1958 Fuelie Corvette completed

**SuperNovaSS** · #1 01-23-2007, 08:18 AM

Looks great. Thats a lot of washers on the waterpump!

**kwhizz** · #2 01-23-2007, 12:32 PM

Dan............Great Job.......Another one "Saved"

Ken

**njsteve** · #3 01-23-2007, 04:38 PM

Is that Zora Arkus Duntov's tin snips in the first photo?
Very nice work!

**MosportGreen66** · #4 01-23-2007, 05:29 PM

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Looks great. Thats a lot of washers on the waterpump!

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Jason, this car was maintained by a boat mechanic. I had this conversation with Tony W. If you don't know anything about cars, why work on them?

Here are some pictures along the way.

Our biggest gripe about cleaning this car was not sending out the fuel injection unit and intake base to have them reskined/rebuilt. The rebuild for the Fuelie unit baselines at $2,500 and takes 6-8 months to be completed

. The intake base however, is an easy $350 from J. MacNeish. Reskining those items would have made a world of difference, even though Kwhizz’s Aluminum Eyching cleaner works like a charm! After the car was completed, we had tremendous trouble getting the car to idle. Unlike a carb that runs on air/fuel mixture, the fuel injection runs on a large portion of vacuum pressure. The driver's side of the unit is all air and the passenger side of the unit is all gas. The valve that regulats the two is called the signal cranking valve. They have an expected life of 3-4 years because of clogging carbon build up. The distributor and tach are run by a drive cable. Cutting edge technology for 1958

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enjoy!

After the wiring wheel was completed, time for primer...

engine when she arrived...

engine compartment in primer... you cannot drop the gas tank when its covered by fiberglass...