 Shaber 1000 here today we're gonna talk a little bit about this vet I'm sitting in right now and impossible future of this car so stick around we'll go over some issues this thing has something I know about some that I really don't know about and we'll go from there so sit tight and let's get into this car okay guys so I I'm sitting here in the vet because well we decided we're just gonna hang on to the vet for a while we had it up for sale for a while at a cheap price but not really cheap enough for this particular car just to see for Corvette it's a 1990 it's got issues it's got a lot of issues it's not running at the moment I have had it running but when you go selling stuff like this you know you get the tire kickers and you get the idiots and like this one guy man was oh my god it was around Christmas time and check this clip out big trouble gas tanks gotta go well that's not up to me that's up to the bar it's a project car no I'm just telling you if the gas tank is shot you know I don't know much about the car I had a run once that's it appreciate that you know you take a part all day long you know but I don't care if the cells are not whether it needs gas tank or I don't care what it needs if somebody wants it for a project car it's not a weekend deal I get that I'm just letting you know that the gas tank is shot well I'm gonna keep it I'll keep that in mind but I'm not gonna keep it all right very good listen I don't mean to upset you I really don't look now every day somebody comes by picking a part look okay it needs this it needs that I get it I get it okay okay that's why it's a project car it's not something you want to pay $4,000 for drive down the fucking route ain't gonna happen you know I mean it's a project car it needs gas tank well then it needs gas tank that's not I can't rebuild the fucking car and totally restore the cell for for green and I'm not wanting of course you can't I nobody's saying that nobody is saying that I don't care what it needs I'm telling you everything I know about it and that's it and I appreciate it's a used car that's it it's a project car you're probably going into stuff I don't know about that's not up to me that's up to the buyer I'm funny what I know but that was just one thing I wanted to check was because of your time what the situation is like you said it's had a couple years before they moved it over here so that's always a concern today I mean I'm a person that don't pick the fucking car park expecting think you're gonna drag it out of here for a hundred bucks because they won't happen I don't have to sell it I'll eat just as good tonight as I did last night I don't I don't need to sell it okay don't sell that's fine it's a lot I don't care you know I started working my dad's junker 10 years old I'm as he certified on about everything you get certified on I don't need to hear a bunch of bullshit about what the fucking car needs what it's going to take because already know and if somebody's interested in it for a project they're gonna know to I would be approaching this just as that so it's just a finding it's just something I just found was okay good well you know I need a tank so it's just something else to factor into it that's all well in fact they're into it I don't care I really don't you know I had an offer a thousand dollars but I can't pay you for two more months can you hold it for me fuck that I'm not you know it is what it is for a grand take it or leave it I don't care the project it's not something you won't put together in today okay so that's the kind of stuff idiots that I was dealing with about two weeks ago had a had a guy stop and I told him you know look I said the first thing I told him I said look dude because you can tell you know you can tell for guy if a guy wants a project car or not so I told him I said the first thing I said I said look man before I even talked to you about this car it's a project car needs a lot of work yeah so he wanted to talk more about us I said I wouldn't look at it stuff and I told him I told me it does have a supercharger but you know it needs to be put back together I said the engine had new cam in it's got new heads on it I said it was just never finished I said I have had it started up he said oh so I gotta fix it well I'm not gonna fix it you know and he throws out would you take $3,500 for it and all come back and get it I said no I'm not you know I said I'll take four grand for it and that's it he goes well are you gonna fix it I said dude you get the fuck out of my driveway and get out my driveway now I said I'm not even talking your stupid ass people want you to go and restore something and then want to give you $3,500 for it because I told him I said you know this this car is just not going to drive out of here I said and you're gonna drive it down the road in the weekend I said it's not gonna happen you know I told him straight up this project car said do you understand what a project car is I said it's a project you know and you got them people oh you know it needs this it needs that yeah it does it's a project car Jesus you want a Corvette that's going to just start up and go down the road and you better go to a dealership or something but understandably these these the 90s the C4s they they weren't sought after you know they're