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no reason to be offended at all, sorry if you were. My forum activities and contribution are minimal anymore, on ALL forums. i've stopped going onto CF C3 altogether, have greatly reduced and curtailed my postings n the CF C1/C2 section, have completely stopped going on another 2 or 3 forums...

Hi Lars, sorry i'm a bit late to the welcome party but i only look in on this forum every now and than. it's good to find you again since you left CF. Now that you are here i may have to check in more often in here.

almost a month since you were supposably buying that timing light and vacuum gauge....... no updates??

hey, the broom handle trick works for me, what can I tell you. BTW, it's even better for installing those heavy iron intakes. Both of my Vettes have aluminum intakes which are much lighter and easier to deal with so it's not as imperitive but I still use the broom handle. On an iron intake I...

I've never had a intake leak doing it this way myself: nice bead of RTV on both end rails that wrapped up and around each of the outside water jacket ports. I make sure each bead of RTV is one continuous bead with no breaks in it and I make sure the bead is thicker in the corners where the...

TONS of work! just for starters you need to change out the front and rear clips and the bumper mount brackets on the frame. God knows what else of little detail items also have to get done. After all that work and you have ruined the value of the rubber bumper car, you might as well have sold...

unless the coil itself is bad I can't see where changing it to a different one is going to make any difference. I just love the "theories" people come up with to justify spending money on useless stuff, like hi-flow waterpumps on stock, street-driven cars, "hotter coils", ...etc. Kinda like...

well, somehow I've gottom myself in the middle of two different "cooling issue" threads plus now a vacuum advance discussion between here and over on CF, not to mention another thread with a topic I don't even want to think about anymore.... and it's been too long of a day to for my brain to...

ummm, that's the way t-stat are suppose to operate. the rated temp is when they are suppose to START to open, not when they are suppose to open fully, that takes a few more degrees of temp. The rated opening temp, for example a 180º rated t-stat is suppose to START to open at 180º give or take...

sorry, I'll never understand why people recommend removing the t-stat. Unless it's failed and completely closed it answers nothing and if it was a failed t-stat I'd venture a guess that the poster would be posting about having to have his vette flat bedded home. A non-opening t-stat is going to...

aux fans can help, but unless you find the real issue (if there really is one) all you will do is mask it. you didn't answer what temps the car is running and if it's puking coolant or not.

keep in mind that my perspective on this is from the point of view of a STREET car, not a race car. That's why I disagree with a few of their points. If the point of view was for a race car on these few points I'd agree with their write-up 100% but as I mentioned I felt their points were slanted...

same here............. once again I'm just simply amazed that you are willing to throw a lot of excess money at the problem, such as an expensive new radiator, but you won't take the time to go and buy a $49.99 timing light and a $19.99 vacuum gauge to be able to answer what your timing...

I'll take very few things as gospel. If Lars or John Hinckley (JohnZ) or one or two other people tell me something I trust and respect them enough to take their info as gospel, but I don't blindly take ANYTHING from a vendor as gospel. Stewart is known as a high quality vendor and like I said I...

lots of good info. a couple of items I don't agree with but overall a good source of information

first things first....... you say it's overheating but is it puking coolant out? Have you confirmed the actual temp with an IR temp gun against what the gauge reads? second, WHEN does it overheat, assuming you confirmed the issue with an IR temp gun. is it at idle or slow speed driving or on...

nice, but I think you need to paint the front coil-overs gray otherwise you will get points deductions in NCRS judging :D:D

I agree 100% with the above and will include adding the vacuum advance hook-up.

i still think you are running the diagnosis of your cooling system haphazardly and are far to willing to simply throw additional parts at the problem needlessly. For example, you are still talking about a dual-Spal set-up which I don't think is really needed. On your thread over on CF I asked...

well thank you for the info! :) yes, I definitely want to give proper credit where it's due. it was nice being able to put some info into the C4, C5, and C6 areas. BTW, you probably don't care one bit but I started with only C1 and C2 material on the site because I had my '65 than when I got...