Absolutely. Way more fun than driving it 

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I ordered my stainless lines from Corvette Depot in Ontario which I believe translate to Corvette America for you.  My lines were almost right on I never touched the crossover line on the front it fit right in, and all the other lines were very very close.  I guess a person has to get lucky once and a while

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If they are a subsidiary of Corvette America then the lines were likely Lone Star. When CA sent me replacement rebuild calipers under warranty they came in Lone Star boxes so I assume most of their brake items would. And per an earlier post, when I was at Carlisle last year the Lone Star parts matched up perfectly with the original master cylinder to pro valve lines I brought with me. 

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Vince, I like your avatar!

Just curious, did you ever ask Lone Star where you could buy their lines?


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I asked through the the "contact us" link on their home page. They never replied. Must be a big secret. 

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holy engine crud batman, so it's been 5 months since I posted an update. Slow go but getting. Everything put together and nearly ready to try a start. Just a couple odds and ends to do but am going away for 2 weeks next weekend so won't try to start until after that. 

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PS - sorry grapevine for long ago not thanking you for the like on my avatar. Likewise on the F4 for yours. A favorite of my youth. I spent a couple years as a middy in 76-78. Though in summer 1 I was on a frigate tailing the America I never saw an F4 on carrier ops as in the summer of 77 they had just put Tomcats onboard - now they're museum pieces. I did though get to race along side an F4 down in TX, kind of back '82. Leaving Austin driving by Bergstrom there was a phantom rolling on T/O- I had to have some fund in the vette keeping up with him on such a nice flat straight terrain. But once he was in the air he had me. 

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Chances are it was attached to the metal toe board splash shield, on the bottom side of the firewall there.




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Thanks - I'll take a look there. 

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Figured out where the black ground lead came from - cruise control transducer. Since it's mounted to plastic it needs a ground. Reason I didn't know where it came from? Because the cruise has been pulled out since sometime in the late 80's and the wire was just left hanging around thus it wasn't something I removed on this project. Why was the cruise removed - it has to do with modifications to figure out how much faster than 85 mph I could go and subsequent unusual stress on the speedo cable and eventually destruction of the transducer. Never got around to replacing cruise since. 

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Just to close out this thread - car started up yesterday, 10/29. Brakes held which was important as engine ran pretty poorly after 6 years without a start and 13 years since any road driving (and probably still a lot of the same gas in it that was in there in 2003). So I had to ride throttle and brake together to keep revs up for it to run but still move in the driveway at a low speed. 

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