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Alright I have been meaning to do this for a while.... I'll keep it to the point because not only do I want to type as little as possible, I'm sure you want to read as little as possible.
Feel free to ask questions, I have a ton of pictures if you want more detail on something.
Here's the story:
Back in 2014, I bought a pretty clapped out '95 M3 one day, 287k on the clock, I drove it to about 292k or so, when the worn out engine mounts caused the engine to pitch it's fan blades right into the radiator.
Ok game on. So I bought a salvage 2000 Camaro SS with about 44k on it - it was side-swiped and all of the stuff I wanted was fine.
I stripped the cars, parted out the Camaro, and started buying parts and planning out my project. At this point it's ~Jan 2015.
A lot of what you will see in the pictures to follow is the work that I did from 2015-2016 summer or so to get the swap functional, I put ~1000 miles on it that year.
Then, 2016 winter, I decided to strip everything back down, to finish the build, meaning paint, modify some things, lose a little weight, now that I knew it was working, got some seat time, and had a better idea of all of these things.
Well that basically brings us to today. Long story short, the car is a white body and just about ready for assembly, again, so I figured I'd start documenting this idiocy.
Oh, I guess the main goal of this is, in the beginning anyway, to make a street legal track day tire destroying fun machine.
It's basically still that but drifting further and further from street legal as it goes on.
Down to business...
Last edited by Mech3ng; 12-21-2017 at 06:22 PM.
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Edited links.... hopefully this works now!
Last edited by Mech3ng; 12-21-2017 at 06:08 PM. Reason: bad links
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Last edited by Mech3ng; 12-21-2017 at 06:13 PM.
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Do the pics not work on posts 3-5 for anyone else? I thought maybe it was just my iPad last night, but I'm on my work PC now...
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No images for me...the same.
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yeah last batch of pics are not working, would like to see them
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just the carbon fiber center trim. all others are still out
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Last edited by Mech3ng; 12-21-2017 at 06:31 PM.
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^^^ stock Camaro shifter didn't quite work... but a modified damper rod does!
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...my other ride...
...kidding, this is my other ride...
...ok ok, back to reality... right about now is when this project kind of stalled... I had the car running and driving, but I wanted to finish everything, so I started dis-assembling with the intention of it only taking the winter....
Then I moved... into a new garage... this one has a house on the property too! How convenient!
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^^^new digs, new motivation! or maybe the word is mistakes....
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Uh...wow - that is an undertaking.
The work space is a dream!
Enjoy the images-thanks for posting!
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