{"id":920,"date":"2011-05-10T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=920"},"modified":"2011-05-10T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T19:59:44","slug":"the-eagle-has-landed-then-it-took-off-again-phase-3-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"The eagle has landed&#8230;then it took off again. Phase 3 begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Coffey of BetaMotorsports wrapped up his work a few weeks ago. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been a bit busy with other things, so super stud man Ken Motonishi went and picked up the car for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-921\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The girlfriend was a bit disappointed as I rolled it back into the garage &#8211; &#8220;It looks the same as when it left!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To some extent she&#8217;s right, the car looks the same cosmetically. \u00a0What John did, was build a solid chassis and suspension foundation underneath the body &#8211; one I can build upon, and tune to work the way I want it to. \u00a0 There were a few themes governing his work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide adjustability to every aspect of the suspension. \u00a0The adjustability should allow for very fine increments of change, while also offering a wide enough range of adjustment to allow for a satisfactory setting in any of the situations the car might find itself in.<\/li>\n<li>Minimize weight gain through Steelitis. \u00a0Every net addition would have to work hard to justify its existence.<\/li>\n<li>Do all this while fully complying with the SCCA Street Touring rules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a couple pictures of the front end as it sat-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-922\" title=\"susp_top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_top-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_top-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_top-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-923\" title=\"susp_front\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_front-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_front-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/susp_front-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With this, the fabrication phase is complete, and phase 3, body and paint, can begin.<\/p>\n<p>For this portion of the project, Pat Smith, a fellow member on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-touring.com\">http:\/\/www.pro-touring.com<\/a> who owns a paint shop in nearby Ramona, will be doing the work. \u00a0Pat has done some really great work on classic Camaros and Mustangs, and is excited to be a part of this project. \u00a0I inquired with a couple different well-known shops in town, and Pat offered not only the best value, but also presented just the right sort of spirit and attitude I look for when looking for help.<\/p>\n<p>Now when it comes to aesthetics, I have practically zero ability and am not afraid to admit so. \u00a0It is time to decide what color things should be on the car, and in so doing I intend to plagiarize to the greatest extent possible from the car that inspired this project. \u00a0I figure there&#8217;s enough trails blazed in other aspects of the car, there&#8217;s no need to reinvent the wheel here. \u00a0Besides, there is a singular look to these cars that evokes the awe in me. \u00a0That&#8217;ll be the look we aim for.<\/p>\n<p>Pat picked the car up last Saturday, and as of last night, had already made some good progress:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMAG0164.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-925\" title=\"IMAG0164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMAG0164-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMAG0164-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMAG0164-1024x612.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He got the front and rear suspension removed, and the car mounted up on the rotisserie. \u00a0That&#8217;s one advantage of going with somebody that&#8217;s done several of these cars before &#8211; they know them well, and have custom-made tools like the Camaro rotisserie, to aid in the job.<\/p>\n<p>The car will get all its yucky red paint removed, then be thoroughly cleaned and inspected. \u00a0As best we can tell the chassis appears practically rust-free, the paint removal this week will tell us for certain. \u00a0From there it&#8217;s on to primer and panel fitment, and finally, paint. \u00a0When it comes home from this phase, it is sure to look much much different!<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people really like this phase of projects, so I&#8217;ll keep the pics coming as best I can. \u00a0Getting a car to look good, and the panels to fit, is all voodoo and black magic, so I won&#8217;t have too much commentary to add. \u00a0 I will probably sort out the steering and knuckle situation while the car is being painted, so it can get rolled out of the shop with clean new Z28-spec stuff in place instead of the funky manual stuff on it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Coffey of BetaMotorsports wrapped up his work a few weeks ago. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been a bit busy with other things, so super stud man Ken Motonishi went and picked up the car for me. The girlfriend was a bit disappointed as I rolled it back into the garage &#8211; &#8220;It looks the same as when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}