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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Fired it up! Spent the morning doing a couple piddly things getting it on tdc, plopping the dizzy in and getting the wires ran! I was actually blown away got everything where I thought it should be timing wise and first pull of my lone wolf 9000 it puttered a little bit, second pull of the...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Getting closer but man I hate how long the little things take. It doesn’t help I sit there over thinking things which slows progress down. And my health issues. I have delayed pressure Uticaria so bent over the fender my chest swells up, laying on a creeper my shoulder will swell, hand gets...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    it was deffiniatly repainted at some point looks like it was dark blue possibly 2tone with silver, It’s not just his ride dad gets to enjoy it too! 🤣 It is amazing the people I have en countered in the year we have had it, so many stories I’ve had people in traffic yelling across lanes. I...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Everything is time consuming right now, and I keep forgetting to take pictures Got accessories and cooling system all buttoned up, new rad & hoses, power steering lines, fan and shrouds, belts, ect, Got the passenger side header in with little tapy tap and shaving of the control arm, Andes...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Took off work at 11 today since I’m working tomorrow so decided to get some stuff done. Made some progress tonight. Alt bracket on, flex plate on, realized the crank had a pilot bearing in it so to be on the safe side did the ol bread trick to pop it out. It’s officially in the car! If any...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    you better believe it’s getting recorded if i do I was kind of thinking that aswell, either the kid is going to kill the tree or be red a lot until he gets the hang of it. Last year we had almost a 27in tire on the front He’s already pulls some pretty good reaction times, he adapts well...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    not a lot has gone on in the last few weeks. We have had a lot going on in life that has been keeping me from working on it. Few house projects got done atleast So I’ve been collecting parts, new rad, rad cap upper and lower hoses, different alt mount, gauges so I can keep an eye on the vitals...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    couple more parts came in, water pump, t-stat, flex plate bolts, water pump bolts, Polly trans and motor mount inserts, Sfi rated flex plate… but I f’ed up not once but twice on the flex plate somehow I managed to order one for a newer motor… externally balanced and one piece rear main, this...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Clean and paint and clean and paint and clean and paint is what’s happening, getting accessories swapped over, brought my alt up to be tested I had a sneaky suspicion it was over charging at the end of last year, yup junk, Man it is amazing what a clean up and a coat of paint will do.
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Both are part of the parts I’m waiting on! Thanks for looking out!
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Old leaky 305 is out, feel like a dang bomb went off in the garage but forward progress, waiting for a few parts to show up so in the mean time I’ve got some engine bay clean up to do and a few wires that need some attention
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Few week hiatus from working on white lightning got some house projects done and now it is getting to be crunch time so let the work re commence Been watching this filter hang on the clearance rack for a bit at my local orielly’s. one of the employees told me the longer it is there the...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Front runner acquired. Was supost to meet with a guy this past Saturday, turned out he posted them incorrectly they were 5x4.5 instead of 4.75 Thursday night when I was messaging him the wife and I looked at them on summit they were $127 a piece, Sunday while at breakfast I had other thing I...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Baby cam, 305 heads on the 350 she won’t be pushing too much power but done by design since he is running jr street can only run 9.0 or slower Only times I have been down the track was in a golf cart or in the passenger seat with him, talk about not cutting a light 1+second with the golf cart...
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    EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

    Timing cover, timing pointer, balancer put on Intake installed Oil pump drive, high volume pump, new pick up, pan all buttoned up Soon! Electric Water pump, powerstreering and alt brackets will probably be the next thing to get ordered,

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