Free Florida Swamp 1985 Chevy Corvette Rescue!! Engine Work Running on all 8!! Christmas Special!! 

What is the website you are always talking about that allows you to see all the automobile sell sites at once?

My grandfather just passed away randy he raised me and taught me everything I know about life and working on cars.

Lesson #1 when it comes to working on cars: Something will always go wrong,lol. Anyway, I love working on cars. I really enjoy it. I can't really think of a much more pleasurable activity, especially when it gets fixed in the end, and you're saving one that has been neglected for a long time.

"I like to do things the hard way, then the right way" I can relate lol

All I can say is Thank you!

Working on the old projects is the most fun!

It's weird having the world behind us. Christmas day was yesterday. Happy boxing day, from New Zealand

Look online for the steps you have to do to set idle . You have to unplug the idle control valve , then set the idle at 800 rpm with the screw on the throttle body , then plug icv back in and set throttel position seensor to .5volts . I had same problem with my 88 corvette . Googlehow to set idle on 85 corvette and click on Willcox corvette instructions , i think it is 11 steps that you have to do in exact order ....

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE 🎄🎁🏁

Thumbs up for your attitude… Thumbs up for your work on the car… Thumbs up for your humor and thumbs up for your sweater… Darn… Now my mouse is broken!!

These videos make me appreciate those who focus more on work than talking….

Randy, Thank you for the endless hours you spend making these videos and to everyone who helps you. An extra special Thank You to Jessica and Nick who unselfishly share you with all of us through the hours you spend in the garage. Merry Christmas to all.

Wow.....what a difference from part 1... Congratulations....nice car! ! And your digital Gauges Work...freaking amazing!!

Randy, Weird Beard is going through every inch of that Coronet! It will be better then new when he's done with it! He's quite the craftsman that Weird Beard is for sure! He pays attention to details and quality!!!

Rannnnnndy, AARing the Swamp Vette! Thank you, man, for bringing us along on this ride. As I told a couple other RU-vidrs today, thank you young man for taking the time and making the effort to bring back to life something that many others would simply scrap. Many of us are glad we can contribute in any way to let you keep doing this. Always stay true to your roots and stay safe, you and yours, during this pandemic.

Wishing you and your family a Very Merry Christmas!

Remember hearing the song, "Yeah she's ugly but she sure can cook"? Same for this vette, "injectors were ugly, but she sure still ran"! Thank you for taking YOUR time and you family's, to bring this to us! Sonny (CT)

Randy, after this car you truely deserve 1 million subs!

EGR that wasn't replaced is still leaking vacuum.. it is good to see you getting dirt under your nails hard core.

Love how when you're working on the car that you're explaining your thought process, sounds exactly like me when I'm working on vehicles, chuckled when you said "oh wow that's going... nope I'm not saying it because as soon as you do, it goes bad" I live by these words

Your dedication to this project is amazing! Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Really have enjoyed your series on the swamp vette, know how much fun these cars can be. I replaced all my interior including seat skins in my 85 corvette with reproduction parts and what a proud accomplishment that was, (could have sold tickets for people to watch me install the new seat covers, lol) I actually daily drove a 84 corvette, (Crossfire injection) all the way through high school, college, and then my first few years of work, it was a very reliable car but was butchered before I got it and I wasn't a fan of the gas odors at interstate speeds coming from the breather. I ended up buying a 85 corvette and daily drove it for about 4 years but had to get something I could haul stuff around in. I still have my 85 vette and it's a lot of fun, if you think the 85 corvette rides rough, you really need to drive a 84 corvette...it had even tighter suspension than the 85. That tune port injection does make the car have slightly better acceleration and smoother idle over the crossfire injection. I'm currently running a hypertech chip in my vette and like how the overdrive engages a bit earlier, (around 36mph) Since these cars have manual overdrive (700R4) it's no problem to shift to overdrive off in slower traffic. This chip also keeps the engine cooler..the fan from factory would turn on around 240°F and with the chip it turns on around 208°F really makes a difference. You should also look into relocating the air temp sensor, it naturally gets hot right above the intake and causes power loss and if you have to sit in traffic, it can cause unstable idle I have found out.

You should keep that beauty Hi from Slovenia

You're doing a fantastic job with SwampVette, Randy! I know the excitement of wanting to get something working and you work until the wee hours of the morning to accomplish it. I'm a bit sad to hear it going to auction after all the hard work you put into it but hopefully someone else can love and enjoy it! Merry Christmas!!

Clean one with dirty title and dirty with clean title... what an effort my friend.. you deserve big round of plause.

