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I bought this Totaled Salt Water Flooded Corvette ZR1 really cheap. Today we look inside the engine to see if it can be saved after the salt water had been sitting for months!

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42 thoughts on “Looking inside a $10,000 ZR1 Corvette Engine that was Salt Water Flooded and Sat for Months!”
  1. oh! WOW and we have Toyota and their hydrogen cars, raving on and on how there is nothing but a water coming from their exhaust pipes.
    but here we can see at least 10-15 years older ZR1 that has literal water coming from it's exhaust.

  2. This kinda reminds me of a quick insurance scam. Clean not wet interior. But engine and drive parts wet with salt water 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

  3. I always thought that it was the electrical stuff (all of it) that the salt water ruins after a period of time……no way to get the salt out of so much of the harnesses, computer stuff and such.

  4. Very sad to see this happen to one of these gems. This was the "King of the Hill" during my teens. Low 4s and high 12s in the 1/4 mile bone stock.

  5. Years ago I was a Boat Dealer. I had a person bring an outboard engine into my shop that had a huge hole in the lower unit. He said he ran the engine for 2 weeks in that condition. I think the water acted as gear lube. If he had brought the engine to us right away we could have saved the gears. However the guy left it sitting for several weeks after last using it and the lower gears rusted beyond repair. Therefore with so much water in the various components the lack of air probably saved them from rusting. The only caution is to run the car enough to keep oil circulating through all the bearings. Then plan to change the fluids several more times until you no longer get oil that looks a peanut butter color. Good Luck you might save this one. I am a 1993 ZR-1 owner.

  6. Samcrac’s name must come from how addictive his channel is. 3 weeks without a video from him and I’m having serious withdrawals!!

  7. ZF-6 transmission gets motor oil grade, not gear oil. Service interval is every 10,000 miles. I use Amsoil Syncromesh. Capacity is 2.2 quarts. Pretty sure you should inspect the clutch, slave cylinder, throw-out bearing, dual mass flywheel, pilot bearing. Good luck!

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