Rebuilding a Destroyed ZR1 Corvette Part 3

hye-won off the rage my name is Matt I just took a pre-workout, I'm going to do a workout that I finished without having time because I got a phone call for about 30 minutes, but the pre-workout is still in my system and not I don't normally drink caffeine, coffee, energy drinks or anything like that, so get out right now, welcome to Demolition Wrench. Now we are in the demo garage. My God! We have demonstrations of new uniforms. We also have one for me. Oh yes, unfortunately, it fell short with long sleeves. sleeve one they didn't have another I can fix this in a second today I have you you need to work on the car I can do it for you so today old man Burke and I are going to take out the LT 5 engine because this thing from the factory had 375 horsepower I want a lot more to get a lot more we need to get that thing up to get it up we have to lower the exhaust and then the transmission what else is pretty easy so let's start working on this zr1 for those who don't know this is a 1990

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zr1 , the zero one was the really special model in 1990, it was one of the fastest production cars you could go out and bought and it doubled in value. or doubled the MSRP over the original Corvette, so it was a really crazy Corvette in its day.

This one has been scrapped and hasn't been on the road in 17 years, plus when I took it on a little cruise the other day, Emma. Listen ranch and we want to get this back on the road with a vengeance here, yeah, so it should just be these and these. I think we need a push. Oh, hey guys, this is where the spare tire goes. Here it is not there. these wires here is I just have no idea what these wire grounding straps are, but they are very thick, yeah, and they're not tight, yeah, well, I mean, it's just for electrical, oh yeah, I don't. are.

I know this one isn't probably probably not supposed to be like this either, yeah, okay, we just have to remove these hooks and then the exhaust will fall on us. I tell them we need to be lifted up. Okay, engines, up there is the exhaust

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that we just removed. The transmission goes down here, there is a driveshaft, as you can see on the differential, but there is something called a marine beam that surrounds the driveshaft, so we need to take out the C-beam first and then the driveshaft and then the transmission Oh C. The beam doesn't look fun, these two 18 millimeter bolts go all the way.

If it is them, the problem is that I have to put a wrench on the nut that is stuck in there. This is something I have to fish it there and hook it there. I can let these things go, oh okay, we turned off the cameras for a while, but now we take out all those crazy screws. I just have to get this C beam out so it goes all the way, engages the transmission, and picks up again. fall and get hit with that look at that thing hanging now this lever right here I was telling Brian I kind of stole it I uh nineteen oh my gosh, is your dog at the end of the grass just so you know, yeah?

Like far away, he can't hear you. He had a 1972 Firebird and I took it somewhere to get some exhaust work done and they fixed it, hurry up, but they fixed it and I went and picked it up, drove it home. and then I got under the car to look at something and that lever was stuck, they had left it there and it stayed under my car the whole way home, so I had it for 20 years, probably some guy got scolded for losing the lever Hey guys, I forgot to film, but we have the disc down there, so we decided that's the only way to get this C-beam out, so I just took the driveshaft out now.

I want to see if this CD is stuck. I think I might need to get this parking brake cable out of here, so that's the C beam, the driveshaft goes directly here and this thing hooks into the differential and transmission to keep flexing. obviously when you step on it in a car with a lot of horsepower it can twist things so this just helps keep it from twisting it also helps keep the engine and transmission from coming out of the car because it's really stuck there, dropping the transmission, well I hope you did. one bulb left in it, it should be free one long shaft there it looks very stuck there we go there we go towers and lower it a little yes it comes slowly I love working on cars you know what I mean let's take a little lunch break and then we'll go back and take that thing out, just get this apprentice out of here.

You know that problem when you're stuck, apprentice, and you're trying to get rid of it and streaming is what I do. I'm talking about what you like the most, you get to 109, although this is exhaust, this is our catalytic converter, it goes up to our exhaust manifold, you have to take them out mostly, you have to take it out and then this hood here is super stuck . even though I took the bolts out, I'm still trying to figure out how to attach that thing, but I mean, if these come off, I hope I get a little better view of that, there it is, oh, it actually looks like a header already. that's quad, they can be cast iron or something, yeah, so this is our manifold that looks like our headers go into this big cat here has all this kind of exhaust gas recirculation stuff going on here, it we're going to make it a lot simpler on the rebuild so I mentioned before that my other Corvette that I used to have was a 1995 and it was the base model Corvette and I'm pretty sure it was like a decade ago and I did this but I put headers on that car , so I removed the original exhaust manifolds and I'm pretty sure they weren't like that.