not stingrays it's just an L98 nothing special it's not even a stick shift it's an automatic does have a couple good things going for it is convertible it does have it does have a side pipe in the long tube head the side pipes the long tube headers does have aftermarket wheels with the spinners but it's it's got some issues and so that's what we're gonna talk about we decided we've been wanting to get get something for a project and work on it an old car or something we thought well we've got a Corvette sitting out here you know I mean it's not eating nothing it's just sitting here so let's just you know I said if you want to keep it you know we can keep it you know so I found like the original smog pump and alternator so I think I can put that stuff back on do away with that supercharger the only issues I might run into there is you know detuning it I'll get to that here in a minute we'll get under the hood of this thing one of the things I don't know about I've heard three or four different stories it does apparently have a transmission issue but I'm not sure what it is her mom told me it was just slipping but then her son said that it didn't want to move and I I don't know because I asked I said the last time you guys drove that car did you have it towed in for any reason she said no it drove in but he was complaining that it was slipping he's had a couple different transmissions in here so you put and they were just putting stock transmissions in it so the problem with that is you know you go putting a bunch of horsepower in front of this stock transmission and it's just you know you're just gonna burn your clutches up in transmission all the time so we may run into that later on so I thought you know well let's just take next year too if you want nice we'll build it we can always put a for sale sign on it anytime we want to you know but we just had so so many idiots you know come and look at it and picking it apart I said look you know you can pick it apart all day long but I'm not selling a running vehicle that's in good shape I said I'm selling you a project car so you can pick it apart all day long but you ain't gonna get it any cheaper you know that's the price we put on it and that's that's it I wouldn't drop any lower than that so I'm gonna get the hood raised up so it's heavy because you know the whole front of car flipped forward we're gonna get that raised up but there's some wires in here that I don't know what they go to like this one here I don't know what that was for it's just I don't know you know they're they're second owners of this car but you know I don't know what all was done to this car and you know things like that I have no idea about the car other than I did have it running that one time and I started up long enough to make sure there wasn't any knocks in it sounding pretty good but I do know there's some there's a couple planning bolts missing so it was sucking a lot of air you know so a big vacuum like you might as well call it so I did get a stainless steel planum planum bolt kit you know we did order that a while back and way back so I got some bolts to put in it the distributor is not right it's not the right distributor for this car the work but it just wasn't the right one so let's get the hood open up and and I'll show you what I'm talking about there there's what I'm talking about the distributor he's got one they make sell super cool I never did like them but this this is not the right thing for this this is supposed to come all the way back this piece is aftermarket here as you can see where that that's hitting that on that rubber shouldn't set up that high it's not the right I mean it worked but it is not the right distributor I ordered a distributor the original distributor that goes in this engine man there is some smoke coming from somewhere all of a sudden whoo something's burning you see how easy it is up through there something on fire here's the computer the ECM you know I may have to change this they put one of these in here this is what you tune it this is real-time tuner you plug it into your laptop and it's called an ostrich and you can tune it as it's running and I'm sure they had it tuned tried to tune way up and I know he had heating issues with it with it overheating that's why he had to do heads on it but and I do know he put a bigger cam in it I don't know how big the cam is so I don't know about this computer yet this has all been tapped into that's not the original I think this is supposed to be the fuel pump relay some of them were inside there's no relays inside so I think this is the fuel pump relay so I'm not sure what's going on with there there's a couple wires spliced into it that are going up in through the firewall and up into the dash so I'm not sure about that I do have the battery on a charger right now on a trickle charge on 2 amp charge at an on overnight so like I said I do have a small pump to put back on here I do have a snorkel that goes on here but I don't have the original piece that goes down through here I'm not real worried about that right now let me see here's the power steering pump the small pump sits up here and then the alternator sets over here so I'm not sure if I've got any changing to do here yet because I don't know what you know what always changed to put