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Long time lurker, never did an intro. My 87 z51 is my first vette. Bought it in Sept 2020. The only thing it had going for it was it ran(kinda) and drove. It was $1500 so I couldn't pass it up. In the past 3 months I've done the following:
Heater Core - such fun. everyone should do this! Also required removing a mouse condo complex in the dash. small summer home, large winter home, even a cemetery!
All weatherstripping and seals. she'd been taking on water for a while. inner and outer side window seals too.
Gutted the interior. new sound proofing and carpet kit.
Fixed door panels. lot of plastic welding and fiberglass. I just couldn't afford new pieces here.
Fixed every broken tab for all dash and console pieces. nothing rattles now.
Replaced all dash and interior lights with blue LEDs they look cool and different
Updated the window regulators. the tape ones were soooooo slooooooow.
Replaced all outside badges - it needed shiny crossflags.
New MAF and both relays.
Rebuilt both headlight motors.
Alpine stereo with kicker speakers in the factory bose openings.
Thanks to everyone who posted and made stickies on the above stuff. You made my life easier. See - people do search the site too
Learned the hard way not to use corvettemods. Grrrrrr.
So now I've got close to 4500 in my 1500 vette. lol. but it was a fun learning experience so far.
2 weeks later. new tires, brakes, MAF, hood struts and weatherstripping.
Starting on the new motor. nothing wrong with the old one - I just want to build a new one. 10.5:1 balanced rotating assembly, TPIS ZZ9 cam.
Last edited by LokiFalkor; Dec 7, 2020 at 02:19 PM.
Welcome to the Forum, Dean, and congratulations on your C4!
I know what you mean about the heater core; imagine you did the same and pulled the front right wheel - really opened up the work area.
By the way, if you ever replace your master cylinder, just give up, pull the driver's seat out and you can do much of the work easier from the inside.
I like the look of the blue LEDs. Wish they had that when we had our C4s.
Thank you both. And now I suddenly shuddered thinking there was a better way to do the heater core.... Through the wheel well? I had to remove pretty much everything on the passenger side of the dash. did a lot of necessary cleaning and extermination in the process. the four nuts for the passenger knee bolster are so much fun to get to.
I guess I watched the wrong video. only thing on the engine side of the firewall was the two heater hoses.
Thank you both. And now I suddenly shuddered thinking there was a better way to do the heater core.... Through the wheel well? I had to remove pretty much everything on the passenger side of the dash. did a lot of necessary cleaning and extermination in the process. the four nuts for the passenger knee bolster are so much fun to get to.
I guess I watched the wrong video. only thing on the engine side of the firewall was the two heater hoses.
You are totally correct. My bad.
I was thinking of the blower motor. After 25-30years, or so, it sometimes gets a little blurry. Apologies for the confusion.
You are totally correct. My bad.
I was thinking of the blower motor. After 25-30years, or so, it sometimes gets a little blurry. Apologies for the confusion.
oh no problem. I'm going to do the heater motor next too. The bearing screeches when it starts cold. Needs a little lithium I think. I will definatly take out the wheel well, thanks.
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