I think they were cast iron, and most exhaust manifolds are just a giant piece of cast iron, they're super heavy and don't flow that well, and this is really cool. I have never taken the car a

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that already had headers built in which is probably why the zr1 models are so much more expensive from the factory because they have a lot of upgrades like this, they also had it twice. so many holes for air to come in so these ones here are always open and they have these little valves here but the valves are totally frozen so you can see that so when we were driving this thing we were actually just driving I thought these They are the same size, the ones that are always open are smaller, so we were driving with less than half the amount of air that would normally go into this engine, which is probably why it wasn't running very well, It's also a little rusty. there, but this is, uh, this is coming, we're ready as soon as we can unhook this bell, they're about to start pulling this block up, we've got the engine lift hooked up to the engine, now we're.

You just have to lift it up you have to balance it a little it seems like it is lifting backwards I see it going up well there is always something that you forget to unhook like never in my life I took out two motors but there is always something like you think everything is wrong and they are not too the engines that I took out, we're in late '60s muscle cars, so there's a lot less stuff to do than this new 1990 Corvette with all the electronic computer gadgets, there's the giant. lt5 block so these things have dual overhead cams so their heads are just gigantic.

The blocks are actually normal size, but the head is just huge and sticks out as far as you can see. Also look at how rusty all this stuff is. I really liked it when I made the donut the other day. I really liked messing up the clutch and didn't do anything too crazy with it. I was just trying to go as hard as I could because I knew we were replacing all this stuff anyway, this is probably why. it broke down so easily this thing flooded and now it's super super rusty and nasty yeah don't let your car stay underwater that's the moral story here and we actually pulled this out with a single wire that wasn't there unlatched so we got that unlatched and then the motor came straight out with no issues which is amazing yeah cool so now we just have to fix it put it back in here taking it out was easy putting it back in will be tricky but we did not want.

This video is just a teardown video. This is a rebuild video, so today we'll install our first new part. If I could figure it out, you'd know that it's quite complicated to put everything together correctly. This car is just taking shape, we have a gas cap, it didn't actually come with a gas cap when we bought it, that's why we ordered one and now things can't fall into the gas tank, it really comes together, I mean, you can just see the value goes up right before I wash my hands the best I can they're still gross hey family hey link hey mommy hey girl Meredith would you say you could beat me in a race right now three miles?

I'm pretty fast, always, yes. Yes, I have always been faster in hundred-meter races. Mayer has always been able to run faster and faster in longer races, but I've been going fast and training hard and trying to get really strong. It's this really prestigious event that we have ahead of us. in the next few months, but Meredith showed up the other day and that made me realize that she was doubting me a little. Our friend Rob has also been running a lot and Meredith said that maybe she could beat me with her treadmills that couldn't be calibrated.

Right, he said he ran five miles in like thirty-two minutes or something, which is crazy, he said he goes, he comes back, he said it has to be some kind of record. I was like what are you talking about like you think you're the fastest man alive because you ran on a treadmill you'd get robbed it's a good thing he's handsome because he doesn't have much I'm just kidding but anyway Rob thinks he's coming for me Mayer is a little worried that Rob might be coming for me, but the race we're doing is the beer mile and then there's another rin-chan.

Rob's plan, are you trying to make noise with that chair while I'm talking? You keep scrolling further and further and he remembers me. anyway, although Mayer says: are you sure Rob is lying to beat you? I was sure he's not going to be me and then I ran really hard, it feels good, now I can't let Rob beat me, so anyway just so you know Rob before watching this video, I don't will win in the beer mile no way. No, I'm training twice as hard now to make sure you, my friend, don't come looking for me, just so you know and I think the mayor does too.

I'll be rooting for you idiot, the last thing I wanted today is to open this vortex package and I was going to open it and I actually started to open it but then I saw it was in a wooden box. They never received a scope in a wooden box. before, so I felt like you guys should probably know be here for this, look at this. I'm usually not someone who likes epic unboxings, but when I get a package in an epic box, I feel like I have to do something epic. unboxing and everyone has to come look yeah right I know you want to see oh yeah G okay bye okay this is a vortex yeah okay this is the most epics I even know what what's here, but it's epic, look at these official documents, that's me, okay. so on it we have a cool mount, we have the covers for the front and back and then the telescoping knife HG Gen 3.

I have the gen 2. I don't have the Djinn yet. Okay, let's open. Do you want to see it? no you sure im gonna show a knife and the crowd will go crazy link in description if your interested damn even this box is epic okay so the box with magnetic closure i dont even care about boxes but it I mean seriously, it is. looks good, so you have this cool thing we have here, this is a power of 1 to 10, let's look at it, let's check it's very difficult to do a camera and a scope at the same time, zoomed in so you can see the reticle, it's crazy.

It's still very difficult to show it on camera, that was my epic unboxing. Thank you very much for joining me in the demolition key. More coming soon on the Corvette on the Dodge on the mansion on the Harley on the submarine on the skyscraper. None of those things are true thanks for watching demolition rage I love you I'll see you next time oh shut up