Like all these old cars, it drips a drop or two of oil from the rear main after a day out on the road.
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I normally run the cut outs wide open, but the passenger side exhaust cut out will not close, and most of the time you have to tap on it with a hammer to free it into the closed position. The car has duel exhausts with electric cut outs. I am not sure it the tach was simply disconnected and connected to the racing style tach or what. All the gauges work on the dash except the tach and the clock. Somebody did a clean job installing an original floor center console shifter. With that being said, it originally had a steering column type shifter and somewhere long before me it was converted to a floor shifter. I know this car has all the "SS" logos, and it may very well be a true "SS". I will tell you all the things that most sellers will try to avoid telling you. I want the new owner to be as happy with this car as I have been. The interior was professionally redone several years ago, and still looks very nice with no tears or holes. Overall the paint has some very minor wear, but as you can tell from the photos, it is a very nice looking car. This is not a high end show car winner, but it turns heads. The bed has signs of use, but is mostly covered by the rubber bed mat. Neither are worthy of repair if your ask me. One is on the top of the cab, and one is around the lower trim of the back window. This car has two very minor rust spots that I will talk about. The car has an older paint job, but has been stored inside.
A new electric cooling fan was installed on the front of the cooling system. New electric fuel pump installed, and both carbs rebuilt and tuned. Recently I had the following work completed on the El Camino: New power steering pump, gas tank removed and cleaned with new sending unit installed. I was told by Big Al's that this motor could produce a lot more HP if you changed the blower pullies, but I have been very happy just the way it was built. The original blower pullies have not been changed since the motor was built by Big Al's Toy Box. I have copies of most of the build documents from Big Al's Toy Box and Monster Transmission. This car has been a weekend drive car, and has never been raced. The motor was set up, run & synchronized, and then shipped as a crate motor ready to install, and has less than 5,000 miles on it.
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The biggest point I want buyers to understand is that this motor was built by a well known professional company. There is a lot more to this motor that some of you buyers will know more about than me. The transmission was also built with a reverse shift pattern, the shift pattern is P,R,N,1,2,D. The transmission is a SS24-TH400, and has a 3300-3500 Stall Performance Converter. The automatic transmission was built by Monster Transmission and Performance. Two Holly 750 boost reference blower carbs. Blower Shop 871 Supercharger with funny car style belt guard. Weiland polished aluminum intake with stainless hardware. Polished 325 CC rectangular port aluminum heads, Manley 225-188 stainless steel valves. It is a four bolt main with 4340 double keyed steel crank. Here is some of the info on the motor build. Still, you can easily take a look at any of them, as the channel has the traditional video index in place.Īnyway, the prized cookie in the 1/8-mile jar for the night was a 540ci-swapped Big-Block V8 Chevy El Camino called ‘3rd Degree Burn.’ Just in case you are curious about its story, the Tesla owner was considerate enough to have a chat with John, the passionate El Camino owner, and that excerpt occupies a sizable chunk of the video’s final minutes.Īs for the race itself, this was one of the ages, for assorted reasons.1970 Chevrolet El Camino Additional Info:ġ970 El Camino with a 700+ horse power 454 built by Big Al's Toy Box. Alas, although all of them answered the racing call against the Tesla Model S Plaid, none was the main event. His weekly rundown of the 1/8-mile shenanigans comes right after hurricane Ian has passed but, luckily for him and his fellow dragstrip enthusiasts, the Showtime Dragstrip in Pinellas Park, Florida, has been spared the nasty consequences – and even has a freshly laid-out burnout stage area! Well, it is going to fully need it, considering the racers that gathered there that day.Īmong them, there was a blown 1968 Chevy Camaro on Hoosiers and nitro, a 1967 Pontiac Firebird, a quirky modified SUV, as well as a nasty Fox Body Ford Mustang. And so far, he has lived up to the promise. So, here is the owner of the Tesla Plaid Channel, who promises new Model S Plaid races every week. But let us give you a positive example simply because, you know, the world is already way too cramped for additional bad stories. There have been many stories about how stubborn Tesla owners can be – both for the right and wrong reasons.
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