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Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.
New guy from Lake Alfred
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Shadow
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Kap142
New member
Glad you're here
:welcome: They're not very many of us in Polk County. Glad to have you join us and like C5Rick said lets see some PICs.
:welcome:My wife and I are in Auburndale and another Vette lover Fred (Juke3w1) is in the Bartow area. Hollar and we'll get together and talk Vettes.:thumbsup:
:thumbsup:This place and these people are great.:thumbsup: I have had the pleasure of making an untold number of friends from this forum. We often try to gather for shows and always have a hoot, join us.:vette::vette::vette:
Ken
:welcome: They're not very many of us in Polk County. Glad to have you join us and like C5Rick said lets see some PICs.
:welcome:My wife and I are in Auburndale and another Vette lover Fred (Juke3w1) is in the Bartow area. Hollar and we'll get together and talk Vettes.:thumbsup:
:thumbsup:This place and these people are great.:thumbsup: I have had the pleasure of making an untold number of friends from this forum. We often try to gather for shows and always have a hoot, join us.:vette::vette::vette:
Ken
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floridaZ
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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I was originally going to post pictures in the original post, but I ran short on time so... :shrug01:
Let me put out the general story of my Vette and some pics...
The car is a base model that my father bought new in 1984. It was "for my mother", but we all know what that meant. :hehehe: So it was a daily driver for quite a while after my father sold his C3. So eventually, it got kind of run down, so my father didn't drive it much anymore. So since then, it has had a "restoration"... we replaced what was bad in the interior at the time, and painted the car in the garage. It's been through a few stages of being "built", none of which truly matter anymore since they have since ceased to exist. All thanks to the transmission. Sort of.
The transmission was all original, but was in good condition. My father took care of it, but it did slip some. So I was forced to rebuild it with custom gearing, a shift kit, etc. I swears! But there was a transmission shop called Scott Transmission. The owner seemed honest, and we wanted to keep the money as local as possible. So we had it rebuilt there.
As anyone with the Crossfire intake system knows, you have to remove the plastic cover/intake to take the transmission off. At which point there is nothing keeping... oh, let's say bolts... out of the engine. Well, my luck is shit, so sure enougth, 3 bolts made it into the engine. It is also worth mentioning that I left the keys to a built Corvette with the shop. And the owner just happened to be out of town one of the days that the car was at the shop. Leaving the Vette in the hands of unsupervised workers. I'm sure that you know where this is going.
Pull the engine, remove the bolts, the car's engine is fucked up. It will run just fine, but not under throttle that would emulate a Cobalt under full throttle. So now I have what, for me not wanting to risk running the engine hard, the equivalent of a 150hp Corvette. You may wonder why I would do something like this.
This is because the engine was bad already (it was tapping like a bitch as soon as we started, which is how I know that the engine was running before I picked it up). And the transmission leaked. That's right, the bitch was leaking. And it did after they "fixed" it. And the second and third "fix". So eventually I fixed the transmission myself.:toetap05:
Once the transmission was fixed, I had to fix the engine. So, I once again, was forced to action. I had to get a 383cu/in stroker kit with 11:1 CR pistons. Because Jesus told me to.
So with minor tweaks and adjustments and part swapping, I figure that it should be 400hp 500ft/lbs, although I have yet to dyno it. My neighbor has a dyno, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. But enougth of my drivel, on to the pictures!
The Vette is kind of a weekend car now. Which my father seems to drive alot more than I do. My daily is an 87 300ZX. Which, um... kind of doesn't look like that anymore. :nonod:
:wavey:
You went by the same name right? I remember you! I had wondered where you had ran off to.
Let me put out the general story of my Vette and some pics...
The car is a base model that my father bought new in 1984. It was "for my mother", but we all know what that meant. :hehehe: So it was a daily driver for quite a while after my father sold his C3. So eventually, it got kind of run down, so my father didn't drive it much anymore. So since then, it has had a "restoration"... we replaced what was bad in the interior at the time, and painted the car in the garage. It's been through a few stages of being "built", none of which truly matter anymore since they have since ceased to exist. All thanks to the transmission. Sort of.
The transmission was all original, but was in good condition. My father took care of it, but it did slip some. So I was forced to rebuild it with custom gearing, a shift kit, etc. I swears! But there was a transmission shop called Scott Transmission. The owner seemed honest, and we wanted to keep the money as local as possible. So we had it rebuilt there.
As anyone with the Crossfire intake system knows, you have to remove the plastic cover/intake to take the transmission off. At which point there is nothing keeping... oh, let's say bolts... out of the engine. Well, my luck is shit, so sure enougth, 3 bolts made it into the engine. It is also worth mentioning that I left the keys to a built Corvette with the shop. And the owner just happened to be out of town one of the days that the car was at the shop. Leaving the Vette in the hands of unsupervised workers. I'm sure that you know where this is going.
Pull the engine, remove the bolts, the car's engine is fucked up. It will run just fine, but not under throttle that would emulate a Cobalt under full throttle. So now I have what, for me not wanting to risk running the engine hard, the equivalent of a 150hp Corvette. You may wonder why I would do something like this.
This is because the engine was bad already (it was tapping like a bitch as soon as we started, which is how I know that the engine was running before I picked it up). And the transmission leaked. That's right, the bitch was leaking. And it did after they "fixed" it. And the second and third "fix". So eventually I fixed the transmission myself.:toetap05:
Once the transmission was fixed, I had to fix the engine. So, I once again, was forced to action. I had to get a 383cu/in stroker kit with 11:1 CR pistons. Because Jesus told me to.
So with minor tweaks and adjustments and part swapping, I figure that it should be 400hp 500ft/lbs, although I have yet to dyno it. My neighbor has a dyno, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. But enougth of my drivel, on to the pictures!
The Vette is kind of a weekend car now. Which my father seems to drive alot more than I do. My daily is an 87 300ZX. Which, um... kind of doesn't look like that anymore. :nonod:
:wavey:
Dick said:
You went by the same name right? I remember you! I had wondered where you had ran off to.
spiceman
New member
Welcome aboard Josh...............great having you
Fun Site, fun people, fun times,
You need anything at all plese don't be afraid to ask your wife for the advise you need.
Other than that, ask Rich Z and Shadow. They may have it wrong, but at least they'll answer any questions.
DON't forget your Pic's. Here with this club, We like pic's. The more pic's the better.
Spiceman:yesnod:
Fun Site, fun people, fun times,
You need anything at all plese don't be afraid to ask your wife for the advise you need.
Other than that, ask Rich Z and Shadow. They may have it wrong, but at least they'll answer any questions.
DON't forget your Pic's. Here with this club, We like pic's. The more pic's the better.
Spiceman:yesnod:
