My boys Karson (7) and Konner (5) helping out with the Camaro.
Konner
Turning wrenches at 7y/o, a good start!
Since all of the rust has been taken care of in the engine compartment we moved on to the outside of the car. There are only a couple of small places that need attention. Here’s a spot just forward of the driver’s door. The rust has been cut out and new metal welded in.
rust spot cut out
welding the patch panel in
finished patch panel, just needs some minor hand sanding. Of course it will be hidden by the fender so it might stay the way it is.
We finished fixing the rust on the firewall, just some final sanding and we’re done.
Firewall after repair
Firewall before
I finally finished transferring the old Twisted Camaro blog from “Blogger” to here. Now all I have to do is bring this blog up to date. There has been a little bit of work done since we left off in December ’09.
Follow along our build of a S.C.C.A. American Sedan Camaro and feel free to make any comments along the way.
Our design department recently made this design for a customer. The car is a Datsun 510 Wagon that races on dirt. Different from what we are used to around here (Road Racing) but we like it! Everything in the design is hand drawn on the computer.
It doesn’t seem right to have an all white trailer so we are kicking around some ideas, let us know what you think….
Here’s a sneak peek at a new shirt design for the Motorsport Division.
We got the engine back together (finally) and dropped it in the car. Easy going… Wrong! The deep sump on the new oil pan had zero clearance with the cross member. So out came the engine. We decided to slot the crossmember where the motor mounts attach so we could move the engine back a bit. That worked out great! About 1/4″ clearance between the pan and the crossmember. However… After attaching the bell housing, transmission, starter and clutch slave, there was another problem. The headers won’t bolt up because they are hitting the rear mount for the lower control arm. So…. Out comes everything, again.
Instead of banging the header tubes flat so they will clear (like the old headers) we decided to “modify” the control arm mounts. So that’s what we are doing now. The modifications should be completed soon and we’ll drop the engine in yet again and see what other problems we run into.
Looked pretty good in there
When we inspected the engine a few minor problems were found that needed to be fixed… After removing the oil pan we found what appeared to be a couple retaining springs from the valve guide seals. Upon further inspection, we proved to be correct. It would appear that there was not enough clearance for the total lift of the cam and the spring retainers were making contact with the seals. Also, during the air hold we found a few valves that were not seating properly. We also noticed a couple of bad pushrods. So off to the machine shop went the head for a little work.
The heads are back with a nice new 3 angle valve job, new seals and a little work to get the installed height and spring pressures up to where they should be. We decided to index the spark plugs before putting the heads back on to make things a bit easier.
The valves are adjusted and to add to the reliability of the valve train, we decided to install stud girdles.
I re-wired the stock windshield wiper motor so we will be able to use a three position toggle switch to operate the wipers. It will have hi, low and off. All electrical connections on the car will be Weatherpack connectors.
I cleaned up the wiper motor, put new grease on the gears and gave it a fresh coat of paint to “pretty” it up a bit. Here it is ready to be rewired and the Weatherpack connectors ready to be rewired.
3 wires come out of BOTTOM of motor Purple, Yellow, Black
Yellow wire goes to Position A on Black cover
Purple wire goes to weatherpack position A
Black wire goes to weatherpack position D
Gray wire from Black cover goes to weatherpack position B
Green wire from Black cover goes to weatherpack position C
4 total wires come from Wiper motor and go to 3 position On-Off-ON switch
Black goes to ground
On- Off _On switch has 3 connections Top- Middle _bottom
Top = Green Wire
Middle is Grey wire and + from Car
Bottom= Purple
The wipers are low in the up position, Off in the middle, and High down low.
