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When working on your carburetor…
Transfer the carburetor from the engine to a clean, open workbench. If you don’t have a carb stand, simply slide four bolts of your choice through the mounting holes in the bottom plate, and “nut” them up at the top. All you need is enough clearance for the levers and protruding linkage.
The L88 Corvette is a car that, for the most part, hid in the shadows. But it actually cast a big shadow on the American muscle car scene as well. Oh, if you were keeping a close ear to the ground, you knew about it. But if you didn’t pay attention, it came and went in a flash. The reason for its existence was that Zora Arkus-Duntov, the chief Corvette engineer, was chagrined that Ford got all this publicity for winning the 24 Hours of LeMans. Yet he knew that Chevrolet had a durable engine in the 427 and yearned to make it available for racing. But he had one problem - Chevrolet, officially, was not in racing.
Buyer Beware:
Nasty con men have been known to machine off the original RPO non-L88 numbers and re-stamp new ones. Your best bet is to find a reference source that shows if the RPO code matches the casting number. We’d also highly recommend investing in an NCRS Specification Guide covering the model years you’re interested in. The rarest and most valuable item to document a Corvette is the car’s build sheet, which was applied to the gas tank during assembly. It’s not easy to get at, but obviously worth searching for if it means authenticating the car.
