Re: Mecum auction experience, not a Corvette
Sorry to hear. I don't know why the PO would run water in it. Maybe his last outing was to the drag strip, drained the antifreeze and just ran h2o. Track crews are never very happy when a car starts puking antifreeze down the track.
We used to run a 9 second big block Camaro. I had just built up a new engine (454, with new 4 bolt block) and we took it out in the late fall one year just to ring it out and have some fun. I installed petcocks in the block so we could drain the water out, usually opened them once we loaded it on the trailer and it would drain out before we hit the road. I suppose I forgot to do it this time. Sometime in the winter after a fairly cold week, I went out into the garage and something gold under the car caught my eye. I looked under only to see two freeze plugs on the ground and icicles coming down from the block. Not a good feeling............ For once luck was on my side as the freeze plugs did their job and the block was spared, but I had to tear the whole engine back down to have it checked for cracks.
Hopefully you can get a good engine put together and start enjoying the car soon.
Tom
Sorry to hear. I don't know why the PO would run water in it. Maybe his last outing was to the drag strip, drained the antifreeze and just ran h2o. Track crews are never very happy when a car starts puking antifreeze down the track.
We used to run a 9 second big block Camaro. I had just built up a new engine (454, with new 4 bolt block) and we took it out in the late fall one year just to ring it out and have some fun. I installed petcocks in the block so we could drain the water out, usually opened them once we loaded it on the trailer and it would drain out before we hit the road. I suppose I forgot to do it this time. Sometime in the winter after a fairly cold week, I went out into the garage and something gold under the car caught my eye. I looked under only to see two freeze plugs on the ground and icicles coming down from the block. Not a good feeling............ For once luck was on my side as the freeze plugs did their job and the block was spared, but I had to tear the whole engine back down to have it checked for cracks.
Hopefully you can get a good engine put together and start enjoying the car soon.
Tom
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