My Corvette project (The Wounded Warrior)
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My Corvette project (The Wounded Warrior)
First of all I have to tell you that the name of the project has nothing to do with this http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/ my friend said that my car was like an warrior after a hard battle in war and he took this picture
I hope no one is feeling bad about this
The story continues...
ps admins can move this thread to a better place if its in wrong place
I hope no one is feeling bad about this
The story continues...
ps admins can move this thread to a better place if its in wrong place
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The car is a 69 smallblock car with autom. trans. from the factory and the original engine is missing, there was a Chevelle 396 when I bought it.
The front end is a 1973 and nosepart from a 70. No idea to rebuild it to original anymore, just a perfect project to build something that I wanted without any bad feelings
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Hi F67,
That's quite a interesting project!
When I read "70 nose" I took a good look to see what grills were there.
But sadly they're 71-72. The 70's are a one year only part and would have earned you some $$$ if you sold them.
I think you're in for some FUN!!!!
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That's quite a interesting project!
When I read "70 nose" I took a good look to see what grills were there.
But sadly they're 71-72. The 70's are a one year only part and would have earned you some $$$ if you sold them.
I think you're in for some FUN!!!!
Regards,
Alan
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Hi F67,
That's quite a interesting project!
When I read "70 nose" I took a good look to see what grills were there.
But sadly they're 71-72. The 70's are a one year only part and would have earned you some $$$ if you sold them.
I think you're in for some FUN!!!!
Regards,
Alan
That's quite a interesting project!
When I read "70 nose" I took a good look to see what grills were there.
But sadly they're 71-72. The 70's are a one year only part and would have earned you some $$$ if you sold them.
I think you're in for some FUN!!!!
Regards,
Alan
The car is quite a puzzle of everything, the doors are has been changed, the hood, almost everything. The paint looked quite good when I got it but after some investigation it was something else
We found 17 layers of paint
, the original paint was Daytona yellow, but after that it had white, red and also some blue layers 
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More of some nice details 
Somebody told me that I have to do something to my rearend and drivetrain also???
In my daydreams I was now and then the man with the hat, it helped me to go trough the project
Somebody told me that I have to do something to my rearend and drivetrain also???
In my daydreams I was now and then the man with the hat, it helped me to go trough the project
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Notice the 1976 tilt/tele column with the supercool Vegastyle steering wheel
Only the tankmeter were working...
Here was the solution, all out
This was not in the car but in my fathers car in early seventies, still remember one cartridge with Dean Martin
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All the time I had a vision that a vintageracer or something like that was the thing I wanted to do with the car.
A bigblock with manual trans. A L88 with M22 would be the perfect choice but the costs of that combo would have been high and also normal drivebality not so good, high octane gas is not anymore available at the gas station and racing fuel is too expensive.
I looked at the crate engines with about the same horsepower and torque specs and also a tremec 5 speed.
The rearend was with 3.08 gears and with this combo you could drive on highways with no problem but in cities only with the first gear
I put a 3.55 instead and now its perfect
In a weak moment I ordered a engine from GM Performance Parts and a Tremec TKO-600
I have lots of pictures but I dont want to get this server too busy heh.
A bigblock with manual trans. A L88 with M22 would be the perfect choice but the costs of that combo would have been high and also normal drivebality not so good, high octane gas is not anymore available at the gas station and racing fuel is too expensive.
I looked at the crate engines with about the same horsepower and torque specs and also a tremec 5 speed.
The rearend was with 3.08 gears and with this combo you could drive on highways with no problem but in cities only with the first gear
I put a 3.55 instead and now its perfect
In a weak moment I ordered a engine from GM Performance Parts and a Tremec TKO-600
I have lots of pictures but I dont want to get this server too busy
heh.
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Thanks Alan for the info
The car is quite a puzzle of everything, the doors are has been changed, the hood, almost everything. The paint looked quite good when I got it but after some investigation it was something else
We found 17 layers of paint , the original paint was Daytona yellow, but after that it had white, red and also some blue layers
The car is quite a puzzle of everything, the doors are has been changed, the hood, almost everything. The paint looked quite good when I got it but after some investigation it was something else
We found 17 layers of paint
, the original paint was Daytona yellow, but after that it had white, red and also some blue layers from
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-g...long-post.html (post #62)
Looks like we're working on the same class of veteran.
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Thank you Denpo
All old paint had to be off before we could do anything.
I was considering sodablasting but good that we did not do that, all parts should have been on the floor...
The body would maybe had fall apart if we had lifted it from the frame
All old paint had to be off before we could do anything.
I was considering sodablasting but good that we did not do that, all parts should have been on the floor...
The body would maybe had fall apart if we had lifted it from the frame
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I had a 1967 matching numbers L-68 coupe twenty years ago and to that you could do nothing, just go to car shows and take out on a sunday for a ride
With the warrior I can maybe do some drag/streetracing
My X, a 1967 L-68 , M-21, Malrboro maroon, saddle tan leather Coupe. Headrests, power windows etc. I sold it in 1995
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The L88 Hood
This was a problem, I wanted a airbox but with 4" high filter.
Just cut and rise 2 inches, not so easy
Too robust in my opinion...
But the filter compartment were ok
A nice try to get it better
After this the car went to another place, will tell you later
After a lots of hours it started to look quite good
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