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  1. madvette74

    getting ready to install motor

    I have a 385 stroker, with centerforce duel friction clutch, and pressure plate.. now I had this motor in before using the stock fork.. and it was a little difficult adjust the clutch, the nut for adjustment was at the bottom of the rod... now that I am replacing the motor, wich clutch fork...
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    Ouch ! I scraped a tree !! How bad is this ??

    that looks exactly like mine when I hit the garage door.. what I did was grind the middle if the tear so it could be pushed back into position then wedged at 2x4 against it and a pole. used fiberglass with epoxy on the inner side amd the outer side I used fiberglass filler. 8 years later no...
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    stroker parts

    these parts(except gear drives) have a hair over 1800 miles.. these are .40 overbore stroker Silvolite hypertectic pistons part #H3426-040, the rings are sealed power piston rings Part# E-251x40 and gm rods(receipt says som stage one rods) theses are 5.75 rods that came out of my stroker motor...
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    MSD 6 and accell 8.5 wires

    this came out of my 74, it comes with accell 8.5 wires and wire holders.. one wire has a burn near the boot, I can send more pictures in detail if needed, I have the plug that attatches to the msd distributer.. make me an reasonable offer.... and add 14.00 for shipping...
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    fuel in oil

    yea it's definetly gas. all you can smell is a very strong odor from the oil and the oil filter, many times did I seen my secondaries just unload all it's fuel from it's bowl.. just wasn't using my brains on changing the oil, I tried playing with the float adjustment.... there is no fluid loss...
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    fuel in oil

    my secondaries were dumping fuel, when the engine was shut off, my car started to sputter and backfire, I changed the oil that was very milky, I let in run for about a min or two, cheanged the oil again,, did the same thing, changed it one more time let it run for about 5 min, the backfiring...
  7. madvette74

    pinion leak

    thanks guys... I got an air gun.. so after this snow we just got melts, I am going to get into it..
  8. madvette74

    pinion leak

    I my car use to leak very little oil from the rear end, I had it rebuilt many years ago. last year I didn't drive it at all.. now I am getting it ready for spring, and moved the car out of the garage and noticed the rear end is big time leaking now, just moving it 15 ft made a puddle.. I see the...
  9. madvette74

    Engine runs rough...

    I thought by driving a car without a kickdown linkage hooked up, you could do damage to the trans..
  10. madvette74

    updated front bumper

    looks like you have the same front spoiler as me. I changed my front bumper to a 82. there are tabs on the bumper inside that the grills mount to... if not you'll probaly have to fabricate ones.. when I installed a 96 rear bumper on mine, I had to fab brackets so the 96 lights would fit..
  11. madvette74

    coil wires

    all I did was swap from an accell coil to a msd, I have and hei ignition.. on the accell there was no markings for pos or neg.. but if I had it wrong wouldn't the car not start?????
  12. madvette74

    coil wires

    got it up and running with the red to the pos and the 2 green wires to the neg.. I get jiuce for just a moment out of the red wire when I first turn the key
  13. madvette74

    coil wires

    I have a green wire and red wire, just want to make sure if it's the red one that goes to the pos side of the coil, and green goe's to the neg. is this correct?
  14. madvette74

    Holley carb flows too much fuel

    I should add, that my vacume gauge dropped from 12-14 to 10-12. I noticed that when you click the clip it says servy over loaded, you may have to click the clip several times to get connected..
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    Holley carb flows too much fuel

    in the video of that race with my sons, that was the first time, I started having fuel problems. no fuel to secondaries. you see in the video it starts to spin, the car bogs down. and I just feather the gas to keep it from stalling..
  16. madvette74

    1974 Valve covers

    I sold my L-82 covers several years ago, they were finned with a corvette logo on one side, I think it only had 1 grommet.. do you have a pic?
  17. madvette74

    Holley carb flows too much fuel

    try and visit the site I uploaded video, you may have to install a player. http://http://www.zippyvideos.com/search.z
  18. madvette74

    Holley carb flows too much fuel

    like I said, the car use to start right up, idle fine, no hesitation, ran excellent, absoluley no complaints on startup, I doubt most cars would start up with ease as mine did, without having the choke. so I know the choke made no difference, at least in my application..
  19. madvette74

    Holley carb flows too much fuel

    I dont know off hand, last time anything has been touched was probaly 3 years ago, the distributer I bought new on 90. no vacume advance, didn't know anything about them when I bought it, summit didn't fill me in, on the difference, it has gear drives, so there is no chain stretch.. previously...
  20. madvette74

    Holley carb flows too much fuel

    ok, here is a few video's I made. the first and 4th video tells the most.. I have an an msd adjustable advance, when starting the car I will advance it 4 degrees, once running I would normally put it back to it's original setting.. as you can see I am having trouble gettin it started, in video 4...
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