Very nice Vette, and to find it so close to home.  I got mine from 2500 miles away.  Took forever to get it shipped here.

Jim

Waz, I knew it had a great story behind it!

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Looking good, Waz.   Gotta love the 74's.  Was really great that you didn't have to go too far to find her.  Congratulations!!!   

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Hmm, a Silver '74 with an L82 and an M21?  You know, for some reason, that just sounds like a great car to me!!

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I wanted a Corvette my whole life, but I never dreamed of all the wonderful people I would meet because of it!

Sounds like a real nice ride. As for your questions on air cleaner and carb, The cowl induction air cleaner is a good one already. You can gain a little bit of performance if you remove the air door inside the hood. That will let cooler air enter the air filter all the time instead of just when your foot is on the throttle. The switch that opens it is located on the back side of the accelerator pedal and only opens when it is at full throttle.

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Brian - NCM Lifetime Member

73 coupe L48, Flat-top pistons, Performer RPM Heads, Crane Cam and roller rockers, Holley 650 vac sec. Performer intake,
3.55 gear BTO 200-4R trans,
Leather seats, Seatbelt Plus 3point seatbelts, Pioneer CD player
Magnaflow Exhuast System

Hi Brian - thanks for your info. What you have suggested is a great start for what I need and want at the moment. Down the track I will eventually get the engine re built and toughen it up in the process. But tht will be along way off and for now your suggestions are excatly what I am looking for. I'll defiantly do what you said and see how it goes! Oh - when you say the distributer 'recurved' does that mean getting the point redone for improved timing etc? Cheers

Recurving the distributor means that they/you adjust the amount of travel that the advance will move. The stock distributor will move about 14degrees. So if you start at 12degrees then full advanced will be about 26degrees. Allowing it to travel another 8-10degrees will let it advance to about 34-36degrees. That is where the performance folks say is best for power. The other thing that is done is changing the springs and weights in the distributor which controls the curve/timing of when all this happens. This process is best done on a distributer machine but can be done without that but takes more time.

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Brian - NCM Lifetime Member

73 coupe L48, Flat-top pistons, Performer RPM Heads, Crane Cam and roller rockers, Holley 650 vac sec. Performer intake,
3.55 gear BTO 200-4R trans,
Leather seats, Seatbelt Plus 3point seatbelts, Pioneer CD player
Magnaflow Exhuast System

Splendid choice mate. Good to see you back."T"

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Hi Waz!!  Nice ride you got from "down under".  Boy that Ebo guy sure looks funny don't he!!! lol

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Congradulations.  I know exactly how you feel, I just brought home mine yesterday after a 2 year search for just the right one.

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Thanks so much. What did you buy?