Interesting comment Ken....
I am just the opposite of you...

I wonder how many of US ...(we are a Fraternity of sorts) do most of our Vette related  work (ok its not work)  during the summer months or during the winter....

I drive the cars in the summer...only work on them IF something is bugging me or "just not right" with a car... In the winter I go thru each car "fixing" the little things that I have to "adjust" or preforming major
repairs that I have to get done...or want to get done...  there is a difference between the have too's and the want too's

Ok Guys.... do you do most of your work in the Summer or during the Winter... Just curious?

Bob G.

I do almost all of the work on my Vette in the summer,because I have never gotten around to putting a furnace in my garage,and I store her in my Dads garage in the winter,his isn't heated eitherWhen she is home,I do about 98 percent of the work myself,unless it involves machine or press work ,which I can't do,but know people that can.I like to work on cars,always have,thats why I bought a C3,I can still work on it,it aint got no computer JUNK on it

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Do the projects in the winter & routine maintenance in the summer as the projects tend to take lots of time.

Alan

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Last winter the vette was in storage, so I couldn't work on her.
This year she is in my garage, so I can do those things I didn't get too last summer.
If the cash holds out.

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I turn all of my own wrenches. The only thing that hasn't been done by me was the body work & paint job. I could do the body work but have never shot paint. I did install the ground effects and front / rear bumpers prior to the paint work though.
This winter she will be gettin new gas charged shocks and a shift kit. Along with a chrome B&M tranny pan cover when the kit goes in. I'm sure there will be other things as well but I buy goddies on impluse and don't have anything carefully planned out at this time.

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I actually have no place to work on it other than my gravel driveway.  No garage.  So, it's going to be over 50 degrees, or it will wait.

Tux, you mentioned a chrome trans pan, if I read it right. I have always been told that the chroming causes a pan to retain more heat. Perhaps some other guys or gals can weigh in on the subject. Personally, I don't like to have to clean too much chrome. I go for the easy stuff to keep clean.

Dave

You are correct about chrome retaining more heat. A machinist friend of mine is always giving me grief for the same thing. (He is a aluminium kinda guy) I already have the pan from a previous small block. If I had a heat problem I would have a tendancy to worry about it. I have other chrome parts which haven't had an effect on this motor. I doubt that the change of pans will effect the tranny. Typically I don't drive the car much. 750 miles a year has been the max in the 2 years.
I have Chrome acentuators, valve covers, oil pan, breather top, breather tube, brake resivor cover, wire looms, etc...etc... I don't mind the cleaning. It usuasly only amounts to wiping it off.
I like the oil pan because at a quick glance I can see if the gasket had leaked. Nobody really ever sees it but when I had the motor on a stand it was more impressive. Again it was a hand me down from a former small block. I have a kept all of the original stuff for the "next guy" should someone someday want to change it back.

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