What’d you buy?

[JohnC]

Odds and ends for the 67. Under hood insulation, trunk seal, cowl seal, inner fender to A arm seals, seals for taillight buckets, convertible visor supports, etc Cost way more than it should but oh well.

 

[Richard150MPH]

3 PSI fuel pump to feed the dual Dellorto's on the Ford 1600 going into the Morris Minor.
Hoping they will work OK for now without being rebuilt.
Same fuel pump will go on the car later.

 

[Shovelrick]

3 PSI fuel pump to feed the dual Dellorto's on the Ford 1600 going into the Morris Minor.
Hoping they will work OK for now without being rebuilt.
Same fuel pump will go on the car later.

Dellorto is a carb name I haven't heard in many years, I had 1 for a 80" Pan/Shovelhead in the 80's but don't remember much about it other than being a side draft gravity fed, met a guy 15 or so yrs ago had 2 on a 120+" Harley but also side drafts

 

[1971Chevelle]

Well, it looks like I got triggered today:

 

[kmakar]

Interesting. Never saw a hollowed out trigger before.

 

[1971Chevelle]

Interesting. Never saw a hollowed out trigger before.

I have several of these triggers and they are excellent. I did install a Hiperfire Hipertouch Reflex in one rifle (haven't shot with it yet), and a Fostech Echo Sport binary trigger in another rifle (also haven't shot with it yet). The binary trigger will help you chew through ammunition at an alarming rate.

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[1971Chevelle]

These came today:

 

[Shovelrick]

Going back to Chrome side mirrors, I don’t think these will flop since they have a screw to tighten mirror

 

[JohnC]

Mines been in a box for 10+ years but I seem to remember mine being a bit floppy. I guess there’s no way to tighten that up for most mirrors?

 

[Nashville Cat]

Mines been in a box for 10+ years but I seem to remember mine being a bit floppy. I guess there’s no way to tighten that up for most mirrors?

There's a video somewhere about how to fix that ! Looking.....

 

[JohnC]

Thanks! That’ll save me some money. I was prepared to have to get another mirror for 50 some bucks.
I’ve also seen people suggest red lock tight or clear nail polish on the ball but the punch trick sounds better.

 

[Shovelrick]

Thanks! That’ll save me some money. I was prepared to have to get another mirror for 50 some bucks.
I’ve also seen people suggest red lock tight or clear nail polish on the ball but the punch trick sounds better.

I did the spring loaded nail set, mine didn’t flop for a little while then back to flopping, these new $107 mirror set has a screw in the back to tighten it

 

[cheveslakr]

Just bought this head, the mate to another I picked up a couple years back. Date matching my jan built '66 vette has been tough. Most of these rec. port heads have sunken seats, no mag certs. or massive porting.....or well over $2k for bare heads. Glad I found this one and it's within driving distance.
I've got the built short block, both heads now, the correct dated water pump, correct intake, and still looking for exhaust manifolds and carb. Neither are necessary for my initial needs since the exhaust won't be factory size and the carb is cloaked, and I'm not going for ncrs. I do need the correct clutch fan, still looking for that.

 

[Nashville Cat]

Just bought this head, the mate to another I picked up a couple years back. Date matching my jan built '66 vette has been tough. Most of these rec. port heads have sunken seats, no mag certs. or massive porting.....or well over $2k for bare heads. Glad I found this one and it's within driving distance.
I've got the built short block, both heads now, the correct dated water pump, correct intake, and still looking for exhaust manifolds and carb. Neither are necessary for my initial needs since the exhaust won't be factory size and the carb is cloaked, and I'm not going for ncrs. I do need the correct clutch fan, still looking for that.

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You've already checked with Derek ?
I bet that correct dated tri-power intake was cheap

 

[cheveslakr]

Have not, but if you're listening Derek... I'll dig up the part numbers a bit later.
It's a single Holley in 66, tri-power started in 67. I prefer a single carb by a landslide.

 

[JohnC]

Ordered some shocks for the Chevelle front and back. Decided to go with KYB gas adjust.
Also ordered some Metro door weather stripping.

 

[Shovelrick]

Have not, but if you're listening Derek... I'll dig up the part numbers a bit later.
It's a single Holley in 66, tri-power started in 67. I prefer a single carb by a landslide.

Recently watched Richard Holdner dyno an L78 that had 291 heads but 1 head had a water leak so he said he had these 858 heads that were the same head, L78 in stock form made 425ish hp on his dyno with headers, manifolds brought it down around 370's

 

[cheveslakr]

That's consistent with everything I've heard regarding dyno numbers. The L72 being 30 inches bigger was up around 450. The corvette used some much better exhaust manifolds than the passenger car versions so if I can find them I'll use them.

 

[Derek69SS]

Have not, but if you're listening Derek... I'll dig up the part numbers a bit later.
It's a single Holley in 66, tri-power started in 67. I prefer a single carb by a landslide.

I haven't gone through any carbs yet, but I have a bunch.

Are the water pumps Corvette-specific? I have a lot of BBC short-water pumps. Probably at least a dozen of them.

I did look at exhaust manifolds a while back, and didn't have any for BB Corvette, but had a bunch for Chevelles and Impalas.

 

[Derek69SS]

Recently watched Richard Holdner dyno an L78 that had 291 heads but 1 head had a water leak so he said he had these 858 heads that were the same head, L78 in stock form made 425ish hp on his dyno with headers, manifolds brought it down around 370's

An old friend in the local Chevelle club had an 18k mile unrestored original LS6. They pulled and freshened up the engine since it had sat for 35+ years, and put it on the dyno before they put it back in the car.

All stock it made 452hp.
Headers and a 1" carb spacer made 60hp gain to 512hp!