1989 ZR-1 Pilot #004 Thread

[1989ZR1#74]

Originally Posted by Blue Flame restorations

Tyler may have a point.......

It's parked by a bunch of early C1s right now. It has lasted two weeks in the dark with them so far. So I bet it could hold it's own. If anything happened to it The C1 dogs would have to answer to it's big sister 53#286. Not to mention a 61 RPO 687 fuelie.

[Blue Flame Restorations]

It's tough to beat up on The King Of The Hill. I wonder if four 53's might give it a tough fight though. I have four of them here right now. They get hungry from time to time. #067, #096, #245, #274. Only two are mine though. The other two are in the home stretch of their frame-offs. They're kept company by an 89 and two 90's and two 54's. It's getting crowded.

I need a shop like Erics!

[zedrone]

Originally Posted by Tyler Townsley

Fore those who do not know ED here is an intrduction. He has been around for a long time. He is the discoveror of the graveyard.

http://www.zr1netregistry.com/ZR1_story.htm#4

What I found was there is a oil pressure sensor on input on the 89 and earlier cars. If you do not get oil pressure, you get no fuel pressure and the injectors do not fire. In the 90 and later it looks for a tach signal from the dis module. Took me 2 years to finally figure this out. I ran a wire to the oil pressure sensor and it worked.

Tyler

Its always the simple stuff. We went through three chips that supposedly had the VATS disabled (and didn't). Hearing that Phase I light off for the first time, run on 4 cylinders, then 5, 6, and finally 8 was one of the best moments of my life. Five years of unbelievable blood, sweat, and tears.

Ed

[Z51JEFF]

Does anybody know how many of these early cars were Metallic Red?I was just going through my 91 owners kit looking for something and theres a picture of the back of a MR car in the small info book.

[1989ZR1#74]

Originally Posted by Z51JEFF

Does anybody know how many of these early cars were Metallic Red?I was just going through my 91 owners kit looking for something and theres a picture of the back of a MR car in the small info book.

At least 6...

004 (DRM/Saddle w/saddle seat backs)
at least 4 that went to Europe (Car labeled #6 DRM/Saddle w/black seat backs)
078 (DRM/Black)

Can you scan the picture? What color is the interior?

[1989ZR1#74]

Earlier I posed a question to John Heinricy about the Driver Information Center (DIC) Full power light not being present on #004 as it is on #074. It appears that the other Pilots are also missing the Full Power Light as seen in the Yellow Riverside early press introduction ZR-1:

[1989ZR1#74]

Ther Red/Red Riverside Pilot also had the battery "L98" DIC:

Note This Pilot has the 8000 RPM Tach.

[Heinrocket]

Hi all. I have not been able to get back on since the site move until today. I thought I was more IT literate but...
I'll try to pick where this thread has gone since last week.
Later

[1989ZR1#74]

John, Glad to have you back. Is there a difference between a YE8 Engineering Test car and a WD1 Pilot car? or are those RPO codes interchangeable? Eric

[1989ZR1#74]

I determined #004's internal GM number today. Corvettes White was kind enough to share the fragments of #010's build sheet with me and I just realized that the order number for #010 appears to be it's P number:

P9Y066



Using that info I went back to the fragment of #004 build sheet and found this in the order number:



So I think S9YKH1 is its internal number 9 = 89 Y = Corvette,
S = Sales?
KH1= King of the Hill 1?

Any thoguhts? Eric