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Old 01-20-2021, 11:50 PM
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Wow, good videos, Tim.
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Old 01-25-2021, 04:45 PM
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I've been cranking away in the shop in the last few days........

One would think the retired parts gut could order the right u joints for the half shafts.........guess not. They turned out nice after the soak in Evaporust.


Heater box is rebuilt....



Strung the rear wiring harness and installed the new fuel tank....



Pulled the pedal carrier to rebuild that....


Packaged up the trans to ship it to Crash....


Body build number written under the old firewall insulation.....


I rest easier every time I install new wiring harness's. This thing was so brittle!
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The machine shop is wasting no time. The block only required a hone (at .030 still), the crank only required polishing. I went with new rods and pistons that will get me in the 10.5:1 neighborhood for compression. We will see once the heads are done as to exactly where compression lands. Certainly, pump gas friendly with the fuel injection.




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In between working on a couple of new cars I got in, I managed to start rewiring the front of the car and clean the headlight buckets. I do not know how these T3's are dated......can these be original?









Gauges have been checked, cleaned, and reassembled into the cluster



The firewall insulation and rebuilt heater box have been installed....

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Be careful cleaning the T3s. Avoid any kind of cleaner near or on the stamps. It'll come off. I'd just lightly brush the dust/dirt with a nice clean soft brush.
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In less than a month.....the long block is complete. On to the dyno next week!



I got my booster back from Mike Gibbons just in time. Great service......thanks Mike!



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I've been working on the 64 a little bit, not much as I've been working on a couple of other cars I have in my shop (67 L79 Corvette and a 68 Z28).

I spoke to the engine builder today. He dyno'd the motor with a carb and intake (Victor Jr. and a 750 Holley) 407hp @5500 and still climbing. His dyno historically is rather stingy. I'll be curious to see most importantly what the torque curve is. He made a point which I agree with, no sense spinning the daylights out of it and tuning anything until the F.I. unit and appropriate distributor (along with manifolds and exhaust) are on it. In order to manage time and a schedule, I am not going to spend the dyno time with the F.I. unit. My plan was to install an LT-1 cam in this as I have previously. Well.........no one is really making the LT-1 cams anymore aside from Howard's (which was at least a 5 week lead time). Yeah, you can find NOS cams around.........for about 500 bucks give or take. So, we found a cam that is very similar. Perhaps a bit more advantageous given where the valve timing is.

A friend of mine is picking everything up for me week after next and is bringing it up to me (as the engine builder is 4 hours away)

The fuel injection unit should be done soon. Once it is, that will go on a mule car he has. He'll chassis dyno the mule and then road test it before shipping it back to me.

Crash has the tranny. Once I get that back from Eric, I can start to screw it all together.

I'll have to fit it in at my shop, as the work is starting to fire back up again. I have to get going on the 68 Z28 so I can get that up for sale, and the 67 Corvette has some detailing for the Bloomington Gold Benchmark judging.

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Hard to read, but I think this may work pretty well.


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