that supercharger on because this would come around like this and then another piece comes around like this into the supercharger so instead of trying to get that supercharger put back on and everything trying to get it tuned right and everything like that I'm just putting them back pretty much stock other than the cam I'm sure he's those heads I'm sure he's had had had work done on it as you can see it's dirty as hell but time I turn the camera on so walk around here at this other side here I know on the other side there's a plenum bolt missing there's one down back in here I think that's missing if I remember right so I got some stainless steel bolts the vacuum lines are going to be a pain you know where they go that's what that piece right up here is another vacuum line the small pump I'm probably not going to hook up because it's got the long tube headers on it so the small pump wouldn't have been hooked up anyway on it I'm not sure about the air conditioner here's the fluid fluid looks not real bad I've seen worse kind of looks a little milky but it does not smell burned so as far as the slipping issue goes or whatever I don't know if the clutch clutch is just let loose and what I'm like I said I have had it running if I can if I can find that clip I'll throw it in right now yeah this this little piece here's an aftermarket for the bigger distributors what it is is this top can come off of here I've only got one screw in it holding on to try to keep the moisture out of it so what this would do would come back in this cover should be on here and this would come back and cover that that distributor up originally it does have it looks like this piece right here I believe this is aftermarket I'm not positive on that but I believe this part right here is aftermarket but he was just trying to pull all the horsepower he could get out of this thing and still driving on the street you know what I mean but it's just a 350 really that's all it is it's a 350 guys it is not locked up it will crank over sometimes and once we brought it out here like I said I had it started up in their garage and then we had it towed out here once we had a towed out here nothing so I do know they had trouble with the VAT system on it and for you guys that don't know what that is it stands for vehicle anti-theft system so the VAT system I do know that it locked them in one time it wouldn't let them out and wouldn't do nothing now what's going on is if you go to crank it over it's a crap shoot whether it's going to crank for you or not like it shuts everything down no spark no fuel pump injectors won't fire and that's all signs of a VAT system problem now I'm gonna bypass that you can buy a little thing that you plug into the VATs wire and it's real easy I will get into that with you once that comes in I didn't order that that's like 25 to 50 bucks depending I did order however resistors all right now when it if you've I'm sure most you guys have if you've had a key it looks like that has that little chip in it that's not really a chip it's really just a resistor okay so I've I've ordered a pack of 15 and that's how many different resistors this vehicle this year vehicle would have was 15 different ones so I ordered a pack of 15 I'm gonna make my own it was like five or six dollars for him but that's what so I don't know if the key was the issue itself or if the VAT system which goes there's a wire up into the tumbler up where you put this in at and it measures resistance so it knows whether somebody's trying to steal the car or not now as you can see that side there you can't hardly see that metal piece like you can on this side so I do know they was having trouble with that before so hopefully that'll take care of that and like I said I've got an original distributor for this thing I do believe I can put everything back together over there the small pump alternator I may do a small pump delete we'll just have to see about that which is not a big deal it's got the original alternate alternator for the the water pump sounds a little funky to me so I I'm not sure I think that one is the one that runs backwards so I don't know if it's got the original water pump on it if it's been changed so I'm still not sure about the heating issue what was causing this problem there's numerous he never had a heating issue until we put the supercharger on that's when the things started running hot and stuff so like I said I'm not sure about about what's going on there of course you know it's dirty as hell it needs cleaned up and there's some extra parts in here see there's something clicking up under this dash these wires I do not know where they go or what they're for there's an extra coil that's coils no good I don't I don't think it's in good you guys hear that it's making a clicking noise I don't know what that's what's going on with that so I mean I'm all for trying to make things fast and go fast and all that but something like this you were second in there they bought it when it was only like I don't know 10 years old maybe the car wasn't very old and they bought it and they've had it since so they've had it over 20 years that I'm aware of but when you have something like that it's just a C4 I mean why you know I mean never took it to the drag strip he never had it on circle track or anything