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It won't hurt your engine's internal parts, but... I'm pretty sure you would damage the wiring to the starter solenoid. You might also overheat your battery unless the heat shield is in place. The exhaust installer is probably going to make up your new pipes in a bender according to a...

You risk popping a front fender lip if you run a 215-70 AND turn the wheels hard while hitting a big bump. Unfortunately, I have known this for sure since one bad night in 1989. I would definitely stick with the 205-75 size on the street unless I was going to circle track race my midyear (with...

The high strength pressure plate bolts are shouldered for a reason. The shouldered portion fits the hole in the pressure plate more snugly than a fully threaded bolt. This makes the pressure plate center itself when you bolt it down. If you use fully threaded bolts, the pressure plate can be...

The six special bolts that hold the pressure plate to the flywheel are shouldered. It is possible for them to bottom before the pressure plate is fully tightened down if the flywheel has been surfaced too much. You can test for this problem by installing the clutch on the flywheel outside of the...

Yep, it's odd. But I don't think it's necessarily a scam. It sounds more like a used-up Corvette being sold by a couple of idiots. Both of them are afraid the boogerman will crawl out of the computer screen to get their hoopty. The $26,000 price isn't unusually low for a '62 that has been...

Aluminum "re-skinning" I have used Fred Hudson in Oklahoma City for the last few years to clean my aluminum and zinc castings. He's done many FI adapter manifolds and plenums for me. He has a large vibratory tank full of ceramic beads and water. This is not a tumbler. A brief time in this tank...

The threaded nipple is cast as part of a separate choke housing. It is not part of the carb main body. A manual choke 1850 has very few choke parts that you can re-use with a hot air choke system. You can salvage the choke butterfly plate, shaft, and linkage, but that's about it. In your shoes...

No, but... The primary butterfly shaft in factory manual choke Holley 4-barrels is a different length from those in Holleys that are factory equipped with a hot air choke like the 2818. However, you can buy a Holley electric choke conversion kit for a manual choke 1850 and then convert the...

Yes, if you budget about $5,000 for initial repairs and preventative maintenance work after you get the car. Most old Corvettes are only driven a few miles each year by owners who don't really even test their reliability. Almost all Corvettes for sale need some work to become fully trustworthy.

Good descriptions = fair prices I think eBay items usually sell for about as much as they would bring at a swap meet if they're described accurately. The biggest benefit to me is the ability to sell my parts any time of year without having to lug them all over the country. Those...

This is a bad idea I'm very surprised there are buyers willing to bid thousands for this car. It's not the BS description or the condition that makes me say that, it's the potential for a title disaster. This '62 had a VIN at one time. The tag may be gone from the column now, but that doesn't...

Where did you find that photo? It looks like a friend's car. He died in a northern California wreck while driving his '57 one night about 10 years ago.

Canadian '67 body A man named Kevin in northern Ontario is offering a '67 Corvette coupe body for sale on the Corvette Forum parts bulletin board. I'd sure like to forward his e-mails to one of you in Canada. I have many questions about driving across the U.S. border to buy a Corvette body...

Plan 9 from Outer Space I drift between two plans: 1) putting another GM body tub on this chassis, and 2) installing a one-piece Grand Sport replica body like a D&D. The cost is about the same. Both are a whole lot of work. Economically, neither make much sense. I faced a similar problem...

Mac, I wish that was true. All the pieces aren't available, and replacing them one by one is like rebuilding a bird's nest stick by stick. It just doesn't come out the same. A sixteenth here and a fraction there and your door and windshield fit are crap. I've done enough birdcage welding on...

I am puzzled. I have a '63 coupe with a nice original chassis but a thoroughly rotten birdcage. The body looks about like that one on eBay, but with seats and without window trim and gauges. It's a Texas car with a clear title. I posted an ad to sell these remains for $6,500 on a Corvette...

It's still out there The original owner kept the car but repainted it again in the seventies(?). One magazine had an article featuring it just a few years ago. I believe the owner had died, but his family still had the car. I don't remember the details now, but I think it had been...

The above posts about procrastinators are far too kind. THEY ARE CRAZY! I can't stand to even talk to them anymore. I won't beg those lunatic owners to act. Life is too short to mess with such nuts, and there are still plenty of other cars out there to be restored.

According to the stamped suffix code, "D", that block came out of a Chevrolet passenger car rather than a Corvette. Block casting numbers were not unique to Corvettes.

Why not try it?