C3 Track Car
09-14-2010, 12:19 PM
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Love the screws on the flares.
This is one of my favorite C3 videos on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC03osl2XBg&NR=1
This is one of my favorite C3 videos on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC03osl2XBg&NR=1
09-17-2010, 10:48 AM
#6
Racer
Message for Richard
Richard
I tried to send you a private message but your storage space is full for them.
Would you contact me at
mccormick.robert@comcast.net
O heck, here's what I wanted to ask:
Richard
Locke McCormick here, I'm over in Jacksonville. I've traded my '96 for a '69 and am starting to get to work on it.
Over the years I have observed several posts concerning turning the rear axles on a C-3 to make the bearing a slip fit instead of the press fit. All of the race cars I was involved with in the 70-80s had this done to facilitate packing the wheel bearings a couple of times a season. My first '69 went in excess of 100,000 miles on the street and autocrossing with the bearings turned. Now the same car does wheel to wheel with the SCCA Vintage group.
In your writing carreer, have you run across someone who could give a trusted opinion on if turning the axle will cause a problem and maybe what the clearance between the axle and inner bearing race should be?
If I remember correctly, Dana English passed away a few years ago and I do not know how to get in touch with Jerry Thompson any more. That's two people I have had the pleasure of being around that I would trust. I was told a long time ago, I think by Thompson or Babe Headley, that the bearings were pressed on to keep the axle from falling out during assembly.
Maybe if I asked John Hinercy real nice he could get us to someone from Chevrolet.
It might make a nice piece to post on the Corvette Forum if it comes from a trusted advisor.
Did the post you made about your colum in Vintage Motorsports get pulled?
Thanks,
Locke McCormick
North Florida Corvette Association
Jacksonville, FL
I tried to send you a private message but your storage space is full for them.
Would you contact me at
mccormick.robert@comcast.net
O heck, here's what I wanted to ask:
Richard
Locke McCormick here, I'm over in Jacksonville. I've traded my '96 for a '69 and am starting to get to work on it.
Over the years I have observed several posts concerning turning the rear axles on a C-3 to make the bearing a slip fit instead of the press fit. All of the race cars I was involved with in the 70-80s had this done to facilitate packing the wheel bearings a couple of times a season. My first '69 went in excess of 100,000 miles on the street and autocrossing with the bearings turned. Now the same car does wheel to wheel with the SCCA Vintage group.
In your writing carreer, have you run across someone who could give a trusted opinion on if turning the axle will cause a problem and maybe what the clearance between the axle and inner bearing race should be?
If I remember correctly, Dana English passed away a few years ago and I do not know how to get in touch with Jerry Thompson any more. That's two people I have had the pleasure of being around that I would trust. I was told a long time ago, I think by Thompson or Babe Headley, that the bearings were pressed on to keep the axle from falling out during assembly.
Maybe if I asked John Hinercy real nice he could get us to someone from Chevrolet.
It might make a nice piece to post on the Corvette Forum if it comes from a trusted advisor.
Did the post you made about your colum in Vintage Motorsports get pulled?
Thanks,
Locke McCormick
North Florida Corvette Association
Jacksonville, FL
09-20-2010, 08:00 AM
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