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: I just bought another elky as a daily driver!!!


blue81elcamino
06-17-2010, 09:22 PM
I just bought another elky as a daily driver today. Its is not presentable at all so we have to do a repaint and a complete interior swap by sunday. That gives us 3 days wish me luck!!!!

Lemmy
06-17-2010, 10:02 PM
Good luck! And post pictures, will'ya?:beer:

nitroxracer78
06-18-2010, 12:13 AM
I wish you so much good luck. I concur on the pictures.

Lenny Carey
06-18-2010, 07:27 AM
Steve , Sorry you had to work and could not make this past weekend`s get together at Old Town . Congratulations on another Camino . I know you did a lot of work to that nice 81 you have and look forward to seeing this one at some point . Have you decided on a color ? Hope you can make the next get together at Silver Springs . For info www.npdlink.com .

Carretera
06-18-2010, 10:02 AM
We missed you at Old Town, your car collection it growing quite a bit, take care, Tony.

rushgator
06-18-2010, 12:15 PM
Sounds like you've got quite a 3 day thrash laid out. Hope you avoid any bad surprises. Good luck and post some before and after pics after you've recovered!:beer:

hagensen 78
06-18-2010, 04:14 PM
Best of luck on your three day project. Pictures would be nice.

blue81elcamino
06-23-2010, 10:27 PM
Well it has taken alittle longer than planned something is bad wrong with the engine, i believe the head gaskets are blown or the head is damaged. We got alot done since thursday though we removed the front end, gutted the interior, i painted the engine,frame and firewall. We put another front clip on and then put the engine back together and it wont run so my friend has new heads im going to put on the engine hopefully that will fix it! heres some picshttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0664-1.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0668.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0677.jpg


Here is a pic with my purple elky in the background

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0687.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0688.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0690.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0715.jpghttp://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y214/81elcamino/Photo0719.jpg

MrCryptic
06-23-2010, 11:02 PM
dang you move fast bro, cant wait to see it finished!

burns
06-23-2010, 11:52 PM
looks great! please post more pictures when possible! :You_Rock:

andreman
06-24-2010, 12:51 AM
you did all that in one day wow, come over to my house.:beer::neutral::nanawrench::poke::inlove::ne utral2:

blue81elcamino
06-24-2010, 10:00 PM
No i didn't do it all in one day i bought in on thursday, friday we removed the front clip and started pullin all the electronics off,and gutted the interior. Saturday we removed the rest of the electronics, presure washed the engine,and painted it. sunday i sanded the firewall and frame and painted it. monday we put the front clip back on and put the engine back together. Now the motor isn't running right, you crank it up it revs wide open without touching the accelerator then i backfires and dies all in about 10 seconds im stumped of what is causing this.