Pretty !!!

 

And here it is… holdin her juices, fuel-air happening, duched her up, purring like a kitten. Decided to name her Kate, by my first kindergarden crush.

thanks all y’all for helpin a guy out.

 

Just to keep everything in one thread here is something from today:

As today is a Labour day what’s better than spend it doing some labour. Decided to finaly finish the vette engine refresh and I’m glad to say it was successful.

So I’ve changed the rear main seal, oil pump shaft, decided to go with the metal collar one and I was suprised to find the windage tray in the oil sump, I guess L82 had it by default.

While I was there I changed the oil pan gasket, went with the fel-pro blue one piece. Decided to clean, sand and repaint the oil pan while at it:



I gave it the new Bosch filter and fresh VR1 oil.

Since the pan was off I decided to change the chain and sprockets, of course with all new gaskets. I had to take the water pump and pulley off so I sanded and repainted those as well. For the collor I went with gloss black heat resistant paint.


I gave it the new belts too. Since the fan was off and the pulley was off I’ve sanded and repainted the fan too. Gave it some new bolts as well.



I had a leaky radiator which was getting worse by the day so I decided to purchase some new honeycomb and reweld everything with lead as it was done in the past. I like the aluminium ones but I like the OEM even more. When I tested it, it held preasure of 1.2 bar overnight. Gave it some new nipples and transmision hoses since it was out. I’ve repainted the exposed frame and bottom radiator brackets.



I also cleaned and degreases all the old gunk and oil which accumulated over the years. Since the shroud was out I decided to clean and respray it with black texture spray for the plastic bumpers.

I had some issues wit the Y exhaust but after soaking it in some penetrating oil it went off and on again pretty easy. I couldn’t find any oem gaskets so I used fireplace silicone (holds till 1250°C) and it worked like a charm.

That’s it, I have put everything together ran it for some time without the spark to build the oil pressure and it started from the first tooth.

I’m really happy and a bit more peacefull now knowing everything is new and most important NO LEAKS

Here they are, my babies


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There is a thread to post weekend/roadtrip pics of our Vettes. Now that it's roadworthy post some pics "in the wild".