1979 El Camino Build

[jrm81bu]

Looks good! What you doin with you old air cleaner lid?

i figured ill hang on to it and maybe switch it up every once and a while. ill let you know if i want to get rid of it

Cool man, thanks.

 

[o ARC ATHEISTxX]

ive wanted to do one of these for a while so i guess ill start now. i bought a 1979 chevy el camino when i was 15, 3 years back for $750. i just started working on it about a year or 2 ago. it had a 267 in it but i put a nice 350 crate engine, 650 holley, edelbrock high rise intake, tuff stuff 100 amp alternator, micket tompson valve covers and some other stuff.

Off of what car did those rims come from? What are they called?

 

[G-Body_Vet]

Those wheels are N90's. They came on Monte SS's and 2nd gen Camaros. I think that color combo looks good with those wheels too.

 

[o ARC ATHEISTxX]

Those wheels are N90's. They came on Monte SS's and 2nd gen Camaros. I think that color combo looks good with those wheels too.

Thanks I've been wanting to get some but it's hard to buy something that you don't know the name of lol

 

[ElCaminoGRAN/SPORT]

i took a few pictures the other day of the braces i made up. and yesterday i put on a set of kyb's in the front. it rides pretty good, the old shocks were totally blown. i also just got a new air cleaner lid, let me know what you think.

That air cleaner change made a huge difference looks real good.

 

[youngdeezy]

wow those bars look like stock suspension parts. how did you get the ends to look so perfect? i can picture buyin the bars but once you cut them to size it would looked hacked and yours dont so drop me the trick if you dont mind sharing thanks.

 

[1979ratrod]

i took a few pictures the other day of the braces i made up. and yesterday i put on a set of kyb's in the front. it rides pretty good, the old shocks were totally blown. i also just got a new air cleaner lid, let me know what you think.

That air cleaner change made a huge difference looks real good.

thanks man i wasnt really sure if i liked the look or not but i feel better about it now. the main filter is a spectre but the lid is a no name i got off or ebay for $30 cuz spectre sells them for like $60

 

[1979ratrod]

wow those bars look like stock suspension parts. how did you get the ends to look so perfect? i can picture buyin the bars but once you cut them to size it would looked hacked and yours dont so drop me the trick if you dont mind sharing thanks.

well there just threaded pipe, really thick. a bench vise wouldent even crush them so i used a hydrolic press so that squished them pretty good. if i were to do it again i would have bought a thinner walled pipe and one that isnt galvinized. then i rounded off the edges with a bench grinder and then drilled holes and wire brushed the galvinized stuff off cuz the paint would fish eye if i didnt anf then drilled the holes in my cowl and bolted them up. let me know if you have any other questions.
*edit* if you meant the bars that go from the core support to the fenders i didnt make up those i got them from a cutlass i just made the long set that goes from the core support to the firewall.

 

[1979ratrod]

so today i spent about 4 hours installing a red led underbody kit. a while back i bought 4 3.9 foot strips on ebay for like $7 a piece. i havent set up a switch for them yet so whenever the bar is on the lights are on so ill be putting in a switch tomarrow. it looks good at night but my phone cant take very good pictures at night but this is the best one i got.

 

[496kid]

looks good.i had a white neon kit on my white monte.your elco is coming along great.