It was at the time to get the body off the frame.
Somehow unusual, but very efficient.

Steves friend from Yosemite Tree Service kindly offered to lift the Corvette Body off the frame to test his repair work on his Tree Service CRANE!

Total time from Lift Off to TOUCH DOWN was approximately TWO MINUTES!

The first complete inspection of the frame gave a confident feeling.
Next step is the frame gets sandblasted. Then covered in POR15, also inside it will get sprayed with POR15. Finally overall a black glossy paint.

After using 409 kitchen cleaner the engine looks allready much better.
But will get a new paint in POR15-chevy orange.

A masked men.

Steve did some test with primer.

As allways much more pictures, text and explanations on the website.

Greetings
Robert

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This time is a major update.
Simply because i was lazy till easter, no, in fact didn't found the time to do updates.
But Steve was very busy in the meantime.

Sandblasted a lot of parts and the frame.
Allready many parts and the frame got coated in black POR15.
For sandblasting the frame and coating it alone are almost 60 new photos.

So again can show you only a small parts of all what happened since 26th of april.
Just look into the news page and follow the links to the specific folders.

The intake sandblasted:

Some parts sandblasted:

The frame sandblasted:

Unfortunately, also my frame has minor problems but can be repaired:

The frame gets coated in black POR15:

The stainless fuel lines get assembled onto the frame:

The rest of the exhaust pipes arrived:

Some sneek peeks about the fiberglass Mako-moulding (to be replaced soon with new moulds):

Some parts Steve did moulds for (Corvette LT-1 Hood and Dodge RAM AIR Hood):

And yeahh, it looks pretty cool.......

As allways comments are welcome.

Greetings
Robert

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yeah looks really familiar to yours.

Never seen your second Vette so close up. Also very cool.
But the Mako is cooler.

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once again a big update.
Mostly about the motor inspection.
Just about the inspection and the problems which occured there are 114 photos with a lot of text.
Overall nothing really serious, but wen solved the motor will work much better with the performance parts which was in the motor.
And finally Steve painted the block chevy orange and mock it up with all the covers.
IT SIMPLY WILL LOOK AMAZING, when on the black frame and surounded by the cooling frame and wheel wells out of carbon-fiber.

Here a few of the frame. And yeahhhhh......to me allready this looks pretty cool.

The harmonic balancer really was damaged:

New U-joints coming in for drive- and axle-shafts:

The timing-chain cover after cleaning and polishing:

We even didn't know there was a chrome cover over all that dirt !
And why so much dirt ?
Because the stupid which put it forgot to remove the paper from the gasket and it leaked oil. Pretty good vaporized by the fan and spread over the whole engine.

When Steve took a closer look at the rockers he felt something was not right:

So he couldn't stay in peace and began to investigate deeper:

Heat marks on a lifter !

As Steve got more suspicios he took out the camshaft and found it's a higher performance cam. Unfortunatelly all not pretty well installed.

yeahhh yeahhh.... that motor will look cool.
Here the motor is just in the 1st layer of POR15 Chevy Orange.
But Steve couldn't wait to see how it will look at the end.
Here a short mock up with the manifold and covers:


Then with the new chrome headers, the chrome oval 12" air filter with the shark logo on it and chrome oil pan. And all the tubes in stainless hoses with chrome clamps.
I'm simply overwhelmed........was speekless when Steve sent me the photos.

Cylinder inspection didn't show something spectacular or problematic.
Usual wear from the pistons:

As sayd, much more photos and information on the website.

Any kind of comments very welcome.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

once again a big update.
Mostly about the motor inspection.
Just about the inspection and the problems which occured there are 114 photos with a lot of text.
Overall nothing really serious, but wen solved the motor will work much better with the performance parts which was in the motor.
And finally Steve painted the block chevy orange and mock it up with all the covers.
IT SIMPLY WILL LOOK AMAZING, when on the black frame and surounded by the cooling frame and wheel wells out of carbon-fiber.

Here a few of the frame. And yeahhhhh......to me allready this looks pretty cool.

The harmonic balancer really was damaged:

New U-joints coming in for drive- and axle-shafts:

The timing-chain cover after cleaning and polishing:

We even didn't know there was a chrome cover over all that dirt !
And why so much dirt ?
Because the stupid which put it forgot to remove the paper from the gasket and it leaked oil. Pretty good vaporized by the fan and spread over the whole engine.

When Steve took a closer look at the rockers he felt something was not right:

So he couldn't stay in peace and began to investigate deeper:

Heat marks on a lifter !

As Steve got more suspicios he took out the camshaft and found it's a higher performance cam. Unfortunatelly all not pretty well installed.

yeahhh yeahhh.... that motor will look cool.
Here the motor is just in the 1st layer of POR15 Chevy Orange.
But Steve couldn't wait to see how it will look at the end.
Here a short mock up with the manifold and covers:


Then with the new chrome headers, the chrome oval 12" air filter with the shark logo on it and chrome oil pan. And all the tubes in stainless hoses with chrome clamps.
I'm simply overwhelmed........was speekless when Steve sent me the photos.

Cylinder inspection didn't show something spectacular or problematic.
Usual wear from the pistons:

As sayd, much more photos and information on the website.

Any kind of comments very welcome.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/

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Great Progress Robert. Keep it going

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Too bad i can't sit nearby Steve and beeing the little helper.

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Then all came together why the car had heat problems:


look at the gasket !

Comparison of combustion chambers also show some problems:

That could have caused in future a main catastrophe.
Problem located and soon to be fixed. Ufffff.....

Now as the heads anyway are off Steve will check how much can be grinded down the heads to reach a higher compression ratio. The maximum will be 10,25:1.
A bit more cheap gained power isn't to bad.

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again some progress. Haven't found the time to put up lately the informations.

Some parts came in from Corvette Paramedics. They really do a very good job and all ordered parts come in good quality and in time.
- rear polyurethane suspension kit
- a lot of gaskets
- stainless hose covers
- tunnel insulation and foam

Also for the motor some chrome parts, like chrome oilpan and chrome screws for timing chain cover and intake manifold:

The combustion chambers got also rid of all the unburned stuff:

Steve also fixed the crack in the frame. He cutted out the bad piece and welded in a backpiece and deep welded all together:


So one of the more major concerns is fixed. Ufff.......

The side-exhaust is so far finished and just awaits chrome headers to come in to get the final touch:

Some other stuff ordered:

The air-filter, as well as the fenders and radiator mount and firewall cover, will be covered in black fiberglass (carbon-like) and on top the Mako Shark Logo.

Well, and someday the car also needs to be steered:

As allways way more pictures and a lot of description on the website.

Comments are welcome.

Greetings
Robert

http://www.cybergate-corp.ch/mako_clip/