C3 Corvette quick project....well was

[C Faffer]

I thought i would pop in to show my Vette i got about 5 months ago. And wonder of there are more folk in Manchester with a C3. Seems quite on here for these cars.
I jacked in with boats as got fed up of them and found this by chance. I always wanted one and when the chap messaged me about this Vette i couldnt say no. Although ti was in Redruth and i am in Manchester.

It only needed the heads replacing..............yes i got carried away.











As it was a meant to be a quick project it ended up a bit more as when i was refitting the heads a head bolt had stripped the head so as it was in a place where access was to small the engine had to come out.
I could of lifted it half out and done it but why do that.

And so there it starts.





And this led to so ,much more i put this up to work in. Cant be doing these project not under cover.



Ill add more later.

Any more Vette Heads local ?

Edited by C Faffer on Tuesday 3rd December 16:03

[UTH]

Good to see someone posting something new, been months since anything!

[C Faffer]

UTH said:

Good to see someone posting something new, been months since anything!

Is this a dying thing then here.

Ill try to add as i can. mite perk the place up a bit.


So engine out. and easy fix to helicoil it.

well frist had to geta few new gadgets, i need to make life easier now i am getting owd haha



couple of comepressors for the blast cabinet




I joined them together for a bit more capacity. cant be doing woith a smaller compressor kicking in in a tew minutes and n then not stopping.




so engine out and helicoil at hand.




Cheap these kits now. i think about £25 for an Imperial set, all i have is metric and as we know the yanks love Imperial, as i do aswell really. Alhtough thsi ear they used both on cars and things.




I drilled out the stripped thread, for what it is worth then fitted the helicoil.









Easy as that really. and a better/stronger fit that the original threaded hole.


This may shock/scare even puzzle some folk.

I made these lifts to make life easier. some folk dont get why i need so high, well if you work under cars a lot then you will understand if you have bad knees and well kanckered body haha

[UTH]

Since I've owned my C7 this area of PH hasn't really been a thriving section of the site.
There is https://www.corvetteclub.org.uk/ but TBH the forum section there is fairly slow, as well, although maybe I'm just comparing that with some of the sub forums on here, which obviously have thousands of posts per day.

If I've ever had questions I need a quick answer to, I've headed to https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/