Thread: 1968 Corvette Like No other ***Die Hard Corvette Guys Step Away

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Right after we brought it home from the body shop.








Here's the video of the 2nd turbo blowing up before the garrett.



This is at the NHRDA World Finals







On that pass the engine blew the tappet cover gasket, and someone didn't tighten the hot pipe clamp between the two turbos so it was dumping drive pressure all over the fire wall. I also noticed a miss in it too. We got rained out that day and continued the next day.

The next day we started swapping injectors thinking that was the miss. Well #5 wouldn't come out. We tried everything to get it out and it started spinning but not coming out. we were near missing qualifying so we put it back in and made qualifying by the hair on our necks. It came back around and I got the tappet cover gasket back on so we could make one more pass. It made one final pass and did 11.43@125mph on 5 cylinders.

Whut, another '68-'72-'73-78 Diesel-powered twin turbo 'Vette? Ho-hum. Boring! NOT!!!
Honestly can not understand any car guy not loving an original piece of machinery like that. Way to shake up the troops, man!

Originally Posted by R Pope

Whut, another '68-'72-'73-78 Diesel-powered twin turbo 'Vette? Ho-hum. Boring! NOT!!!
Honestly can not understand any car guy not loving an original piece of machinery like that. Way to shake up the troops, man!

Thanks. It's really fun but a pain in the butt too. Haha