Queenie on Display.

[Tyler Townsley]

http://www.rogerscorvette.com/inv/special/88ZR1_Prototype/index.htm (http://www.rogerscorvette.com/inv/special/88ZR1_Prototype/index.htm)

Tyler

[Daniel_Mc]

Tyler,

She looks great! Queenie has come a long way since I first saw her in 01.

Daniel

[ZZZZZR1]

Tyler,

She looks great! Queenie has come a long way since I first saw her in 01.

Daniel

I agree!

That car is a piece of "corvette" history... NOT just ZR-1.

:cheers:

David

[zedrone]

looks good, Tyler. Is she up and running?

Ed

[Tyler Townsley]

looks good, Tyler. Is she up and running?

Ed

Yep. Figured you were still in the shadows.

Tyler

[Blue Flame Restorations]

Looks great, Tyler. Can't wait to get mine running.

Brett

[tomtom72]

I can read the narrative a million times and I still get chills! Nice writing Tyler, it has gravitas!

She looks wonderful!:thumbsup:

:cheers:
Tom

[ZR1North]

I can read the narrative a million times and I still get chills! Nice writing Tyler, it has gravitas!

She looks wonderful!:thumbsup:

:cheers:
Tom
Ditto for me, Tom, Tyler. That was/is a great way to tell the story.

[alwayscode390]

That is an awesome car. Great work ... keep it up :) ---

[Hog]

I can remember when "Prototype" vehicles would run down the assembly line. There was a gaggle of engineers/managers that would follow the car and take pictures. They would wait at the bottom of the lifter that brings down the body onto the chassis.
At my workstation there would be the "prototype" parts in a bag that said whatever year the parts were for, usually the MY after the current MY I was assembling.
I literally had to ask them to move out of the way so I could attach the air filter to the throttle body housing and tighten the gear clamps. They would get in the way of and stand on air hoses. Opened the "special bag" containing the plastic part that connects the t-by housing and the air filter assembly, tighten 2 gear clamps, attach some vaccuum hoses/electrical connectors, all the while 1 of the engineers had a stopwatch to see how long my process took. My union rep always told us that whenever you saw an engineer with a stopwatch to take your time. If you were too fast, "they" would add more work into your process.
I got in, got out and let the car pass me onto the next station and the group of engineers and spectators followed. It was pretty exciting, at least as exciting as it could be when working on the assembly line.lol
I'm sure it was similar at the rest of the GM plants.

Beautiful car, great story and those rims/tires must be priceless, along with the car.

Is that the same engine (Phase II) thats in Brett's car?

peace
Hog

[alwayscode390]

Neat story :)

Is the Phase II a "hotter" engine than the production run engine? ---

[Tyler Townsley]

Neat story :)

Is the Phase II a "hotter" engine than the production run engine? ---

According to Geoff the Phase II did have slightly more HP due to the fact they did not have to meet emissions and could be 'calibrated' based on HP figures rather than emission compliance figures. The weak spot was the chains, they were simplex in design and were not strong enough to withstand the higher rpms.(+5000). The chains in my engine were mfg in 2003 and are actually stronger than the production duplex chains used in 90-96 production. Geoff still made me swear to never rev over 5K.

Queenie and Lizzy have Phase II motors assembled by GEoff Jeal. (He currently has been made Head of driveline and engine platforms for Chrysler, drives a 500+hp 300C) Geoff insisted on using engineering sample DIS modules and injectors, it took me 2 years to finally address and solve the problems associated with my engine. It took me a week to solve and address the same problems with Lizzy.

By the time I got everything ironed out the motor was trashed from fuel problems created by using prototype 80s injectors with alcohol laced fuel. It ran but I was never happy with it. In 2011 the drive train from EX5011 surfaced and I bought it. That motor and mine will be used to assemble another engine. The original engine assembled for Queenie has 1 of 3 forged cranks made for the Phase II motors and updated cam chains. One of the attractions of using the drivetrain from EX5011 is I have a known trail of the car and drivetrain. That car was used by California Street Rods to make build an early model roadster for the Oakland Show. It arrived there sans body panels but intact drive train. The drivetrain was used to mock up the engine installation as there were no production units availble. Once a production unit was made available the Phase II was removed. They destroyed the tub but kept the engine until 2011 when they brought it to Carslile to sell.

Tyler