1971 Speedipus Rex by dangina

9 minute(s) of a 251 minute read

4-10-2015

I had also got to finishing mounting my rear 69 Camaro spoiler, Here it is from start to finish:

First mask off the area your with green painters tape, saves the paint for underneath and allows you to mark on it. Position where you want the spoiler to sit, and with a measuring tape mark where the tips of your spoiler will sit, I measured from the trunk edge, then from the sides, the tips sit about an 1/4" from the edge:

When you figured out where she' gonna sit, you wanna mark out the stud locations for the spoiler and drill small holes and see if that's where they need to be before making them bigger (I bought two spoilers 69 and a 68, the 68 is 2" shorter so I sold it) they have the same stud location and both of them came with a template, but I noticed that the studs weren't mounted in the same place, even though they were both made by the same company, they could get up to almost a 1/2" out. ouch. After you have the size of the holes you want I drilled in the center from the outside going in so I know where to drill them underneath:

Underneath I would mask the area off around the hole and drill out to the size you want:

I went a little bigger than I thought, I was thinking maybe down the road if I had to buy another rear spoiler for whatever reason(carbon fiber perhaps?), I would have plenty of room for the studs if they end up being off like the ones I had. you can use a hole saw, I used a stepper bit for the weird corner ones and cleaned up with a dremel, and don't forget to file off your sharp edges!

Now that we have all the holes done were gonna have to mount this somehow. The 4 studs on the back of the trunk can be held down with your standard washers and locknuts, but the front studs being more accessible I have a better Idea, I bought these flat washers and these allthread connectors that fit inside the washers:

With the spoiler in place, thread the connector all the way till it bottoms out, the back it off a couple turns and weld the washer in place:

I put a spot weld just to hold it in place:

Then you can weld them up!

Now you have a custom nut that you can tighten all the way down and not worry about it bottoming out on the stud!

I painted them, but you could powder coat them:

Before your put your spoiler on be sure to use some sort of gasket material, I'll be using gasket maker, doesn't harm the paint underneath and not bad to clean up.

And it finishes off like this! I used 3/4" body plugs to hide the inner access holes for the rear studs, I did the outter access rear holes the same size as the trunk body plugs at 1 1/4" (Please excuse the flaking paint, something I have to have a talking to about with my painter in the very near future)

Hopefully you have something similar to this when your finished! (without the painters tape and the spoiler painted lol)

wow I'm in serious need of an update!!! Here's what I got in photos on here so far, I gotta upload more her in the next few days....

so I plastidipped the front marker lights so I don't ruin the originals (I love this stuff!)

Re-did the rear taillamp wiring harnesses:



tried lining up the fiberglass hood more so the fitment is better (I give it a 7 outta 10, but what can you do) and drilling my new hotchkis hood pins:







Been working on it so much this past year my boys have gotten in on it!



found a good spot for my exterior emblems




So making a functional fiberglass airgrabber hood is a PITA, I had to chop out where the arms mount, fill them with fiberglass (lots of time and layering) and cut out where the arms go again:





I wanted to convert this to a manual pull lever setup like the old air grabbers, so this is what I had gotten(bought at same place as the airgrabber setup ( I wouldn't recommend this, get oem)



I cut the rod and flipped and welded the plate on the drivers side:



found a rod normally used inside the doors, I'm now using this as my extension rod for my airgrabber setup:



bought this cable and its what I will be using for this airgrabber:



Put them together and this is what I came up with:

I mounted the the handle in the exact same spot as if you had a 71 runner with a hemi and a choke! works good too!!! wish the cable was longer but its the best I could have done for now



stay tuned! got more to come very soon as I'm ready to drive this bird!!!


6/23/16

She Runs!!!! Getting ahead of myself but feast your eyes on this!