1988 Chevrolet Camaro

This is My 16 yr old son Garrett’s project. He came to me and said dad I like to do a street/strip car to go drag racing at the track. We found this Camaro without a motor or transmission. He bought the car with money that he had saved and I had a 350 motor and Turbo 400 laying in my garage. HE work over the summer in an engine machine shop to help support his bills for the car which he has paid for everything. The engine is mostly stock except for the heads and the block was bored .060 before I bought the block with a mild 292 comp cam. We put a shift kit in the transmission. Once we got the car home we discovered that the rear end was junk so we find a 8.8 rearend with 3.73 gears. He has done most of the work himself and I did the welding and so forth. I told him that the 3 gen Camaro is a terrible car to build for a race car from all the stuff we had to do to the car but I would not take one minute back working on the car with my son. We are finishing up the motor and will have it in the car before long. He plans on leaving the car unpainted and racing it at the local drag strips this coming summer. It has taken longer than we had planned due to high school and playing baseball. He is also trying to get a appointment to the Air Force academy.