My Corvette project (The Wounded Warrior)
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When I started to realize how much work it was to have the body done properly I was "No way" the costs would be very high and nobody wanted it 
I just gave up and drove last summer like this
It was something different, semiglossblack rallye wheels, black Hooker sidepipes, a terrible noise and a lunatic driver
My friend called me and he had a plan for my car!!!
His friend was a teacher in a school for surface finishing for cars!
They were more than happy to get my Corvette instead of some wrecked japanese cars etc to have it as a project.
So I got very lucky
The whole body and paint work has been done by pupils only
If you have time and nerves you can watch the whole project in the link below (language is in Finnish)
http://pintakilta.wikispaces.com/3.+Projektit
Viikko means week and it start with 1. first week in January this year.
I hope you enjoy
I will post more of the other things done with the car later again.
Thank you
ps. my english is maybe more like swenglish, because I talk swedish and finnish here, Ill try to write like Clint Eastwood sorry for that.
I just gave up and drove last summer like this
It was something different, semiglossblack rallye wheels, black Hooker sidepipes, a terrible noise and a lunatic driver
My friend called me and he had a plan for my car!!!
His friend was a teacher in a school for surface finishing for cars!
They were more than happy to get my Corvette instead of some wrecked japanese cars etc to have it as a project.
So I got very lucky
The whole body and paint work has been done by pupils only
If you have time and nerves you can watch the whole project in the link below (language is in Finnish)
http://pintakilta.wikispaces.com/3.+Projektit
Viikko means week and it start with 1. first week in January this year.
I hope you enjoy
I will post more of the other things done with the car later again.
Thank you
ps. my english is maybe more like swenglish, because I talk swedish and finnish here, Ill try to write like Clint Eastwood sorry for that.
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Wow what a great write-up. Those kids (young adults) did a great job… I wish I could read what the captions say. How about a little information about what’s under the hood that required the L-88 hood to be modified.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing
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Here is the link translated to english via Google translator.
The language is very funny
but can maybe be to some help
http://pintakilta.wikispaces.com/Cor...ary+in+english
The language is very funny
but can maybe be to some help http://pintakilta.wikispaces.com/Cor...ary+in+english
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I was planning American racing first, torque thrust D or T70R but here in Finland there is a lot of them allready.
I also looked here at the forum and saw these wheels also, Cornings Corvette had also them
And this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy-91Zp44hs
Loading for American car show Helsinki 2011
The car look quite different
15 x 8 Minilite and 255/60/15 Firestone
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This is a very cool thread. I looked through the whole build that those students did, and while (even in the translated version) I didnt really understand what was being said for the most part, it was cool to see them tackle that project and bring another C3 back to life. BTW, I love that paint scheme that they put on it, and the black headlight buckets looks pretty trick as well. Good work!
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This is a very cool thread. I looked through the whole build that those students did, and while (even in the translated version) I didnt really understand what was being said for the most part, it was cool to see them tackle that project and bring another C3 back to life. BTW, I love that paint scheme that they put on it, and the black headlight buckets looks pretty trick as well. Good work!
The motivation was really high from the start
I had some photos of old vintage racecars and had a few things that I wanted. The hood was the difficultiest to do and the idea was that it had to look smaller, I think that went really well, the glossblack make it look smaller
The white board looks also good, I compared it to this
This is a very cool car and its one of kind, the warrior is a little different only and try not to better just to look unique
The monaco orange idea came from these cars, my friends were in Chicago (Vettefest) and said that this could be a good choice of color.
Both of these guys are also here in the forum
It looks really good in sunset
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Last weekend I run the warrior for the first time on a strip (a airport with no glue on the track)
With the Firestone Indy 500 there was no traction but still managed to get it into high 12`s
What kind of tires should I get, 8 x 15 rim, 0 offset 4" backspace
I have been thinkin of M/T Street ET (I have moved the handbrake wire allready)
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Last weekend I run the warrior for the first time on a strip (a airport with no glue on the track)
With the Firestone Indy 500 there was no traction but still managed to get it into high 12`s
What kind of tires should I get, 8 x 15 rim, 0 offset 4" backspace
I have been thinkin of M/T Street ET (I have moved the handbrake wire allready)
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From: Oxford MA-----You just lost the game!!!!
Keep it between the ditches!
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and Thank you By the way, I maybe sold my Minilites now and planning to have a more rough set under my warrior, maybe gloss black rallye wheels with some really fat backtires....
Also planning to install a http://www.marchperf.com/pg25.html ...
Having now old pulleys and brackets and they are not good at all
