Back at it

The past month has been pretty slow - body shop hasn't done anything, and I haven't done much. I trimmed a frame brace to clear the header - the pass header didn't quite tuck in enough.

Last week ordered a few parts - ordered a tailshaft housing with mechanical speedo provisions - a little bit more than a cable-x box, but won't need replacing every 10,000 miles. The conversion uses an adapter back to an early style caprice tailhousing. The tailhousing is modified to carry both the VSS pickup and mechanical speedo gear.

I also ordered up a Camaro water pump with a front outlet rather than a top outlet that the truck pump has - simple swap of the pulley, and I no longer have interference on the throttle body. I'll tap where the truck outlet normally is to have a supply line for the steam line off the heads.

I had to trim the throttle body water fitting off to clear the water pump. In sunny california, no need for coolant to warm up the throttle body.

My back wheels are ready - went to pick them up Friday, but Phil got an early start on the weekend. Had him pull a bit more backspacing. On the 8" rims, I only had 6" of backspacing - standard Camaro 8" wheels are 6 1/2" backspacing.

I also pulled off the heads today to send them into the machine shop for a .030 shave to bump compression. When I pulled the heads, I found some light surface rust on the tops of a couple of bores. Likely the side effect of living so close to the beach. With the heads off, gave all the cylinders a good coat of oil.