She sounds healthy and she sounds great now she’s running on all 8. Keep up the great work and thanks for the awesome content stay safe and take care. Hope you and everyone had a nice Christmas Edited lives the hour long video and can’t wait to see the next one

Happy Holidays everyone!!! I hope all is well randy!! Stay safe!!! 🎄🎄🎁🎁

You can take the EGR, the air blower fan, shock absorbers (if they are in good condition), wheels and brake calipers, from your donor car. I'm just saying.. I truly enjoyed those Corvette videos. Please keep them coming!

You are the best TEC I have ever seen 👍🇺🇸

👍🏽 Good job sticking with it 👍🏽.

Such a satisfying series I know I'm late to the party but this content is always going to draw a crowd! Randy has earned his stripes in this series! Randy is a skilled Mechanic if anyone doubted it watch these videos and if you don't come to the same conclusion your are a hater and need to get real! Impressive

congrats on keeping your sweater so clean

I really enjoy your channel I like the fact you bring back these 80s and 90s cars not to many do that anymore, keep it up and keep the vids coming.

Merry Christmas to you too🌲🥂🎉🎊🎂 Great job waiting to see these Corvette done

Thanks for the upload man. And I LOVE the LONG videos so thank you. Anyone else LIKE the longer videos

Thank You for the video. I worked Christmas as well. I was able to watch this at work. I want to do this exact thing, bring c4 vette back to life. Merry Christmas!

If fixing a car is not a labor of love you are in the wrong field, I can tell that you are a true mechanic, you make amazing content. Ol' swampy will have her day. It may be a beast to fix, but the end result will be amazing

The painting is beautiful.

Merry Christmas, Randy & Family! Thanks for all of your hard work.

Great video. Thanks for putting in all the work so we could watch.

Absolutely! Bring her back to life

I'm giving this video a thumbs up just for that sweater.

Great video. I started watching when Swampvette arrived. So I'm glad to see another Swampvette video show up. Looking forward to further progress with the car.

Thanks i love Corvettes' MERRY CHRISTMAS and a safe HAPPY NEW YEAR to you Randy and your folks

Randy, you were saying EGR valve was bad because it wasn’t holding vacuum. Some EGR valves have a small port in them. This allows fluctuations in the operation of EGR. That way it’s not just on or off. Helps prevent surging.

Little late coming back to check on this car but glad to see you took the time to get it taken care of. Hope you got that EGR taken care of. Great selection on the injectors. I run M-9593-BB302 30# in my 94 formula. I absolutely love the way Ford takes the time to test and publish the specs on every injector Bosch makes for them. With that data you can get incredibly precise characterization for voltage offset and low pulse width adders. Both OBDI in TunerPro RT, TunerCats and OBDII in HPTuners, Haltech, etc. Like within 13-14 millionths of a second per pulse width maximum error with most data points less than 4 millionths.

Merry Christmas to you and your family!! I just got a chance to watch this and it was great as always. Thank you for the entertainment and great distraction during this garbage of a year.

Randy, one thing about my old '61 Falcon......IT WAS EASY TO WORK ON!!! Corvette engine bay sure is crammed!!!! It's what you are used to and what you can handle. MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR! STAY HEALTHY!!!!

I don't mind the long video, in fact I enjoyed all of it. I'm so happy to hear that v8 roar to life! Merry Christmas Randy to you and your family and thank you for getting this car back to how it should be.

Amazing work, Randy! I had a 1987 Corvette back in the day. It was constantly broken! Had the same issues you had plus more. It was such a fun car when it worked. Really enjoying this series. Best wishes on the rest!!

Merry Christmas Randy and folks in Comments! take care of your family and to all a happy new year!

The injecter clips can simply be squeezed and removed with the connector. Great work on this car!

Merry Christmas to you and your family Randy! Thank YOU for all the great content! Get some rest! lol We all know that won't happen, but we can hope!

Excellent video. Amazed at your ability to pull all that apart and get it going in one run. Thanks for clarifying the agreement with wierd beard on the coronet. Found both you guys on RU-vid last summer when you first got the coronet. He is doing the most detailed paint job I've ever seen. Beautiful work and patient teacher he is. BTW, after finding you guys, Vice Grip Garage and Joernone, I purchased a 1966 Beledere and started my own project after be out of the classic car arena 17 years. Thanks for the inspiration!

You sir are amazing. Been watching for a few years and am impressed !

an impressive amount of work.

thanks for the content randy, nice to see swamp vet alive!!...hope you and your family had a merry christmas!

Thank you Randy for sacrificing your night so we can have video content on Christmas Day and Merry Christmas to you and family

You have come a long way, learning great job on your progress

Nice job! Tons of effort has gone into this car. Glad you are closer to having this thing running like new-ish. Looking forward to seeing the videos of the check engine light, and getting the idle sorted out. Merry Christmas!

