Why does my Corvette Vette not start up?
A lack of fuel pressure will prevent the car from starting. Check your fuel pressure. If you have zero pressure, the car won’t start. Check relay number 35 in the engine compartment fuse box, which controls the fuel pump.
What happens when you start a C4 Corvette?
When starting an L-98 Corvette engine, a sequence of events take place that precedes the engine running. Knowing these sequences will help you troubleshoot no start issues with your C4 Corvette. C4 Corvette Start Sequence begins when you first turn the key to the “on” position, the fuel pump will run for 2 seconds pressurizing the fuel rails.
What was it like to drive a corvette?
But once you go faster in the C1 it feels better. Driving it at 10 mph in a parking lot is horrifying. The faster you go with it, the more the whole car starts to make sense, the more you realize it’s from the day when guys drove cars. You have to grab the wheel and tell the car what to do.
What should the idle speed be on a corvette?
Initial engine idle speed of should be around 900-1100 RPM and then slowly decay to around 600-700 RPM unless the air conditioner is on at which case it will run at around 800-1000 RPM depending on pressure altitude. If this does not happen, the Idle Air Mixture Valve or IAC may be plugged or faulty.
But once you go faster in the C1 it feels better. Driving it at 10 mph in a parking lot is horrifying. The faster you go with it, the more the whole car starts to make sense, the more you realize it’s from the day when guys drove cars. You have to grab the wheel and tell the car what to do.
What happens to a C5 Corvette when the owner dies?
A far more likely scenario is that C5 owners start dying or going to nursing homes in significant numbers some time in the next decade, leaving their cars to Gen-X city-dwellers who don’t know what to do with Dad’s diaper-rubbed ’98 automatic-transmission convertible.
Why was 1980 such a bad year for corvettes?
Whoever signed off on this rolling monument to bad taste should have been hanged, or better yet, forced to drive one. It would have been more painful. In general, 1980 was a lousy year. Inflation was rampant, the economy was in the doldrums and the Corvette was awful.
How many miles does a C5 Vette Corvette have?
Of course, the same is true for 993-generation Porsches and many other prestige or sports cars. What’s unique about the C5 Vette, according to my pal Mark, is that virtually all of them have under 30,000 miles, even after fifteen to twenty years. Corvette owners are notorious for waxing their cars more often than they drive them.