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So the other day a coworker and I were swapping stories about cars coming back from the dead and just doing things that seem impossible in general. So I figured you guys should have some good stories to tell. What's the most amazing thing you've seen a chevy do? I have 2 stories:
The first involves a 79ish Chevy truck I saw at a mud run. It was most likely a 350 and looked worse then our 78 GMC we brought there which was a very hard thing to accomplish. I remember it was flatbed and had these stacks through the bed made out of rusty old oilfiled pipeing or something. It took off through the pit in first gear and at about 6,000 rpm. I could hear the rods knocking and saw all the blue smoke from the oil burning through the stacks. Half way through, the rad cap blew and steam and coolant went everywhere. The crowd cheered cause something went boom. It sat there dead for about 10 seconds with smoke still coming from the stacks. The tractor they used to pull out the trucks with was already on the way. All of a sudden, you heard a starter turning and then a roar and the crowd just go wild. I looked over and saw the driver throw it back in first and take off again. He made it all the way through. I remember him loading back onto the trailer still knocking worse then ever and still burning oil.
The second involves the 229 v6 that originally came in my camino. The poor thing had 159k on it and was driven hard its entire life. In the last week of its life it was so bogged down and tired I couldn't even drive interstate with it because it couldn't get up to speed fast enough. So, I was out driving around town with it one night trying to get some more fun out of it before I put in my 305 I had just bought. I was at a red light when a guy from my school pulls up in his 76 Chevy van. He said he just put in a new 350 and wanted to race. I told him I wouldn't stand a chance ad explained how the v6 was as good as dead and probably only making about 65 horsepower by now. Well, he talked me into it and I had put a plan together. I was going to hold it in first until about 5,000 rpm (way more then it was supposed to go), then shift to second and repeat. Figured that gave me a fighting chance. Well when we took off my plan worked. I was ahead. Just as I was thinking I had him, I heard a loud pop and my oil pressure go to 0, followed by terrible knocking. Turns out it was the intake gasket. Long story short, I siliconed the intake, put new oil in, and raced the van plus 2 more friends' trucks before calling it a night. The v6 was still running when we pulled it out the next day.
So, I'm sure someone here has something better. Lets hear them!
The first involves a 79ish Chevy truck I saw at a mud run. It was most likely a 350 and looked worse then our 78 GMC we brought there which was a very hard thing to accomplish. I remember it was flatbed and had these stacks through the bed made out of rusty old oilfiled pipeing or something. It took off through the pit in first gear and at about 6,000 rpm. I could hear the rods knocking and saw all the blue smoke from the oil burning through the stacks. Half way through, the rad cap blew and steam and coolant went everywhere. The crowd cheered cause something went boom. It sat there dead for about 10 seconds with smoke still coming from the stacks. The tractor they used to pull out the trucks with was already on the way. All of a sudden, you heard a starter turning and then a roar and the crowd just go wild. I looked over and saw the driver throw it back in first and take off again. He made it all the way through. I remember him loading back onto the trailer still knocking worse then ever and still burning oil.
The second involves the 229 v6 that originally came in my camino. The poor thing had 159k on it and was driven hard its entire life. In the last week of its life it was so bogged down and tired I couldn't even drive interstate with it because it couldn't get up to speed fast enough. So, I was out driving around town with it one night trying to get some more fun out of it before I put in my 305 I had just bought. I was at a red light when a guy from my school pulls up in his 76 Chevy van. He said he just put in a new 350 and wanted to race. I told him I wouldn't stand a chance ad explained how the v6 was as good as dead and probably only making about 65 horsepower by now. Well, he talked me into it and I had put a plan together. I was going to hold it in first until about 5,000 rpm (way more then it was supposed to go), then shift to second and repeat. Figured that gave me a fighting chance. Well when we took off my plan worked. I was ahead. Just as I was thinking I had him, I heard a loud pop and my oil pressure go to 0, followed by terrible knocking. Turns out it was the intake gasket. Long story short, I siliconed the intake, put new oil in, and raced the van plus 2 more friends' trucks before calling it a night. The v6 was still running when we pulled it out the next day.
So, I'm sure someone here has something better. Lets hear them!
oke: :nanawrench:
