August '08-'09 Buildoff '67 Camaro

No longer competing in this build off. i just found out i guess im not smart enough to build this car and i guess i had someone else build it for me cuz im just some dumb punk kid. Old people are soo smart. they know everything!!

not.

please delete this thread.

[TheB1GDude]

Wow! Great man! Possibly the most challenging build so far and what a great car!

Keep us posted!

[BulletsRain]

Thats a great car man. It gonna look good when its all down, I can just imagine it!

[suicide_star]

wow, you never cease to amaze me, awesome project man. i'd imagine getting a hold of reproduction body parts for this thing is expensive as hell

[texan_idiot25]

Originally Posted by SPR

yes and no. i am starting out with the oldest, worst condition car of everyone else.

Only older then mine by 2 years, but not as old as jabari's Ford F1. Can't speak about rust unless I saw all our cars in person.. CST10 has all sorts of hidden (rust) goodies

Good to see the Camaro getting attention.

[kendallcschm]

the front reminds me of a fire bird and the rear reminds me of a '65 mustang

[BulletsRain]

Camaros and Firebirds have always somewhat looked alike.

[kendallcschm]

ture... very true.... but the firebird is way cooler. lol but the rear end still looks like a stang... how do you explain that?

[mm9295]

nice thats going to be a great build

[kendallcschm]

yes show me the pics

[JDMDUDE]

what color are you going to paint it

[kendallcschm]

ok i was wrong... how do you clean rust off car parts????

[imstock]

Originally Posted by kendallcschm

ok i was wrong... how do you clean rust off car parts????

By sandblasting them...

[kendallcschm]

buy new engine parts that aren't rusted lol but you should sand blast the ones that aren't that bad :-P you gunna get any performance upgrades?

[texan_idiot25]

Q-Jet carb?

[kendallcschm]

you dont like carburetors? fuel injection would be nice

[texan_idiot25]

Originally Posted by SPR

to be honest, i know nothing about carbs, and i refuse to learn about them. cant stand carbs. cant wait for the day i can go fuel injection.

When the world falls out and the only thing left are non electronic machines, give me a call, I'll still be driving my CST10.

If it looks like mine, it's the Rochester 4BBL Quadrajet, one of the best stock carbs to use. Even good fuel economy if you set it up right. Run around on the tiny primaries, and then set the linkage to open the massive 2ndaries at 1/2-3/4 throttle.

No reason to hate carbs, when properly tuned they can be just as efficient as EFI.

Originally Posted by kendallcschm

you dont like carburetors?

Oh no, he secretly loves them.

[kendallcschm]

lol i like carbs in old cars and i hate EFI in old cars because it ruins the old coolness lol

[texan_idiot25]

30 mpg on ethenol, is that /gallon of gas in the ethanol mix, or /gallon of fuel. Because with ethanol, MPG goes down. If you did a three-deuce setup you could have MPG and when the foot gets happy, full thottle powah!

I like both, but for very different reasons. I just like the god-awful simplicity of a Carburetted system, the fact that when something goes wrong I don't have to go through a technological maze (Like I have had with the Firebird) to find the problem, and it's fixable with some hand tools. And when properly tuned a good carb will perform as well as EFI, just that it isn't self learning and adjusting as EFI is. That, and on older cars it most often times leaves a cleaner look under the hood.

On a more day-to-day performance stand point, EFI all the way, no arguments about it. It does start on the 1st try And of course the tuning aspect is crazy...

I'd happily take your carb and hi-rise intake if I were closer

[texan_idiot25]

Ahem, where is a proper burn out video? That sissy wet-road stuff was shameful. Lets see the tail wag!