Scott Vallie corvette project

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For our local customers we have in stock many of the popular AMSOIL products call us to check availability New - AMSOIL Motorcycle OIL Presentation ONLINE When I was a young boy I was always fascinated by the Corvette, the look, the power, I just wanted one. It didn’t help that our neighbor has a split window Vette with his son being driving age and I was always eager to go for a ride. Now those of you that know Corvettes know that 1982 was just about the worst year for performance. The EPA was leaning on GM and the solution was to reduce HP, offer only an automatic trans, introduce the first electronic fuel injection (Crossfire) and put an 85MPH speedo in it..... So why did I buy an 82? Well performance can be worked around but the body is another matter. For me any Vette after 1982 lacks the individuality. What I mean is from 1957 - 1982 the Corvette was identifiable a long way off, not like todays Corvette. Of course I would have liked to have found 68 or 69 with a big block but the odds are I could not have afforded it. With all that being said, let the project begin In Jan of 2006 My son and I drove to Alabama to pick up the car. This was a turn around trip driving there and back in a day. I found this car on the Internet, made the deal on email and drove to pick it up. The car ran well, trans shifted all the OEM parts were in tact. Got her home and in the garage, now we can really take a look at her. Driveablity we look real good but the cosmetics were another story. The interior was worn out except for the seats, I was looking at carpet, steering wheel, rear storage doors, dash and other items... Got the seats out, getting ready to pull up the carpet. Once we got the carpet up we found that the car hard leaked once or twice.... We ground out the lose rust, treated the good metal and resealed the floor. Once that was done we followed it up with Dayna mat sound deading. The door panels were removed and cleaned several times then treated with Mother protectant to bring them back to life. The passenger side carpet looked better but the floor pan was far worse on this side. As you can see the seats look great, they are the original 26 year old seats... Same with the door panels. At this point my wife and I are trying to decide to stay original or make it our Corvette. Later you will see what we decided. Carpet gone, grinding and cleaning....

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1982 Corvette Project

The story continues...... And continues Steph, still grinding and cleaning First layer of treatment, followed by two more Passenger side getting its treatment

Finished with the treatment and resealed the welds. Now we will lay the Dayna mat, jute and carpet.

Laying out the new carpet, make sure its all there and test fitting.

We used Mothers leather cleaner on all the interior parts. It worked well, we were very pleased with the results. After cleaning we used Mothers protectant to bring it back to life.

Just one of many little surprises... The drivers seat power motor (3 motors in 1) is burnt up. Cant find a rebuilt one so I called one of my AMSOIL account parts store, the kind that old and cluttered that you would think could find a thing but yet they are the go to place... They sent my motor off to a shop and had it rebuilt.

Seat striped and repainted

Reworked the seat tracks, and painted.

Cleaned, repainted, reworked seat tracks and looking good.....

This is the storage compartment and battery box. I had to replace the frame and doors due to age. The plastic was very brittle and broke easily

The wheels were in sad shape, many years of neglect.

Steph working on the wheels, we used Mothers aluminum polish

Still working....

Not bad, we bought new center caps since there was none on it...

While we had the door panels off I reworked the door handles and mirrors. I did some preliminary diagnostics on the mirror servos and found them to be in-op. So back to my parts store to get the servos rebuild since there not available. After getting the servos back I found that they still did not move.... Ahhh its a passion, or I would be pulling my hair out

Time to work on the engine. First things first I did end engine flush before I opened her up.

After removing the air breather I could see many years of varnish build up on the injectors and the injector bodies. Power foam is a very strong combustion chamber cleaner, do not get it on paint. A couple of applications and she look good as new... I really love this stuff, it works miracles.

Ahhhhh, clean

Looks pretty good for 91,000 miles and 26 years.... Hummmmm Roller tip rockers??

If you look at the pics before this one you will see a black OEM cluster. At this point we made the decision to build it our way so I painted it to match the car’s color.

Freshly painted, working on reassembly

Center console, who need a wiring diagram...Its amazing after 6 other owners and 26 years all the OEM wiring is there with OEM connectors.

Custom made speaker boxes in the works.

Speaker finished and matched to cars paint...

I painted the speedo bezel to match also

Interior all back together and looking good

Pulled the rotors off to repack bearing, next thing you know its a toal front end rebuild. Steering gear box, power steering pump, new A frame bushings, tie rod ends, PS valve, new lines, ball joints.

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