Thrift Shop Camaro by Payton King

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Since it has been home, my 2 door luxury coupe has been sitting in an automotive cocoon in my garage....slowly getting a surface rust patina on all of that bare metal.

I have sanding disc and self etching primer, but no time to work on it. Both of my boys (13 and 11) play travel soccer. To give you an idea, we have 4 games this weekend with one being out of town. 2 on Sat and 2 on Sun. Last weekend we had 2 in Asheville, NC. about 2 hours away.

Anyway, with all of that being said, this weekend will wrap up the heavy travel and the outdoor season is coming to a close. More progress will be taking place.

I have recently purchaed a set of Jesel shaft rockers, intake manifold, Hendrick vavle covers with spring oilers and baffles, Jesel belt drive. About to order a custom ground 50mm cam and a set of custom pistons from CP. I will soon be sending the manifold off for fuel injector bungs and fuel rails to be made.

The car is going to Jim Pettigrew in December for header work and motor mounts...along with anything else I can come up with.

Hopefully lots of cool stuff with pictures coming soon

12-23-2013

But not too much to report. Living in the land of NASCAR, I have lots of cool places all around me. One of those places is MSI Racing, they do custom wheel studs and lug nuts. They supply pretty much all of the NASCAR guys and have starting suppling most of the guys in GT, Grand Am, etc.  

I was nervous about the 12mm stock studs in the front hubs so I went up to see MSI. They are hooking me up the a 14mm stud from the front and a custom 14 mm stud for the floating rear hub...replacing the 5/8 stud that is in there now. The cool thing is they are building it the same size as the 5/8 stud at the bottom so my drive plate will still have some support and then the front and rear will match.

Finally made a decision on a seat and will be mounting it, steering, pedals and making some mounts for the motor plate.

Updates coming soon.

5-8-2014

I have been picking up a few parts here and there. I will try and get some pics this weekend. Car is due to go to Jim Pettigrew's for exhaust, motor plate mount and a few other things so there will be progress in the future.

Parts:

woodward with sparco steering wheel

2 Butlerbuilt full containment seats

71 inch wing

Jack screw style watts adjuster

New rear end housing because the first was built too narrow

14mm studs front and rear

This is where the wing came from...

Here are my seats