Well, NUTTZ, the first one on the agenda is the '86 Monte Carlo SS I got sitting in the driveway. Bought a hardened input shell and other beef-up parts for a TH200-4R years ago, then let the core tranny go, so now I gotta find one out of a Grand National or GM G-Body.......had a 400 small block worked over before I moved here, added 6" rods and good pistons and the likes, found out later the guy that did the machine work is Top Fuel racer Eddie Hill's machinist, so I know it is spot on....roller cam kit was purchased years ago too. Right now, I am deciding between AFR or Brodix heads....the Brodix Track I's look like they offer the airflow I need for this little critter. Got an old schoolmate in Amarillo who's gonna install the 4.10 gears and Auburn Posi for me, then we are gonna head to the track...
The Monte is my "stupid" car, fit only for cruising the streets or hammering down the track, but the overdrive tranny will help me get to the track in Amarillo.
Got a 355 already built, sitting on the stand in my garage, Vortec heads and a nice Comp Cams bumpstick, will be backed by a Turbo 350 I built myself with a Summit 2800 stall converter and the original 3.73 posi rear from the Monte Carlo. This is for my daily driver 1981 Chevy El Camino; thank God I only drive 3 or 4 days a week to the location......lol!
Last, but certainly not least, is the 1966 El Camino I bought back in 1983 when I was a senior in high school. Repro parts are still hard to find for El Caminos of that year, but luckily all I really need are the floor pans.....
Still have the 4-speed tranny sitting in my dad's shop at the farm, the 12-bolt was gone through back in 1990, and the Vortec engine I got the heads from is sitting in my garage. Will have it line-bored, gonna add a stroker crank to make her a 383 (thank the Lord they finally make one for a one piece rear main seal), slide a GM H.O.T. cam kit in, top it all off with a set of Trick Flow 23 degree heads I traded for last year. Gonna practice my paint skills on the '81 El Camino, then paint the '66 myself.
That's it......gonna get the ones closest to completion knocked out first, then hit that old one I vowed at age 16 to see through to the end......it's just taken me 18 years to get it "seen through".
[This message has been edited by eddiek (edited 03-24-2001).]