Enjoying the corvette videos. Hope you had a good Christmas. Happy New year.

Randy, Merry Christmas. I salute you for ALL of your work and dedication.

Good job man ! Vets are high tech and you did a fantastic job. 👏👏👏👏👏

Recently started following and watching your videos. Great content. Thanks for sharing your adventures on saving these cars that are on the brink of death.

Merry Christmas to the man with the Baddest Damn garage on RU-vid ! Loving the look you have nothing else but All American Muscle sitting in your shop ! Look Randy do you realize that ! You are living the embodiment of every mans dreams ! Sitting in bay # 1 Ford Mustang GT & sitting in bay # 2 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray ! You have come along way my man ! Nothing but the best to you & yours in the New Years !

Love the Vette,great build, amazing 🤩 Merry Christmas 🎄🎁

Merry Christmas😻🕯🎄🎄🎄

Have a Nice Christmas/holidays Randy, the corvette engine may need some work still but it runs a lot better now.

Merry Christmas Randy and family. The AAR community is awesome. Great sweater Randy.

Merry Christmas my friend! I love the C4 vettes. I am repainting my 96 C4 now! A lot of channels are getting C4's now and they mentioned their numbers are way up. Thanks for the content! Take care and gods bless you all! David

That silver with red interior looks so good

Good job on the Vette and Ford.

Merry Christmas to your family

Awesome job Randy. She runs very well. Thanks for making great content. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Great job 👍 However why not use the egr valve from the red car? And just an ocd thing . The bolt between the runners on the plenum at the top are on the wrong sides. The bolt with the stud belongs on the driver's side . It's supposed to have a plastic clip for the accelerator cable to clip in. Again great job though.

You should clean up the engine bay and make it like new looking, it would be cool.

Besides notes or pictures, a good way to make sense of the intake plenum bolts is to lay our the parts, and place all the bolts in the holes. They should all have about the same threads protruding on the inside surfaces. BTW need to move the mounting stud for the cables.

Merry Christmas , I Love the Corvette project!!

Merry Christmas to all😀🎅 Awsome car and great to run on all 8 again, V8 sounds so great😀😀 Wrenching on old cars are great😀😀

Merry Christmas grtz from Belgium (europe) Thats a lot of work and that on Christmas eve Thx for sharing 👍✌️

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The Swamp Vette is alive!

Love that you are bringing cars back to life that would probably end up in a junk yard keep up the good work and merry Christmas

You did a magnificent job on bringing back to life.

Randy, you are the most dedicated car guy on the internet! Awesome Xmas show!

You did good buddy! I watched the whole serois in one night. Thanks for the entertainingly continent..

Randy you are unique you did a really great job. it's fun to watch you. Thanks for that. Merry Christmas

I dig the Christmas sweater though

Merry Christmas! Not being critical, but not buying new nozzle orings? That’s called cheap insurance. Also when removing a plenum, start with a rubber mallet to see if it will pop loose. If not put a piece of wood between the v/c and what you are trying to remove. A modified wooden ball bat works great. Cut the bat to about 24”, slice from the cut end going with the grain about 6 - 8” towards the handle. Make the horizontal cut off center so the resulting flat surface is about and inch wide. Do the same procedure on the opposing side if it’s to fat to fit where you need it to go. You should be left with a rectangular lever.

Aw man! Keep this one. I've been watching you closely this past week or two. You put in a lot of work man. You are a hard working guy my friend. Merry Christmas AAR! This was an awesome Christmas Video! I loved the Swamp Vette series!

Weird Beard is a master craftsman. He does not do the job so it looks "Good Enough" He does the job so it is RIGHT, and to HIS standards! Merry Christmas Randy!

Merry Christmas mike you are a true craftsman. Randy I hope you bought him an awesome present, he is the man 🤷🏻‍♂️

Merry Christmas Randy and also for wife and sun !

I didn't have a Christmas but I hope everyone else had a great day I'm on the streets but I'm trying I just hope others are happy sending love from Boston 💯💖💖🙏🙏 Merry Christmas 🎄🎄 and Happy New year ⛄⛄

Good job Randy.. Merry Christ-mas a tous ,,we are of proud of you

Good man Randy and hope you had a great (and exhausted) Christmas day. Appreciate all your efforts.

Free car is always the best car 😃

Hey Randy, Merry Christmas to all of you, and nice work on the corvette.

Merry Christmas Randy and all the best for the new year !😊👍

Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends

Watching you work on these C4’s has made me realize how much better I like this body style than the C5’s and C6’s. I know performance wise most of them weren’t that great. But, man, they sure got the body lines right!