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Saw some threads talking about my El Camino that won the Drift Showoff in Houston recently.
It is actually a GMC Caballero - same as the Chevrolet El Camino.
It was my dad's beater for several years, then it became my beater. Last fall i decided to have fun with it and make it a low budget toy. My goal was drag racing and autocrossing. I have around 5k total in it and have done all of the work myself (and a friend helped some).
Power - It has a low-compression 350 from an 80's camaro, stock internals. It has heads, cam, headers, carbed (about 320 rear wheel hp). It has a three speed automatic (cheap and bullet proof th350). The rear end is a POSI 3.42 out of a Grand National. A 100 shot is used for drag racing. Should do mid 12's on motor and low 12's to upper 11's on spray.
Handling - the El Camino has a LONG wheelbase 117 inches. It weighs about 3200lbs without me in it. I used Hotchkiss springs, bilstein shocks, poly bushings everywhere, sway bars, homemade boxed control arms and steering box off of a monte carlo SS. The wieght distribution is about 55 front 45 rear. While classified as a truck, it is based off of a monte carlo (car). We put some seats out of a firebird in it (stock bench seat sucked).
I have been auto-xing it with my friend Derrick several times, and we drifted it at a practice event with some friends last fall. I let my friend Derrick enter it in the drift event, and he won. We are thinking about entering it in the formula D event this June, just not sure if i want to go through the trouble of caging it.
My site with old info and some photos and short vids:
http://www.z28evans.com/el_camino.htm
www.z28evans.com
Bumper was removed for weight after i got rear-ended
It's been fun to drive, it's been the little beater that could
Thanks,
James Evans
Saw some threads talking about my El Camino that won the Drift Showoff in Houston recently.
It is actually a GMC Caballero - same as the Chevrolet El Camino.
It was my dad's beater for several years, then it became my beater. Last fall i decided to have fun with it and make it a low budget toy. My goal was drag racing and autocrossing. I have around 5k total in it and have done all of the work myself (and a friend helped some).
Power - It has a low-compression 350 from an 80's camaro, stock internals. It has heads, cam, headers, carbed (about 320 rear wheel hp). It has a three speed automatic (cheap and bullet proof th350). The rear end is a POSI 3.42 out of a Grand National. A 100 shot is used for drag racing. Should do mid 12's on motor and low 12's to upper 11's on spray.
Handling - the El Camino has a LONG wheelbase 117 inches. It weighs about 3200lbs without me in it. I used Hotchkiss springs, bilstein shocks, poly bushings everywhere, sway bars, homemade boxed control arms and steering box off of a monte carlo SS. The wieght distribution is about 55 front 45 rear. While classified as a truck, it is based off of a monte carlo (car). We put some seats out of a firebird in it (stock bench seat sucked).
I have been auto-xing it with my friend Derrick several times, and we drifted it at a practice event with some friends last fall. I let my friend Derrick enter it in the drift event, and he won. We are thinking about entering it in the formula D event this June, just not sure if i want to go through the trouble of caging it.
My site with old info and some photos and short vids:
http://www.z28evans.com/el_camino.htm
www.z28evans.com
Bumper was removed for weight after i got rear-ended
It's been fun to drive, it's been the little beater that could
Thanks,
James Evans
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