So what will surely be a long and ongoing project with my 1968 C3 corvette, is cleaning up the engine bay. Much of the parts are rusty, and have just been sitting without any attenion for a long time. The coolant overflow tank was on such neglected...
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Updated 9 years 11 months ago
If you're at all familiar with the 1968-1972 corvettes, you've undoubtedly born witness to the insanity that is the headlight cowl. In an effort to hide the headlights, Chevy added a cowl that covers them up during normal operation. To be able to...
Updated 6 years 1 month ago
The following is a running known customizations list to help me remember things, along with links to relevant information. Also this should prevent people other than myself getting this engine and not having a clue what has been done and when....
Updated 8 years 6 months ago
With the Corvette now on the West side of the country at my house, I was taking it out for a spin and noticed a real drag of a problem: at sustained 1/4 to 1/3 throttle acceleration, the car started sputtering and just didn't put power down until I...
Updated 8 years 6 months ago
Recently, I've been playing a lot of disc golf. I play a decent amount, but it's been forefront on my mind the past few weeks, and I've been digging it. I went out to the field nearby my house to practice throwing discs, while simultaneously letting...
Updated 10 years 2 months ago
The Fluid Spice was waiting for me when I returned back to my house after 10 months away. Shipping has always been prompt for me from Fluid, and this was no exception, as I expected to beat the boat home but was pleasantly surprised that my renters...
Updated 10 years 3 weeks ago
I'm a bit of a sucker for good deals. I also like having enough things to share, I like trying new things, and I'm not broke. This has been the perfect combination of criteria twice now for me with Fluid Kayaks. Fluid kayks had two giant blowout...
Updated 10 years 2 months ago
The Corvette gods just didn't seem to want to let me have a working Corvette. After all the headache to get the corvette back, the better part of sorted, inspected, and registered... I drive home and smoke is billowing out of the right rear wheel....
Updated 8 years 6 months ago
When I picked up the corvette from the shop, I was informed that there was an issue getting the belt tension correct. Apparantly the bracket wasn't correct and no amount of changing belts would fix it, there was simply no room for adjustability. I...
Updated 6 years 1 month ago
An ongoing list of remaining repairs to restore the Corvette to fully sorted status:Small tasks I can do inbetween big tasks:Update brake master cylinder to polished aluminum. Better look, lighter weight.Instal billet aluminum pulley ...