EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

[bracketchev1221]

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 trigger it fired off and idled, I figured I’d be fighting timing to get it there where it would just idle while I got the timing set to do the brake in

I am beyond pumped! Running, broke it in while pissing the neighbours off with open headers 😂

The stink eye I got from the lady next to us was incredible when I when to grab more coolant
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Congratulations. I found just start it up in the middle of the day maybe during the week when most people are at work and that’s the best you can do. Mine was a 15:1 565 with 4” collectors and no mufflers but I tried my best to not be rude.

 

[BudsJLM]

Well looks like I’m doing this all again…. First cruise sounded great, was running great, ran it up to about 4k let off and start hearing a tap tap tap sounded lower end

clicked it into nutral and as I went to click the ignition off I hear a kathunk… f me… yup it’s locked up but maybe since it was at an idle it didn’t kill the block fingers crossed, valve train all looks good so that’s a plus… time to get the 350 back out and the 305 back in

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

Congratulations. I found just start it up in the middle of the day maybe during the week when most people are at work and that’s the best you can do. Mine was a 15:1 565 with 4” collectors and no mufflers but I tried my best to not be rude.

If I was within earshot of that thing firing up I'd come find you just to see it. And you'd never get rid of me.

 

[bracketchev1221]

Oh that sucks. I hope you find something obvious and not too terrible as you take it a part