Cheapest race car ever! Mystery Grand Sport Corvette | Casey's 80s Garage
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2020
- Casey Putsch introduces the mystery C4 Grand Sport Corvette; the cheapest race car ever in his shop for a new Casey's 80s Garage series! Thank you to Avalon King Armor Shield Ceramic Coating. This stuff really works to protect your paint with a jewel like shine on the microscopic level.
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New Casey’s 80s Garage series! Are you excited?
Super pumped man. Glad your doing something like this cause most other car you tubers would never even think about something like this.
I love the new car! I have been a Corvette fan ever since I was a kid. That paint job looks great. It is fun that you found a Corvette in colors that match the Viper.
I know this might sound weird but was that races by Heller Racing? If so I think I have some old pictures of it before the crash and the repaint.
Very excited, because this is a very good car to work on. It has all the makings of a great racer, all you have to do is sort the gremlins out.
Two things that stand out to me as is: 1. the home piping job, oil might not flow right like you said 2. the roll cage looks ok, but at the same time, there's some weird things going on with it. Almost as if it wasn't finished. So maybe give it a careful inspection.
Heck yeah!
Can you do a episode showing the differences between the blue and yellow corvettes. Whats the difference under the skin?
Great idea
You know Casey. You’re crazy.
And I love it.
No. The blue Chevy is a unique experience and has nothing to do with being crazy.
It’s a very very smart buy.
For example, the driver sits lower in the car than most cars. Just this 1 feature is worth buying the car to experience that superior driving position.
Casey loves his white stripe on blue front mid ship engine clamshelled sports cars and I do too! 😍
No, it’s all about perfect cornering with rapid acceleration up the rev range WHILE achieving maximum grip on the road surface so you experience all the tension between the road surface and the chassis.
There’s NO extra turning force caused by a rear mounted engine or slow cornering effect caused by all wheel drive, etc...
FWIW I'd start with some confirmation on the oil pressure to get some information. Most often the oil pressure signal is tapped off the back of the block by the distributor. Normally this is fine as it's directly after the filter in the path. But with all the extra oil plumbing it could be restricted by the time it gets there. I'd start by getting an oil pressure signal tapped off closer to the pump before additional oil path, probably at the oil filter/adapter. Or if it's already one, then the other. The difference between the two could tell you a lot. Need to find out if it's low due to restriction, low pump volume, or just reading low due to bad signaling.
Love watching & learning 70 years on this earth so far and used to go to Elk Hart Lake for about 20 years Thru the Canam days watched John Greenwood seeing you are talking Corvettes. Cart was my next favorite series they were amazing but in some ways crude. Got to see so many wonderful drivers in all the series unfortunately a number that never got to retire.
Hi john.
Watch my channel cause I’m doing more racing that all those old guys could dream of doing back in the day. I’m also using the most high tech cars humans have ever created. I own 400+ race cars and I’ve tuned 80% of those 400+ cars myself.
If you combine all the worlds car collections, I’m still better than them.
I actually drive my cars FLATOUT and they’re perfectly tuned to within an inch of their lives!
Woo Hoo :) They did a great job on the GS tribute which basically is all the 96 is anyway.
I think it looks kick ass and I bet it will be a blast to race!
"Thank you Corner Workers" has a whole different meaning if you drive it on the street LOL!
Thanks for doing a video on this car. It definitely had my attention in the background of some past videos. I'm in the processes of getting a friends 1990 ZR1 and have been learning a lot about the C4 Corvettes. I appreciate the time you take with these videos give a lot of us the opportunity to see the inner workings of a "true" race car and your evaluation along with it.
i had one of these as a hotwheels when i was a child
i love it
Oh, here we go!
You had the same thing, I know. I’ve met a lot of guys like you.
You had the exact same car but you don’t have it anymore.
I’ll just leave it at that. 😉
An 85 was my first car. I'm in love!
Absolutely LOVE my C4 Vette! Can't wait to see this one back in action!
A friend of mine’s father years ago, was a huge Ford guy in to 4X4s. But everything he built had a small block Chevy. I ask why, and his answer was just that. “I can break down on the trail and can find the part in the woods that can get me home. You can’t do that with a Ford and god forbid with a MOPAR!” While I’m not a Chevy fan, I never forgot that lesson
Badass!! Those wheels are dead sexy....I love seeing C4s getting their justice, 10k for a race car is a steal in my head.
