8 Weeks, A Camaro, SEMA, Playmates, Good friends, and good times.

[blu808]

I have been pretty much MIA for the past 8 weeks or so here on the forums. Thought I would share my epic tale.

About 7 months ago Conrad Grunewald and I teamed up to build a new Camaro for Formula Drift. He had done all the paper work, proposals, and lined everything up with GM. Well about 8 weeks ago the car finally showed up. Andrew Bohan and I went down to the dealer to pick it up.

The car had only 8 miles on it.
http://www.conradgrunewald.com/images/build/001.jpg

We decided to flatbed it back to the shop to save time from using our trailer.

http://www.conradgrunewald.com/images/build/002.jpg

We took the car back to the shop and immediately tore it apart.

http://www.conradgrunewald.com/images/build/003.jpg

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It was right around that time when 2 GM LSA crate engines showed up at the shop. So we test fit one.

http://www.conradgrunewald.com/images/build/005.jpg

The next day I loaded up the truck and brought all the bodywork to Seibon Carbon down in socal.

After a fun 800 mile road trip it was time to start on the cage and seam welding.

4130 cromoly 1.5" x .095" all tig welded.

http://www.conradgrunewald.com/images/build/010.jpg

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We also cut everything out that wasn't needed.

http://www.conradgrunewald.com/images/build/007.jpg

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Within the next week or two parts started rolling in from places like Brembo, Sparco, Canton racing, Aim, Hennesy, Stainless works.

I then started fabbing up the fuel system, and supercharger heat exchanger setup in the trunk.

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Eibach sent over some custom double adjustable coilovers.

http://lsxtv.com/photos/data/552/IMG_01391.JPG

Fabbed up the intake and radiator setup.

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The car then headed over to Los Gatos Auto Body to have the interior painted.

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As expected everything turned out great.

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We test fit the custom 1 piece carbon dash and installed the Aim cluster.

http://lsxtv.com/photos/data/551/IMG_9916.JPG

Then Jeff Jordan from jordan innovations came up to do all the wiring on the car. Everything from the custom engine harness, chassis harness, and Mil spec connectors was done by him.

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Right about then with about a week before SEMA our bodywork showed up.

http://lsxtv.com/photos/data/551/carbon.jpg

The car then went off to the paint shop. After a long 2 days the car came back all painted and ready for vinyl.

Andrew from Lab17 - Graphics & Screen Printing (http://www.laboratory17.com) came down to do all the vinyl and as expected it turned out amazing.

Conrad and I then towed the car all the way out to Vegas. We arrived at 4 am and slept in the truck until it was time to roll it in.

Mission accomplished. 7 weeks of 20 hour days, and lots of drama. Made the final week completely worth it.

http://www.conradgrunewald.com/images/sema/sema_02.jpg

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The car won the coveted GM Design Award for best high performance product of SEMA 09.

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The car also received an award from the VP of GM sales.

http://www.blu808.com/wp-content/gallery/camarosema/camaroaward.jpg


The rest of our SEMA trip consisted of meeting with sponsors, having fun with friends, Chasing people off road in the truck and watching them get stuck on railroad tracks, pissing off strippers, loosing money, and the last night consisted of the Penthouse at Palms Place, 3 playboy playmates, a private booth at Club Rain, and well... The Shocker.

Here is the view from the 58th floor.

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Here is the view from the deck.
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At Club Rain.
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Needless to say the rest of the trip was fun. We pulled it off, and had a great time doing it.

Thanks for reading my hella random story.

[HyperTek]

pretty cool !

[ryguy]

The car looks awesome man. How does she drive? Just a stupid silly question, why didn't you drive it back to the shop from the delaership? Just to keep it that much more fresh? I probably wouldn't have been able to resist.

[blu808]

Pm me for naked hoe pics.


Car cannot be driven on a public roadway due to GM contractual obligations.

[drift freaq]

Damn Crazy Luke, once again you pull off the amazing. The car looks amazing. Congrats on everything.

[S14DB]

Nice work! How does the inter-cooler vent?

Oh, jebus not another sex tape....

