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How much would the car drop in value if we trashed the original engine? No one wants to find out.
When you last read about the ’63 Corvette, we were armpits deep in camshaft selection, cylinder-head porting and block preparation. Lots of technical stuff.
The purpose of this story is not to show you how to rebuild an engine in 1,429 easy steps, but rather to highlight the experience we had after we got the whole thing together.