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1983 el camino drag car 800 horse custom

Make: Chevrolet
Model: El Camino
Year: 1983
Mileage: 2,500
VIN: 1gccw8093dr166393
Color: Green
Engine: 388
Cylinders: 8
Fuel: Gasoline
Transmission: Automatic
Drive type: RWD
Interior color: Gray
Vehicle Title: Clear
Item location: Portland, Oregon, United States

1983 Chevrolet El Camino Additional Info:

1983 El Camino 388 sbc, nitrous, TH400, 9” fab9, nitrous

Up for sale is a 1983 Chevrolet El Camino 28.5” tire turnkey, street/strip car. Car is in excellent condition and perfect working order. All necessary safety gear equipped, and has passed tech at every track it’s ever been to. Ready for the strip, shows, or if you added some mufflers and exhaust, the street as well. Been sitting in the garage for over two years now without being to the track, and time to let it go to a new home. Since its build in 2012/13 it has always been garaged, and always on a battery tender. Car is currently in Portland, OR.

It is setup for 1/8th mile, but has plenty of gear left (4.10’s) so the ¼ mile won’t be a problem. Car has been down the 1/8th on the bottle in 5.92 @ 121 mph, 1.27 60’ foot braking it. Runs 6.30’s off the bottle. Hooks hard and launches straight with between 10.5 and 11 pounds of rear tire pressure.

a 388 sbc 13.5:1 compression, and runs on 110 octane or above. I have always used 112, and brad penn 10w30 green oil. Machined and assembled by Charlies Speed and Machine in Blair, NE. Engine dyno’d at Charlies at 620hp using 112 octane, and have dyno sheets, along with all receipts for the entire project. Dart Little M 350 4 bolt mains block with billet main cap upgrade. Eagle ESP 4340 crankshaft, 3.75” stroke. Rods are Eagle ESP 4340 6” with L19 bolt upgrade, and upgraded wrist pins. JE Nitrous Dome pistons, and JE pro seal nitrous series rings. Camshaft is a comp camps custom grind nitrous camshaft with .696/.704 lift…full cam specs, and cam card will be supplied to the buyer. Isky redline roller lifters with EZ-roll upgrade. T&D 1.6 shaft rockers with spring oiler upgrade. Schonfeld 1 7/8” to 3 ½” collecters for headers, with 3 ½” turndowns. Carb is by C&S specialties…dominator style 1000cfm aerosol billet…arguably the best carb on the market. http://www.candsspecialties.com Nitrous kit is by ZEX and is the 300 shot dominator kit, custom jetted on a chassis dyno to add 350hp. Heads are Brodix Track 1’s, and manifold is a brodix HV1000 custom fitted for a dominator. Heads and intake are port matched, and both ported/polished stage 2 by Stiegemeier Porting Services in St. Charles, MO. http://stiegemeier.com/ Ignition is full MSD. MSD crank trigger, crank trigger distributer, HVC2 coil, and Programmable digital 7plus ignition. Comp Cams Pro sbc belt drive timing set. ATI super damper, C&S specialties vacuum pump. 15 gallon fuel cell with gauge sending unit in the bed, BG 280 electric fuel pump, and BG fuel filter. Braided lines, and AN fittings on all connections throughout the vehicle. CSR billet electric water pump. Have receipts totaling over 25K for motor alone. Motor was built with two stage nitrous in mind, but never got around to putting the fogger on. Built to handle way more nitrous than the plate that is on there.

Transmission is a GM Turbo 400, TCI nitrous stall converter with antibaloon plate…stall is 3,500. B&M trans cooler. Reverse shift pattern B&M Prostick shifter. Crossmember is by PC weld and fab and is a double hump g-body crossmember.

Out back is a custom Fab9 rear end housing from Chris Alston’s Chassisworks and powdercoated silver. Strange S/S 31 spline axles with Timkin axle bearings. Adjustable upper control arms, and lower control arms also from chassisworks. Ford 9” center section, 4:10 gears, and posi. https://www.chassisworks.com Rear brakes are aerospace components billet drag brakes. http://www.aerospacecomponents.com QA1 single adjustable coil over shocks. TRZ motorsports anti-rollbar kit. https://trzmotorsports.com Car has a mini-tub/frame notch to preserve stock mounting locations done by Outlaw Chassis in Omaha, NE. Wheels are billet specialties drag lites….15x10 rear, and 15x3.5 fronts. Tires are Mickey Thompson and the slicks have plenty of passes left in them.

