Home built cars
 

All of my car is home built except final paint.
http://photobucket.com/albums/dd468/jimmanfred

here are some updated pictures of my garage build. My garage built 3-link with watts.

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Nice set up Bryce.:thumbsup:

home built cars
 

I built my car completely at home except for bending the exhaust.I did all body and paint and entire car myself,very fortunate because the price of quality work is crazy.http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/...bbed69/038.jpghttp://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/.../camaro109.jpghttp://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/.../camaro107.jpghttp://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/...bbed69/035.jpg

VEEEERRRYYYYY NICE cars,, Ya'll have a Gift !!!! Keep -um coming!! Don't let this thread die,, Post your homey pics !!

68 firebird
 

This is 3 years in the making, mainly home but not entirely. I bought it from a friend who had just reworked the motor but ran into an electrical problem and gave up. That was 6 years before I bought it. I fixed the problem and $18k later I pulled out of paint. Ive done a Hotchkis TVS, Baer brake conversion, Exhaust, poly bushings, 4.10 gears with eaton posi, and put wheels on it. Im in the process of putting a t56 in it,finishing the interior,lowering some more, some 18s all around- gonna try to squeeze 18x8.5 front and 18x9.5 rear:D

Damn Nice Camaro !!! See you went with the 59 dash,, My old 69 also carried one !! Dakota digital ??

Great job. She came out awesome.:cheers:

Completely home built here minus the actual covering of the seats.


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In progress...all homebuilt so far...planning on painting at home too!

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More to come!

Thanks!
Dave

Let' see more of these rides !!! This thread is not DYING!!!

100% built in my home garage and 100% Made in USA!

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This has all been built in my garage or help from a friend in his garage.
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And one with my kids taking a joy ride.
http://i319.photobucket.com/albums/m...y/DSC07226.jpg

Hey man, love the bird....how do you like the ProCar seats so far? I know you don't have much to go on but was considering the same ones. :thumbsup:

Dave

Nice work on the 'bird! Great choice for wheels too. :thumbsup:

Thanks, For what it's worth the seats have great side support for making vroom vroom noises. Sent you a PM.


Thanks, it was my second set of rims. The first set that I bought did not fit at all. From now on I will do all of my own measuring.:)

home grown shadetree 1st gen in progress

JDMan,That's awesome camaro.:thumbsup: Love the stance and color choice.:thumbsup: Scott M.

Nice looking car.
The best part,.........MADE IN USA.:patriot:

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Sooooooooooooooo much patience!!!! Sand, prime, sand,,,,prime again,,,,,sand some more and more again !!! Its getting seriously straight tough no?

I always wanted to ask, did you chop it yourself? The cut is so right on....

Keep it up man, mine is hitting the street in max 2 weeks... (waiting on new wheels problem and a distributor replacement, need the exhaust hung up --after wheel shows up--and thats it!!!)

Looking at your painted sheetmetal valve covers makes me think i might do mine....

Lead.

Thanks Lead!
And good luck on your build love your ride you have to get some pics of it soon!
And as for the top its not chopped, i do get asked that alot though lol
It does have the leaning forward b-pillars that give it that appearance its just that swoopey Fleetline body style.

Appreciate the comments ive had a few people ask about the ride dont post much of the build being its not a touring car but non the less all built in my garage lol.
Its a marriage of race car & street rod!

Its a Solid roller 406
11.6.1 mahles
Lunati VooDoo 243-249 @.050 595"
1.5 harlands
Scat crank and 6" rods
Pro-filer 210's 2.08-1.60's
by Chad Speiers, chad also ported my hurricane intake
1" hvh 750 mighty demon flows 825
melleing selct pump 7 quart pan
cloyes billet double roller
MSD billet dist with 6AL and ss coil
narrowed 9" 4.56 gears with a 4-link on shock wave air ride

Car has a ton of subtle smoothing through out it deburred the entire block and painted it body color body has had a good bit of changes complete front end has be fabricated smooth inner fender wells no visible bolts under the hood fender wise etc also like removed the locks left the handles, welded the fenders to the car front end is a complete tilt forward untit aswell as a top side tilting unit.
Custom built valance panels flipped the bumpers moved them closer to the body and sectioned the rear bumper 3"s
smoothed dash and door jambs custom built wrap around console. complete belly pan under the rear of car with flip down plate on rear lol.
Yeh the list goes on crazy sheeeet and i wonder why im not finished yet!

Heres a few pics been a fun but lengthy project but getting closer lol
Thanks again guys

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FRIGGIN' AWESOME! Man, thats a ton of work.
Thanks for posting the engine specs too!

Damn Nice,,!!!! Who cares if it's not pro-t ??? Who's to say it isn't ?? Who drew the line ?? Keep us posted on progress !!!! Thanks Roger J

^The Mule.

