Photos with the wheel on the car.





Photos from this weekends Corvette Club Auto-X at the Hamtramck assembly plant.

 

nice ride

 

Wow. I haven't updated this in quite some time. Done a few things as well

Before she went away for the winter I installed one of the prototype test RJM Clutch pedal bracket guys. love it. