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Mar 12, 2013 | 04:44 PM

#41

79C3tnd

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From: Lititz PA

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Originally Posted by Leo23

Start off with bringing the car to a qualified mechanic, rather than "some guy'. Then drop the BS about the pistons blowing out through the oil pan while you were driving "normal" and admit you were beating the **** out of daddys car, missed a shift, and blew it up.

Wow...so HARSH!!! I love it!! ***t happens to all of us at some point...

Mar 12, 2013 | 07:39 PM

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aboatguy

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From: Slidell Louisiana

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Originally Posted by RichieKC4

if it shoots out the pan... and theres a fire on top... sorry your a ****in retard its not oil... its just a smithering part

the word is smothering and both gas and oil float on water.... Foam or dry chemical agent preferred are the preferred method for oil/gas fires, CO2 can be used too, water has the potential to make things WORSE, much worse,and that was something I knew before I went to fire fighting school back in 1983.

As for your bolded statement I'm not the one that started a post on the internet that was going to cost my father the collector value of his investment.

I believe your story is

Mike

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Mar 12, 2013 | 08:38 PM

#43

peyc2

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Boy oh boy,

I learned in 1975 what happens when you put water on a magnesium engine fire!
It's not pretty, much like this.....

Mar 15, 2013 | 02:24 PM

#44

Smokeysvette

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From: Wills Point Texas

OK.... No excuses now. A complete running engine with about 60K. All you have to do is step up to the plate, buy it, and install.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1996-CORVETT...B:FSEL:US:1123

Item number 190811790972 (not mine or know anything about who's selling it)

Mar 15, 2013 | 08:10 PM

#45

DinoBob

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From: New Jersey

I think the guy is my brother! Oh, the stories that guy made up when the cars came home wrecked. My brother's cologne clearly had some sex pheromone that enticed deer to leap out in front of his car on lonely country roads...he must have wiped out half the population.

Mar 15, 2013 | 08:14 PM

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aboatguy

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From: Slidell Louisiana

Or buy the ERE 383 in the C4 for sale section, freshly redone and the ERE engines have a great reputation in the Impala SS world. Neat seeing a big old boat fly down the track, funny how the impala guys seem to be more LTX performance savvy than the vette guys (overall)

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