Up front are TRZ Motorsports tubular upper and lower control arms, QA1 single adjustable coil over shocks, and aerospace components gbody billet 4 piston drag brakes. TRZ manual billet brake booster, and TRZ manual rack and pinion conversion kit for the steering.

Paint is House of Colors Orion Silver, and PPG Vibrance Poison Ivy and usually appears green, but when the sun hits it just right, appears blue. Paint has a ding or two but overall is 9.9 out of 10 condition. Washed after every outing, and waxed regularly. Dash was fiberglassed and sanded, and then painted to match the car. Steering wheel is billet specialties with the ring painted poison ivy as well. Full autometer ultralite gauges, except for the tach, which is autometer 5” Cobalt series with shift light. All light bezels, grill, weather stripping, and lights were bought new during the build, and are all original GM NOS (new old stock) parts that were gathered from various gm dealerships around the country. Seats are Kirkey drag seats with Kirkey grey tweed covers. 5 point G-force camlock safety harnesses on both. 10 point NHRA certified rollcage installed by Outlaw Chassis in Omaha, NE is painted poison ivy as well.

Below is a parts list for the majority of the parts used for this project.

PAINT

house of colors orion silver

PPG Vibrance Poison Ivy

all paint, materials, labor

OUTLAW CHASSIS LLC.

10 point NHRA certified to 8.50 custom roll cage

frame notch & mini tub to allow 15x10 w/28"x10.5" tire

anti roll bar and rear coil over custom mounts and install

SUSPENSION-REAR

Chassisworks adjustable upper control arms

Chassisworks lower control arms

Cassisworks custom FAB-9 with backbraces and control arm mounts

Strange S/S 31 spline axles with Timkin axle bearings

Ford 9" center section 4:10 gear ratio with posi traction

Aerospace Components gbody billet rear drag brakes

TRZ Motorsports Anti-Roll Bar

QA1 single adjustable coil over shocks

SUSPENSION-FRONT

Aerospace Components gbody billet 4 piston drag brakes

QA1 single adjustable coil over shocks

TRZ Motorsorts Pro Upper/Lower tublar control arms for coil overs

TRZ Motorsports manual rack and pinion conversion kit

TRZ Motorsports manual billet brake booster

ENGINE (388ci sbc, 13.5:1)

Dart Little M Block, 350 mains 4 bolt mains, billet main caps

Brodix Track 1 215cc aluminum cylinder heads (before headwork)

Brodix HV1000 aluminum intake

Stiegemeier Engine Air Flow stage 2 port/polish on heads/intake

Eagle ESP 4340 Crankshaft (3.75 stroke,2 piece seal, 6"rod,internal balance,2.100" rod journal

C&S Specialties Vacuum pump and bracket, v-drive

T&D 2254 Shaft Roller Rockers, 1.6 intake&exhaust, +spring oiler option

Isky Redline 372-RH roller lifters with EZ-Roll upgrade and guidebars

ATI super damper 7" balancer

Eagle 4340 6" rods with L19 bolt upgrade

JE Pistons Nitrous Dome Pistons part # 232511

JE Pistons Pro Seal Nitrous Series Rings

CSR Billet electric water pump

CSR Billet fuel pump block off plate

CSR Billet water thermostat housing

C&S Secialties Aerosol Billet 1000CFM dominator Carb

C&S Specialties Billet fuel log

Charlies Speed & Machine…assembly, machine work

ARP Main Studs

Clevite MH909HX H-Series Main Bearings

Clevite CB663HN Rod Bearings

Melling M55HV High Volume oil pump

Fel Pro 1142 Head Gaskets

Custom Pushrods

ps/ct 1243 valve springs

Comp Cams custom grind nitrous camshaft (.696,.704 lift)

Comp Cams Pro sbc belt drive

half day dynometer session

ZEX Nitrous Perimeter Plate 100-300HP system

MSD 7" Crank Trigger

MSD Pro Billet Crank Trigger Distributor #84697

MSD HVC-2 Coil #8261

MSD Digital 7 Programmable Plus Ignition Box #7531

MSD 8.5mm Plug Wires

Autometer Cobalt 5" Tach

RCI 16 gallon fuel cell with gauge sending unit

BG 280 Electric Fuel Pump

BG 8AN billet fuel filter

assorted an hoses and fittings (1K is a low estimate)

autometer mechanical fuel pressure isolator

ATI SFI approved flexplate

Schoenfeld headers 1 7/8" tubes, 3 1/2" collector

ceramic header coating

Milodon 7 quart oil pan

Moroso fabricated aluminum valve covers

set screw locking header bolts