Her'es my introduction, I am a 24 yr old business owner an hip hop artist from Colorado. Picked up my first vette a few weeks ago,.. I'm more excited about it then ever!! 1984 red, 66k original miles, got it for $3500!! I hope the novelty never wears away. Owning a vette has always been a dream of mine since I was little lol.

I've owned around 30 vehicles now since I was a teenager, so Im def used to owning used vehicles. Right now besides the vette ive got my 88 volvo 740 turbo (4 speed manual), 99 ford e250, 92 fleetwood pacearrow, 84 dodge tioga, 06 yahama

I actually live in my motorhome on my business property right now, and it was among the best ideas ive ever had. I basically get to live for free if you factor in that I'd be paying lease and utilities for my shop either way!

If anybody is interested here's my business url www.bullnoseworldusa.com

here's also a link to my music on soundcloud
www.soundcloud.com/realrapmusic

Have a great day!

 

 

 

Welcome to the Forum and congratulations on your 84

 

Welcome to CF

 

Welcome and enjoy!

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Thanks I really love the car. I got lucky, too. Low miles, great exterior and interior. I really love the tan leather. The car runs awesome. Everyone compliments how good the ride is, it is very quiet and solid feeling. I even like the bose system, I think it sounds good for how old it is. Got a system in the works though. So far ive got a sony xplod 800 watt amp, corvette harness kit, pair of new 6x9's, speaker wire kit. Now I just need to get a drop down screen HU, more speakers, and a 12" sub and ill put it all in..

I do have a couple problems, though, and I'll go ahead and copy and paste them from my other thread.

Question number one:

There is a coolant overflow reservoir, passenger side right behind the passanger headlight. It has what looks to be dirty water in it, and has no cap. However, the radiator itself has fresh looking antifreeze. Is this overflow reservoir necessary? Should I siphon the junk out and buy a cap? The car currently runs great as-is, and does not over heat in the slightest (then again the warmest day we have had since ive gotten it was 60 degrees).


Question number two:

My coolant/radiator fan does not turn on to my knowledge (it has yet to turn on since I got the car). My vette has gotten up to 235 degrees (as measured by the stock guage) and it didnt turn on, but it has never gotten past that temp yet. When the manual climate control slider is in any position BESIDES vent and feet, a clicking on and off sound happens every 5 seconds when the car is idling, and seems to be coming near the passenger side of the head near the spark plugs (to me near where the fan controller is (well i believe where it is). Now it doesnt make the clicking sound when it is driving ever. Nor does it make it while idling in vent or floor mode, but any other mode (AC modes and defrost) causes the clicking sound to occur. My theory is that those climate modes trigger the fan to come on, but since something is preventing the fan from turning on, it makes a clicking noise instead. Now I may be wrong. For all I know, the two problems are unrelated. Anybody know??

 

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the C4!

 

welcome to the forum!

 

Welcome to the forum

 

Welcome and congrats!

 

Welcome to the forum

 

Good news, update:
I got the radiator fan to start working properly. The culprit was low ATF. I topped it off with Dexron-II and while I was doing that, bam, it clicks on and has been working properly since. The transmission was about a quart short.

The AC blows cold, and now the clicking sound changed to an almost certain AC compressor cycling sound. It is only apparent while idling, and only happens when the manual climate control switch is on any position besides "OFF - Vent - OR Floor" Any settings in between, and the AC compressor makes a cycling noise.


I still have yet to siphon the dirty overflow coolant and get a cap.

 

Yesterday, took the vette from Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek (going through the pass, and lots of mountain driving), which is our closest gambling town. The vette drove great, and I averaged 21.5mpg impressively. I actually left the casino with $100 more in my pocket then I started with, which doesn't usually happen. So all in all it was a great day. We left around 5:15 pm, and right at the knick of time. The small flurries started to become heavy snow, and the drive back to divide was low visibility to say the least. But the vette handled fine, and luckily the roads were only wet and not snow or ice covered. That would be scary!

 

Welcome to the forum Tslice! Goodluck with your business endeavor and with your new Corvette