ElkyHolik's 78 Elco Project

[melman109]

Forgeline wheels are the ish! I want a set of those or some HRE's for my camaro. I eventually want to run some rushforths on my Elco when I convert it over to more of a pro-touring car with a fuel injected LS engine. Are you going back the same color when you paint it?

 

[beermonkey9417]

for a 78 it shure has a lot of headlights :lol: very nice ride btw. oha and then blackout head lamps SUX!! i had them on my 78 elky (with the 2 head lights not 4) and i couldnt see 30 feet in front of me even with the brights on, so i went back to stock. oh and the paint flaking off the front spoiler happens. there is a speical paint you can buy thats flexible but it might be a paint in the *ss to color match. good luck and keep up the work!

 

[ElkyHolik87]

To state the obvious, the front clip was updated and so was the dash. Yes the blacked out light housings do suck, thats why they're there for looks only, HIDs are plenty bright no need for high beams. A regular H4 yellow bulb is going in the black housing.

Came across a clean dash and a Jeep steering shaft this month, got some work to put in!

Dash isn't perfect but damn good. I'm going to repair the couple cracks it has and paint it black

 

[ElkyHolik87]

Forgeline wheels are the ish! I want a set of those or some HRE's for my camaro. I eventually want to run some rushforths on my Elco when I convert it over to more of a pro-touring car with a fuel injected LS engine. Are you going back the same color when you paint it?

Yes they are! No not the same color, I would tell you guys my color theam but I dont want any one to bite it! lol.

 

[melman109]

Forgeline wheels are the ish! I want a set of those or some HRE's for my camaro. I eventually want to run some rushforths on my Elco when I convert it over to more of a pro-touring car with a fuel injected LS engine. Are you going back the same color when you paint it?

Yes they are! No not the same color, I would tell you guys my color theam but I dont want any one to bite it! lol.

Lol you got to watch out for the bitters, Can't wait to see the new color. Dash looks good to! Keep the updates coming!!!

 

[kuruption109]

DIZAMN that dash is clean!!

 

[ElkyHolik87]

what's up everybody!! so shortly after my last post the elco took some damage. So I decided to park it and buy a new DD a 00 accord so I can finally get sirius with it. Bumper, fender, windshield, 2 bent to hell rims and some other damage was inflicted... And of course the insurance and body shop gave me nothing but problems, so Loproelco Josh and I took matters into our own hands... Been in the slow lane but were getting there...

Here's a progress vid I took on my mobile...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qoJtHuyRFqQ

 

[Dave V]

making good progress....sorry to hear it got banged up....

 

[80ELCAMINOFLAKE]

sweet dash!!! and i know your in good hands with Josh!!! post pics as u go :wink:

 

[ElkyHolik87]

Thanks guys, I know right Josh is the man. He's stepping his body work game up. I'm going to have to step up my wrenching skills so we have so we have both sides of the coin covered,lol.

here's a couple pics from Saturday.