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First Spring Drive
Because of oil leakages and intermittent aversion of the transmission to engage when it is cold I decided to change the fluid and oil filter. And because this should be done right after the famous Turbo-Hydramatic THM350 gets to its operating temperature, I utilized this fact for short-time-after-winter enjoy drive. And also because I'm not a selfish one I prepared for my intermittent visitors following vid.
While exchanging the oil we found out the most probable cause of the leakages - stripped and therefore loose thread. But we're tough boys and so we rebored it to a bigger european...
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New Headers, Mufflers & Horns
Exhaust System
Finally, I obtained new batch of Camaro stuff, more than required for my orangeade. Let me begin with the exhaust headers, pruchased on eBay (great source of such things btw), exactly Flowtech 31100FLT - ceramic coated. They should not rust, unless the coating is scratched and have good heat retention value (compared to steel).
Together with the headers I received also set of Summit fully welded mufflers. I choosed them because of reasonable price and good feedback from the Nasty Z28 community. Now I only need to get the rest pipe stuff somewhere.
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Garage? Mission Accomplished!
And now we're done! After neverending and exhausting work we finished with a majestic final. If it's not a problem to spend some time here, please take a look at the following action movie:
Bellow I'm putting some photos where are better visible the final modifications. I won't delay you any more with pointless mucks cause nobody read them either.
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Garage 4 & 1/4
Yep, the time when my Chevy Camaro will sight brand new beautiful house is coming. Maybe better said "new walls ol'round". Let's check all of those new features in following chapters.
Ceiling
After the easy batten removage we had to replace old girder just because the wood-worm family thought to have a good appetite with it. You can see it as the first one from the right side (yeah, surprisingly!). As the next task we put a wooden grid underneath the girders which holds the OSB panels. They are easier to install and smell from natural resin compared to usual plasterboards. Finally...
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Garage, Episode Three
Just before beginning of the restoration it was needed to remove board ceiling. It had to be done in a cool way - nicely one plank by another, just to let the dirt fall into my face. It doesn't look that extremely demanding on the photos. Right, it was quite easier task to accomplish this than described in 2nd episode. Even so, I would evaluate it as "Glad to have this piece of sh.t done". Check following photos - from inside, outside and attic.
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Garage, Episode Two
So, 2 months are gone and we've got here second episode of the garage reconstruction. Past the weekend I rubbished the coat and tear away the bottom of the ceiling. No cement works can produce in 5 years that amount of dust I did in 2 days. Fortunately some protective spectacles, gloves, hat or mouth-screen helped me to manage it. I do not cough or cry a mud, so it seems that they have proved good.
Following photos show the progress - for the first day I cleaned up the rest of the disordered stuff and begun with the rubbishment....
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Garage, The First Episode
If you are serious with your car you cannot leave it staying under open skies for sure. Also my sweetheart is sheltered from breeze, blizzards, cruel rainstorm and from red-hot sun too. Unfortunately the garage booth does not look very good because no man have touched its interiors for decades. The garage metamorphosed to a warehouse of types like "never know when you can use this" or "put it into the garage temporary".
Thanks to purchase of the Chevy things got moved. Firstly it's needed to sort and dump all that stuff like materials, chemicals and quality oil-waxed furniture. The photos...