like that you know something like yes with a convertible I just want to cruise you know what I mean I just want to just want to cruise it around a little bit just an everyday driver get in it drive it and have fun with it you start doing all this stuff trying to make it fast you're you know there's frozen cons to it you're gonna there's some stuff you want to have to give up in order to do that you know so like in order to make this really super fast you know you're gonna have to do stuff to the transmission maybe even change a whole transmission depends it should have a stall converter put in it it should have had the racing clutches in the transmission it should have had a shift kit you can't just throw a big engine down and something guys with a lot of horsepower and then say I'm gonna go fast it doesn't work that way there's a lot more to it than that it isn't positive track rear end but like right now I jacked it up on a this thing does not want to move you can't push it or anything you can pull it but you cannot push this car I jacked it up and the wheel back wheel spin free so it must be the front the front front brakes I don't know it doesn't like move forward so we have to get that sorted out so this is gonna be over time there's gonna be a lot of videos on this thing sorry about the wind excuse me like let me show you something here I mean this this is called a battery tender I don't know if you can see that light on down there you plug it in and this is not like this not original there's a bunch of wires going into this thing that shouldn't be this goes to the alternator this goes to the alternator and and there's a wire here that goes to the alternator I don't know why there's two this is a this is a ground wire it's red but it's a ground so like I said I don't know it's a crap shoot you can turn the key on and the fans will kick on but you don't hear a pump or anything sometimes it'll crank over sometimes it won't when I say crank I don't mean start I mean it just it'll crank but sometimes it won't crank so let's see what our chances are of it cranking today because yesterday wouldn't crank and when you get it to where it will crank like I said it won't start but it'll crank and then you might come out 15 minutes later and it's not cranking again so I believe the vast vast system it's kind of messed up point see now there's nothing no lights no nothing so there's some issues there see the fans are running so had it on turbocharged and batteries still dead so it probably won't even crank now no so the fans shouldn't come on when the keys on they should come on when it gets up to temperature but so now I might come out five minutes from now no and it won't even do that so like one of these wires has to be hooked up like so like right now there's nothing going in to the system no power is going into the system so that's just some of the things we're going to be doing on this thing I am going to go in today in the garage and I'm going to grab that pump an alternator and see I believe the pump goes up here in the alternator over here does have two alternators I think one spins one way and one spins the other way so one would be sitting here which would make it be spinning backwards and the original one would be sitting here which would make it spin clockwise so like I said that's so I'm probably going to have to change the belt now there's a couple extra belts in there so that would be my guess so anyway I'm going to check that out here a little bit but I'm gonna go ahead and get this video up for put up for you guys and you know it's like you know the poor girl just needs like that mirror wouldn't be nothing to paint but the hood has some cracks in the gel coat I think most of them will buff out there's some cracks back here along here that's not the fiberglass that's just the gel coat so I might be able to buff that out I'm not sure this has been painted back here for some reason I don't know why but it has been so anyway that's the story on the vet it may be a haunted vet I don't know we may get into that later we'll have to see so anyway guys thanks for watching I appreciate it so yeah that's what we're gonna do we're just going to big hood huh look at that thing man it's a monster here we'll take a thumbnail like this okay that'll be our thumbnail so hopefully I will have its own playlist it'll just be about the vet so that's what we're looking at we decided why you know we're gonna sell this one then we're gonna have to go look for another car that this thing's already bought it's already paid for you know over a year or two maybe we can get this old girl back on the road again I don't know we'll see yeah it looks a little longer like that okay so there'll be a sticker out for more on the vet it's gonna be a lot of fun guys fun guys mushrooms okay so we'll see you in the next one she better admit the man legend gone for now and like her mom said you know you guys want to keep the car just keep the car you want to sell it sell it but she's told told us told me several times won't you guys just keep it all right so I guess we won't hold on to it for a little while we get tired of it or you know something ain't right with it we'll just put the sign back on the windshield again so we'll see you in the next one bye bye guys and take care