The car sounds good. Good to see someone else that doesn’t go to the floor immediately with a cold engine. I see that a lot on u tube from guys letting us “hear” the exhaust. Like your car.
It's not a stingray, pump the gas pedal then turn it over . Pumping the pedal while you are turning it over only floods the engine. You'll find it starts much faster the way I described. Nice looking car!
The long crank is not because it's a carb, or because he pushed the gas too much. It's because there was no gas due to either a leak in the Quadrajet carb fuel bowl, or it's letting air in the fuel line allowing fuel to drain back to the tank. Try a check valve on the fuel line. if the bowl is full of fuel, one pump should start it and engage the choke. Very common Quadrajet issue on C3 Corvettes.
Beautiful car! If you've ever taken a ride in a Corvette with side pipes then you know how much heat they make. Especially in the summer. Still, a fun ride for cruising. 👍
That chip is from the door hinge flange needs to be ground back a little. You can also fix the chip yourself. Labor of love my friend. Enjoy that beauty.
Those are made by Patriot Exhaust. I just bought the 65" lakes style for my '76 L-48 ... hoping it sounds killer but not loud. Had Patriot pipes 35yrs ago...loved them.
Pump it 2 or 3 times, crack it too 1/8 throttle, turn key. Keep it running with your foot for a min. Every carburetor car I’ve ever driven…including the ones where the choke is either not there(racecar, or street car with a Holly), or removed, or it actually kinda works(rare).
Today’s gas evaporates quickly, that’s why the carb is dry after about a week, which requires turning the engine over a few times to get fuel to the fuel bowl to feed the accelerator pump....
Maybe don’t start a car in the garage with the garage door down? Probably 175 HP at the crank, but no smoke, but the paint looks reall solid. Great color.
Sweet car in great condition! I’m jealous! I’m looking for 1973 or older Stingray. They don’t have catalytic converters! With the side pipes they sound awesome!
You can fix the chip yourself for less than $100 if you know what you are doing. Plenty of Fiberglass experts on RU-vid. I love the Dark Claret red paint with matching interior. That's my favorite color combo for 1980.
Funny how you said people need to learn, yet you state the incorrect process yourself lmfao. If the chokes set correctly and working, u put the pedal to the floor 1 time to set the choke then crank it up.
@@raymondbrockel1733 Key word IF the choke is set correctly. Not to mention it depends on how long the vehicle has been sitting for on whether or not one pump is enough to start the car. Also not all carburetors have electric chokes, some may have manual chokes and people might not know about them. Therefore my point still stands
You shouldn't have to be "pumping" the pedal like that to get it to start. It sounds like your fuel bowl is near empty. If the fuel bowl was filled, a simple depress of the pedal should be enough to start it. There's two things that could be going on here (It sounds like the first one): 1.) The well plugs in your carb are leaking. So after the last run of the engine it was hot, the engine cools down and the plugs that fill these casting holes are allowing gas to seep through into the manifold on the cool down process. Pretty much the only way to verify this is to take the airhorn off the cab after an extended period of the engine being off and physically look in the fuel bowl. 2.) Incorrect preload amount on your lifters. Here's two videos to get you started if it turns out to be that: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5EGlb_VpTAw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rKUkPS9_aL8.html
I actually think the hard time starting is because of what I was doing in the vid. I started pumping the pedal 3 times then turn the key. It usually starts right up. I think I was actually flooding the engine and doing it wrong lol. Learn something new everyday. I didn’t grow up with these cars so it’s all new to me haha. So simple things might take me a second to figure out
@@Roscosgarage Neither did I. Grab a carburetor rebuild sheet and take a look at it's operation. Once you understand how it works you'll understand if you're flooding it or the fuel bowl is actually empty (would happen pretty much every couple of days it's started vs semi consistent flooding, pump twice, three times, then back to two pumps, etc). Have a look at this video, it's pure gold: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_BTEdWt2V3s.html -Pat
1000 dollars is cheap if they do it right. That lil blemishes location makes it to where the painter also has to blend on the driver's front fender and blend out the clear so pretty much painting and clear coating 2 panels plus bodywork. What a great price. Hope it turns out good
Video doesn’t do side pipes justice . If you loosen that breather cap nut a little and pour about a table spoon or so of gasoline in that little cone it should fire right off
Dude please....Open the garage doors....I was literally choking for you wondering if you ever were gonna allow some fresh air in there....4 minutes is way too long to be in an enclosed area with a car like this.
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party and Greta FFF global inc. gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing petrol stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any more....:-((
I’m not sure how much I would believe that. Politicians can talk all they want But I don’t understand where we are getting all the electricity to power these vehicles. Electricity comes at a cost and we have to Farm it. I wouldn’t write off Gasoline vehicles just yet. We are a long ways out
it's possible to convert gas cars to ethanol, which burns clean and is easier to make sustainably. I don't think combustion cars will go away, but I do think gasoline's days are numbered.
@@lettuce7378 Sadly in Germany Mrs. Bärbock hates combustion engines and wont allow the tax reduction for alcohol powered engines they will be taxed with high climate fines too
Dude, that's not straight piped at all, you have baffles. I've got the OBS stainless sidepipes on my '77 that are the 4 tubes that come out behind the tire and go into the side pipe. Without baffles it'll rattle your skull
