Recent content by SmokeyVette

I tell ya, it never fails, it NEVER freakin' fails, just when you get one persistent problem lined out another one rears it's ugly head. I've got a knock, using the screwdriver-to-the-ear method, we've determined that it's in cylinder 1 or 3. It's a double-knock, not real loud yet but constant...

I'm having a problem with my headlights. First, the dims quit working, I thought it was the broken dimmer switch but it turns out that it wasn't. I've been driving around with brights only (I re-aimed them so they wouldn't be as bad) when I NEEDED to drive her at night, but now the brights...

Here's my problem: Recently (less than a month ago) I installed an MSD Streetfire HEI Distributor. That has been the only mod that I've done in a LONG time. I set the timing and then drove the car DAILY for about two weeks. I figured I'd give the car a rest and do some minor tweaking to the...

I'm in the process of installing F.I.A. style headlights on my '77. They are the same type that Sadistic has on his C3. My only problem is that I can't find any backing plates or adjusters, I've tried searching for every possibility of anything associated with headlights and am coming up with...

Ok, so all mods should be listed below, in my sig. I'm looking for more pull up top, when I'm in town playing light to light (theoretically:D) I pull just about anyone off the line if I get traction, but when I'm running through the actual quarter (no time as of yet) everyone seems to catch me...

I guess I could give that a try, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks.:thumbs:

If this sound is my spider gears what am I looking at here? The reason I ask is because today I was turning around on a slick concrete parking lot, I was turning real sharp and not on the throttle at all, maybe doing 5 mph and the rear was clicking slowly along with the inner tire chirping...

Ok, I feel really stupid asking this as I like to pride myself on how well I handle problems but I just can't get a handle on this one. First off, the basics: My Holley fuel pump flows 80 GPH. My Performer carb is a 600 CFM unit with .392 jets and the metering rod numbers are 6842...

I'd like to put something like that on the tail of my 700...:evil:

I agree, I'm running 3.08 rear gears with the stock 350 (it slipped A LOT) 70 was exactly 3000 RPM, since I changed to the 700, 100 is 3000 RPM and 70 is 2250.:yahoo:

Why would you want to do that? I would figure that would cause a lot of excess heat, I hope you have a great tranny cooler. I'm not too versed on the lock-up converters, I don't run one, I would imagine it would have trouble idling in gear.

It's Levelland, but most of us call it Leveldirt since we don't get much water up here. Ok so try this on for size, today I drove around a little after work, did a few hard acceleration runs, no clicky, no clunks, no weird noises whatsoever. WTF?

Thanks, I completely forgot that we have the best here. I hope I can afford it.

Just a quick question as this seems to be a sign to me, what about the rebuilt diffs offered from some of the major brands? Keep in mind that this 'vette will NEVER have over 400 horses. I've been eyeing a 3.70 diff. from Mid America for a while now and if I am going to have to pull the...

As I stated I obviously don't know much about the diff. Thanks for the info, I guess I'll have to crack it open again, I used Loctite last time to try to prevent this. So I am going to have to safety wire my ring gear bolts? That seems awfully extreme, and what holds the safety wire? The...