Refinishing the engine - Would it take away NCRS points?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Ed Hoffman

Keven, have fun with your ZR, but remember there were not a "lot of them made". There were 5,000+ 375Hp ZR,s and 1344 405Hp. There were 6,700+ 93 40th Annv. vettes made and 243 40th Annv ZR-1 vettes made. I know what is going to be worth big money. Thats the advantage of being an old bull. Have fun and so will I.

you do realize that half of the production run of ZR-1s in 93 were ruby ZRs, correct? It's not that rare. And again, how are you going to check for ported heads/plenum/injector housings? Have the owner pull the plenum at the judging? Most owners won't know how to do that and the ones that do know, won't do it. What about injectors? Like I said, I could pass a 570 hp 415 ZR-1 off as stock and as long as I don't fire that bitch up, you'd never know it. I wonder how many ZR-1's still have the leaky stock oil lines. I guarantee I could have you go over my car and you wouldn't find half of the stuff I've done to it just by looking at it.

And with the windshields, that is just going to be a pita. Most of the owners now didn't buy a ZR-1 because it's the next collectible corvette, we bought them because we love to drive the hell out of them. I have 52,000 hard and happy miles on my car and it's running better every day. IMO NCRSing C4's and later is a waste of time.

[taximan1]

Rare is a relative term. Most people would agree that a 1967 Big Block is a relatively rare car. There were over 9,600 1967 BB Corvettes built.

Only part numbers that are easy to get to are checked. transmissions(transaxles) are not checked. Obviously many engine parts can't be checked.

Your right, the delaminating windshields will present a problem for a lot of people.

To give you an example, my uncle bought a 67' Corvette 427/400hp in 67 to do one thing: go fast, and race the crap out of it. The fartherest thing from his mind was collectability. But guess what.... 2 years ago he was in bad health, and forced to sell his car. He was disappointed in the value it would bring with its tubbed out fenders, race chopped interior, missing pass. seat, etc. So he had it restored , top flighted the car at a chapter meet, and sold it for almost 3 times what he was offered a year before. He made money even after the restoration.

My point is, that someone will eventually buy all the race equipped zr1's and restore them.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by taximan1

My point is, that someone will eventually buy all the race equipped zr1's and restore them.

there were only a few race preped ZR-1's and the most well known one is sitting in the NCM. It will be a sad day when people will start demodding big cube ZR-1s.....if that can even be done.