Can you imagine how much guys will pay from the electric car generation in 20 years time.
This is like owning your own dinosaur.
No way i was drooling over that thing on Facebook marketplace haha
Yeah, you def need a bigger garage and shop along with a lift Casey. GG is outgrowing itself by leaps and bounds. Cheers!
Well, hand over the money then.
Love it! Would be an absolute joy to rip around the track. Another 100hp would really make it shine, however it's still going to be amazing!!
That's so cool.. I freaking swear dude. This is awesome.
I love that brake pedal set up .. would love that in my car lol
This is going to be awesome
Ahhh I was very happy to hear its not a real GS. I APPROVE!
Love it! Would be an absolute joy to rip around the track.
Hey Casey, I don't know if you've done that yet allready, since I've only been a subscriber shortly before you started the Lykan. But could you do a walkthrough where you talk about all the Genius Garage projects and what your challenges with it were? Like did the airplane actually fly?
It doesn’t matter if it can fly or not.
Most humans don’t have a place to live, let alone have a garage or workshop.
Great car. It looks great too.
I have a 94, such an amazing car
It's a nice car. I've never seen brake bias gauges like that in the cockpit before! That would be especially handy if you had multiple drivers, so they could easily adjust bias to their liking without trial and error.
I love it. Gorgeous car, how could you not like it? And for 10k?! Why can't I ever find these things!!!
This is not the first corvette I’ve seen with a 383 but it’s the best corvette I’ve seen running a 383 the other was a C3 with a 45% bend in a previously straight frame
The super t10 was factory on those cars but it had an overdrive unit on the back.
Shout out to the C7 Grand Sport owners who went the full Grand Sport blue, with a white stripe and red fender hashes. I see you out there and I salute you!
many Can Am cars ran the bigblock chevy mill which was the aluminium ZL1 427 Chevy developed for them, which also came in the Camaro COPO ZL1 model .. which is fast to this day
Oh, yes, I was just waiting for you to come along and make that statement.
The big block Chevy install.
BIG mistake!
You change 1 thing and EVERYTHING ELSE is badly effected.
Everything is tuned on a car including the paint.
Put in a bigger motor and ALL your track position around corners goes out the window!
Instead of being in the middle of a road going round a corner, you’re now off the road out the back of a corner running through the trees just like Eric Bana.
Corner enter speed is your motor torque setting.
sweet ride, lots of potential
The C4 corvette has been my dream car ever since I was a kid I'm hoping to get on in the next year or two currently in engineering in college, personally looking for a zr1 just love the shape!
My dad had a silver C4 when I was a kid he would let me steer it into the garage sitting on his lap
YEEEES! Racecar for the WIN!
Also when is the next episode on the Formula Continental coming?
This is badass
Awesome car
Love it
Very cool car.
Very cool. I should have known it wasn't a regular Grand Sport when I saw the roll bar in a previous video.
Those brake balance gauges can cause problems. Being hydrolic, they can make the brakes feel spongy and are an extra thing to go wrong in a critical system. The electric systems are better as they have no moving parts and if they do go wrong, the brake operation will not be effected.
It's funny to me hearing you talk about *lowering* the oil pressure on the engine - I'm so much more familiar with older Honda 4 cylinder engines, where some require *raising* the oil pressure so you don't starve the head.
This is incredibly relevant to my life. I'm already subscribed but HOW DO I DOUBLE SUBSCRIBE!!!!
It’s like a daydream.
Buy the Chevy blue, it’s unique.
nice ride =)
I. LOVE. IT.
I wish my C5 had an adjustable brake bias. I hate the factory fixed setup.. Had so many failures of the ABS, we bypassed that.. which dramatically improved the braking predicability and stability..
The factory knows you more than you do.
They tuned it for racing but you don’t realise that yet.
You say, so many failures, but that’s all caused by you.
You’ve never spoken to an engineer about motor design.
You don’t realise that other components are dependent on the ABS feature working.
If you change 1 feature on a car, you’ve screwed up multiple features on the car too.
GET THIS in your thick head; with ALL GM cars, they’re designed to FINISH BRAKING before you enter a corner.
You’re suited to another brand of car cause they offer braking while cornering.
A Ferrari is the most extreme in that feature.
