Xelerator's 73 Pro Tour Project update

[732ndgen]

ouch

you need to stop working out man.atleast i can seel on of the other cars at the show this weakend.

[Gottork]

well I am sure you will have it up and fixed in no time, glad you caught it before it hit the street..

Ouch. Well it was a cool idea anyway...

[Xelerator]

Update on my 73. It's out of commision for awhile!!!

I never liked the way my 73 sat with the Hotchkis TVS system so memorial weekend and this weekend I worked on lowering the front end and many other odds and ends in hopes to have it ready for a local car show June 7th.

Well I finished up the front end yesterday afternoon, mounted the wheels on the hubs, tightend the lugs, lowered the car and then went to torque the LH Front wheel's lugs when all of a sudden while torquing, a loud "POP" happend, then I wend to another lug and "POP" again! I said, this can't be good.

Back up a couple of years; I have my own home made C5 disc brake conversion kit, and in order to use the "HAT" style rotor from the C5s, you need a "hub", I ended up finding out that a front brake rotor from a 3rd gen F-body has the correct offset so all you need to do is remove the rotor and you have your self a hub. The next step to making the hub work was pressing out the studs (metric) and pressing in 1/2-20 studs (after drilling out the metric holes to accomodate the larger 1/2-20 studs.

Fast forward to yesterday, I decided to dig into what caused the "pop" and all I had to do was look on the back side of the hub only to see 1/3 of the hub cracked, not good, this could have been catastrophic!

Here are some pics to show the carnage, enjoy, I sure did, NOT.

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Anyways, looks like I will be buying some fabricated hubs from Kore3 now, ouch, $$$$ http://www.kore3.com/proddetail.php?prod=10038

[Gottork]

thats one nice looking ride...

[MP81]

Looks awesome man, the intake looks great!

[WMCC Doug]

Intake looks great, Derek.

I'm really glad to hear you'll be able to make the Berger show. I can't wait to see your car in person. 2nd Gen pro-touring FTW !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Xelerator]

Awesome Camaro Derek!
Would love to see it at the Berger show. Hope you can make it!

Thanks! It looks like I will be able to make it to Berger so I am going to make some reservations right away on monday. Can't wait!

Here are some pics of my air intake I made up this weekend. I did it as low cost as possible by using scrap parts from work and parts I had laying around and I think I turned out great! I am still waiting for my K&N filter and then it will be done.

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[Bowtie-Bri]

Awesome Camaro Derek!
Would love to see it at the Berger show. Hope you can make it!

[Xelerator]

All of the attachments have been fixed. I kept the attachments in the vbulletin folder when I moved the site to the new server, but it was specifically looking for the old directory location. I moved all the attachments to where it was looknig and TADA it started working again.

You the MAN, thanks a bunch! I appreciate it!

[meissen]

All of the attachments have been fixed. I kept the attachments in the vbulletin folder when I moved the site to the new server, but it was specifically looking for the old directory location. I moved all the attachments to where it was looknig and TADA it started working again.

[WMCC Doug]

Looking great, Derek. We're trying to have as much done on Project DZ74 as possible, too. Every detail will not be done, but it should still look pretty good. Hope you can make it over to the show.

[Xelerator]

Well, since my photos appear to be gone, I will post some more updated ones.

Radio delete plate (yes no tunes at this time) and pedal covers installed Interior was not detailed at this time
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Some Under side shots
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Some Side shots
(Old front bumper)
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(Old Front Bumper)
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(New Front Bumper with nose emblem)
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Engine Shot, Redesign of Air intake in process
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[Xelerator]

I am trying to get some things finished up for the Berger show. I still don't have any reservations made yet and we were thinking of taking the ferry over too so those reservations need to be made yet too. Money is tight and I may have to back out, I hate to say that as I really want to do this show! I am going to do all I can to make it!

[WMCC Doug]

Hi Derek,

I can't wait to see your '73 at the Berger Show. We're getting close, just a couple of weeks .........