WELCOME TO Vtech Corvette, LLC!
Vtech Corvette provides complete C2 and C3 Corvette restoration. Our suspension and restoration shop is your best source for quick and reliable service. Vtech Corvette provides rebuilds of Corvette trailing arms, wheel bearings, rear ends (differentials) control arms. Our service work is guaranteed. We care about the passion you have for your Corvette.
Vtech Corvette has over thirty years of Corvette rebuilding experience and Jim is an ASE Certified Master Technician.
Since you are dealing directly with the rebuilder, Vtech offers unbeatable prices, quality work and quick turnaround on orders. By dealing directly with the rebuilder, you eliminate some of the cost. Vtech Corvette is very competitive on parts and pricing.
If you are looking for a specific part for your C2 or C3 Corvette restoration, please call us, we have inventory (new or reconditioned) that is not listed in our online store!
Be sure to ask about our premium box service.
We can ship you our custom made boxes to ship us your parts!
"Your C2 and C3 Specialists!"
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’63-’82 Corvette Differential Side Yokes (Stub Shafts)
$170.00 -
1963 – 1982 CONTROL ARMS COMPLETE SET
$1,150.00 – $1,350.00 -
1963 – 1982 Trailing Arm with a NEW TRAILING ARM – Left or Right (price includes core charge)
$800.00 -
1963 -1982 Reconditioned Trailing Arm Assembly (price includes the core charge)
$645.00 -
1963 -1982 Trailing Arm with NEW TRAILING ARM and NEW SPINDLE – NO CORE CHARGE
$875.00 -
1965-1979 Differential
$1,775.00
How Popular is a Corvette Differential?
Lots of cars have already been pumping out corvette differential for 66 years, creating about 1.5 million of them since 1953. That tends to make the ‘Vette among essentially the most well-known sports automobiles of all time. First and second-generation Corvettes have been among the very first accurate collectible vehicles from the modern-day era, and collecting Corvettes remains a worldwide phenomenon. Greater than just an additional two-seat sports auto, the Vette is definitely an American icon. There’s a superb purpose it is frequently known as America’s sports auto, and every single enthusiast should really have at the least a fundamental understanding of its seven generations.
In case you may need to brush up, listed here are some Corvette details each enthusiast should really know:
The First Corvette Differential Having A Functional Hood Scoop
Functional ram air systems, drawing air from outdoors the engine compartment to feed the engine cooler and denser air, became common on muscle automobiles within the 1960s, and most systems utilized a hood scoop. The very first Corvette having a functional hood scoop was the 1967 model using the L88 427 engine selection. Only 20 had been created. The stinger scoop around the other big-block Corvettes looked exactly the same but was not functional.
Corvette Without A Trunk
It is funny to consider now, but from 1963-82 the Corvette didn’t possess a trunk. The compact cargo region behind the seats, an extremely tiny location within the convertibles, had to become accessed from inside the interior. Currently, such an inconvenience wouldn’t be tolerated, however, it was for a lot of years. Around the 1982 Collector’s Edition model, Chevy ultimately hinged the glass rear window for greater access. The design and style remained by way of the C4, C5, and C6 generations.
Corvette Having A Transaxle
To superior balance and increase the handling from the fifth-generation Corvette, which debuted in 1997, Chevy engineers moved from a regular transmission place, which can be bolted for the engine, to a transaxle style that moves the gearbox for the rear on the car or truck. The style has remained by means of the C6 and C7 generations. When the C4 generation debuted in 1984, it became the initial Corvette with 16-inch wheels and tires. Its Goodyear Eagle Gatorbacks (255/50ZR16) had been in the time the widest tire ever fitted to a Corvette, however, it wasn’t extended ahead of Chevy improved the Corvette’s wheel diameter to 17 inches.
Corvette Differential with DOHC
There has been only 1 production Corvette using a double overhead cam engine. That was the ZR-1 made from 1990-95. The five.7-liter V-8, created by Lotus and constructed by Mercury Marine, debuted with 375 hp, but swiftly enhanced to 405 hp. Chevy’s Rally Wheels became a fixture on C3 Corvettes for a lot of years, and they may be nonetheless well-known currently. But Rally Wheels really debuted around the C2. In 1967, they created their initial look around the Corvette because of the common wheel. The aluminum bolt-on wheel was optional.
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