaro and have made a new centre section out of evergreen which will have a MCG PE grille fitted later. I have cracked and re-glued it 3 times so far and have had 3 tries at making that centre section and have already destroyed 1 PE grille.


I have finally wired the engine and fitted the headers so expect some pics ths week. Thanks for looking.
CheersSS

Great work. Can't wait to see the end result of all your hard work.
cheers Graham

Looking so sweet. How did you do your white line on your tyres? Radiator section looks really neat.

Hi ,Shawn. Phenomenal work you're doing. Everything is just dead nuts on. Looking forward to the finished job. Best to you. Bill

Absolutely brillaint work. Wouldn't mind doing a story on this build when it's finished for the magazine.


Tezza

Kane wrote:Looking so sweet. How did you do your white line on your tyres? Radiator section looks really neat.

Thanks Kane. There's no real trick to it as the tyre already had a groove so all I had to do was fill the groove with paint and Bob's ya uncle. If there is a way to do a tyre without a groove I would like to know how too.

tezza43 wrote:Absolutely brillaint work. Wouldn't mind doing a story on this build when it's finished for the magazine.


Tezza

Wow that would be fantastic Tezza. I just hope I can deliver a quality finished product.

For anybody interested, I will post some pictures of the completed engine in the Small Things thread.

CheersSS

This update might be the last as she's almost done.
I realised the other day that I hadn't done the brake lines from the master cylinder so I took care of the with some wire.



The body has been painted, polished, windowed and BMF'd and is ready to go.



I'll put the decals on after it is mated to the interior and chassis to reduce the chance of damage. I am also waiting for the MCG PE set to be delivered and as soon as it's here (hopefully this week) I'll finish her off.

Cheers SS

Beautiful!
So we can expect all your builds to turn out like this now?

WOW,just WOW. You did great keeping the black so clean. Looks super. Just one hell of a job,Shawn. Your next job is going to be a tall order,man. Tough to beat an effort like this. Best to you. Bill