Camino Shop Truck and Camaro Crate Engine!

Today we're getting a new parts truck.

Hey, welcome to the shop man in here. We care about only one thing and that's ground pounding muscle cars, baby.

Yeah, you might have seen this tear apart the challenger in the Craig Camaro. But we've got a problem that needs to be dealt with. Yeah, and that uh that problem is our uh current parts truck because man, I mean,

it's tragic. Yeah, it's bad.

And

this is what we've been using.

We really need a new parts runner

and this is what we got. 78 El Camino. We got this hot little number from a guy who ran out of steam and couldn't finish it. So we're gonna make it. Our parts struck.

It's already been given a lot of attention. Nice straight body work, fresh paint and a nose and hood. From honest, Charlie's

today, we're gonna start putting this thing back together. We're gonna make it more reliable and more importantly and more powerful parts truck. Now, when we got this baby, it had no engine in it, no transmission. So we decided to get

the Ram

Jet GM performance parts 350. Look at his serpentine set up. It's a factory item, all the accessories bolt right up. Not to mention this thing makes 350 horse and it's a tick under five grand. You got to love it.

And behind it, we're gonna install

all this. The four L 60 Ee stands for electronic and I don't get your drawers all watered up because it's no harder to install than any other transmission. Especially thanks to this, the GM performance part, stand alone control module.

Here's a tip for you on these G bodies. This back chassis bolt hole can be a bit of a pain to get a nut on. You. Take a piece of tape, put it on your wrench, put your nut in.

Now it doesn't go nowhere.

And all you do is slide it in this access hole

and bolt it down.

Yo, Jared. Give me a hand with this hood, man.

All right.

Hey, two things. Remember when you're popping the hood off, always keep your hand behind it so that it doesn't get into the windshield and break it

and mark the hinges is gonna make it a lot easier when you're putting it back on.

It's the bolt race. Go, go, go

done time.

Love me.

Actually, let's go. Wait. Here we go.

Ok.

Yeah, because it's a little bit wider out.

Good

you want.

Yeah, I'm liking this

all the way up.

It's gonna be so good.

Now, here we go.

Good.

I'm gonna let lou get the light in

another tip when you're putting your transmission in

is get a tail stock plug because it's gonna keep all your fluid from leaking out onto the ground.

Hang on.

Ok.

You think I'm at a point where I should go under it.

Yeah.

But

you just a second. I just keep it there

there. I got, I got the, I got the car holder.

I don't have much more room to come in

and I, and it's, it's hitting,

ok, I'm hitting a distributor already. So you're gonna have to come up a little.

All right.

All right. Coming out, move it out.

Now that we've got this engine, the tranny installed, we can put on the rest of the stuff so we can hear this baby run

next step. The hater. Now, before we can install these permanently, we need to find a good place for the 02 sensor.

Trade you for some bolt.

Well,

I got a spot here, do you?

But it might end up going over there.

We'll make a mark where we want the sensor to go.

Be sure to choose an area that will not only keep the 02 sensor free of obstructions,

but it's going to keep it as close to straight up as possible. This is going to keep moisture from settling on the sensor and shortening its lifespan.

Cross your fingers. Lo

I'm crossing,

we put it in the right spot.

Bye

man. This thing looks good. Hell

does, dude. Now, I know you guys would normally stay in here. Put the radiator in and button this whole thing up. But you know what? We gotta hear it, run. So we're gonna put a gas tank in it. Let's just get it in there. All right,

before we install this tank from Rock Valley,

it's gonna be a good idea to attach everything we need. So we don't have to do it once it's in the car

and don't forget the thread sealer

because there's no sense in risking a gas leak.

Hey, Luke. Yo, give me a hand with this sucker. All

man, these rubber strips was a pretty good idea. Yeah, you don't want metal on metal, man. We are one step closer hearing this thing. Fire up. Yeah,

muscle car advertisements hyped displacement. The bigger, the better but one car advertised a smaller engine than it actually had

in 1969 Chevy board its turbojet big block out to 402 inches. But wisely continued marketing the Chevelle

Ss with the model name that made it famous

if it seems to move you from there to here like that. You're in a 1969 Chevelle Ss 396.

Try one of the four new Ss 396 S. You'll be an instant believer.

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in the sports shop at your Chevrolet dealers. Sports department.

You're back at muscle car and we're back under Craig Camaro. Now we're gonna test fit this whole front suspension to make sure that there's no surprises before final assembly

to make it easier to see. We're gonna take this fender off.

Trust me.

I know some of you guys think that this is some simple stuff, but you don't wanna have to grind on it after you had a powder coated.

Now, I know this front end is flashy, but beneath all that glitter there's a lot of function. Take this rack and pinion system. It not only works easier but it saves you much more space than the stock steering box. Hello.

Yo,

give me a hand with this. All right.

I'm just dying to see how this thing's gonna fit. Yeah, these convertible tops can be a bit of a pain, man. I don't know.

I guess now it's time to read some instructions. Uh, dude, do you know how to read?

That's impressive.

You know, it's hard to believe that this bracket holds a whole convertible top in place.

We're gonna be working against each other here. I'm gonna do yours and then we'll do mine. All right.

Let's top up.

Lifting top eye.

