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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 12:42 AM
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Ok so this October im ready to take it to the next level. I wanna rebuild the corvette engine. I dont know much about rebuilding engines but my dads friends do. I wanna completely take everything out of the engine compartment, repaint the engine compartment, take apart and put back together the corvette engine, and put in just the basics.

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If i start October 1st, what are the chances i would be done by April 1st. Or at most, July 1st?
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 02:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Hick727
. . .put back together the corvette engine, and put in just the basics.

Kinda like this



If i start October 1st, what are the chances i would be done by April 1st. Or at most, July 1st?
Just the basics huh?

I've been working on my 540 build on and off beginning last Christmas and it's now September. Perhaps you've more free time than I.
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 09:21 AM
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Hi Hick,
So you like show car engine compartments.
To make your engine compartment look like the one in the picture I'd think it's not a matter of how much time, but rather how MUCH $$$$$$
Fast is expensive and so is pretty.
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