ABOUT BIG RED

1962 Performance Corevette

Take one of the most popular Corvette styles and add the most impressive racing performance technology and you get BIG RED. This custom was not built for the casual car collector. It was built to intimidate. Barely street legal, BIG RED is a fierce beauty.

Big Red is more likely to be seen smoking its tires than taking a casual cruise. It's is a blend of high performance and show quality. Along with the owner, Mike Stevenson, Pugesek Motorsports set out to create a truly one of a kind race car/street machine out of a 1962 Corvette.

 

Big Red has won best in class, best in show, and best engineered at the Prescott Corvette Show.

Details

Features a 540 C.I.D. blown and injected bow tie big block for extreme power. Rounding out the racing style: 871 Supercharger, Turbo 400 transmission, custom built stainless steel headers and exhaust, custom round tube chassis, C-4 front suspension, Mosier axles, Weld Racing wheels and Mickey Thompson tires... the list goes on and on.

 

Show quality details can be seen on every inch of this fierce beauty finished in Torch Red polyurethane paint. Pugesek painstaking techniques for design and finish have created a real show stopper. Other esthetic features include a hand fabricated dash, Billet Specialties steering wheel, custom designed and fabricated shifter console, Hurst lightning rod shifters, and Stewart Warner gauges. Custom designed grille and various other parts also give Big Red a serious edge.

 

Big Red Specifications

01

Engine:

540 C.I.D.

Bow Tie block

Dart heads

871 Supercharger

Electronic Fuel Injection

Horsepower ???

F.A.S.T. ECU

 

Exhaust:

Custom built polished stainless steel headers

Custom built 3” polished stainless steel exhaust

 

 

02

Transmission:

Turbo 400

Hughes 3800 Torque converter

 

Chassis:

Custom round tube chassis

Adjustable aluminum coil over shocks

Polished C-4 front suspension

Chrome rack and pinion steering

Fab 9 rear end housing

Aluminum drive shaft

Mosier axles

Strange center section

Custom stainless fuel cell

Chrome 4-Link

 

 

03

Body:

Original 1962 Corvette body

Widened rear wheel tubs

Custom firewall

Precision fit triple chrome plated trim

Torch Red urethane paint

 

Interior:

Custom leather with metallic charcoal paint

Tilt steering column

Billet Specialties steering wheel

Custom dashboard

Stewart Warner gauges

Hurst lightning rod shifters

 

 

04

Brakes:

Billet aluminum Aerospace disk brakes

Cross drilled and slotted rotors

 

Tires & Wheels:

Weld Racing AlumaStar 2.0 Wheels

Front: 15x3.5         Rear: 15x10

Mickey Thompson S/R

Front: 26x6   Rear: 30x12

 

CONTACT US:

630.772.4366

info@pugesekmotorsports.com