What did you do with your Vette today?

C5Steve

CCCUK Member
Mega Wheels! Are we allowed to ask what make/brand they are and the sizes of the wheels/tyres? The look like the HRE FlowForms, but suspect they are not? Certainly fill out the wheel arches/Looks great! (y)

Forgestar F14, 18x9.5 up front and 19x11 at the rear.
 

Jimbo64

CCCUK Member
Direction of parking seems odd, should be other way around, no? :)
For a left hooker true, but I drove down from the left (my garage is up and around back of my house, accessed from a rear lane) so ease of parking and not a busy street, so happy to take a risk and open door into "flow of traffic." Daredevil Jim!
 

kentvette

CCCUK Member
Perhaps a bit early, but we won't be using the car in the meantime, so I took it out this afternoon to re-fuel and then gave it a spruce up, ready for next weeks Corvette Club France weekend in Normandy. Neither car nor garage are up to Norm's standards. but the old girl dosn't scrub up too badly!

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Nick B

CCCUK Member
Perhaps a bit early, but we won't be using the car in the meantime, so I took it out this afternoon to re-fuel and then gave it a spruce up, ready for next weeks Corvette Club France weekend in Normandy. Neither car nor garage are up to Norm's standards. but the old girl dosn't scrub up too badly!

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Looks sweet to me, and in the best colour as well!
 
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Norm

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Looks great Stephen (y), and by the way, I have no standards, whatever works for the individual is the standard.:cool:
 

Jimbo64

CCCUK Member
Fingers crossed, that's the timing/carb set up as they should be. Further proof will be tonight when I take her to my darts match. Nice little 30 mile round trip, with majority on 70mph dual-carriageway. Hopefully will remember to take a photo or two!
 

Jimbo64

CCCUK Member
Fingers crossed, that's the timing/carb set up as they should be. Further proof will be tonight when I take her to my darts match. Nice little 30 mile round trip, with majority on 70mph dual-carriageway. Hopefully will remember to take a photo or two!
Kori behaved impeccably and must be a good omen taking her tonight, as darts team were triumphant. I even won both the doubles and singles I played. Shame season soon finished.
 

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kentvette

CCCUK Member
Kori behaved impeccably and must be a good omen taking her tonight, as darts team were triumphant. I even won both the doubles and singles I played. Shame season soon finished.
Well, all I can say is, you're a braver man than I, leaving it parked in the street, in the dark, presumably outside a pub? We never left ours unattended in the street in the UK, in 15 years.:eek:
 

Jimbo64

CCCUK Member
Well, all I can say is, you're a braver man than I, leaving it parked in the street, in the dark, presumably outside a pub? We never left ours unattended in the street in the UK, in 15 years.:eek:
Market Square in the middle of sleepy town Stonehaven! Well lit and across the road from the British Legion where I play for. All the smokers kept coming back inside and telling me of the amount of people looking at her and taking pictures.
 

Jimbo64

CCCUK Member
Noticed temp gauge was a bit jumpy yesterday, so today took connection off at engine(between cylinders 1&3) and sure enough, another wire which was ready to part company with spade connector! Suffice to say, new section of wire exposed and new connector fitted (with decent waterproof sheath) and gauge working much better now. Wish I could find the fault with the fuel gauge, as its reading very low again!😂
 
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Norm

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Every Thursday we do something, for those club members retired and have the time. It's either meet for breakfast at a place, or an organized run to a breakfast joint, or an organized run to a lunch stop, or a Wax & Chat at my place. This week, an hour long lunch run to Galena, MD, in DelMarVa's Eastern Upper Shore. Good run, great weather, really good food.

A few pics from today's run, meet up spot in Felton, DE. The rest at the eatery.

Gotta clean them tips.........

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antijam

CCCUK Member
Been aware of a blowing exhaust ever since recently acquiring my '71 C3, so got underneath today to try to source the leak......

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Turned out to be simple to find the leak(s) since they were present at every pipe joint in the system!

Particularly interesting was the fitters adventurous use of cardboard as a substitute for the correct gasket at the pipe joint to the header.......o_O(n)

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Seems I shall have to strip and reassemble the entire system .....:(

While underneath I checked for the source of the oily drips on the garage floor. The power steering turned out to be a very obvious culprit.....

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Hard to tell the exact source of the leak but it's likely to be the valve, the ram probably being contaminated by leakage from the valve. Either way, a stripdown and overhaul of the valve, ram, and pipework seems wise.

Looks as if I'll have plenty to keep me occupied for a while!
 

PAZ9556

CCCUK Member
Been aware of a blowing exhaust ever since recently acquiring my '71 C3, so got underneath today to try to source the leak......

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Turned out to be simple to find the leak(s) since they were present at every pipe joint in the system!

Particularly interesting was the fitters adventurous use of cardboard as a substitute for the correct gasket at the pipe joint to the header.......o_O(n)

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Seems I shall have to strip and reassemble the entire system .....:(

While underneath I checked for the source of the oily drips on the garage floor. The power steering turned out to be a very obvious culprit.....

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Hard to tell the exact source of the leak but it's likely to be the valve, the ram probably being contaminated by leakage from the valve. Either way, a stripdown and overhaul of the valve, ram, and pipework seems wise.

Looks as if I'll have plenty to keep me occupied for a while!
Never a dull moment with these old girls,thought my ram was leaking but seems to have stopped
 
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