Pictures of the 1987 Callaway

[MagicDragon]

I don't think its to bad of a deal as long as you have lots of patience and the will to reassemble. Putting the Callaway back to driving condition with a L-98 engine and stock hood sounds like a great idea. You can enjoy the car while you get all the Callaway specific parts together. Parts are cheap and easy to find for the base Vette! You can find whole wire harness's, hood and other related parts in a local junk yard. I think if you pay anything under 5K you'd be doing ok. Just be persistant about getting ALL the Callaway parts together before you make an offer. Make sure you have the exhaust manifolds, Y pipe, discharge tubes to the intercoolers, intercoolers, turbo's.......... these are some of the most expensive replacement parts for the engine. Keep us posted!!!!! CU

 

[Glutamine83]

well, as far as clean up and assembly are concerned, I have all winter on weekends to do it, i have access to every tool, a heated garage, any kind of paint/sandblasting equipment, and local mechanical gurus.......

it could be a fun car regardless of the fact that it is a turbo or not........

i just didn't want to pass this car up too soon

 

[Glutamine83]

would you sell a 1979 350hp C3 corvette for a C4 project/

 

[MagicDragon]

For a CALLAWAY C-4 project....In a NY minute. Did I mention that Chevrolet sold approx. 500 B2K optioned Corvettes between '87 and '91? BTW check the underside of the console lid for the B2K option code.

 

[Glutamine83]

alrighty, i'll do it if I can negotiate properly

 

[*89x2*]

You can buy a really nice twin turbo for around $25K that hasn't been apart. If you get that one for say $5k I'm guessing it's going to be at least $20K to make it right. So you might break even if you don't mind having a car with a bit of a strange history.

Kevin - that is very interesting you say $20k - a couple of us were tossing theoretical prices around and that is exactly what we said - car is worth between 3-5k and another 20k (+) to put it back to driveable. ...then there is the history

I wonder how the metallic parts (frame / chassis) held up under flame??

 

[Glutamine83]

ok, so I think I'll take a new approach to the Callaway deal

if I can get the car for less than 4500, then I will buy it, get a hood, a l-98 engine and use the car as a driver until I can diagnose and remedy the turbo situation

this way, i will retain the car/engine/turbo, i will own a RPO B2K, and will be able to sell it to someone interested in a project car if need be

would this be a better approach to the situation seeing as I'm a starving university student (kraft dinner, thank you) who would like to eventually drive a nice callaway

also, it's late, i'm still at the office, and half dillusional.......

 

[90Callaway]

That sounds like a solid plan if you can pick up a decent stock L98 motor for cheap and all the correct Callaway parts come with the car. That way you can enjoy the car now and put it back to correct when funds permit. That's actually what I had wanted to do with another Callaway (known as the "Registry Car") but that one seems to have slipped away to the Callaway TT grave yard.

I'd like nothing better than to see you bring this car back from the edge of destruction. I'm sure at least a couple of hundred of the original 500 or so have already been lost forever.

 

[Crosschkm]

Glutamine83

WoW thats a big choice. I also would love to see the car come back from the grave. However you could be looking at 10 grand (4500 for the car and whatever for the L98, hood, harness, ECM if you keep one, new injectors, labor, ect...) alone if you are going to run the car with out the TT setup.

I'm sure you can do it, but think about this. Surf has a great car and if it is still for sale you could put your 5 down finance the rest. I can assure you it will cost you alot less and you can drive it now. Our B2Ks are all projects to an extent we are always tuning and polishing but better yet driving .

Good luck with your choice, and may the force be with you.

Cross

 

[HoldHard]

Crosschkm has a good point. Getting the questionalble car for even $4500 and then finding out that it's got some other serious and expensive problems could put it in the grave.

It just seems strange to me that the owner didn't do something with the car, seeing how rare they are and what they are worth. Call me suspicious, but with your temporarily restricted income, maybe Surf's car would be a better investment and possibly less headaches.

That is unless you are into headaches......

Good luck with your decision.

HoldHard

 

[Glutamine83]

you say that surf's car is for sale, where can I view it? and what year is it?

 

[SurfnSun]

Yes, my car is for sale. Its an 88 b2k with 36k miles. Very near mint (only a couple of cosmetic flaws), its much too nice to call a driver. It is getting tuned at Mike Norris Motorsports. It was running lean in the middle of the rpm range and still made 382rwhp/490rwtq. This will be a 400+rwhp car when done...the kicker is, its a stock car. It has the second design wonderbar and no cats...Thats it!

I can post pics here but some are huge. Maybe I'll start a new thread or I can email them to you. Let me know.

 

[Glutamine83]

email some pics to stevie.maksymyk@mts.ca

i don't know if I can afford something like that though

 

[*89x2*]

you say that surf's car is for sale, where can I view it? and what year is it?

 

[phrogs]

could you send me all the pictures you have of this car
I am interested to see what the big pictures look like.

I dont think the fire got to hot to damage alot

yes the wiring is toast but the paint is still on that motor and the fire wall isnt burned through it was caught before it got too bad..



The 87 is a easy fix!

It is the callaway specific parts that will dictate the cost!
if it didnt look like this then It wasnt a bad fire and the engine in this car is still usable.

johnny

 

[phrogs]

Or this one look at the plenum it is still there but it has a hole in it,
and this fire was unforgiving.

 

[*89x2*]

Or this one look at the plenum it is still there but it has a hole in it,
and this fire was unforgiving.

You're not saying that that one above was salvageable:confused

Did you rebuild them or are those from wreckedvettes.com??

 

[phrogs]

NO NO NO that one is not salvagble by any means, I was refering to the motor. even in a fire this severe the motor is mostly intact.

Those 2 pictures show what a nasty fire will do to a vette, The one the callaway suffered was not that bad so it is defently a good canidate for reserection..

and I got these pictures off of a nation wide auto auction site these cars are up for auction..

 

[*89x2*]

Anyone know if this one came back fromthe dead???

...Winter project time

 

[phrogs]

Not that I know of I tried to contact the guy who posted about 5 different times, no word on it last time I talked to him he was going to check it out for me but nothing yet??