Newbie with a 632 Cube 1968 Camaro

[WOTSA442]

Yep...we'll see that coming!

[Steve]

yellow cars are  the best ones to own :)
looking good !!!!

[sms777]

You can just see the pearl on some of the photos. Keep them coming....Amazing!.... I bet you Chip Foose is looking at them right now

:rub:

[cluxford]

Couple of updates:

1. Paint

Front end and inside boot now painted

Some pics below, and also playing with Video.  Plan to get a much much better video of her when outside is painted and in the sun.  Hoping video might show the pearl better, but I really don't think anything will until it sees natural sunlight.

Notice underneath of the control arms paints, the tops are all polished

Diff with it's brand spanking new full floaters and 35 spline axles being assembled today, car will be re-assembled over course of this week in prep for outside being painted







The image below is actually a 23 second video, click it to watch...nothing special just testing video, will plan a more thorough / better video when in full paint




2. Motor

OK after much debate we decided best to pull it down and go the once over given it a crate motor that's been sitting for almost 3 years.

First the good news
- The definitely dynoed it you can tell that the motor has been run, so I have no reason to not believe the original dyno figures of 816Hp and 825 Ft/Lbs of torque
- Pressure tested the heads - 100% perfect
- sonic tested the crank - all good
- block is sound, but is actually 10 thousand over, so it's actually 634 cubes !!!
- we are going to machine the tunnel rams to the heads
- parts are a mix of good and some cheapo stuff but mostly OK
- Engine builder feels that with the tunnel ram it might go 900Hp, we will chassis dyno it to tune it when it is running

Now the not so good news (but not bad)
- it has cheapo Mallaroy pistons, they are being chucked and replaced with JE ones
- Bearings have a bit of wear on them due to crap in the oil, so they will also be replaced (very little to no wear on crank thankfully)
- springs are a bit touch and go but we will leave for now, everything else all good

Now we started planning for the blower (that will be roughly 12 months after the car is registered and I save a whole ton of pennies for a Hilborn injected 12/71)

it's 10.4 : 1 compression right now, we'll leave it at that for 12 months

After that we'll go 20 degree HPC coated 8.5 : 1 blower pistons

Builders "gut feel" wet finger guess-ta-mate on HP on low to medium boost once blown.....1300 - 1500 Hp.....holy sh1t !!!!

[69DirtyRat]

How long will it stay registered once the blower goes on:bow::fingers:

[cluxford]

How long will it stay registered once the blower goes on:bow::fingers:

Ideally forever....I have two bonnets and 3 other manifold / carb set ups of various kinds, so if asked I can always swap the blower off to please those I need to (and of course it will go back on)  

[Hemifish]

Hi Cluxford , the car and paint will look mad when finished , Keep the photos coming , Just a thought why change the pistons if you use hilborn injection Converted to EFI with a M48 Motec computor YOU should be able to run about 20/25 PSI boost on E85 fuel and have no heat issues , just a thought Darrin.

[cluxford]

Hi Cluxford , the car and paint will look mad when finished , Keep the photos coming , Just a thought why change the pistons if you use hilborn injection Converted to EFI with a M48 Motec computor YOU should be able to run about 20/25 PSI boost on E85 fuel and have no heat issues , just a thought Darrin.

Darrin, not sure to be honest, way beyond my current expertise (blown injected) engine builder recommended not going above 9:1

Do I need to get a second opinion ?

[cluxford]

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[cluxford]

Dropped in this morning as I had to drive straight past on the way home from the office.

Sorry for the crappy iPhone pics as I wasn't expecting to be down that way today so didn't have my proper camera.

Inside all painted now.

They primed and blocked the primer 4 times to get it baby smooth before painting.  Painting it was hard, had to roll it in the rotisserie on it's side and stand between the console and the firewall

Again interior lights don't show the pearl, but damn it's shiny...and it hasn't even been cleared and wet sanded and cleared again yet

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