[blu808]

thanks guys. the trunk mount is actually a radiator for the liquid to air intercooler. It vents on top of an opening on the rear diffuser that has a low pressure area.

[surge s14]

simply beautiful

[Andrew Bohan]

that week was pretty epic


i'm not down to do it again for a while though


ahah

[tricky_ab]

I don't know how you did it but you've peaked my interest (I was not a fan of that car before). Great work guys and thanks for sharing...

Oh and dude on the left looks out of place in that club shot!:rofl:

[blu808]

Dude. That is Conrad Grunewald.

He is a motha fckn Boss.

[SR_Vlurs]

Nice man
more pics of chics

[TUnity2]

PMed. hahaha sick car and story.

[Andrew Bohan]

god both of those girls were so dumb


giggle giggle fake boobs
giggle giggle fake tan
giggle giggle shocker
giggle giggle tugboat captain



later bitches!

[Touge Noob S13]

Wow, that Camero looks really well built. I pmed for pics lol.

[markyd0s]

Cars and hOARSS it can only get better

[DreamN]

Love the car. Trade for my S13 plus happy ending on my end? :D

PM'ing for pikt0rz :keke:

[Freddy]

nice work i was actually waiting for someone to post the whole build, i assume you're the other dude in the pic??

and yeah pm me the pictures.....:hahano:

[DataXUnknown]

Saw this one Speedhunters. I didn't realize all you guys took part in building this beast! So sexy!

[WanganRunner]

Wow, you weren't a little curious/interested in how the Camaro drove stock? Had you driven one before?

I'd have taken it out for a few hours and run it around, at least. I haven't driven one yet.

[fliprayzin240sx]

Andrews still my Hero...

PS: Neeeeekid pix please...

[aa87]

someone pm me the pics, stat!

amazing car!

[veeates36]

What hall was this in..?

[ManoNegra]

Sweet, maybe I'll tune in to Formula Drift to catch it in action.

nekidd pics, I wants.

[driftsilvias13]

Car looks sick! And damn that girl's boobs are huge! I want pics!!

[fckillerbee]

pics ftw! Good job luke! shit looks epic! can't wait to see that thing drive. any idea where he is gonna do the testing?

[S14_Kouki]

huge ass tits ftw. Good job

[sw20>>s14]

NICE BUILD!!! congrats on the hard work and award! much deserved

pics of the one in front all covered up...pass on the chick in the back =)

[DrftSLowHomIe!!]

Sick built man, hope to see it in action soon and pm'd for the pics. you motorboating son of a bitch
2yhy70PGBdU

[juicyjay]

omg pics!! nice build btw

[ThatGuy]

Luke clearly stated for you to PM him if you horny fucks want pics of the girls.

Stop cluttering up this fucking thread with "OMG, I totally just PM'd you for pics so I can beat off to girls that you hang out with because I want to be you LUKE!!!!!!"

This is a thread about Luke's car building skills, not a porn request thread. I don't care what you do in PMs, but stop fucking up this thread.

[GSXRJJordan]

That wiring harness was so incredibly baller, but I guess no one wanted to get all up close and personal with the car at SEMA to photograph it. I'm kind of disappointed lol.

Awesome project, and an absolutely incredible result. Can't wait to get it tuned and shake it down!

Dude. That is Conrad Grunewald.

He is a motha fckn Boss.

QFT. "NonRad"/"Failrad" is an awesome guy, had a blast. :)

god both of those girls were so dumb

giggle giggle fake boobs
giggle giggle fake tan
giggle giggle shocker
giggle giggle tugboat captain

later bitches!

Tugboat Captain lol. Heard about that. Gogo SEMA.

[SexPanda]

daaaaaamn thats sweet man. good yob.

[jspecusa]

wow super clean nice work.
you guys have no idea how much time is spend doing this.
he probably lost a few lbs from lack of sleep and food.
tell Conrad congratulation and good luck to him for me.
he's one of the best driver I've seen.
out of curiosity, how come you guys didn't go wide body on the car?
it's one of the things I learned about from Conrad.
in professional drifting you'll need all the advantage you can get.
cheers,

sam

[DJDANGER24]

great work. the ass end of that Camaro looks sick. again, great work...

