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Overhaulit Part 65
Pipe puzzle

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You need to be good with a welder, or get good with a welder, or know a good welder And puzzles. You have to like puzzles. In life, there are some people you need to become good friends with. A doctor, a lawyer, a golf pro and a plumber. And if you build cars, a welder . . . and a metal fabricator. And if you can get the last three in one person, you’re really all set.

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Overhaulit Part 66
Smooth as glass

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The Corvette side glass is ridiculously simple and simple to install (most side glass is). It’s flat as a pancake with no mounting holes. We ordered the windshield with the tinted strip across the top to cut the glare a bit as we do actually want to cruise the car a bit. With new front and side glass, the 1963 Corvette really does look like it came out of a time capsule. Several small dings were removed from the stainless-steel trim, which was then polished.

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Overhaulit Part 67
Instrument of performance

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Dialing in new gauges that are both functional and matching. Gauges are gauges, so why bother with the hassle of replacing them. That’s what most of us think. I mean, is there really anything wrong with the stock instrumentation of a car? Not likely . . . if the car stays stock. But for any vehicle that’s modified and requires more information – and more accurate information – an upgrade just might be in the cards.

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Overhaulit Part 68
Weighing the pros and cons
of fuel injection yields a . . .

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To go with fuel injection or stick with a carburetor, that IS the question.
My personal belief is that absolutely everyone would go with fuel injection in an aftermarket situation if it weren’t for two issues: price; and complexity. Are we crazy? That’s a fair question as it’s sort of THE question, and the point of this story.

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Overhaulit Part 69
The mask

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Just as much prep goes on inside the paint booth as does outside. It’s the cleanest room in the body shop, it has the best lighting and has a huge air exchanger to keep it clean in there.
We did a lot of the masking outside of the booth – the windows and under the hood – and left the lower areas for inside the booth since the Corvette really couldn’t be moved once it was fully taped.

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Overhaulit Part 70
Tune age

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Is there anything that can date an interior more than the stereo system?
We all know what dates a car on the outside: big murals of dragons and skulls with smoke pouring out the nostrils; jacked-up rear ends; white-letter tires sticking out past the fenders; giant scoops the driver can’t see over; and sidepipes. And then there’s the wheels. Ugh.

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Overhaulit Part 71
When everything is new in a completely
untried engine combination, you get . . .

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Systems overload!
Bolting on the Procharger supercharger and keeping the carburetor, we made 830 horsepower with relatively low boost pressure. With a good-running engine and baseline, we could then get our tuner guy to fly in for our fuel-injection conversion.

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Overhaulit Part 72
First base

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This is it. The moment where months and months of work and thousands and thousands of dollars all come together: it’s time to put the silver on the ’63 Corvette.
In the last installment, we learned the importance of patience and, as it turns out, that I don’t really have any to speak of. Could you blame me, though?

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Overhaulit Part 73
Re-chrome, or repro-chrome?

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Oh, the things we put ourselves through for shiny cars.
Of the three project vehicles in this ongoing series, our 1965 Mustang is the only one that began, for us, as a finished car. The previous owner had done a decent job of restoring it, despite the inevitable fit-and-finish nitpicks. All that to say that as nice as it was, it wasn’t perfect. With a goal of modernizing the car so it could actually be driven on public roads, many of the little issues started bugging us.