EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car
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Awesome to hear!
Came to that realization after I posted, insert facepalm here,
Don’t feel bad one of the first engines I did many moons ago I thought there was something special about them. And then when I was working at the machine shop I realized the kits that were coming in had just regular bolts.
Went to work on it last weekend and realized I’m at the point I need a few key things to get it together, unfortunately not anything that is here… so only got the timing set on and set the rockers
Cloyes double roller I picked up many years ago that has been just floating around in my monte
I’m like sweet toss the oil pump on, put the pan on dangit missing the pump drive
can’t put the pan on till I get the timing cover on which I want one that isn’t roached like the one that was on there
Header bolts and oil pan bolts where truely the only ones I needed to buy but I want pretty too
header bolts well normal head bolt won’t work and the oil pan I’m using the one piece felpro gasket so I need longer and then I don’t have to fight the socket between the pan and the bolt head
Collector gaskets I’m like hell $10 at my local orielly why not rang up for $7 even better! Worth trying aluminum ones for that price! Maybe they won’t blow out in a month like most do
Plan this weekend is get motor and associated parts to my work paint them and order last few thing I can thing of(there is always more than ya think)
Cloyes double roller I picked up many years ago that has been just floating around in my monte
I’m like sweet toss the oil pump on, put the pan on dangit missing the pump drive
can’t put the pan on till I get the timing cover on which I want one that isn’t roached like the one that was on there
Header bolts and oil pan bolts where truely the only ones I needed to buy but I want pretty too
header bolts well normal head bolt won’t work and the oil pan I’m using the one piece felpro gasket so I need longer and then I don’t have to fight the socket between the pan and the bolt head
Collector gaskets I’m like hell $10 at my local orielly why not rang up for $7 even better! Worth trying aluminum ones for that price! Maybe they won’t blow out in a month like most do
Plan this weekend is get motor and associated parts to my work paint them and order last few thing I can thing of(there is always more than ya think)
1 tip on the lock plates. I know the plate has the hole for the pin, but we would routinely turn the plate to cover the pin which would prevent the pin from backing out.
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,
Cool project! Dont go too wild. Soon youll have to buy wheelie bars and have to fill up the tank with VP.
Ive been to Grove Creek a few times since 01. I cant cut a light there for nothing. lol. Been lots of fun anyway.
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 🤣
Kid has the tree pretty dialed in usually .0somthing
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