Another LS1 73 Vega Wagon

[1100kaw2]

Dan
1st time I been on here for a bit.
Looks like your coming right along very nicely.
gotta love starting with clean car, but on the other hand... kinda hate to cut em up.
but. I Did. I sleep fine. lol
at least we aint tubbing and cageing them. That should be done to the rusty floor ones if possible.
keep up dating us
Darrell

[Zanie]

These updates are way behind schedule.
My buddy Ron's shop is an hour drive away for me, so I took "unbolt-able" body parts home to work on in my garage.


Pressure wash (the white spots are soap bubbles)



A little chemical stripper


I like "rust free" stuff!











primered up after a little bit of straightening and smoothing.




I had some leftover gray paint.

[Zanie]

Doors are equally rust free

[Zanie]

Moving to the fuel system.
I had a product certificate from Aeromotive good at Motor State Distributing, so I was going to use the Phantom set-up. But as you may know; my stock 73 tank was small (11 gallons) and offset to the right side. On the left side is the now useless spare tire well. I figured there had to ne a better way.


Inside so rust free I almost felt guilty....




I had seen a few guys here modify the trunk floors and install the 69 Camaro tank. I mostly followed waybad's lead on this.
I used my product certificate and purchased an Aeromotive Stealth tank for a 69 Camaro from Motor State Distributing. The tank is made by Tanks Inc, but it comes with an Aeromotive 340 LPM pump (too much for a stock LS1) I also purchased a pair of reproduction 69 Camaro trunk floor braces (where the tank actually attaches).

The tank comes powder coated silver with the fuel pump module installed.

I tried to save as much of the original floor as possible, also found the trunk braces fit better flip flopped (left to right, & right to left)...in hindsight I should have bought 67-68 Camaro braces.; there's no left or right.

at this point but the tank was hanging too low for my liking. So I hacked away!




I visited a local Camaro restoration parts distributor and purchased an imported 69 Camaro trunk floor for $65.



It was a bit of work to get it to fit right so it looked like it belonged there.



I wanted easy access to the fuel pump so I built this access panel into the floor



The filler neck was about an inch too high. The neck is brazed into the tank so we needed to heat the crap out of it to get the filler neck out.



Then we cleaned it up and brazed it back in where I needed it.






The filler neck ended up behind the license plate just like the original.

[waybad]

well done!!

[zeke]

I figured there had to be a better way.

I starting scrolling faster to get to the cutting when I read that. Nice work, those Camaros are good for somethings!

[zzip]

Nice work

Peter from antwerp

[megavega]

That gastank mod is a good one likely gonna have to do the same swap on mine when I get done up front, good job!!