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My first GBody was a 78 Turbo Coupe I ordered from the factory. I moved from Oregon to Washington D.C in 1978. In 1981 it was T-Boned by a drunk and I used the settlement to but a brand new Triumph TR8. I already had a Mini Cooper and TR6 , It all started with a couple of 3 day weekends in...

Some of you may be familiar with my project and process, but the short version is I put a blueprinted Olds 350 in a 1980 El Camino, replacing the Buick 3.8 V6. I had all the machine work done at a shop and paid a nifty nickel. Parts and labor added up. I put it in and it would not start. It...

I have decided to not send my 1980 Buick V6 to scrap. It was replaced in my El Camino with a 350 V8. It has the non-adjustable weird shaped two barrel which I will not be rebuilding and so Ededlbrock intake is on the list.with and Edelbrock 4 bbl carb. What I want to find out is a cam profile...

I am disassembling the original engine from my 1980 El Camino. It has about 146000 miles on it. Like most in this forum, I did not respect this engine much and as I get inside, I am able to see the folly of GM bean counters making performance related decisions, I know it was the era of...

I finished fabricating the seat mounts for the bucket seats to swap for the bench. Yes I had the brackets and yes i bought S10 Buckets...but apparently the newer S10 were not as easily compatible. I also bought a console and shifter. Both were not really ready for a GBody El Camino. So I spent a...

I swapped a1968 Olds 350 W-31 Spec engine into a 1980 El Camino with an anemic V-6. It had a computer controlled carb, and and ECM of sorts that I was advised to snip and remove when going to '68 specs. Originally I had decided to go with the retrofit distributor too, but later was convinced...

When I began to recall the work that needed done and the parts that needed replacing on the El Camino in the beginning, an odd statistic started to emerge from the dust and rust. It seemed tha everything came in two's. Now I take my fair share of credit for not being a professional mechanic...

Still no engine firing but I continue to investigate systems to determine why. After I can drive it, it still needs an exhaust system, headliner installed, bucket seats in to replace the bench, and the console. This month I had new tires put on the front and a new master cylinder so if and...

June set temperature records for nearly half of the month in Washington state. It kept me from working on my way too long project; putting a 68 Ramrod 350 into a 1980 El Camino. For almost a year it has been ready to start. I bought a "brand new" hei distributor from one of the drag racing...

Installing Rallye 350 spec engine in a 1980 El Camino project. (LAST one for sure). Cylinders 1 and 3 had bent push rods, and #3 Pivot was snapped too. I wish I could say it happened at 6500 RPM crossing the finish line, but nope. The old mechanic (Me) didn't get the TDC cylinder as #1 and...

For early Christmas and January retirement my lovely wife bought me a garage floor. You'll note that her side of the two garage is done. The El Camino is sitting in the other half, and I will only get to finish when the El Camino can move under its own power. The finished side took about 8...

Though 2020 has been the worst year in my memory, there are still many things I am thankful for. One of them is the people on this forum who respect others of a like mind and offer assistance when projects get complicated, Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families. G Bodies!

The engine is in, the wiring is done, the starter is in finally and tomorrow is the big day to turn it over. The one thing I didn't think about when switching from Buick to Olds is the Driver Side starter, which of course requires a dust cover with a cutout on the same side. I have a really nice...

It's a 1980 El Camino and it had HEI but the Olds V8 required a new Distributor and Starter. I see the giant red wire from the + battery, a small diameter black wire with a large eyelet, and a red wire with fusible links. I assume they all go on the large pole. From the wiring diagram, it...

I need the 2 wire plug (Orange and black) from the fuse box to the bottom of the seat. I apologize for the blurry pic, but I could not hold the camera with no flash and the flash overexposed it My seat is from an S-10, but I assume GM plugs are probably the same. I just want it simple as I...

As I get closer to the end of this project, the thing I am anticipating the most is replacing the bench seat with buckets. I finally tracked down an acceptable pair, the console and shifter, and after some shampooing and de-rusting the tracks and mounts, my thoughts went to getting 12V to the...

Okay. I give up on finding someone who actually follows through with what they say they are going to do. Apparently G Body parts are worth gold because they are G Body parts? With all the GM divisions over the G Body run, millions of cars were made of which only a tiny fraction are concours...

Some of you have been following my project, which started about one year ago now. It started with much enthusiasm, and anticipation. I had always restored Oldsmobiles, 7 of them all totalled; 1963 x 2, 1967 x 2, 1968, 1974, and 1976 (all Cutlass; Supreme or 442). I came into the 1980 El...

After discovering the band adjustment bolt on my supposed TH350C, now really a TH250C, and with the obstinate Torque Convertor that refuses to seat all the way, and attempting to install it now 3 times with no success, I have decided to seek a TH350 to finish this! It then occurred to me that...

I am assuming that the Olds 260, 307 and 350 Fan Shrouds are the same and that no version of a small block Chevy will fit. Am I correct? I put an OLDSMOBILE 350 in my El Camino so I cannot use the Small block fan shroud, or the Buick V6 one. Could someone please verify this before I spend $100...