Even as a slot car, Ferrari won’t brake when you ask it to brake. That car finishes braking halfway round a corner. They’re most extraordinary.
dude!!!!!!!! I almost bought that carrrrrr!!!!!!! I live in Pittsburgh, I swear dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So you’re just gonna NOT let us hear the exhaust? You’re a cruel man Casey, a cruel man indeed.
🥺
Hold your horses!
Looks like an amazing car!!! Would look FANTASTIC next to my 96 Collector Edition!!! Road Trip to Ohio!
That's such a cool corvette
When I was young and with little experience, I put an HV oil pump on a Chevy street engine with a stock pan because I thought more is better. After about 45 seconds of hard driving, the oil pressure would drop when the pan went dry. That and the anger of my apartment neighbors over no shielding on the plug wires taught me to not put racing parts on my street car.
The ole 10 psi per 1k rpm rings true with these motors. I wonder if it has a high volume pump with the stock pan?
Thanks Casey. The gauges haven't been explained "like that". Just a simple tour
Now Casey can tune the brakes for just knocking off some top speed or for dragging the car rear into corners, etc...
Soon he’ll realise he needs to lift his foot heal when braking. And when he rides bikes he’ll be operating both brakes for every braking opportunity.
Gotta Love SBC and c4 Corvette.
From the Red Diagonal Stripe on the Front Drivers Fender I assumed that this was a "Callaway Corvette"!
This caught my attention! Cool that the brake pedal was moved to allow for easy heel toe but odd clutch pedal was left alone.... Right now I’m forced to use my toe to blip the throttle vs my heel which is a bit awkward to do and also apply controlled brake pressure....it’s a poor layout for manuals stock. C4s are a blast to drive though, I love my 93 6spd! We need an anti corvette snob club! Or maybe a “not all C4s are autos or driven by old men” club :)
I'm with ya...Oh sorry, I'm an old man with a C4 convertible automatic and other geriatric upgrades and bug splat. Snobs hate my bug splat, but what can I say, I drive it. ( It cleans off so get over it). I'm still with ya.
daniel strayer absolutely meant no offense...I’m not exactly young either! I just think C4s are the red headed step children of vettes and they are a lot more fun than people (even corvette people) give credit!!!!
@@dwyerpe No offense taken. Sorry if I sounded offended. I'm with ya on the anti C4 snobs. Mine has 118,000 miles. Drive them, race them, rebody them. It's a great car in any of these forms.
higher pressure ported oil pump? Baffled oil pan? Easy modifications
I love this bodystyle specifically. I bought my black LT1 6 speed car about a month ago.
I wish mine had cockpit adjustable brake bias.
Nice! I picked up a black 93 6 speed a few months back, they are awesome! Why do you need the bias? Are you tracking/auto crossing?
@@dwyerpe I plan on bringing it to Road America, Blackhawk Farm, Gingerman etc next year.
@@PEPSl-MAN Awesome! Are you considering mods before hitting those up? Competing or just for fun? I'm wanting to at least hit up mid-ohio at some point with a couple of friends and their cars....but alas have run out of time this year
@@dwyerpe Just for track days. I dont have the money for spec racing just yet. Once I get it on a road course I'll see what I think it needs in terms of modifications, though I still want to keep it as streetable as possible. So far Ive had an ACT stage 2 clutch installed, stoptech pads/rotors, and Nitto NT555 G2 summer tires put over the stock wheels. Next I need to adjust the throttle pedal for downshifting, and maybe look into a catback exhaust.
No, really, a computer can adjust the whole car every second of driving. They’re already doing it on some cars.
Interesting how they silicone the sideview mirrors in place for vibration.
nice i want it
This might be...shitty...but you should sell that one on Cars & Bids. I've never seen Doug's site crash as spectacularly as dreamcarxchange the last two days
Okay first off,
If you did put this in the auction..
I WOULD OF SOOOOOO BOUGHT This! 🔥🔥🔥🔥😩
Second this can be a great way to give ride alongs etc...
But man was this a good find
SUUUPER JELLY
So the worms in my head have been turning and I am thinking I might want to get a beck spyder to build into a fun electric weekend car
I love those worms
Isn't that the same car Hoovie's putting a Subaru engine in with the _Wheee-zherd_ ?
@@danielseelye6005 yeah they arent super expensive depending how much you are willing to do yourself
How is the formula continental coming along? Havent seen much about it.
More to come!
