Front Suspension & Brakes

Rear Suspension, Brakes, & Rear End

• All the following from Vette Brakes & Products, Inc.
  • Heavy-duty front springs, 1” lower than stock, part # 42006
  • Carrera shocks (chrome) # 31086
  • 1 1/8” sway bar
  • Competition disc brake kit, #22085, 2ea heavy duty calipers, 2ea vane rotors, & semi-metallic pads

• Performance Suspension Technology front-end polygraphite kit, sway bar bushing, body mount set, tie rod ends, idler arm, & control arm bumper
• All removable suspension parts powder coated or painted gloss black, Including front clip
• Brakes
  • Manual brakes conversion from Master Power Brakes:
    • Master Cylinder MC390360M
    • Manual push rod kit AD2732K with custom made 5/8" offset clevis
    • Proportioning Valve VL3359 and bracket BL3350K
  • SSBC Force 10 Super Twin 2-piston aluminum caliper upgrade - A180-S
  • New rotors and pads from autoshepherd.com
    • EBC 3GD sport rotors GD7065
    • EBC Greenstuff 2000 pads DP21145

• All the following from Vette Brakes & Products, Inc.
  • Heavy-duty rear springs, # 42006
  • Carrera shocks, # 31045
  • 7/8” sway bar
• Performance Suspension Technology Polygraphite bushing set 
• 10 bolt rear end with chrome cover
  • Posi-traction, from Mark Williams Enterprises, Inc.
  • Yukon 4.11:1 ratio YG GM8.5-411 (Randy's Ring and Pinion)
    • 2300RPM at 70MPH in 5th gear
    • Installed by Harris Off Road, Burlington WA
    • Amsoil synthetic gear lube
  • Custom alloy axles (Dutchman Motorsports, Portland OR)
• All removable suspension parts powder coated or painted gloss black
• Brakes
  • SSBC rear disc brake kit (single-piston with aluminum caliper upgrade, 10.5" rotor) - A125

Front Wheels & Tires

Rear Wheels & Tires

• From Performance Plus Tire & Auto (Long Beach, CA) & Discount Tire (Burlington, WA)
• Wheels: 17" x 8" RT5 Retro Alloy, chrome, 4.5" backspacing
• Tires: Hankook Ventus V12 evo  K110, 245/45-17

• From Performance Plus Tire & Auto (Long Beach, CA) & Discount Tire (Burlington, WA)
• Wheels: 18" x 9" RT5 Retro Alloy, chrome, 5.0" backspacing
• Tires: Hankook Ventus V12 evo K110, 275/40-18

Exterior Parts - Replaced

Paint & Body Work

• Parts replaced from Classic Industries
  • Front Spoiler
  • Park lamps, Tail lights, Rear license lamp
  • Head light rings
  • Passenger quarter panel skin
  • Front fender patch panels
  • Fuel tank & sending unit
  • Front & Rear window molding
  • Door handles
  • Door mirror glass
  • Urethane bumper
• All new glass including windshield, side windows, rear window
• Rust-free used rear upper-body panel from Camaro Part Network (Berea, OH)
• ARB 920 headlights, with m17 white max H4 55/60 blueglow bulbs
• Front & rear bumpers & grill filler re-chromed by Specialty Plating Co. (Mount Vernon, WA)

• Paint and body by Hot Wheels Autobody (Mount Vernon, WA)

• Paint

  • PPG base coat/clear coat: Hugger Orange

  • Black stripes

  • Painted grill black, hand painted silver highlight

• Body Work

  • Built new rear window channel & driver lower trunk side panels

  • Replaced rusted passenger quarter panel with a new GM full quarter panel

  • Replaced rusted driver quarter panel with skin

  • Replaced rusted driver lower rear part of front fenders

Factory Replacement Parts

Custom Parts/Work

• From Classic Industries

  • Console - #3975798

  • Molded carpet - loop style, carpet underlay kit

  • Rear seat jute, trunk divider jute

  • Deluxe mesh seat shelf

  • Console shift plate, manual shift tunnel

  • Lower manual seal & upper shift boot

  • Dash pad

  • Interior dome lens & reflector

  • Front & rear ashtrays

  • Head liner, Sun visors, Inner rear view mirror

  • Molded trunk mat

• Corbeau Sport Seats (front), ordered un-upholstered, had them covered in the factory material to match the rear seats by John’s Auto Toggery (Mount Vernon, WA)

