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Greetings, after putting the big white stripe on my 74 i have been pondering adding the Grand Sport red stripes to the fender. what do ya'll think?
also i really like watching the C5r's . the wing on the back just gets my attention. has anyone thought (or even admitted out loud) about putting a small wing on the rear deck?

Robin..a REAL Disney rocket scientist
 
I think the stipes would be cool, but as far as the wing gos...I think your bumper is doing a good job! :D But that's my opinion, take it for what its worth!

Chad - A real Ex-Disney College Program student/custodian
 
Thanks Chad, when are you coming down this way again?
 
Imachad said:
I think the stipes would be cool, but as far as the wing goes...I think your bumper is doing a good job! :D But that's my opinion, take it for what its worth!
:upthumbs agreed
 
Robin,

Your vette is looking very nice. I have always liked the mod of a 74 with the rear bumper of an 80-82. I even saw another in cali which had the 80 -82 front end.

Really tricked mod! :_rock
 
Robin,

The 80 rear end looks as good as you are going to get, but that is my thought.

I'm not sure about the fender strips; maybe Yes- maybe No just not sure. Your vette looks great now, the only thing I can think of would be to add front and rear fender flares with bigger tires and wheels.

Gary
 
robin74 said:
Greetings, after putting the big white stripe on my 74 i have been pondering adding the Grand Sport red stripes to the fender. what do ya'll think?
The Red 'fender-slashes' on the C4 Grand Sports look very "Euro" (to me, anyway), which may fit-in with the C4 'image'.....
but you have a C3, back when the Corvette was an American sports-car/muscle-car, when the attitude was "We don't care how the do it in..."
If you wanna add a little 'Red' for color, why-not step-out an 1/8" from the centered 'White' stripe, and add an 1/8" Red pinstripe on either side?
It'd still offer some additional color; maintain the 'Red, White, & Blue' theme;
maintain the era-correctness of your car (no 'fender-slashes' in the '70s); and be very unique...

Just my $.02 worth...
 
robin74 said:
Thanks Chad, when are you coming down this way again?

The next date planned is late June - the week before Bloomington Gold. But I believe I will be at our Condo in Indian Rocks Beach - just down from Clearwater. Who knows really! I might fly down for a weekend to stay at Disney for kicks by myself or w/friends. I'll let you know If i figure a plan out, i'd love to get back to Magic Kingdom to see my old pals from work. If it worked out i'd love to meet you!

Chad
 
Glen, i like your response. i didn't think about period correctness. maybe that's why most people think my wheels are cool for this car. i will post pictures of the paint work i did on the wheels. blacked out between the spokes.
GARY, yes i would really like to have wider fenders and bigger wheels. if money wasn't an issue i would have the full Greenwood fender package. and painted in a racing theme.

robin

chad. keep me in the loop for your travel plans....also can you pick me up a bloomington t-shirt?
 
robin74 said:
Glen, i like your response. i didn't think about period correctness. maybe that's why most people think my wheels are cool for this car. i will post pictures of the paint work i did on the wheels. blacked out between the spokes.
GARY, yes i would really like to have wider fenders and bigger wheels. if money wasn't an issue i would have the full Greenwood fender package. and painted in a racing theme.
I'd think you could slap-on a pair of Red pinstripes in '3M'-brand tape in a few hours, costing less than $10, just to se if you 'like' the idea until funds are better...
 
robin74 said:
chad. keep me in the loop for your travel plans....also can you pick me up a bloomington t-shirt?

Not a problem! Consider it done! Let me know if you have any other requests.

Chad :)
 
I for a Greenwood wing, but they don't make C3 stuff anymore

I have that same modification, and it must give a lot more downforce that the rounded original end. I do not think it is enough, however.

I tried to get most of the Greenwood kit from Greenwood, but they are not making anything for older than C4 anymore. I wanted everything except the main side effects, where sidepipes will eventually go.

Several of the big catalogs have some wings they offer that specifically work with the built in 80 style rear and they aren't monster blinger style ones you see on an otherwise bone stock ricer that couldn't hit 110 in a tornado. Ecklers, MAD, etc. offer these in their regular cataolgs and they look nice.

I do not know if these have been TESTED for aerodynamics in a wind tunnel like the Greenwood stuff was though.

The Greenwood people were nice to "talk" to, and apologized for not intending to make any more C3 kits. They told me the kits occasionally show up for sale or at a swap meet. Maybe if enough of us bugged them and did some sort of group buy or commitment they may change that - they certainly have the tooling still sitting around.

I occassionally meet a C3 freak with an 80 and a 600 cube mill in it. His has the same upwards tail as ours, but he said the rear end got so iffy over 160 he swapped to a damned solid rear non-IRS. Apparently the rear end wasn't lifting enough to lose control, but it was rising enough to allow the IRS rig to camber the wheels in at the bottom.

I was horrified at that - to me the IRS is what MAKES it a vette!

I noticed something else though. I assume yours, like mine, has the rear deck vents that were part of the astroair system in soild top cars before a certain year. My friends does not.

Whether those vents are functioning the way they were designed to or not they DO provide an enormous vent from the bottom of the vehicle to releive much built up pressure that is missed by front and side air dams. When I had mine off to be chromed I put some strings on pieces of tape down in the holes. I had a bud riding and I took it up to 120 or so and was amazed to hear the strings came straight up and bent into an "L" about 2-3 inches off the deck! The force of air coming from under the car was so much it ripped some of the strings OUT of the little strips of duct tape! My bud said the air right over the vent surfaces was so strongly moving up it was like an air hose.

I still want a small wing back there, but I would like to have one that had been actually tested in a tunnel - and NOT some horrible rivetted aluminum monster that looks like it came off of a metallica-world sopwith camel on acid!

Those monster wings also can rob a LOT of effective hp from the added drag if they aren't designed right.
 

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