"Oh but Casey, whats that racecar with the v12 youre building??? You gloss over it so fast" haha just kidding
V12 in the rear has nothing to do with this product.
Motors in the back rotate the car when cornering. It’s not a pleasant experience.
If you’re not ready for it, that design will kill you.
It’s rare for a good reason. You should gloss over it and not really promote it.
I read that in Casey's 'internet commentor' voice
@@dreyn7780 I take that as a challenge
How many pair of hemmed jean shorts do you have?😁
You have my info Casey so when you tire of it give me a call. I’d love to run that. My second car was an 84 with the horrible crossfire injection. Loved that car though. Currently have an 80 with 32k original.
All Australians are first in line. No corvette was ever sold in Australia and the latest corvette killed the car brand Holden.
The guys running Holden we’re going to rob Australians with the car so GM USA killed the crooks.
Tire size?
Only 10k that is a steal
Dude is super hyper. He runs at full speed all the time.
that exact cat
We all know you bought it because it's blue with a white racing stripe, just like your Viper. This is just 20 minutes spent justifying the purchase! LOL!
Dodge makes a unique blue just like all the manufacturers. So this blue has nothing to do with the other blue.
Come, on, you need to look a little more closely at these things.
Decide which blue you want to experience owning for yourself.
Once you workout which type of blue you actually like, that’s also an indication that you’ll like the brand of car too.
Dreyn 77 i love the porsche colors Arrow blue and Voodoo blue
It’s the selfish guy!!! Lol
you know id drive that as a first car
Just in case the cockpit of your race car isn't unbearably hot enough already, you can add an oil reservoir to store a tank of hot oil next to you! :)
🤪 🥵
No, we’re NOT going to approach humans with a joke or a sick joke.
Why didn’t you mention this 20+ years ago.
Why do you keep dragging out this stuff so many years in a row?
I just drove my Holden for 2 hours and got out and touched the bonnet and it was COLD.
I was in perfect shape. The car did what I asked it to do at every position of those 2 hours of driving. The interior was perfectly quiet. I was totally refreshed at the end of 2 hours of driving through city driving.
So, you go buy an old Holden and don’t comment to any Chevy corvette owner.
@@dreyn7780 Ummm...WHAT? We're talking about a RACING CAR. It is loud, hot, uncomfortable and not a fun place to be (well, it is fun, but not pleasant). Driver comfort is secondary to car performance, which means niceties like sound and thermal insulation, ventilation and air conditioning systems, etc. get deleted to save weight and increase performance.
I'm not entirely sure what your argument is here, or how driving your Holden down the road for two hours has anything to do with the interior of a racing car.
@@ScottsSynthStuff no, the car is obsolete.
The Bugatti does 400kms per hour and it’s not a race car.
Driving round and round in circles is what racing is. Which is just cornering all day.
Old race cars only make sense in the year they were made. The makers superseded it the next year. It’s their product and they still hold all power over these things. You respect them.
@@dreyn7780 You clearly have no idea what you're talking about, have absolutely zero real experience with and knowledge about race cars and racing, and still can't figure out that a production road car and a race car are two very different things.
"there no other engine that has more parts and performance available inexpensively"
(sound of the LS guys that are going to complain)
Dude, LS has been used for decades. L was used on Holden motors. They also used S to describe sports too. You didn’t realise you’re also talking about Australian Holden drivers.
Holden was a world beater car. They just proved it once again on Sunday.
@@dreyn7780 what? Im talking about LS engine architecture and is pretty much the most popular proyect engine lately, and yes is a variant of the small block. developed 1995, at least the first and second gen. But the III (1997), IV, V gens are completily different, from the modular small block
And no i didnt realise anything about a lesser know sub brand of GM, that only cover two country. And its only sigficant aportation yo the automotive world is the UTE but now a days only sells rebranded vehicles from other GM divisions. the only to vehicles that leaved australia Were rebranded. the Chevy SS and some Pontiacs.
@@lavawolf666 these men buy all these Chevy motors but don’t realise it’s got a trademark performance which controls how they’re driven.
Both GM and Ford know this problem and it’s terrible that buyers have no clue it exists.
Most people like to spin the motor, so you buy the tall crank motor NOT the short crank motor. For most people the Ford is the only motor to buy.
As you drive you always keep the ford motor revving high and it’s perfect for wheel spins.
