The GM G-body has been a contender in drag racing for years. Mark Micke’s Malibu, Eric Kenward’s Malibu wagon, and Flip’s (Now Kamikazi’s) seemingly unbeatable El Camino from the show Street Outlaws are just a few examples.
Ray Korkowski hopes his El Camino follows in those footsteps. Korkowski owns Ray Ray’s Speed Fabrication and Welding in Lake Park, FL, and he’s building the car/truck into an Outlaw 275/Grudge Racing terror. Bought as a $500 roller, Korkowski channeled the body down to his desired stance, then built a jig to build the chassis in a way that everything would line up when it went back together.
He started by building the chromoly frame inside of the stock frame rails. “At a certain point I was able to cut the complete stock frame away from the car leaving only the little piece where the front control arms bolt to. I did this so I could at least say it’s not a complete chassis car,” Korkowski says. The rear lower control arms were moved inward, and straightened in order to fit a tire under it, and he’s building it to 25.3 standards so you know he wants to go fast.
For the speed part, Korkowski summoned Scotty’s Race Engines 632-inch big block Chevy with an Induction Solutions fogger system on top of that. The front suspension is all TRZ, while the rear will be by Ray Ray’s. The El Camino’s rear was the only thing farmed out, which was handled by Chassis Engineering with a Strange Engineering center section, a Mark Williams spool, and 40-spline axles.
To make sure he could put weight where he wants it, Korkowski added a fiberglass nose, hood, doors, and dash from Heads Up Composites out of Vero Beach, Florida. To go on those body components, the El Camino will wear gloss black paint for a sinister look.
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