87 El Camino Daily Driver/Weekend Cruiser

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Lil more progress and goodies!

Few more goodies came in...

SC & C front bar. Been wanting this part for years. Finally got one...

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Spohn Hardware for the upper and lower front arms

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Antihop bars...

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Spohn "Super travel" upper ball joints

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Spohn lower ball joints...

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Axles painted

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Correct studs for the axles

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Spohn lca kit...

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Cant stand centerbolt valve covers. So Imma try these adapter for perimeter styled covers. Got the GM Performance slanted tall covers coming. They look like the "572" valve covers but read "Chevrolet" on em with a bowtie. I like that I can drill my own holes for the pcv and breather..I'll get a pair of baffled grommets to hold the Edelbrock "Elite series" breather in endurashine and pcv...

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Did some cleanup on wiring, made some ground wires and "hot" wire in 4 gauge from the battery to the starter. This is a lil ghetto setup (but safe and secure) for side post for now. Ill swap it over to top mount when I get the battery post I like..

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Wrapped in some DEI heat wrap..Just used plastic zip ties for mock up. I have stainless zipties like used on my header wrap

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Fan wiring all cleaned up and ready for power.

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Made a few more ground wires...

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Gotta go get a new Weller soldering iron and some flux. This is a sweet lil clip for the hot power and tach line that clips into to the dizzy. Has a "keyway" of sorts so you dont hook it up backwards..

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Got some DEI heat wrap for my oil cooler lines, positive battery line running out to the starter(lil close to the header tubes), and the wires running down to the starter. I cant remember how that factory metal tube was secured. Cant use it anyways cuz of the thicker gauge wire being used. This will work cool. I secured it with plastic zip ties to mock it up. I have stainless zip ties to use when Im ready to run it and secure it..

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Showed this before, but the hole is cut for my gauge. I have a Dakota digital fuel pressure gauge that was gonna go here, but im working on another project. I have the Airlift 1000 bags for the rear coil springs and will run an airlift 1000 tankless setup to raise and lower the psi from the cabin. Of course I'll be swapping the anolog gauge for a Dakota digital gauge and sending unit.

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The switches will be mounted here. I'm using a stainless "momentary" lighted switch for the air inflation. Switch will be mounted on the gauge side. The other side will house the same style of switch but in the "latched" on/off style for manual override of the trans cooler fan, led fogs mounted in the air dam and possibly a white led strip in the bed of the truck.

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This is the style of switch. Light ring will come on once pushed in to indicate power has been sent to whatever im powering on-fan, fogs ect

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Tripple pillar pod like I have in my SS. Housing a Dakota Digital oil temp gauge, trans fluid temp gauge and my fuel pressure gauge..

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Dropping some parts off for chrome and getting some customizing done to my wheel wells. I filled all the holes and painted em up. Came out cool for a home grown hookup but now its time for some proffesional touches. The housing for the fans will be done as well...Cant wait to get em back... 8)

Thanks for checking back...

Elco Warren 8)
80z :twisted:
 
Re: Lil more progress and goodies!

SC & C front bar. Been wanting this part for years. Finally got one...

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i gotta have one for the runt what it cost ya bro.. nice lil parts collection u got there like always..
 
Wires clean up, heat shielding and power ran to alt

Put some wrench time in on the old girl this weekend. A bunch of lil tedious stuff. Cleaning up the wiring, heat shieldiing for the wires and oil cooler hoses, heat shielding for the power running to the starter. Got all the grounds ran (just for starting up. Wanna hide all the wires later), power ran to the starter and out to the Alt. After running everything as clean as I could, keeping everything secured and away from heat and moving parts, I hooked the battery up and opened the door. Lights! Havent seen those clean LEDs lit up in a hot minute! Wanted to see if all the stuff like "ACC" (turned the key back) and my radio came on. Then I turned the key to just bump the motor. Dizzy power is not hooked up. Ive been praticing on soldering so i can solder the Accel tach and dizzy power clip I got. Ive seen dudes use butt connections and lil end clips for that. naw... Not ole Elco....But I bumped it and the starter turned over, saw the front runner move. Pretty excited about that.. Here's a few pics after I blew the motor down. Pretty dusty..Doin another carb swap and swapping the stainless coolant pipes hose clamps for some "shrink wrap" styled hose clamps.

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Hooked up my HID kits. Thought I had a "fusible link" prob but ended up have a few wires fliiped around. I pulled these kits from my SS. The SS' prongs were situated a lil differently. Moved a couple of pins around and shined one time for 80'z..

50 "big ballast" with 6000k bulbs. Swapping those for 8000k. Just a hint of blue..
Lo...
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Highs...Used a painless hi/lo beam relay. 2 minutes to hook up. power, ground, tap green wire, tap tan wire...Shinin...

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Working on this at work. All my wires running along the instake (next to the valve cover) will run thru this pipe. Mocked the pipe up, lined it up where I wanted it and marked it where the intake bolts are. Welded some lil feet on and its now at the chromer. Once I get it back, I'lltape it off, and spray some rubberized coating down the tube. I should have gotten it flared on the ends. i have another one and made up and may do that..

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Basically it will look like a fuel rail. If I had the room on the passenger side, Id run another one. The dual feed line running to my Holley Street Avenger will balance it out....

Gonna start on pulling the interior out this week. Ordered some fatmat, sound proof/rust preventative, seat brackets and floor shifter brackets so I can start on that. I'll wait for mel to get here before I cut the oil lines. Want to get his opinion on how I want to run em first before the cut... We should be installing the Digi gauges this saturday also. Gonna put Mel right to work.. :twisted: Got a jumpsuit cleaned and creased for you playa...

lil progress..
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Was bored. Made a slideshow. man I didnt realize how much is going into the el. I left about an hours worth of parts pics out..

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Elco Warren
80z!! :twisted:
 
Bumpin1ohmSS said:
kuruption109 said:
bro please tell me your doin the wheel wells that color!!!! now thats clean!!

Naw..Used those to mock up some wiring. Black carbon fiber for mine :wink:
awwwww sh*t look at you carbon fiber huh.. thats gonna be sick!!!..i had thoughts of a carbon fiber hood and trunk lid on the bu but u kno how those "THOUGHTS" go :wink:
 
HOT HOT HOT!! is all i can say....love those vids~~~ :mrgreen: :wink:
 
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