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#ProjectSR76 Electrical Episode1.2 – Tach

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Everything should be this easy.

#ProjectSR76 Tach problem is solved.

Take a look:

 


Thanks for checking!!

Tim

#ProjectSR76 Electrical Episode 1 Intro and Tach

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Let me start with this:

I HATE ELECTRICAL WORK.  I really didn’t pay attention in Shop class (yes I’m that old) nor in 4H when we made lamps.   Plus I had a few mishaps during several attempts to repair things.  Once I was drilling a hole with an electric drill in a an aluminum door and hit a wire hidden by the previous home in the frame.  The drill bit exploded and I fell off the ladder and my drill fried.  Add that to a few fried wires,  radios and computer boards during failed attempts at soldering and you’ll get a well rounded picture of my electrical wheelhouse.  Oh, toss in the fact that I’m colored blind and well…you get it.

I’ve a bit better experience with cars, but not enough to be comfortable.

 

 



Thanks for checking.

Tim

 

#ProjectSR76 Got A Spare?

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We took a look at the spare tire on #ProjectSR76 and determined it might be on an original wheel but it was a 2003 or 1995 tire.   Of course that tire need to go but the damage on rim makes it useless.  So I’ve opted to go with out a spare, not unusual, as  Corvettes these days don’t come with them,  my C6 had no spare.

In this video I’m removing the bottom part of the clam shell.

 

 


 

 

Thanks for checking…oh…and yes the seat belt episode is coming up.

 

 

Tim

#ProjectSR76 – Stingray’s Spare Tire. Original?

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Welcome back!

Thanks for checking on #ProjectSR76.

Spurred on by the original moisture barrier discovery, I decided to pull the spare tire. Would it be original tire and rim?

 


 

More coming up on seat belts. 

Tim Sweet

SR=Stingray
76 -1976

#PROJECTSR76 Door Panels Can We Save Them

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Let me know if we can save #SR76’s door panels.

They don’t look as bad off as they did on – at least the passenger side.  The drivers side might be a different story.

 



 

I have completed the install/reconfiguration of the seat belts that is coming up and I discovered a leak near the cowl.

Thanks for checking in !!

Tim

SR=Stingray
76 -1976

 

 

#SR76 1976 Stingray – Out With the Air and In With the Gas – Shocks That Is.

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Just finished the rear shocks on the 76 Corvette (#ProjectSR76).  The Air-Max shock are gone.  There’s a couple tip in there so check it out!!

 


 

Thanks for checking!!

Tim

 

 

#SR76 Video To Do List Part 2

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The list for my 1976 Stingray #SR76 continues to grow.  That’s too be expected.  It’s a project and for the amount I paid, well let’s just say…it was a great deal!

Now, if you are squeamish you might want to have someone else watch this first.   There’s some good, some bad but there’s is a lot of ugly!!


ARE YOU OK AFTER THAT?

I think shocks are coming up next. See you then!!

Thanks for checking in!

TIM

SR=Stingray
76 -1976

#ProjectSR76 Is The Stingray Numbers Matching?

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Numbers matching means that a part (or parts) have a number that matches the VIN or a portion of the VIN. Often it only refers to the engine, in some cases other parts as well.

Watch a Barrett Jackson or Mecum Auction and many of these “Numbers Matching” cars bring higher prices. It is a unique attribute especially muscle and sports cars that were often modified over the years.  For example there were just over 46k 1976 Stingray produced and having the original engine adds it to a much smaller number. 

Since the L48 for #SR76 is the lower performance of the engine available in 1976, one might guess that they were replaced for more horse power over the years. 

For #SR76 my intentions are not to create a contours level restoration, so it really isn’t that much of benefit but would be cool to know.

So is the L48 original to #ProjectSR76?

See what you think.

 


Thanks for checking.

Tim

SR=Stingray
76 -1976

#ProjectSR76 L48 Engine Inspection

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Welcome back to Average Guy’s Restoration and Mods and Racing.

For this post we are going to give the L48 a once over.

Take a look:


When I mentioned the cam, just to be clear it was an upgraded cam according to the previous owner, however he didn’t put it in the guy he bought it from put the upgraded cam in.

More coming up including IS IT NUMBERS MATCH? and WHERE DO WE START?

Thanks for checking.

Tim

SR=Stingray
76 -1976

#ProjecySR76 – 1976 Stingray – This Just In – Car Parts 1

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Who doesn’t love coming home and finding new car parts waiting at the door???!!!   OK  probably my wife…but who else?

New Carpet (Black) New E-Hand Brake console.

The plan for the interior -at this moment is to replace all the ugly carpet (what’s left of it) with Black.

There is no carpet in the front. You see remnants of the underlayment and some surface rust in the front.

And this “no idea what color that is’ carpet in the back.

At this point the seat belts and the seats will be black (or maybe red — Thoughts?)

I don’t know what to do with the rest of the car that has this off-white (without the details from an invoice or window sticker, I have no idea what the carpet color options were in 1976) – I don’t think this is going to come clean enough to suit me.  I had luck painting some parts of my 1970 Mustang’s interior, I might consider that again.

I have already pulled off one of the kick panels, and I’ve scrubbed it pretty well. It did not clean up well. See —>

Maybe more elbow grease on the hard plastic but I don’t know about the fake leather.

Share your thoughts.

Tim