Howdy, Gents!
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Joined: Jun 2014
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From: Texas
Howdy, Gents!
Just signed up as I'm finally updating the 'Vette instead of just driving and repairing it.
My love for 'Vettes starts early on. Before I was born, dad had a Fuelie '65 as his daily driver.
When I was a toddler, pops bought a '61 out in CA and drove it back to NY. It had a Z/28 302 in it, and he built it up for drag racing (though still street legal). Won a class trophy with it at Dover.
In the late '70's I helped him pick out a '65, and that's the one I've had for the past 12 or so years.
It has an L-79 327, 4-speed, Hurst shifter, radiused rear wheel openings, Cragars, and a '67 big block hood.
The interior was left stock (save for the shifter).
Pop's current FGC (Fine Glass Car) is an '07 Z/06.
I already tapped some knowledge before I joined, and am looking forward to learning more from people that have hands-on experience and are wise to the various nuances of midyear 'Vettes.
My love for 'Vettes starts early on. Before I was born, dad had a Fuelie '65 as his daily driver.
When I was a toddler, pops bought a '61 out in CA and drove it back to NY. It had a Z/28 302 in it, and he built it up for drag racing (though still street legal). Won a class trophy with it at Dover.
In the late '70's I helped him pick out a '65, and that's the one I've had for the past 12 or so years.
It has an L-79 327, 4-speed, Hurst shifter, radiused rear wheel openings, Cragars, and a '67 big block hood.
The interior was left stock (save for the shifter).
Pop's current FGC (Fine Glass Car) is an '07 Z/06.
I already tapped some knowledge before I joined, and am looking forward to learning more from people that have hands-on experience and are wise to the various nuances of midyear 'Vettes.
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Intermediate
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 30
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From: Texas
Here's a fairly recent pic, before I pulled the hood off and the temporary engine out ( I think).
I didn't realize the whole "reduced zinc in the oil" trick. Car had a solid lifter cam in it (don't know what type or anything) and I couldn't get the valve lash set on one exhaust valve. Pops stopped by while on a walk and said, "You know, that rocker isn't moving."
Turns out the lobe was gone. So since I was driving it every day, the temporary engine, a 1970 LT-1 350 dad bought in a crate in 1970, went in.
I didn't realize the whole "reduced zinc in the oil" trick. Car had a solid lifter cam in it (don't know what type or anything) and I couldn't get the valve lash set on one exhaust valve. Pops stopped by while on a walk and said, "You know, that rocker isn't moving."
Turns out the lobe was gone. So since I was driving it every day, the temporary engine, a 1970 LT-1 350 dad bought in a crate in 1970, went in.
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