More fabrication work complete

Despite having to simultaneously deal with a cold and waves of  “Camaro groupies” coming by the shop to check things out, John has made  a bit more progress on the car.

Unitrax completed the rear end with the ring & pinion and diff all installed right.  The passenger-side leaf spring mount was bent, rusty, crooked, and had been re-welded or something by a caveman with a blowtorch; it needed some fixin’-

The sawzall, saws all:

Removed, and readied for the new perch:

This is one place the Camaro’s popularity helps.  Replacement spring perch from Summit was just a few bucks, they had it in stock, etc.  Probably not many cars where replacement welded-on pieces like this are so easy to come by-

All prettied up and rust protected:

I’d been thinking about buying a lathe and making some of my own bushings, but there are really only a few this car needs, and I don’t have a ton of spare workbench space…so I’m having John make the custom bushings the car needs also.  He completed the first couple pairs, for the rear leaf spring shackles-

These Hydlar bushings should offer much improved response over the worn-out stock bushings, which in an informal durometer test, measured just above “marshmallow”