my plain jane 79

bamabrett · 04-26-2010, 08:13:31 PM

these are some pics of my 79. So far me and my dad have smoothed the fire wall, rebuilt the front subframe and put a posi-trac rear in it. it will be used as my high school hot rod. Right now me and my dad have started on the motor.plans are for a mild 350 with about a 125 shot of nitrous. I'm gonna keep most of the interior stock but it will have some racing style seats in the front and a roll bar.

thanks for looking.

ATM · 04-26-2010, 08:55:30 PM

Good luck, looks like a nice enough project. It will be cool to have a good old second gen in high school.

Blu-By-U 79Z · 04-26-2010, 08:55:36 PM

Welcome to Nasty Z.
I wish i had a 2nd gen in high school. Looks like you have things under control. Keep it up and post up more. -Matt

brooksman9 · 04-27-2010, 12:01:48 AM

Welcome Brett. Cool that you and your dad are working together. Enjoy the ride.

bamabrett · 04-28-2010, 07:17:46 PM

thanks for all the welcomes. I came home from school today and saw that dad had put the rods in baby's new bullet. I helped put the pan, lifters, water pump on. I'll get the heads back from the machine shop in about two weeks then I can button up the top end.

bamabrett · 05-22-2010, 02:55:50 PM

I haven't got much accomplished over the past few weeks but thankfully school ends in one week

Today i am trying to get all my interior piceces cleaned and together.

brett

bamabrett · 05-27-2010, 11:16:21 PM

i havent posted much but i'll give ya'll a quick update. I got the driver seat mouted to test fit last night. I should have the heads back from the machine shop tommorrow after a week or two of delays. I'm going to get a tranny from my brother this weekend. Anyway i'll post some pics of the seats tommorrow.

Brett

bamabrett · 05-28-2010, 07:26:25 PM

got the heds back from machine shop today and got the motor mostly together.

Also here is a picture of the seats

76 camaro car 1 · 05-29-2010, 09:56:47 AM

Nice project, My son and I are working on his high school criuser also but now he is just 11 and starting the 7th grade. So it looks like dad will get it for a little while first.

bamabrett · 05-30-2010, 08:48:11 PM

thanks its always cool to hear about other father son camaro projects. didn't do much on my '79 today but i did help my dad pull the motor out of his '79 camaro drag car

joe-balls · 05-30-2010, 10:03:16 PM

Welcome, nice project

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Originally Posted by bamabrett

i did help my dad pull the motor out of his '79 camaro drag car

Must post pics of this

bamabrett · 05-31-2010, 01:04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joe-balls

Welcome, nice project

Must post pics of this

found some pics of it at the track from a few years ago also found out how to make my pics bigger. anyways the best it has ran was a 11.89 in the quarter. that was with a wore out block. we built another motor put it in the car and the the car sat outside with the motor covered up but water was getting in so yesterday we took the motor and we are going to clean it up and put it back together and put it in the car with a new fogger system

joe-balls · 06-01-2010, 12:42:38 AM

sweet

conrracing · 06-01-2010, 07:18:44 AM

Good looking project! Keep at it!

bamabrett · 06-05-2010, 10:21:04 PM

finally got the tranny and converter from my brother. he also gave me a set of turbo mufflers a console for my camaro and a trans tempeture gauge

. I am amazed that progress is coming along this fast. should start getting ready to put the motor in soon, I spent one day last week putting the break lines back together in the front. looked at the back line and saw that some stupid pos put a course thread bolt in the line before I bought the car

oh well i guess you can't fix stupid after all