1967 427 Corvette Driver restoration in the Team CJ Workshops

This vehicle is currently being offered for sale!

 

Carlos has finished installing the custom carpets, the doors and lamp pods have been installed and adjusted, and the new serpentine pulley system is now in place. We are running out of excuses not to fire this thing up!

Doors and headlamp pods  now installed	Carlos re-dyed your original  door panels
New serpentine pulley set installed	Carpet installation now complete

Trial fitting hood...

Upgrading the Vette's carpets...

Old carpeting is tired
Measuring and cutting new bulk carpet	Installing vinyl binding to carpet  edges
Left rear arch completed	Installing stereo wires	Rear bulkhead now completed

Starting point a roll of high quality black carpet	The old jack cover

Engine and transmission now installed..

We have now completed your engine rebuild and expect to have the big block and new 5 speed installed in the next few days...

Engine assembly in progress...

Pistons now installed		Installing the camshaft
AFR heads going into place

Time for final assembly...

Micro-polishing crankshaft	Setting ring gaps
	Installing pistons and rods

With all the machine work completed, we stripped the block back to bare iron and gave it a fresh coat of Chevrolet orange. The last photo in this sequence shows Kevin balancing your new crankshaft. Final assembly is underway as I post this update...

Masking and painting the 427 hood stinger...

Darrell masking off to paint the stinger		Painting the Ermine White
Javier unmasking prior to applying clear coat	Ready for clear coat	The finished article

The photos I took yesterday evening in the artificial booth light made the Rally Red look a little lighter than it really is. In natural sun light this morning, you get a better idea of the true color.

		Surfacing the big block

Painting in progress...

Slick Sand being blocked	Glasurit filler primer applied
	Cylinder honing in progress

Time to address the block...

Block has a number of bad helicoils	Magnafluxing in progress	Forged rods
New crankshaft	Align honing main journals

More parts delivered, including TKO five speed, ss headers and exhaust, Dr. J's carb, Wiseco forged pistons, etc, etc..

Dr J carb	TKO 600 five speed	Big bore headers

Lots of parts delivered (including some very cool alloy heads), seat retrim underway, bodywork in progress...

Trimming seats
Bodywork underway	Car was pretty wavy so we are going to smooth  things out a little before we paint	Fabulous AFR heads
	More goodies arriving every day!

Suspension, steering and steering upgrades now in place...

We have gone about as far as we can go with the suspension and brake upgrades until we receive the next batch of components, which should be later this week.

	We are still waiting for the rear spring
	Massive front sway bar	Huge Wilwood rotors installed up front
Front suspension upgraded to C5 spec +	Everything so far has fit perfectly, including the power steering rack

Steering and suspension upgrades...

We will be using some very serious Wilwood brakes at both ends of this car....

Rear hubs and 4 pot calipers		13 inch rotors up front
Massive 6 pot calipers for front	New tandem master cylinder and proportioning valve	Front hubs barely weigh 2 lbs

We have now removed and disassembled your engine. As we suspected, the cause of death was a spun rod bearing...

	Engine in the machine shop for post mortem examination
	The smoking gun - a spun rod bearing

I am pleased to report that your car arrived safely in Austin on Tuesday morning and we already have the mechanical rebuild underway. The first task is to pull the engine and investigate what caused its sudden and dramatic demise.

I hope you enjoy following the work in progress over the coming months.

	Original 427 engine will be rebuilt	Rockers are way out of adjustment