@@lavawolf666 the general public has adopted this ‘LS’ as a word but don’t realise it’s been used to describe GM motors for multiple decades.
L motors and sport versions of those motors.
You’re better off describing the year of the motors.
The SS motor is the better motor cause it’s a super sport design.
The grand sport motor. GS.
The General Motors ordinary sport motor is nothing special.
The LS is just a simple ordinary sporty motor.
They made a whole mother brand to stop you guys getting confused about these engine details.
You don’t buy standard GM you buy corvette motors. Sure they might use an LS motor but it’s not the same as an ordinary LS crate motor.
Most people shouldn’t even be looking into a GM crate motor.
@@dreyn7780 You are new on Cars?. Knowing what is an ls engine is basic knowlege
But well in australia there is a trim called LS. In the rest of the world means something different. who would know that the things are different between countries?
Just search LS.and Ls swap .
Also l leave some links for You
ruclips.net/video/kxNwmClQMKs/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/ji78AVLeirM/видео.html
www.superchevy.com/how-to/0901gmhtp-ls1-ls6-ls2-ls3-l99-ls4-ls7-ls9-lsa-engine-history/
That's a lot of domestic piping going on that car...not gonna knock the previous owners, but whenever i see that, it's usually my friend with his Lada, that's built in the most purist Latvian style...
That would probably be my first change on the car.
Sounds like your too attached to it to let her go... Understandable lol
I can prove it to!!!!
All those racing parts and it still has that janky stock shift knob...
Wrong! You don’t outrank 20,000 trained professionals.
Control yourself!
Casey is still learning and he shouldn’t go changing stuff until he knows everything. All V8 race cars now have straight up gear change poles. Just look at Bathurst car racing.
You don’t twist your arm anymore.
@@dreyn7780 I was referring to to the fact that of all the parts that have been changed out and replaced, it still has what looks to be a stock C4 shift knob. Nothing wrong with that if Casey himself likes it, I just find it a bit funny. I don't know what Bathurst or 20,000 trained professionals have to do with stock to race built track car. I'd love to be enlightened though.
@@kindledlight the new V8 touring race cars Have 2 foot long gear shift poles. And a button on top. You never twist your arm ever again.
If you’re going to install something, you put in 1 of those gear change poles.
You don’t waste your time or change historic items in 2020.
that's ALOT of car for 10k
Sell it to me!
Am I first?
you didnt take it out
Low. Oil. Pressure.
A cheap Corvette race car
What could go possibly wrong?
thats (personally) one of the best looking cars in the world
Admit it you just bought it cause it was blue and white
If anyone finds a $60 race car please let me know 😩. I need one.
You haven’t commented yet.
@@dreyn7780 ?
I wish you didn't address he haters/trolls in the videos.
Yes I see the irony in my comment...
For lots of the video it wasn’t clear what was happening. Had you bought it? Had you sold it? The viewers had no clue what was going on.
This car is the perfect buy for you BUT it’s a car that demands your attention.
Your other recent projects need to go away before you move into the future living with this great car.
I think you don’t want to have so many cars that are completely opposite of this great car.
It would take you a week to get used to the opposite car designs.
If you want a car with the same driving philosophy but for more relaxing driving style, a Holden car was the second car for you but they’ve just died.
It's just a Corvette. Well within my experience level.
@@CaseyPutsch yes you’re right but GM knows something you haven’t seen yet.
The old way to view what you’re going to be doing is, you’re a engine operator. Engine operating demands lots of your time.
The more suffisticated the Motor the more of your time it demands.
The way it drives it causes you to give it more of your time.
The Porsche is designed to give you a FUN and easy/lazy experience.
Not the same as GM.
GM is serious. Serious about being the most brilliant.
Ford is luxury. You spend the money to get totally spoilt and experience great luxury. Rich paint. Maximum power. No stress while driving, etc...
This corvette is going to grab onto the road and send you rocketing down the straight. Nobody else offers you that experience.
My GM Holden has a sequencial firing order which gives the V motor a totally non linear power increase.
Increase the throttle by half an inch and the motor starts whipping the revs faster and faster and by the 3 or 4th revolution you get a shove in the back by the seat.
Unfortunately your motor doesn’t have a sequencial firing order. You won’t get that compounding increase of speed.
Ford pulled their finger out when they saw this V motor and designed their trademark version.
Good luck!
You understand they’re cars, Now you look into the details and explore them.