🔧 BUILD EL MALO Has Arrived
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For an ex-drag car, I approve of this decision
It will still be streetable, biggest change was spool vs. a tru-trac and going with a 4.10 gear vs. a 3.55 or 3.73. The only other major factor will be what stall I put in the car and potentially fuel if I don't go 93/E85.
Damn near two year update. A lot of this contradicts what I'd originally sought out to do with the car, but, buying my Formula and making that the "get in and thrash it" car has tamed this down, along with somewhat loosing interest in racing.
The route the resurrection has been going has been more of an improved stock car that'll be fun at the track but also a good driver.
The 12 bolt I posted about prior ended up getting sold, and a date coded 12 bolt with a 3:55 posi was comissioned. The frame was blasted and E-coated and every suspension piece and line was replaced with new or reconditioned. The bodywork and paint correction has all been completed and I'm happy to say that 85% or more of the paint on the car is still the original paint it left the factory with, most of the blending is in the lower quarters where the wheelwells were fixed and a touch around the rear windshield.
Glass went in this week, interior is soon to follow. Seats have been done and ready for installation for a while.
As far as an engine goes, I have a line on a 1969 date coded Oldsmobile 350 shortblock that has a lot of good parts in it. Although it's not a W31 350, it's at least as close to what the car was born with without spending an arm and a leg. Forged internals, lunati cam, fully blueprinted/balanced that I'm going to try and make a deal on. I'll top it off with period #5 iron heads with some port work and valvetrain upgrades. I've got a good intake manifold and beefed up quadrajet to work with that setup as well. The car will be going together as a 4 speed car now as it originally was.
Here's some quick pics of the car from today. Going to have some cool updates from here on out as the car is committed to be at the 2018 MCACN show's W-31 invitational, which will have 20+ of the best W31 cars in the country, a few of which being ex drag cars as well. The car will be sporting a lot of the original graphics from the original family who owned and raced the car, especially excited about that process and there will be more to come on that soon.
The route the resurrection has been going has been more of an improved stock car that'll be fun at the track but also a good driver.
The 12 bolt I posted about prior ended up getting sold, and a date coded 12 bolt with a 3:55 posi was comissioned. The frame was blasted and E-coated and every suspension piece and line was replaced with new or reconditioned. The bodywork and paint correction has all been completed and I'm happy to say that 85% or more of the paint on the car is still the original paint it left the factory with, most of the blending is in the lower quarters where the wheelwells were fixed and a touch around the rear windshield.
Glass went in this week, interior is soon to follow. Seats have been done and ready for installation for a while.
As far as an engine goes, I have a line on a 1969 date coded Oldsmobile 350 shortblock that has a lot of good parts in it. Although it's not a W31 350, it's at least as close to what the car was born with without spending an arm and a leg. Forged internals, lunati cam, fully blueprinted/balanced that I'm going to try and make a deal on. I'll top it off with period #5 iron heads with some port work and valvetrain upgrades. I've got a good intake manifold and beefed up quadrajet to work with that setup as well. The car will be going together as a 4 speed car now as it originally was.
Here's some quick pics of the car from today. Going to have some cool updates from here on out as the car is committed to be at the 2018 MCACN show's W-31 invitational, which will have 20+ of the best W31 cars in the country, a few of which being ex drag cars as well. The car will be sporting a lot of the original graphics from the original family who owned and raced the car, especially excited about that process and there will be more to come on that soon.
Tracked down a set of wheels for the car too. They've been sitting in some guys garage since the 70's. Period 70's slicks still mounted. Supposedly they hold air so it'll be cool to have the car sitting on them for the show.
I'm going to be over at building where it's at on Thursday so I'll snap some more pictures.
I'm going to be over at building where it's at on Thursday so I'll snap some more pictures.
Probably the closest back to back updates you'll ever see out of me on a project. I mentioned in my previous post that the car would be sporting a lot of the original graphics it had when raced by the original owners. Today a custom hand painter came in and duplicated the original graphics based off of images we received of the car from the wife and children of the original owners. He distressed the paint work to make it match the age of the door lettering. I'll get some more pictures in a week or so. Not much else to report minus the vinyl floor arrived from auto custom carpets today, so, that's neat.
IDK why the pictures dissapeared but I'll eventually make an album of the whole restoration. The car will be at MCACN this weekend, no drivetrain yet however. I'll have it back at the house following the show to finish it up and have it on the road in the spring. My dad found the wheels on the car, they were a drag pack from a car in the 70's. They have 70's bias ply slicks on them. Not road worthy but hold air and are pretty cool for the show.
And it's now home in my garage for the first time in the new house. Just finished building a new work bench and trying to organize work shit out of the way enough to get going on getting the motor/trans in. Going to put the car on an angle and I'll have more than enough room for engine stand with the garage door closed and heat on.
I'm going to have to go through and add all the pictures that were lost.
Here for my annual update... This one's good though. IT FUCKING RUNS as of about a week ago. For those that are friends with me on Facebook/Instagram I haven't posted anything about the car in a long time. Figured it'd be refreshing to actually see some sort of completion instead of ever updating posts of "it'll run someday".
Here for my annual update... This one's good though. IT FUCKING RUNS as of about a week ago. For those that are friends with me on Facebook/Instagram I haven't posted anything about the car in a long time. Figured it'd be refreshing to actually see some sort of completion instead of ever updating posts of "it'll run someday".
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