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secondchance · 11-21-2017

Back in 2014, I had a mechanic friend of mine take out LT5 and disassemble to save some time and aggravation. Block, heads and parts were boxed up and hauled to engine builder for steam/solvent cleaning followed by short block assembly using 4" liners, pistons, etc... At the same time, I had to move the engineless car to Jim V's garage.
Lets just say I had a towing service per membership for up to 100 miles free in case of failure. I called the member service and the flat bed arrived at the mechanic friend's house. He saw my ZR-1 with nose pointing up and raised about 4" in the front. I told him the car couldn't move under it's own power, slipped him a Jackson and he towed it to Jim's with no fuss. After 2-3 months, Jim hosted an LT5 install gathering and we had the car running in 3 days.

11-21-2017	#8
secondchance Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: McLean, VA Posts: 3,730	Re: TOW vs. Spare doughnut a discussion Back in 2014, I had a mechanic friend of mine take out LT5 and disassemble to save some time and aggravation. Block, heads and parts were boxed up and hauled to engine builder for steam/solvent cleaning followed by short block assembly using 4" liners, pistons, etc... At the same time, I had to move the engineless car to Jim V's garage. Lets just say I had a towing service per membership for up to 100 miles free in case of failure. I called the member service and the flat bed arrived at the mechanic friend's house. He saw my ZR-1 with nose pointing up and raised about 4" in the front. I told him the car couldn't move under it's own power, slipped him a Jackson and he towed it to Jim's with no fuss. After 2-3 months, Jim hosted an LT5 install gathering and we had the car running in 3 days.