• 1978 Camaro rear seat courtesy of Ken Kudo. The car was wrecked one week after being bought new, seat was never used

• Factory gauges except for MSD shift light, MSD-8952, mounted on the steering column, from Summit Racing

• Black floor mats with orange RS pattern, from Auto Custom Carpets, Inc

• Repainted metal parts, cleaned and polished the rest of what wasn't replaced

• Original door panels, console, and rest of plastic parts, cleaned and/or refinished

• Changed dash carrier from factory wood grain to factory black with chrome trim

Motor from Motorworks Northwest (Burlington, WA) completed June 2002

• 9.5:1 short block (350), painted Chevy orange
  • 0010 high nickel block
  • Speed-pro pistons, .030 over
  • Speed-pro file fit rings
  • Clevite77 bearings
  • Stock crank, polished 10-10
• Comp Cams Xtreme Energy mechanical roller camshaft, duration 236/242 @ .050", lift .564/.570
• Lunati roller lifters
• Comp Cams magnum steel roller tip rocker arms, 1.52 ratio
• Cloyes plus roller chain set
• Manley push rods
• Crane rev kit
• World Products Heads, Sportsman II
• Fel Pro head/intake gaskets
• ARP head studs
• New harmonic balancer
• New mechanical fuel pump
• Dyna gear standard volume oil pump 
• Alternator bracket, aluminum, chrome finish. SUM-420100
• Spectre Ind power steering pump cap, chrome cap. SPE-1798
• Fluidamper harmonic damper, SFI 18.1 FLU-620101
• Moroso harmonic damper bolt MOR-38770
• Dayton V belt. #15440 (Parts Plus, Mt. Vernon, WA)
  
   

• Green Performance 14" x 3" air filter, dyed orange 
• Filter Top & base rechromed by Specialty Plating Co. (Mount Vernon, WA)
• Edelbrock polished performer intake
• Holley street avenger 570cfm carb.
• Moroso 64927 throttle return kit
• ARP carb. stud kit, stainless steel
• Aeroquip braided fuel line, dual feed for Holley carb.
• Aluminum 1969-72 Z28 valve covers polished by Specialty Plating Co. (Mount Vernon, WA)
• Fuel vapor charcoal cannister #17063011 (Blade Chevrolet, Mt. Vernon)
• MSD-6LA ignition with Mallory Unilite dual point, using one set of points as trigger for MSD
• MSD Blaster 2 coil, Taylor red pro wire set
• Tuff Stuff 100 amp 1 wire alternator from RB’S Obsolete Automotive Inc. (Edmonds, Wa)
• Optima Yellow top battery
• Factory battery tray, chromed battery hold down (Blade Chevrolet, Mt. Vernon)
• Battery cut-off switch, Calterm 41860
• Summit chrome water pump
• Milodon gold oil pan, pickup MIL-18600 (Summit racing)
• Energy Suspension engine and transmission mounts (Summitt racing)
• ARP-534-9501engine bolt kit, polished stainless steel 12 point (Summit Racing)

Various engine compartment parts

• All new hoses
• New master cylinder and power booster
• New A/C pump
• Remanufactured steering gear by Red-Head Steering Gear (Seattle, WA)
• Rebuilt stock radiator with chrome support
• Billet Specialties radiator cap, 16 pound, plain
• Chrome fender to radiator support bars
• Chrome thermostat housing

Exhaust

Transmission

•  Hooker Super Comp Headers, ceramic coated with 1 3/4" tubes, 32" long primaries, 3" collectors
• 2 1/2" Flowmaster exhaust,  manifold-back, designed for the Camaro so the muffler is in the factory position (installed by Budget Towing & Repair, Mount Vernon, WA)

• Tremec TKO-600 - Keisler Engineering PerfectFit 5-speed
  • .64 overdrive
  • Internal offset shifter
  • Mini-billet shift tower
  • SLG-7236 shift handle
  • Modified cross-member
  • Changed upper r/h mounting bolt to socket head cap screw
  • GM 11" bellhousing, titanium/aluminum thickwall construction
• Centerforce dual friction clutch
• Hays aluminum flywheel
• New speedometer cable (Tacoma Speedometer & Instrument, Inc., Tacoma WA)