You'll need posi now to do cool burnouts.

rjp

I will likely do one tire spinning takeoff after everything is broken in. I have always thought burnouts were just flat out stupid. I still think they are flat out crazy stupid and if my Elky is ever seen doing a burnout please call 911 and report a stolen El Camino!

LOL! On the flipside, maybe I need to drive harder? At the Mustang's 7,500 mile service, the tires were rotated. Same tread depth front & back. I agree, burnouts just stupid.

Twice as stupid looking when you have a pegleg.!SmileWavy

I do have a limited slip rear end. No peg leg Elky for me.

Darn, you're no fun. our job is to talk you into one "while yer in there" project after another until it takes forever ;)

How about just a single dump on the passenger or driver side? Not a visible long pipe under the car but just a single 3" dump. It prevents you from having even more rusty looking pipe after 10,000 miles, its lighter, and dual exhaust on some older GM's just doesn't look right because you see tons of pipe. I'm thinking a 3-3.5" pipe that dumps at a 45 toward the side.

The muffler shop said the biggest problem is usually getting over the rear axle.

I for sure want the exhaust to exit behind the rear tire. One friend has his dump in front of the tire and the rear wheels are always dirty from exhaust.

I did get the tires back on the ground. I hope I am officially done underneath. I spent an hour getting one dang hose back through the frame rail. When I converted the engine to fuel injection way back when, I used the same steel fuel supply line the factory built in. I used the old hard vent line as the return. That only worked because I changed the sender to a three line version. I had to run a new vent line to the engine from the tank. Since it is just a vent line I decided a high quality fuel injection hose should be fine. I runs right next to the factory hard line.

When I was changing the engine mounts out both of those lines were in the way. I had to pull the rubber hose back out of the way. That is what took an hour to fish back in. I should have tied a string to it before I pulled it out of the way.

The water pump in on, and the throttle body is on. I really hope to get all the brackets back on and the alternator, power steering & ac compressor back on tonight. With luck the radiator and than the hood. Maybe Wednesday night I can fire it up.

Glen it has been fun watching you do this swap!

Thanks.

It will be fun for me once I am done. :)

You are making pretty quick work of this project..... I would still be scratching my head deciding on what kind of paint to use to touch up the frame rails. :D

I wanted to spend time dressing up the engine bay. I stopped myself from spending too much time on that. This is my daily driver, not a show car. I fully expect to have it running before the weekend. We will be having winter weather soon.

Most of the time I keep it look like this:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1322577616.jpg

But sometimes when it is my winter driver is get to looking like this:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1322577672.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1322577691.jpg

You obviously know how to keep an old car looking nice..... Nice work!

Yea, my 911 has 141,000 miles and looks even nicer. I guess with half as many miles as the El Camino it should be twice as nice but it isnt.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1322601486.jpg

White with a Maroon interior. Just like the Elky. I kinda have a theme color scheme. ;)

Neither car is a show car, they are both drivers. The 911 is normally just a weekend toy car however ecxept this week. It has to get me to work for the week.

Just a update. It is not yet running but I am getting close.

The radiator, fan, AC compressor, alternator, power steering pump, throttle body, fan belts and all the brackets are back in position. Many of those parts are just in position and not tightened up. The big step was to put the hood back on.

It looks like it will be the weekend before I can get it running. It is frustrating to fight with a simple task for a lot longer than it should take.

One prime example is the bracket that holds the alternator. The new Eddelbrock manifold is supposed to be a exact replacement for the factory manifold. It is close but the top hole for the alternator bracket is 1/4 inch or so further back. I had to elongate the hole in the bracket by 1/4 inch. It is thick steel so it does not cut easily. I don't have a machine shop in my garage so it was a pain.

I removed the fender liner on the passenger side to have access to the engine mounts. I have removed and replaced the fender liner several times before. For some reason this time was a chore to get it back into place.

Another boring update:

I am real close to firing it up. The cooling system is all connected and ready for some anti-freeze. All the external belt driven items are tight on the brackets and the fan belts are tight. I have a few electrical items to finish hooking up. I still have to hook up the cruise control brackets and the hang the cruise vacuum module but that should be easy. ;)

I will double check every bolt and bracket and hose and get it ready to go for Saturday morning. The cam break will hopefully be a uneventful 20 minutes at 2,000 RPM and topping up the radiator.

After the thermostat opens up and the heat is working I can put the cap on and not have a ton of air to bleed from the system.

I am ready for this project to be done!

Can't wait for the after break in update!

I can't wait for your reaction when you finally get to drive it with the new motor.

Woooooooooo Hoooooooooooo


Guess what it started right up. No more than 3 seconds on the starter. :)

I did the 20 minutes at 2000 RPM break in for the cam. Now I need to let it cool down and the torque the bolts.

The heart transplant was a success. Now I need to go through recovery (adjustments) and get it finished!