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Very nice. Mine was a plain jane secretary's ride with a big block swap which was all the rage then. I sold it in 1987 long before the LS or the restomod movement existed.
17723012[/url]]It's a 73 RS Type LT. I built a Pro Touring car out of it. It has an LS6 and T56 from a 2055 CTS-V. I also have a lowered suspension and C5 Corvette disc brakes all around. Here are a pair of pictures from the photo shoot a few years ago.
Thanks. The build took me 6 years to get it on the road. Then another 5 or so to get it basically to this point. I documented the whole build on my website. http://www.apiem.com/camaro
Quick update. Last week, I brought my heads, crank, crankcase, rods, and new bearings to my machine shop. After speaking with my machinist, I have decided to upgrade to the K1 rods for some peace of mind. Here is a picture of some of the parts before they were loaded and brought to the shop. The waiting on the block is killing me.
Since the engine was out and the car would be off the road for a while, I took the opportunity to paint the backs of the hard back seats body color. I had some 2K primer, 2K clear and have a compressor and Harbor Freight HVLP gun from other jobs in the past. I used the following post as a guide, https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...k-removal.html
1. The first step is to remove the rubberized coating once the seats a disassembled. I used a grey scotch brite pad and alcohol to remove the coating.
2. The next step was to use a wax and grease remover over the entire seat back and scuff the whole seat using 320 grit paper. If I did this again, I would use 600 grit paper since they are made of plastic. Here is a picture before shooting primer
3. The next step was to shoot the 2K primer.
4. I then wet sanded the primer with 600 grit paper and filled any small imperfections with spot primer.
5. I then shot the seats with paint from https://www.automotivetouchup.com/. However; there were issues as the paint wrinkled in a few spots.
5. The wrinkles were some sort of reaction from the paint to the seat plastic. I sanded most of the paint off with 600 grit paint. Oddly, the wrinkles were raised ridges comprised of seat plastic. So that had to be sanded down flat.
6. I don't have pictures but, once I finished sanding off most of the old paint and wrinkles, I primed everything again with the 2K primer.
7. I wet sanded the primer and then sprayed on the body color paint and then 2K clear coat paint. No wrinkles this time!
8. The next day after the clear coat was cured, I wet sanded with 1500, 2000, 5000, and 3000 grit paper, then buffed them out.
9. Here are the seats disassembled.
10. Lastly, I installed the seat backs onto the seats. The leather clips onto the center section first. Then you push the edges back into the seat back starting at the top and working you way down the sides.
Overall, this wasn't too hard of a project and would be much easier the next time as there was a learning curve for disassembling and assembling the seats. I can't wait to see what they look like in the car, with the top down.
Nice work! Looking forward to the details on the engine and what you had your machinist do!
Machinist is just doing basic head work and checking crank clearances. Crank main journals were in spec. Rods just arrived to him this week. Waiting to see how the clearances are with the K1 rods.
Nice work! Nice camaro! I have had paint reactions like that when I had lacquer and enamel paint layers.
I’ve had that happen as well. This was strange as the seat plastic became textured. When I started to sand, the wrinkles were black once I removed the light coat of paint on them.
10-13-2021, 04:23 PM
