Hey gang... I need your help!

Last fall when I was up on Pocono Raceway, I was making a "lane change" move which was a quick hard move to the right, then quickly back to the left. I was probably going around 40 or 50 mph.

During that move, I heard something metal fall of the car onto the pavement. I stopped to get out and fetch the part, and to this day I have no clue where it came from! Here are some shots of it. I put it next to my keys so you could get a size perspective on it.

Click any of the thumbnails for a larger version!

Thanks!

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|UPDATED|7/17/2002 5:03:34 PM|/UPDATED|

Hey Adam. I've been thinking hard and the only thing I could think that it resembles is a corner piece of the distributor shield. So then I broke out my assembly manual and was looking through that trying to catch something and the closest thing I found is in a drawing I scanned in at the link below.. its circled in red. Wish I was home so I could check my Vette itself.

http://dalekd.tripod.com/mystery_part.htm

Dale,
Thanks! I think you might have found it!
I'll have to crawl under there tomorrow and see if that bracket is missing.

I'm glad to know it's mostly a cosmetic piece!

I'll let ya know!

Nobody, has posted on this in months, but I found it interesting that the same thing happened to me recently, and the part Dale circled looks a helluva lot like the one I picked up(I was going uphill at 50 with the once semi-functional A/C on...A/C died same time the piece dropped..I think)....was curious if Adam still had those pictures...and if you had ever figured out where the part really went..

Scot

Well, I fixed the picture links, as you can probably tell.

As far as finding out where it went, I just assumed that the answer in this thread was correct, but I never went to see if that's where it goes.

hrm...doesn't look like mine, does a little, but not a whole lot...guess I'll check my AIM in that area and see if the piece morphed in the 4 years...thanx for reposting the picts!

Scot

Looks like the starter front support brace, attaches to the front of the relay and to the engine block
Carl