1972 camaro build

[JOEY72camaro]

Hey everyone thought I would make build forum for my car so I could look back on and just have. Anyways it all started with my 1986 Irocz my first car I liked it so much I wanted a older camaro was looking for a cheap 1967 camaro but I ending up find my 1972 camaro for really good deal so I bought it as my first classic car and project car to rebuild

 

[fltinstructor]

Nice looking shot of the dash. I have that same steering wheel going in mine but in black. Looking forward to see where this goes.

 

[grzewnicki]

Word of advice, do not throw any old parts out till you are 100% sure the new stuff will work. I'll try to follow your thread and help anyway I can since I have a 72 also. Good luck with the build.

 

[QUAKE_WARS]

Cool stuff. should be a fun build!!

 

[QUAKE_WARS]

Placer gold?

 

[JOEY72camaro]

Placer gold?

Yea pretty sure it is

 

[JOEY72camaro]

After it sat for A little while doing body work I noticed all the brakes were leaking from every caliper and wheel cylinder pop open the master cylinder to find someone added what looked like hydraulic fluid and not brake fluid so I moved on to the brakes order all new front disc rebuild kits and new rear wheel cylinders took all the lines off cleaned them up and blew them out got A new master cylinder as well

 

[JOEY72camaro]

Next step is to move on to the rear end going to take it to A shop the rear yoke is leaking and I want to undercoat the floors and it needs new body bushings I went with stock height metal bushings and every red polyurethane bushings for rear suspension

 

[tom3]

Just a note, alternators don't like running with no load. Without the battery resistance the diodes can get fried pretty quick.

 

[JOEY72camaro]

Just a note, alternators don't like running with no load. Without the battery resistance the diodes can get fried pretty quick.

Got it tested before using it again tested good never ran the car for that long before new wiring