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Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:03 am
by Phil Dally
New torque arm bushings and a Clark's rear sway bar.
Mono-Balls are gone to stay in IS-2...plus hated them.
Lots of new rubber in the whole car from CA Corvair.
New gas charged shocks front and rear from Clark's.
Lock to lock is now 3 1/4 from 4 1/2 with QS arms.
I'll give it as much negative caster as machine can.
Life has been in session for the last seven months.
My motor stays same (95/PG) no turbo as planned.
But it should go around corners pretty darn good!!
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 8:46 am
by martyscarr
Mono-Balls are gone to stay in IS-2...plus hated them.
Phil
What did you hate about them?
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:10 am
by Phil Dally
Being metal on metal they go clunk clunk every time you roll over any bump in the road.
The car came with them so I don't know if that is normal but it was driving Winston crazy.
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:36 am
by Phil Dally
Plus the Mono-Balls would have bumped me into the Modified Classes and this car would not be competitive there.
With me driving it wouldn't be competitive anywhere so I have a known expert secret weapon to podium the team.
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:44 am
by Scott H
I've done (or still doing), new interior paint, stereo upgrades, new brake hard lines, new wheel cylinders, new hoses, new shoes, new gauges, new car play system with dash cam, parking sentry, blind spot monitoring, front and rear cameras and new (to me) seats.
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:49 am
by Phil Dally
And I thought I was busy??
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 1:49 pm
by Scott H
I also rewired the whole back half of the car. I needed to ad sensors for the new oil pressure and oil temperature gauges. I wanted to hide the wiring. Now all you can see is a short run of wires to the alternator and another short run of wires to the taillights.
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 2:12 pm
by Phil Dally
Are you competing for the Cole Award?
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 3:14 pm
by thewolfe
My prep has been non stop for the last year. I started this project January 2024 and it still isn't finished but getting very close!
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 5:23 pm
by Phil Dally
Bitchen Lakewood. Dig the exhaust...Kostich?
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 6:01 pm
by thewolfe
Yessir
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 9:47 pm
by sweet66monza
Seeing everyone's progress makes me jealous!
I painted my body Wednesday last week. Doing hinges, hardware and doors, cove, dash, and grill pockets this week and trunk lid, engine lid and grills, and remaining interior surfaces next week, and praying like hell the flake lays out perfect and I dont have any mistakes as I am cutting it way too close for comfort.
At this point I probably won't relax until the car is loaded and we are on the road
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 10:29 pm
by cnicol
I'm checkong-off items on my end-of-restoration "To-do" list.Not sure I'll get it all done.
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 2:27 pm
by flat_six
New (rechromed) rear bumper from California Corvairs.
Much better...
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 3:00 pm
by azdave
No prep. This will be our first CORSA convention ever but not taking a Corvair. We decided to work as volunteers so Cathy and I signed up to help at registration, the hospitality room and the road rally. The only event we signed up for is the Hearst Castle tour on Wednesday. This will be a wedding anniversary getaway too so we'll probably drive out to Morro Bay at some point. Neither of us have been in the SLO area before so it will all be new.
Re: Show Us Your Prep For Next Months 2025 CORSA Convention
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:18 pm
by Phil Dally
As a convention committee member I can officially say we really appreciate you two volunteering for all of that.
There will be two different printed directions available for a self guided drive to Morro Bay and Avila Beach Pier.