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The more I look at the photos, the more I question some issues.
Hard to tell, but looks like the dizzys Vac line is not going to the correct port. Which must be "Full Manifold Vacuum". And I am guessing, its the one in front of the carb, passenger side, bottom port.
I like your new Rad. But without a shroud, that spinning fan is doing nothing. NOTHING !!!
You have a PCV valve on one valve cover and a breather on the other. Perfect. Be surprised how many people can't understand that.
Next, remove that glass fuel filter and pitch it in Mondays trash. Remove the cartridge from the chrome fuel log & replace with new filter. Should be done once a year. Then plumb new fuel line from pump to fuel log / filter.
But you will get it. Just takes time to work the bugs out.
Last edited by HeadsU.P.; Nov 14, 2020 at 06:52 PM.
The more I look at the photos, the more I question some issues.
Hard to tell, but looks like the dizzys Vac line is not going to the correct port. Which must be "Full Manifold Vacuum". And I am guessing, its the one in front of the carb, passenger side, bottom port.
I like your new Rad. But without a shroud, that spinning fan is doing nothing. NOTHING !!!
You have a PCV valve on one valve cover and a breather on the other. Perfect. Be surprised how many people can't understand that.
Next, remove that glass fuel filter and pitch it in Mondays trash. Remove the cartridge from the chrome fuel log & replace with new filter. Should be done once a year. Then plumb new fuel line from pump to fuel log / filter.
But you will get it. Just takes time to work the bugs out.
i was joking...
i appreciate your posts but this isn't my first rodeo
and btw in the winter... it idles at 180f without a shroud, and it doesn't do NOTHING... it does just a little
i've never done body work before, i have done some painting, but not a lot.
so i thought i'd give it a try on this bad boy.
not sure how it'll turn out but it seems fine so far.
Is the edge of your bondo feathered enough? If you don't overlap it enough and do a 'just the area' repair sometimes it won't blend properly and you'll see an outline of the repair when you get to the paint stage. I usually go atleast an inch over and then feather it in
This is 1000 wet sanded and some rubbing compound. I'm kinda annoyed at this clear I think the can is bad... It says 15mins to dry and 1hr to handle. It was sitting in garage all night with heater on and it wasn't dried all the way at through. When I wet sanded and buffed it rubbed off some of the clear that wasn't completely dry. Last time I did this on trans am it dried really fast....
The can also spit out some crud a couple times
It looks fine from 6+ feet but close you can see where it burned through clear
I'm going to wait a while and sand the clear off and use a new can. It's ok for now.
Last edited by johnnyb15; Nov 21, 2020 at 01:22 PM.
This is 1000 wet sanded and some rubbing compound. I'm kinda annoyed at this clear I think the can is bad... It says 15mins to dry and 1hr to handle. It was sitting in garage all night with heater on and it wasn't dried all the way at through. When I wet sanded and buffed it rubbed off some of the clear that wasn't completely dry. Last time I did this on trans am it dried really fast....
The can also spit out some crud a couple times
It looks fine from 6+ feet but close you can see where it burned through clear
I'm going to wait a while and sand the clear off and use a new can. It's ok for now.
I filled some more spots. The drivers side mirror was not the original mirror they put some ugly one on and it had a bunch of holes. You can't see out of the mirror anyways so I filled the holes.
I'm going to try and paint these spots tomorrow and maybe try to fix the back of I have time
I repainted and cleared the back and it looks pretty good now. I bought a new can of clear and it worked fine and dried fast.
The car had some wierd side mirror on it, I filled the holes and painted over it I will probably put the stock mirror on in the correct position at some point.
I fixed a spot on the front bumper and on the
back behind the window on passenger side.
Oh I also fixed a messed up spot on the headlight cover
I'm going to wait until tomorrow evening to wet sand and buff just to be safe on the clear
Keep us updated on your progress. I too just purchased a corvette in Oct 2020 as a project car and also have a lot of electrical issues I’m trying to figure out. So posts on wiring issues are especially interesting. My dash lights don’t work, temperature gauge and more. I have the complete center cluster out and trying to figure out what’s going. I’m not a mechanic so this is somewhat challenging. Thanks for sharing.
i installed election fans they work great, i just need a different relay the fans never go off because the "off" is 165f lol... all the kits had 185 on 165 off lol.
Maybe a resistor in the line from sender to trick relay
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