EL CAMINO White lightning our 81 street/strip car

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Fired it up! Spent the morning doing a couple piddly things getting it on tdc, plopping the dizzy in and getting the wires ran!

I was actually blown away got everything where I thought it should be timing wise and first pull of my lone wolf 9000 it puttered a little bit, second pull of the trigger it fired off and idled, I figured I’d be fighting timing to get it there where it would just idle while I got the timing set to do the brake in

I am beyond pumped! Running, broke it in while pissing the neighbours off with open headers 😂

The stink eye I got from the lady next to us was incredible when I when to grab more coolant
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Congratulations. I found just start it up in the middle of the day maybe during the week when most people are at work and that’s the best you can do. Mine was a 15:1 565 with 4” collectors and no mufflers but I tried my best to not be rude.