The problematic pig of a '73 El Camino named El Cochino is back. On this episode of Roadkill, HOT ROD's David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan spend 24 crazy hours with a 1930 Model A Rat Rod and a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador to find out which wildly impractical, larger-than-life car attracts the most attention. we thought you would like to see the list of parts Mike and Daivd used for the swap-you know, in case anyone else is daft enough to attempt their own Roadkill adventure. S8.E3 The El Cochino El Camino Returns May 5, 2023.
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Everyone will be able to watch the entire saga on the latest installment of Hot Rod's Roadkill video series on YouTube. You can see all of Mike and David's shenanigans on Hot Rod's Facebook page. The two-day swap involved wrenching out the old engine, getting snowed on, dropping the new engine in, and getting snowed on some more. The boys finished up the swap on Friday April 6 and motored home to the City of Angels in time to unwrap their Easter baskets on Sunday. Mike and David did all of the work themselves, with tools they brought themselves, on a car that has had a questionable life at best.
They drove from LA to the Summit Racing store in Nevada to swap the tired 350 two-barrel small block for a BluePrint Engines 383 stroker motor. An iron-headed big-block with a dual-plane? And is that a stock fuel-feed line and filter? Sure, there's a nitrous plate and the obligatory set of headers, but so what? You can imagine our reaction when Ted relayed that the 12-bolt contains only 3.42s and a stock Posi unit, and that the Turbo 400 has a mere 2,800-stall converter.Hot Rod's Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger wrapped up yet another adventure in their Roadkill series with a successful finish to their '69 El Camino engine swap in the parking lot of Summit Racing Equipment's Retail Store in Sparks. Finnegan also drives the infamous Roadkill 69 El Camino to Camarillo airfield to find out how badly the factory brakes perform and then Wilwood Brakes gives the Elco a serious binder upgrade. Through its history, it has died, been reborn, lived as a confused truck/car hybrid, grown into a burnout + drag machine muscle car, but all. It’s a bird It’s a truck It’s a car It’s the Chevy El Camino Taking cues from the Ford Ranchero, Chevrolet rolled out the El Camino in 1964. Popping the hood didn't change our minds. Freiburger and Finnegan filled the bed of a 69 El Camino and headed north from our SoCal headquarters to Summit Racings massive showroom in Sparks, Nevada. Chevy El Camino Everything You Need To Know. After all, it's all steel, right down to the Rally wheels, and it's low, like a cruiser. Drive it anywhere if you're willing to pay for the gas." Pulling into the alley behind Westside produced skepticism this was our 10-second ride? Street car yes, but 10.70s at 125? It seemed unlikely. "Is it a street car?" Ted came back, "Oh yeah, that's what it's for. A 10-second El Camino with a big-block on spray. However, it is known that she has been driving a 69 Chevrolet El Camino. One of the cars he listed-rather casually-was a '69 El Camino. In 2012, Freiburger and Finnegan began co-hosting the web series Roadkill. Ted was curious why we hadn't come sniffing around before, so we prodded him for leads on trick iron from around the block. Watch as they thrash to fix the Hemi-powered Blasphemi ’55 Chevy Gasser, then cannonball to Wisconsin in Roadkill’s ’69 El Camino only to show up late. Worse yet, it's been there for like 30 years. Unbelievably, there's actually a speed shop not 20 minutes from our office that we didn't know about. On the other end of the line was Ted Toki, proprietor of Westside Performance in Santa Monica, California. The wake-up call came while we were searching for feature meat for this issue.
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