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by Gregory_Miller
Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:59 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 3400 mile 1965 Monza 140
Replies: 11
Views: 1169

Re: 3400 mile 1965 Monza 140

Beautiful car! Have you de-flashed the cylinder heads as part of getting it back on the road? They came pretty clogged up with extra flashing from the factory which impedes cooling airflow through the heads where it's needed most. Make those 140 valve seats last a really long time by making sure the...
by Gregory_Miller
Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:33 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: Rat fink surf wagon
Replies: 48
Views: 8845

Re: Rat fink surf wagon

Deep seat heads? Going to so much trouble, I'd strongly suggest deep seat heads done by someone with experience on Corvair heads in particular. Don't ask me how I know.
by Gregory_Miller
Fri May 21, 2021 1:01 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1966 Corsa Convertible
Replies: 255
Views: 34077

Re: 1966 Corsa Convertible

The vacuum advance should hold in when you plug off the moving it in manually. Sounds like yours is bad which can also cause a vacuum leak on that side if it's a big leak.
by Gregory_Miller
Mon May 17, 2021 2:13 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Just drove it last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It's running as good as it ever has.
by Gregory_Miller
Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:46 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Very nice! What did you re-seal the paper with? I just used some of the metalized air conditioning tape on the edges. There was plain masking tape under them and no more sticky along the bottom edges. We'll see how that works, I've used it in several different applications and had good results, it ...
by Gregory_Miller
Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:15 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Ok, pictures or it didn't happen. Finished installing the passenger side door panel, it went a bit faster then the driver's side since I knew more about what I was doing. Old door panel not as bad as driver's side, less water damage to the backing old door panel.jpg New door panel with emblem and me...
by Gregory_Miller
Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:07 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: Cfinley 65 Rebuild
Replies: 160
Views: 20103

Re: Early 1967 Corvair Monza 110 Repair

Welcome to the crazy world of Corvairs!
by Gregory_Miller
Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:48 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Got one of the 2 new door panels on, driver's side. Thought the long metal strips were glued on like the small strips on the rear seat panels, so started to use a box cutter to remove the strip from the old panel. Turned it over and see it has metal spikes to bend to remove. Oh well, wasn't using th...
by Gregory_Miller
Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:51 am
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Took the wife and the Corvair out Saturday night to a local informal car show, beautiful night, car ran great, but haven't put the new door panels in yet. Had my second COVID vaccine (Pfizer) Saturday morning, and my immune system was doing it's job Sunday. Feeling much better today so will likely g...
by Gregory_Miller
Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:29 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

"No pictures?" Not yet. Outer cardboard of shipping had a big gouge in it, but they were undamaged inside Whew.. My work keeps me pretty busy along with honey-dos but I did manage to re-set my carbs now that I fixed the issue of the clip getting stripped off the primary.. oops. I had to tu...
by Gregory_Miller
Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:37 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

New Clark's front door panels arrived today. :)
by Gregory_Miller
Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:13 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Guess what I found? The metal strip, but the ones I got for free I used one of them it looks fine. Got the driver's side rear door panel installed. Looks nice. I also found the "Mains" issue on the carbs...the U shaped portion of the throttle shaft assembly that sets the throttle opening w...
by Gregory_Miller
Wed Apr 07, 2021 9:20 am
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Never found the second strip. Did find a parts car in my hometown that in exchange for pulling out the Corsa dash the owner gave me the 2 strips. One was really rusty on the back side, the other had a little at both ends where it does not show. Cleaned up nice and is now attached to the driver's sid...
by Gregory_Miller
Fri Apr 02, 2021 7:01 am
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

The feeling you get when the 2 metal strips that go on the rear door panels that have been kicking around in your garage for years as you awaited the opportunity to buy new panels...and you can only find one today. :banghead: I'll have to look harder and move more stuff around, I'm sure it's still t...
by Gregory_Miller
Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:22 am
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

New door panels are gorgeous. Makes me want new front panels too. There are guide lines for where the metal strip goes, will rough the vinyl up a bit between the lines and glue the strips on. Provided but never attached to old panels post dying them from red to black by the PO, so easy peasy.
by Gregory_Miller
Wed Mar 31, 2021 2:09 pm
Forum: Member's Rides, Projects, and Builds
Topic: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one
Replies: 305
Views: 63595

Re: 1965 Corsa clone, but a sweeeeeet one

Got my new rear door panels today, haven't been able to drool over them yet. Have to carefully glue the metal strips to them without making a mess and install soon. Ran the car to warm up and re-adjusted idle mixtures and re-balanced the carbs. Adjusted idle speed as well, had backed them out too fa...

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