Part III

1989 RS Camaro

You might notice the amount of fingerprints all over the grey primer, that's from us just working on the car and moving it around when we put it in the garage. We wear mechanics gloves and certainly recommend them for anyone working on a car. The number of cuts and abrasions that it saves you is well worth the price of the gloves themselves.

We have some additional work to do on the frontend components, for one we need to find the right pitman arm for our setup. We need one that is 7 inches long, but also pre-bent. We will check with Borgeson to see if they have what we need and also for the adapter we need to connect our Chassis Engineering sterring column to the steering box. We also need to finish taking apart the front end pieces, clean things up, paint them and re-assemble them.

Just getting started on some of the body work that we need, this area and the right front fender are the worst areas of the car. It doesn't show up too well in photos, but the lower portion of this fender panel behind the wheelwell is pushed in pretty good and the little shiny ridge that you can see running at an upward angle at the top of the fender is the result of that push. I have to pull out that bottom area and as I get that done, the pressure should be relieved on the top area and that ridge should come down some. There is also quite a bit of stretched metal right where the body line is running. That is going to take some careful shrinking work to get the body line right. And as we are going with a 5 Gallon RCI fuel cell sitting in the back "trunk" area of the car, the fuel filler door area is going to be filled with sheetmetal and smoothed off. We also will be doing the same for the firewall and the front fenders where the stock sidemarker lights would normally be.

Not much sitting behind that front facia now, with most of the metal work removed to save weight. Plus, I like this shot of the car peeking out at you. This is going to be one serious car when we get it done and should be a real player at our local strip. Can't hardly wait !!

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