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Here's the list of links to the parts found on the Royal Sport Camaro!
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 Find a car and tear it apart. Just another day here at V8TV! This is our latest project here on V8TV, a 1969 Chevy Camaro convertible that we’re building in conjunction with Royal Purple Synthetic Oil . Royal Purple came to us and asked if we’d be interested in working with them on a project car, and we jumped at the chance.
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 We completely diasassembled the Royal Sport Camaro, and now it was time to remove all the rust, scale, paint, crust, and old body filler. This was not a job we wanted to do by hand, so we left the dirty work to Imperial Blasting Technologies !
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 We've been drilling lots of holes in this Camaro. There are many parts we plan to replace, and a few we're going to have to fix. By drilling out the factory spot welds, we're able to stay away from patching in small pieces and our end result will be a clean, complete body without a jigsaw puzzle under the carpet.
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 The bodywork and fabrication continues on the Royal Sport Camaro, the 1969 Camaro Convertible we're building with Royal Purple Synthetic Oil and eBay Motors . We're building the car from the floor up, and we've made it all the way to the... floor.
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 You have to go through some ugly to get to pretty... and we're gettin' UGLY! We’ve been working on the Royal Sport Camaro project, a ’69 Camaro we’re building with Royal Purple Synthetic Oil here on V8TV. The last time we showed you the car, it had just gotten out of the media Blaster and we had to make some decisions about how we were going to attack this project
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 We’re making progress on the Royal Sport Camaro, this time we went to Schwartz Extreme Performance in Crystal Lake, IL to test assemble the very first Schwartz Precision Chassis designed for a first generation F Body car - Camaro and Firebird. Assembling the chassis on our 1969 Camaro project for the first time.
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 Installing a power rack and pinion steering system into the Royal Sport Camaro.
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 The Royal Sport Camaro is changing colors - we tested several PPG hues to find the right color. The Royal Sport 1969 Camaro project is owned by Royal Purple Synthetic Oil , so naturally our initial design called for some sort of purple paint scheme. However, after mulling it over, the thought of painting the car purple has been replaced with a silver scheme.
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 You spend alot of time staring at your dash panel and gauges, so we set out to build a killer dash for the Royal Sport Camaro with the help of Detroit Speed and Stewart Warner Performance .
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 Re-bodying a 1969 Camaro is no easy task, and this time, we're replacing and installing a whole bunch of panels that most people never even see!
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 The Royal Sport is a 1969 Camaro Convertible owned by Royal Purple Synthetic Oil , and it’s a machine intended to hold the road on the drag strip and on the road course. Rather than use the stock-style suspension, we’ve opted for a complete chassis under the car. We called on Jeff Schwartz for the chassis. In this installment, we are test assembling the rear suspension components on the Royal Sport 1969 Camaro to make sure they all fit and work right before we disassemble the whole works for paint and for powder coating.
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 A high performance car really isn’t high performance unless it has stopping power to match its acceleration abilities, and we turned to Baer for the performance brakes on the Royal Sport Camaro project.
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 There are many steps to reconstructing an entire car. So far, we've built the foundation - welded up the floors, set the cowl, and test-fitted the quarter panels on the Royal Sport 1969 Camaro project. Although the structure was beginning to take shape, we have a long way to go.
At the same time, we have some fabrication work to do on the Schwartz Precision Chassis. The chassis we slipped under the Camaro was the first of its kind, requiring more attention than the actual production versions.
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 The first video blog on the Royal Sport Camaro project. These blogs began 23 days before the SEMA show in 2006, and we had to have the car at the show. This blog begins the journey of what happens after-hours when a crew is going crazy trying to finish a car in less than a month.
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 22 days and counting. Maybe we shouldn't count them.
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 FItting the engine in the rails and more bodywork on the Royal Sport 1969 Camaro.
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 Blog # 4. John's getting dusty sanding Marson body filler on the Royal Sport 1969 Camaro.
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 Mating the Royal Sport's Body to the chassis for the very first time!
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 Blog # 5. We've got paint on the chassis of the Royal Sport Camaro.
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 Blog # 6. Hey look... Smooth! The bodywork continues on the Royal Sport 1969 Camaro.
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 Blog # 7. Presto! Instant front suspension. Yeah, right.
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 The Vintage Air FrontRunner is a trick serpantine accessory drive system for a variety of engines. We installed one on the Royal Sport Camaro and were extremely impressed with the fit and function.
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 Now that the body is welded up, it's time to straighten it out. You'd think it would'nt be to hard, seeing that all the panels are new. Not so, my friend. We banged 'em up good during installation.
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 Blog # 8. It's late, we're goofy. Still working on the Camaro.
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 "Is it straight yet? I've been block sanding this thing for days! If you put more filler on this thing I'll kill you!"
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 Mating the YearOne Power Crate Engine and Tremec TKO 500 Transmission to the freshly painted Schwartz Precision Chassis.
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 Blog # 9. John thinks this is all one color.
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 Blog # 10. Time to make the donuts? Another late night working on the Royal Sport 1969 Camaro.
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 Blog # 11. It's 2 am, and we'll be here for another 2 hours. But we like to think of it as Pacific time, so we're actually a couple hours behind.
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 Blog # 12. Put it together. Take it apart. Put it together. Take it apart. Repeat until you have a completed Camaro.
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 Blog # 13. Lack of sleep is causing sillyness... or is it the energy drinks?
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 Blog # 14. Spraying the 3M Body Schutz under the Camaro to keep the panels chip-free and quiet.
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 Blog # 15. Why yes, that IS color! Finally, some silver PPG paint on the Royal Sport Camaro!
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 Blog #16. Detailing the engine and front drive system on the Royal Sport '69 Camaro.
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 After all the bodywork, it's finally time to paint the Royal Sport Camaro!
No matter what you do to your ride, the paint will have the greatest impact. Even if you have a mediocre car, great paint will make it stop traffic. But a great paint job isn’t easy, my friend. Here’s what we went through to make our Royal Sport Camaro shine.
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 Blog # 18. More block sanding. Fun. Whatever it takes to make this one straight!
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 Blog # 19. The YearOne Power Crate engine is in, the Tremec TKO 500 Transmission is next. Look out below!
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 We thrashed to get the Royal Sport Camaro ready for SEMA... here's some of the action.
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 Blog # 20. Nick Scavo thinks we're not going to make it... you can tell by his voice.
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 Blog # 22. Sneaking into the SEMA show!
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 What do you do when you can no longer fit a stock-type exhaust in your modified musclecar? We called Hooker for a couple boxes of mandrel bent pipe pieces and Aerochamber mufflers and created our own system.
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 Kelle pulls the wraps of the Royal Sport at SEMA! Although the car wasn't quite finished, we were relieved to show it for the first time.
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Blog # 23. Back in the shop, and back to work completing the detials we put off until AFTER SEMA!
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 The Royal Sport Camaro is finally completed. It's hard to believe that the pile of parts we started out with has transformed into the amazing musclecar seen here. Although we're happy it's finished, we're sorry to see it leave our shop, but we're confident the people at Royal Purple will enjoy it. Keep your eyes out for this car on the road at automotive events around the country!
Click Here for a list of all the links to manufacturers whose parts were used to construct the Royal Sport Camaro!
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