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Update o'clock! So on Thursday last week I made more templates to fix rust and then on Saturday I degunked the engine bay as it was thick with mud, grease, trans fluid etc.

 

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there's so much room with neither of my toys in here :lol:

 

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Whilst I was waiting for it to dry I had nothing to do, so gave the camaro a send off before I started to strip it down for the bits I need....

 

(Sorry for the failbook video link)

 

Last night I carried on disconnecting the engine/gearbox and managed to strip the thread on the alternator bracket, so went home as I don't have an imperial tap and die set and don't want a mix of imperial and metric bolts on the truck if I can avoid it. Unfortunately it's a steel bolt going into the aluminium head of the block, so I need to be careful when I fix it as the heads are edelbrock ones which are super mega expensive :lol: Hopefully I can save some of the thread!

 

you can see the damage I stupidly did below

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The engine should be in mock up by the end of this week I hope. I've taken the decision to get the engine in and wired up etc, then pull it back out to paint the bay as then I know I won't scratch any paint etc as I work and scrabble around.

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WowðŸ‘. This would be ace when it's done.

I agree with you the truck will be cool than tge fugly camaro! I'll follow this with avid interest. I've been watching Bitchin' rides on Duscovery turbo and truck can be amazing if done well with the right take and stance and a simple but cosy interior and top paint job. It should be easy to get parts from states cheap.

Good luck with everything dude.

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Thanks Bennet :) bearing in mind how cheap parts are, I've just spent £1650+/- on the front end, totally wiped me out financially for a bit :lol: The camaro will be up for sale soon as a rolling chassis if anyone wants a bargain! :D

 

The paint will be satin black for the foreseeable certainly, I haven't got the budget for a proper high quality gloss paint job at the moment, so I'm going to use a proper satin paint, there's one called "hot rod flatz" paint which is apparently very good. I'll be having lots of chrome trim on the truck to contrast with the satin, hopefully the vision in my head comes out well.

 

the only thing I'm nervous about is how light the rear end will be, it's not unheard of for people to put lead inside the chassis rails on high power trucks! I know 500 isn't ridiculously high, but I like to have solutions before I come to the problems :lol::D

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Last night was the heavy lifting! At around 3pm on Saturday, the engine bay looked like this:

 

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as of 10:30pm last night it looks like this:

 

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It's not the fastest engine out job in the world, but it's home brewed and labelling wires etc does take a fair amount of time :lol:

 

So I'm now left with this beautiful thing:

 

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the truck's engine mounts have been put on the block already, I have the gearbox mount for the truck too, so now is just for a test fit on Saturday (if time allows) then it will be a case of moving the shifter position, cutting a hole in the floor and working out all of the plumbing and wiring! the difficult bit starts now! :D

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So! Over the weekend I got the engine and gearbox in and securely mounted up which is so cool! tomorrow evening I'll be taking it back out though :lol:

 

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The cam covers touch the firewall a TINY bit and the exhaust headers need to be put on the block before it's put in place :doh: I'll be "persuading" the firewall in a touch on each side for clearance and then the fabrication starts. It's very exciting! Off the top of my head, the list of jobs is:

 

weld in patch panels

new power steering system mounts

mount clutch pedal

mount clutch master cylinder

respray engine bay

gearbox modifications

engine in

drill shifter hole in floor

mount clutch line

engine wiring

re wire behind dash and add new digi dash

new fuel lines (including making a fuel return system)

wheel tubs; modify for clearance and spray

front end conversion

re wire all lights front and back

strip truck down

mask truck up

fill problem areas, sand, scuff paint

respray

rebuild

wheels on

burnouts...

 

LOOOONG list which I'm sure will only get longer! :lol:

 

edit: forgot full brake upgrade :lol:

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More pics of the Capri!

 

It belongs to my friend Dan. He did all the work himself on his parents driveway at home up to and including the primer; the spraying of the paint after primer was done by a professional. He did an engine swap for an SR20DET which puts out around 350bhp. It was the first SR20 conversion into a capri in the UK for a while, but a couple more have been done since.

 

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