EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

[Sweet_Johnny]

That's a whole lot of bad luck beaten down by perseverance, wow. And I thought I was working in tight quarters but you've only got 8" between cars...

 

[BudsJLM]

Looks like the block could be saved, the rest is junk.

After I cleaned that cyl where my finger is there was a crack that ran about 90% over and up the bore, gave it a light tap and it grew and started seeping water, into the scrap heap it went I don’t feel like paying to have a 350 sleeved

 

[BudsJLM]

That's a whole lot of bad luck beaten down by perseverance, wow. And I thought I was working in tight quarters but you've only got 8" between cars...

If I didn’t have back luck I wouldn’t have any luck. Just keep goin and try to stay ahead of it.

It’s not usually that tight usually a good 2-3ft on each side but since I had to get the golf cart in there too I snugged them up for the potential hail, high winds, tornadic weather head this way tonight

I’m also a glutton for punishment, all while this is happening picked up an 08 Saturn aura with 115k with a bad trans from my brother for my kid, so that’s on the docket to be done soon

 

[UC645]

Been a while, I have only driven the car like 3 times so far this year… we have not been to the track, it’s been a year off issues

For me trip was to a local sub shop, found a couple oldies in the parking lot and joined them View attachment 244582

Drove her down to work open headered so I could get some exhaust onto it

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June 3rd the wife’s car took a dump spent way too long doing timing chains twice since one of the cams was off 1 tooth after the first time… that wasn’t fun
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Drove the Elco to work that Wednesday since she needed my truck it died in my way to work I coasted to the gas station, it was real hard to get started, got to work,

left work a little early since it was our anniversary, get like a mile down the road it looses tach signal and bang bang bang, popping out of the exhaust, though that was odd.

Took a little bit to get started again decided to take back road home in case somthing isn’t right, well it wasn’t died again and would not start.

It would kick like the timing was way way advanced but dizzy was hasn’t moved

Wif came and pulled me back to work. that Friday I brought the trailer to work and on the way brakes start grinding on the truck

Did a bunch of trouble shooting, ended up finding the ground wire in the connector on the hei cap was not seated correctly, replace the ignition module

replaced the starter because I didn’t trust it after being smack so hard every time it would kick,

Found the rear bearing on my alt ejected itself so replaced that… yay for cheap reman

Running good again, put it in the trailer and head home.

Get home and take it out for a rip and once it got over like 2000rpm it would break up real bad and sound like trash, back in the trailer it went for a few weeks

Pulled it back out one weekend, cleaned the carb throughly, checked over a few things, checked timing trying to get rid of the breaking up, 9-21* of initial timing no change in the break up, did alittle better on the high end of that timing but still wasn’t right

Back in the trailer it went since her car was in the garage still torn apart
For even longer as we went on vacation in that time too

Got the new rear radials
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And still sitting in a stack in the garage because we have not gone to the track and it hasn’t been driven at all

Got the girls car all buttoned up finally, cleaned the garage decided to tear down the 350 the rest of the way

Toasted, block was cracked by the rod, piston smacked the head, cam was now a multi part piece
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Replace plug wire and dizzy, check the plugs, this weekend and now she rips!

Summit blue printed hei dizzy, summit spiral core cut to fit plug wires and cleaned up the routing with moroso holders
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Stuffed her back in the garage, had to make it tight to fit the
Golf cart in there too since on tomarrow sounds like here in mn is supost to be hit with some heavy storms. Bummed I was hoping to drive it
To work tomarrow
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Turn that cam into a book stand or something, that’s a nice piece of carnage

 

[bracketchev1221]

After I cleaned that cyl where my finger is there was a crack that ran about 90% over and up the bore, gave it a light tap and it grew and started seeping water, into the scrap heap it went I don’t feel like paying to have a 350 sleeved

Oh yeah I wouldn’t sleeve one either

 

[BudsJLM]

Couple little thing mounted the gauges they have been just loose inside till now.

Put them on the ashtray mount, no need to have an ash tray as I quit smoking years ago, I didn’t really want to put any holes into the dash so this worked great!

Got the drag pack on, put a set of menroe air shocks on since the back was sagging a bit.

Front runners don’t looks as silly as I thought it would so that’s a plus. Got some deeper center caps ordered since the ones that came with the wheel aren’t deep enough

Idk if I’m just stuck in the old ways but man I wish these had white letters, might just have to get the paint pen out

Did have one casualty I ran over one of my Cragar center caps for my other wheels.
thought I got everything out from under the car but I guess I was wrong

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

Front runners don’t looks as silly as I thought it would so that’s a plus.

Mudflaps help.

Idk if I’m just stuck in the old ways but man I wish these had white letters, might just have to get the paint pen out

I too am a fan of RWL tires, especially ones like Tiger Paw or Scorpion.

 

[BudsJLM]

Got bored threw a little sauce on the tires, ordered new plates since MN now has black out plates so black with white letter.

tinted the side windows, tried to do the rear my skill level could not pull it off. I just couldn’t get the film to shrink enough

took the kid on a cruise snapped a couple pics then the girl wanted to go for a cruise so took her on one too,

Stopped for a pic with the whale car. Its built on an Elco and about 15 years ago I sold him my seat out of my 85 Monte for it

 

[BudsJLM]

Hit a couple car shows this week, discover I had an oil leak at the back of the motor. at first I thought the gauge line was leaking nope dizzy gasket is was shot, discovered that my dizzy doesn’t sit flush with the intake, it’s just enought that gasket can move around, it’s fully seated into the oil pump

Double gaskets it for now with some rtv between them to keep them together, from what I reading I need to get nylon shims to take up that gap so that’ll be on order once pay day hits, along with a new timing light. Mine died as I’m getting it dialed it went from flashing good to progressively dimmer then so dim it wasn’t even projecting it,

Garage shot just cuz

 

[BudsJLM]

Made her in a game cuz I was bored 🤣

Hit 2 car shows this weekends

New black out plates came

On my way to the show Saturday notice the brakes where kinda squishy and though that was kinda wierd

Went on. Cruise with the kid Saturday night and didn’t notice anything weird

Sunday heading to the airport for the show which is maybe 2 miles and notice they were way harder than normal and could hear a sucking

Drove it to work today and the booster has definitely failed, loud sucking any time I hit the brakes and was like driving with manual brakes so new booster is ordered and will be here monday.

Bonus pic just cuz thought it looked cool.