[SexPanda]

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p279/sexpanda69/camaroaward.jpg

I knew there was something wrong with that picture lol

[blu808]

Yea. I got literally 60 pms from people wanting pics of the girls. I will send replies when I get a chance.

jspec Sam. We were able to fit 305s in the rear and 265 in the front with stock fenders. We want to see how that works out.

Thanks guys for the props.

[azndoc]

Congrats on the build.

Looks great.

Money
Bitches
Hoes

[ryguy]

Wow, you weren't a little curious/interested in how the Camaro drove stock? Had you driven one before?


The car looks awesome man. How does she drive? Just a stupid silly question, why didn't you drive it back to the shop from the delaership?


Car cannot be driven on a public roadway due to GM contractual obligations.read msglngth

[GSXRJJordan]

Car's still waiting on a flywheel from Exedy, then we can see if any of the shit I did actually works lol.

Hopefully week after Thanksgiving I think?

[blu808]

Hope so Jeff.

Here is what my PM inbox looks like now thanks to everyone.

haha.



Messages: 32 Last Week


11-20-2009 awesome build man
06:06 PM Twinchy


11-20-2009 pics of the hoooarss!
03:21 PM DJDANGER24


11-20-2009 pics please and thank you
03:15 PM row503


11-20-2009 PIC's
01:47 PM DrftSLowHomIe!!


11-20-2009 pics plz
01:40 PM juicyjay


11-20-2009 Pics
12:19 PM DataXUnknown


11-20-2009 pics!
11:42 AM driftsilvias13


11-20-2009 pic of naked hoe
11:40 AM LeftNutOfGowd


11-20-2009 your build is awesome
11:03 AM jzepol1985


11-20-2009 pm for pics. lets see em!
09:28 AM fckillerbee


11-20-2009 Hi..
08:19 AM veeates36

Thumbs up
11-20-2009 PM for pics of the hoes
08:11 AM tricky_ab


11-20-2009 ???
07:49 AM DigitalDorifto24


11-20-2009 SEMA whore pics
06:34 AM fromxtor


11-20-2009 hoe picz
06:06 AM 90hatchie


11-20-2009 NUDIESS
04:43 AM cc4usmc


11-20-2009 pics
01:31 AM SR_Vlurs


11-20-2009 Pikt0rz
12:43 AM DreamN


11-20-2009 pics of h0ars?
12:22 AM touge monster


11-20-2009 D'oh
12:06 AM 240KA


11-19-2009 WHORES!!!!
11:21 PM markyd0s


11-19-2009 pm for hoez pix
10:49 PM LB.Motoring


11-19-2009 Re: naked hoars/
10:48 PM meteorite_flo


11-19-2009 naked hoars/
10:34 PM meteorite_flo


11-19-2009 Re: Pics?!?! lol
10:21 PM AkademikONE


11-19-2009 Pics?!?! lol
10:17 PM AkademikONE


11-19-2009 Re: hoe pics
10:10 PM Touge Noob S13


11-19-2009 Re: hoes
10:06 PM TUnity2


11-19-2009 hoes
10:00 PM TUnity2


11-19-2009 hoe pics
09:40 PM Touge Noob S13

[DreamN]

:rofl: that's classic.

so when is this car going to be driven on the track?

[joeapple8]

ahhh snaps looks like fun!

[LeftNutOfGowd]

hope so jeff.

Here is what my pm inbox looks like now thanks to everyone.

Haha.



Messages: 32 last week

11-20-2009 pic of naked hoe
11:40 am leftnutofgowd



is still waiting on the pics lol

[qt_240]

great build man.. living it up~!

[SimpleS14]

ROFL @ ThatGuy


Awesome build!! I saw more pics of the car on Autoblog, I had no idea you had a hand in it. Very good job.


Besides that Camaro, were there any other Camaros that you liked? I personally liked Jay Leno's V6-TT Camaro.

[punk138]

sick story, sick build!

when does it hit the track?

pm sent for said pics....lol

[mRclARK1]

Very nice build.

I actually like that Camaro and that's rare I say that.