Thrift Shop Camaro by Payton King

4 minute(s) of a 124 minute read

Continuing on the thrift shop theme, picked up a GF4A from a local race team.  

Here is a little piece of information that I did not realize. The bearing retainer on these boxes are indexed for either a Ford or Chevy. The Chevy one is smaller. Guess which one was on my trans?



So we had to remove it and Jim turned it down to fit my Chevy/RCR bellhouse

Ratios:

2.71
1.78
1.29
1.00

Actually there is good room for the shifter. We moved the motor to the right side about 1/2 inch for steering shaft clearance and it helped with the shifter as well. I did look into a rail shifted box and they are cubic bucks.

11-26-2014

With a transmission, frame back in the correct spot, it is time to fit the motor to the car. Here is the mock up motor. SB2 block that had been vented by one of the Hendrick drivers along with a set of heads that had dropped a valve.




We were trying the get the motor back and low as possible and the firewall was not cooperating. Break out the plasma cutter.

This is our first cut



The firewall still did not want to play nice, so we had to be more forceful.

The motor slid right in and Jim locked down the motor positon. About 5 inches back and over to the right 1/2 inch for steering shaft clearence.





I had to throw my intake on just to see

A cage that was less than user friendly with more than a few questionable welds...time to start over. I am doing this for fun on the track and not to get hurt if something goes wrong. With 2 kids and a wife, safety is the biggest focus of this build.

Out with old

Jim started by making me a transmission mount...it never had one.