There we go.

Do you ever get the, just

the weird feeling that we're being watched?

I don't know what it's all about. It's just a hunch.

Could be wrong though.

Yeah,

like cameras everywhere.

It's hard to explain

to me how you feeling

Yeah, get this way and then we,

we line it up, mate.

Open up these

now is the best time to make sure this top is gonna fit right because it has any surprises in store for us. We can cut grind well or do whatever it takes before we gotta worry about hurting the paint on this thing.

It's important to make sure the top fits correctly because on a convertible, the glass depends on a good fit.

One more thing you want to check is the windshield frame 43.

If it gets bent during shipping, it's gotta be fixed.

What do you think?

Dude, I'm impressed, man. This whole thing's fitting pretty good. And hey, guys, this may look like a lot of work, but you're gonna wanna test fit this stuff and trust us, it's gonna save you a lot of time and headache in the long run. Drop the top on this thing

coming up later. We'll lay down the law with the Pontiac GTO

Judge

in the late sixties. It was all about power

and the manufacturers were into it.

What we had was total lawlessness and chaos in the streets. What we needed

was some law

and Pontiac supplied us with

the Judge

muscle car flashback this week, the 69 GTO Judge

in 1964 Pontiac built America's first real muscle car. They threw out the rule book and dropped a 348 Horse V8 in their mid size tempest.

The new GTO was an instant hit by year's end. 75,000 goats were roaming the streets and looking for trouble. Five years later with the muscle car wars raging Pontiac upped the ante with a new GTO model.

The name may have been inspired by laughing. Here, come the judge, here, come the judge. But this brash new Orbit orange muscle machine was all business.

Pontiac's new a body featured the flexible enduring nose piece that shrouded a blacked out grill and hidden headlights.

The long hood had two functional hood scoops that ram cold air into the engine to help raise RPM s monitored by the hood mounted tack. The profile was also aggressive with judge

decals, beltline stripes and wide poly glass rubber on factory mag weed

and the short deck lid carried an imposing 60 inch fiberglass air foil that at speed made about 100 pounds of stabilizing down force. Speed was literally on tap. Thanks to the 400 cubic inch ram air 3 V8

with standard

deport heads. The big board Pontiac delivered a hefty 366 horses, but the real output was more than 400.

The air was ran through a Rochester quasi

check,

squeezed more than 10 to 1 and exploded through dual exhaust to make 445 ft pounds of torque twisting. The optional three speed hydrotic with a

dual gate shifter.

The jut is a solid 14 2nd car

powering through the quarter, nearly 98 miles an hour. The term Ram Air and judge became synonymous. The judge was the first time that,

that a Ram Air was standard on a car Pontiac. It was always an option, but it's the first model that Pontiac ever had

where the Ram Air system came with a car. It was not, it was not an option. It,

it was part of the package

coil springs up front and a four link in the rear provided solid traction and respectable handling. By the standards of the day,

the interior was simple with buckets and special judge magic

today, faithfully restored cars like this. Fetch as much as 100 and 30 grand and that's nearly 30 times more than the MS RB.

The 69 judge was Pontiac's idea of an

Aano racer for the street with attitude and a sense of humor. So here come the judge here, come the judge here. Come the judge,

everybody look here. Come the judge.

Hey, welcome back to muscle car. About ready to fire up our project camino. We installed the fuel tank. So the next thing on the list is our fuel lines.

We're gonna use the stock fuel lines, but in order to do that, we've got to make some modifications.

What is the fuel filter? Our car originally had a carburetor on it which only used 3 to 7 pounds of pressure. But with our Ram

Jet, we need a filter that could use a whole lot more.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, it's gonna take about 55 pounds of pressure to feed our crate motor.

And in order to do that, we're gonna have to get rid of all the stock rubber lines in this car and replace them with lines that were made to handle that kind of pressure.

You ready to bring this thing down, let's do it

coming down.

Now, a fuel Jackson, you got a pressure side and a return side. Now we're gonna make hard lines that will connect our engine to the rest of our fuel system

in order to hook up these hard lines. I'm using A N fittings and I'm using this universal flaring tool kit. Now, I know it's a little pricey

but man, it makes life a lot easier.

Keep our engine looking clean. I'm gonna weld this hard line directly to the fuel rail. This is gonna take a lot of extra fab work. But in the end,

this thing is gonna look a whole lot better.

Oh, yeah. Now we got her all welded up. I'm gonna stick it on here. I think it's gonna look right at home on our little Ram Jet

looks good. Yeah,

it does.

Yeah. You know, it only took you a month to Sunday. You took the

easy side.

That's what I do.

But now that we've got that fuel problem figured out we're gonna take care of this wiring.

Well, guys, here we are. At the moment of truth.

The one thing that you gotta remember before you fire this thing up is turn on the key. Make sure that there's no fuel leaks, that fuel is under pressure. You don't wanna have an accident.

Hey, also check all of your vacuum ports, especially the unused ones. This is gonna make sure this thing idle is right after start up.

Dude. I, now I'm excited to go shag parts in this thing. Soon enough, you'll be seeing us beating the snot out of this thing.

Hell yeah.

Let's hear it again. We

hit it.

Go ahead. Hit it.