Anyway, it's still pretty awesome, and if anyone doesn't like it, well, he/she/it can go to the madhouse. That thing is insane, any finishing date?

Thanks no i havent put a dead line on the build just trying to make it as nice as i can with out a crazy dead line body work is close to being buttoned up and then body will come off frame it will be smoothed and painted like body aswell,
I put the engine in for last mock up to make sure it fired up well and didnt have any issues.
Heres a couple quick vid's of fire up car revs super quick gonna be fun on the street lol
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...rent=030-1.mp4
http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/e...rent=002-2.mp4

The center console it's pretty crazy, I like it a lot, dare2bdifferent, nice.

All being built from my garage. Started when I was 17. Based the look off of a drawing I made of the car. Will be running 6.0 Ls motor with a T-56. All built, fabbed, bodywork and paint done myself.

:)

Mine is being build in a friends garage....does that count?

both of my camaros will be home built from paint/body to engine work/rewire.

AWD 68 Camaro in progress

68 Camaro (Black Spade)

I have been building my 66 GTO in my garage for 4yrs now. I think I am on the 10yr plan. Time is hard to come by these days. That is time at home to work on it. I'm in the sand box for a while. Can't what to get home, so I can finish widening the second wheel tub to fit 345's and the tri-4 link. Building it in my garage has been fun so far, it's good therapy.

you few last ones, we need pics!!!!

G-Body....Like i said, WOW! I love this kind of work and with time i like it more and more and try to make every sub assemblies of my builds better. I realize that as i get a little older (38) my patience is growing and the need to wow the gallery is diminishing and it really comes down to personnal realization and taste.

Doing all that work you doin takes A LOT of time, which is something i have a hard time finding with 3 young little girls and a bad back, but this is where doing it for fun comes into play, if you do it out of love and for yourself, where's the rush??? Its understandable we want them out to enjoy, but not to the detriment of the finished product huh? Looking back on the Camaro, i could have done some stuff differently and prolly better too, but its another one on the list and i have learned again and will again on the next one!

Great job, keep it up its getting there. I like the way you work with steel rod it gave me a few ideas, and i'm still shocked to learn its not chopped!!! Too cool....

On my side of things, i just need to get the exhaust installed ( i try to limit my working under the car cause of my back - i'm on my second surgery and last one is still fresh as of Feb '11) and i'm waiting on my rear shocks (will fit them with the exhaust and tailpipes on to make sure they clear one another) and after that, i have a good one;

Some of you may remember when i first started this build, i was going full bore on PT style and was one of the first to use Air ride (got criticized for it too at beginning) and 345's. I had finally decided to go back to a more traditionnally built car (big and littles big block etc) and had sold all my PT parts to a friend.... Well 5 years later, my car is done, and my friend friend has forwarded on the body and structure of his project, but still no paint and it still requires some work (69 Camaro also but his a hardtop) and life brings changes to him so that he wants out and i committed to buy his whole project and the parts i sold him 5 years ago lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:will y: :willy: :willy:

My idea is that i would like to put my C6-Z06 brake set up and 19x9 and 20x13 Forgeline (245's and 345 P-zero Assimmetrico) wheels on the car but leave all the rest aside for now (hey, after 5 years without a car, now that i have it done, you aint taking it away from me right away!!!) but i might eventually put in the 6.0L LS and T-56...thinking a turbo set up maybe. I have no plan of keeping his body tough and will flip it out with a spare (built) 454 and th400 i have layin around with either the 9 inch in it or my built 12 bolt in mine depending on buyer's taste for the shell (which is all new steel and has a tri four link in the rear and an Art M front clip (made at home to specs).

This is driving me insane, i have not picked it up yet, i still have debates about doing it....But i said yes so.... For the price, i cant pass it up, but i'm not sure how it will end up. we'll see i guess!! Thats the fun of long term projects, they take you on a tour and have a life all their own!

Ok, you all may go to the bathroom now, i'm done for the day, now to the garage....Lol!

Lead :lateral:

Oh and yes....Got pics comin'!!

The first pics outside the garage since it came back from paint many moons ago!

Lead.

Let's see those pics on the builds??? I'm not making the progress on my 66 nova, that I would like, I know what ya'll mean about time !!!:cheers: :cheers:

I'm making slow but steady progress on my 81 Malibu. Been building a 357 engine and collecting go fast parts and small items to finish it up.

http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...DSCN0011-1.jpg

The malibu looks great John! Hope you are doing well, we need to catch up sometime soon.:cheers:

My never ending garage project of 22 years:

http://sieg.smugmug.com/Cars/69-Cama...MAG1177-XL.jpg

Long way to go but with the recent addition of new wheels, tires, and a Tremec T56 Magnum I've spiced up the marriage a bit. :unibrow:

Tell us more on how you like the manual vs before swap!

Really, do you like it, is it more fun in the same car?

Lead.