Recent content by Thore826

First off, passed inspection yesterday and took her out on the highway and a bit in town. Some hesitation, but it seemed that if I gave a quick hit of gas and then put the petal down it would go (almost sounds like double-clutching when you do it). ANYWAY, I got home today and put the new...

Ok Rod, now you're just showing off :L A local speed shop had the stock-style non-adjustable vac advance in stock (took 10 mins to find it) and right as I got home we got a t-storm. Tomorrow she's going in for inspection before work and when I get home hopefully I'll have time to swap in the...

Last week I had emailed Eckler's asking about their Vacuum Advances as well as their new/mod/upgrade what-have-you distributor/rotors. I hadn't gotten an email back and wrote it off as they didn't care or didn't get it, but today I got a response: To check the vacuum advance on the car, with the...

The second I find what it is I'll be on here. I've had work all week so hopefully come this weekend I'll have time, but I'm hoping to fool around with that vacuum advance tonight. I've also found the parts at Ecklers but I'm waiting on an email from them before I order. Thanks for all the help!

Thanks Rod, I read over that article and its convinced me that a refurb isn't the way to go; I think there's a shop a few towns over that specializes in rebuilding Carbs I may give a call. The Mechanical Advance you were talking about. Is that the Vacuum Advance on/below the distributor? There's...

Don't worry I'm keeping at it! Just came in from the garage. Doesn't seem to be a base leak, and I checked all the hoses going into the carb that I disconnected when I pulled it off. The only hose I have any concern with is a small, probably 2-3" piece that goes from what appears to be part of...

The cap and plugs were done w/ wires about 3 years ago, but since it was being stored/restored only saw about 1k miles put on them. The wires actually were replaced about a year or two ago; I found out the hard way that my new headers get pretty hot. I think that leaves the rotor. The only thing...

Hey everyone. I did a search of the threads and didn't find too much to help, figured I'd ask. Sorry, once again, for the essay but I figured if you wanted to help I'd try to give you all the info I could. I was driving home a few weeks ago, 12 miles to and from work. On the way back about a...

You know, I wanted to, but its gonna be a hassle. I'm going to have to keep it in the garage during the process, since I'm going to have to swap out pretty much every electrical component one by one. If the electrical system I have DOES work, and I'm able to get the car running, I'm afraid of...

So, a couple years back I found a flood-damaged '96 coupe on Craigslist for a reasonable price; it was flood damaged and the owner had a donor electrical system but did not want to go through the hassle of the repair. My father purchased it, and since that day it has sat in the driveway, except...

John, looking at that pic, that's the area on the C3 hood where a grill is located, with the intake right inside there. It appears to be a direct line to the air cleaner assembly with the "snorkels", hich I'm sure these cars don't have. Would these "cowl induction" hoods on the C3's be more...

I'm glad you checked out the airflow of that thing, I hate taking the "it's there for a reason" approach. I'm definitely gonna check out the way the later c3's have their intakes set up

so this leaves me with three questions... 1) would it be an advantage or disadvantage to leave the flap/door open (if the solenoid isn't opening it), seeing as there is a screen to keep medium/large debris out... I did hear something about water pulled in during rain 2) i heard the later c3's...

Thanks, I looked up cowl induction online and have a better understanding of it. Now I gotta see if it works, although I can't find any of the parts for it on Ecklers or Corvette Central so guess whatever condition its in is how its staying

here's a pic