Brad needs this!

[nocooler]

Just something I stumbled on in facebook marketplace.

[TexasT]

Looks like a dandy set of custom headers, crossover and down pipe.

[Scoobum]

Looking at what appears to be a mint C4 tomorrow. C5's and C6's have to many issues that I'm not willing to deal with. Did plenty of homework on them on the Vette boards...no thanks. I was gonna go with something old skool, but I plan on doing lots of long distance cruising...and gas isn't gonna remain this cheap. Parts are plentiful and cheap for the C4's. My back isn't the greatest, so the clamshell hood makes life easy. The C4's are easy to work on, and there's plenty of help vids on YouTube. If I feel like acting stupid, then I throw a leg over the R1 and pin the throttle. Race season is delayed cuz of the Scamdemic, so I haven't been able to practice with the R1. Plan is to sell the CRF and use the funds to buy a Harley.

[nocooler]

Vette is a good old man's cruiser. 

[Scoobum]

Retirement suits this old guy...and I'm ready to cruise off into the sunset.

[Tim Hensley]

I had a c4 with the 4+? Not a bad ride a little hard to roll in and out. My parents had a HD and Yamaha shop I would not ride a HD nowhere but there growing on me.
I think about returning but I not ready just yet,we went one week on one week off for 6 weeks got me thinking.

[Scoobum]

Doug Nash 4 and 3. Al kinds of issues with the electric OD...no thanks. 6 speed is the way to go if you want a stick. I'm looking at a 1990 auto with the analogue gauges...not the star wars ones. Sticking with the L98 engine...had the LT1 with the Impala...gave me fits.

[daveismissing]

Calling it a  1998 would probably complicate the import , emissions? etc. Homebuild?  1986 and older here preferred.

[Scoobum]

Snow/rain here today and tomorrow. Car search is on hold.

[nocooler]

Dave - most likely 98 is when they applied for the title, to make it road legal. No title no plates not road legal. The good thing is it passed the safety inspection. You can buy a decent untitled buggy for cheap but a titled road legal makes it worth more. 

It’s neat to see one hooked to a gm trans axle, rather than the normal v-drive/transfer case that you normally see. 

[Scoobum]

Jeremy, the MTO up here is a fukn nightmare to deal with. Getting it certified is one thing...but visual emissions is another. Each emission you tamper with is a $350 fine. Removing the EGR, $350 bucks, breathers in the rockers that's another $700 bucks, no cat convertor, that's another $350 bucks. Basically what they do when they pull you over is pull out the emissions book for that car and engine and start writing you up for non compliance for each emission tampered with. I got nailed twice on this with the IROC and a modded 1981 Cutlass I had a long time ago. That's another reason I'm going with the Vette. I don't need/want the hassle. I could get a C3, but most are modded and it would be nothing but a hassle with the MTO.

[Grumpy]

Jeremy, the MTO up here is a fukn nightmare to deal with.

wow.. I thought Massachusetts sucked.

[Scoobum]

Looking for a car is on hold. I went to one of the privately owned MTO's this morning...and it was jammed. The rest are all closed. Doubt I would of gotten in today had I have waited. The guy that owns the car said the one he found last week was to busy and he didn't want to wait to get the sellers package. I woulda had to go back again after I bought the car to do all the paper work.


Maybe this is divine intervention telling me to buy a roller and shove a pre 1973 engine in it to beat the MTO at their own game.

[nocooler]

The question is what do they do when they catch you doing burnouts? I assume they don’t give you thumbs up?

[Scoobum]

Burnouts...thi s goes back awhile. I had a 79 Monte Carlo...had the wheezebox 267. I yanked it and dropped a 327 in it. I found a quadrajet carb with the numbers showing it was off a 455 olds engine and I rebuilt it. Grabbed a 350 trans from the wreckers and installed a transgo shift kit in it. Used a stock 327 dual plane intake with black jack headers and the stock highway gears. This thing was something else at high speed...and dual plane made for wild burnouts. Not sure what I was thinking but I stopped on highway 28 in a small town just north of town where I live after dusk...and did a massive burnout. I let off the gas and look behind me and all I see is flashing lights. Got nailed 55 bucks fore unnecessary noise. Cop said it was the most impressive burnout he ever saw...LOL! Sold the car to a guy in town. He had it full out on Ontario street here in town...got airborne...an took it head first into a culvert and was killed on impact. Went to the wreckers hoping to buy the engine but it was pushed right into the drivers compartment. One of the cars I wish I never sold. Body was mint and was fully loaded and drove like a Caddy.