Projects Mid Life Crisis 62 Vette

yeah, that's life! at least it's hard to see the scattershield when it's in the car.

Engine is in...now for the fun work of getting it all connected back together, and see if it will run. I still have to work on the "new" carb, too.

 

Dumb ? Why do you have to hold the flywheel still?
Dan

 

Duh, I said it was a dumb ? A lot slicker than the way I do them. Thanks
Dan

 

After looking at the above picture, I never realized how the Corvette engine mounts on the front. Are the accessory drive pulleys Corvette specific because of the front motor mount being under the water pump and changing pulley alignment?

 

and when looking into SBC pulleys and water pumps, they have a different WP.

 

There are a lot of flavors of water pumps for Chevys...they made the engine for decades, and things about the cars changed over time.

The Corvette also uses the fitting on top, for the surge tank. Some trucks used it for a bypass hose, too.

 

Peter Rooter?????......

 

Thank you Mark. That makes sense.

 

All small block Chevys are alike, except the Corvette engines where the engineers did their own thing! Seems like to be a true Corvette engine something had to be different, even if it was something small.

 

The mount is set up that way because the steering gear is right in the way of where the mount should be, I think.

 

As many Corvette engines that are in hot rods, there should be thousands of those motor mounts for sale at swap meets.

 

I thought all SBC engines were Corvette engines?

 

Corvette engine when selling. 283 station wagon when runnin' on the street.

 

I thought if you just put a set of these valve covers on it automatically made it a Corvette engine!

 

7 fins, it needs a set of 9 fins!

 

that's only for the 50s cars...

 

That photo shows how it all goes together, online it seems every car has the radiator still in and blocking the view of the frame mounts.

 

You'd be surprised what sealing a few holes and some creative ducting can do.

Cutting a hole in the hood for a radiator duct is most likely out of the question(traditional Cunningham LeMans stye but that fence can be detracting. ) but would you be willing to do a front snorkel duct, NASCAR style, between grille opening and face of radiator?


Cooling problem with most cars is simple lack of basic ducting for heat extraction. Just a giant maw gulping in air directionless. Most which just slams into a radiator support and dispersing all over the face of the radiator, with quite a bit spilling over, under, and around the radiator. Not aiding in going through to cool, just pressurizing the engine bay and heat soaking the engine.

 

When I was looking at 62's for that motor mount I ran across this one and was wondering if you have the scotch-brite option on yours ?

 

That's probably a dealer installed fuel leak absorber. WoW, check that super trick carpet mount on the overflow tank with the HP flat hose Holy Moley

 

Kinda makes you sad to see a Corvette treated like that.

 

tomcat11, That flat hose looks more like a bicycle inner tube, to me.

Gary

 

Anyways, thanks for making me feel good about how my car looks, it could be a whole lot worse!

I got it all together and went for a drive. I have to do some tuning, and it has some valvetrain noise, which it probably shouldn't with hydraulic lifters!

But the big thing now is the water leak, the temp sender hole in the intake is oversize or something. Maybe I'll JB weld the sender in place?

 

Maybe try a bunch of extra wraps of teflon tape, we get away with that in the steel mill

 

The fuel filter to nowhere

 

The overspray is a nice touch...

 

I played with a few different senders, and another random 1/2" npt fitting, and teflon tape...it seems to be getting looser. It felt ok when I first installed the sender, but it seeped water. Now anything I put in bottoms out finger tight! even wrapped with several layers of tape.

I don't see any cracks...but the boss is not very deep, only about 4-5 threads.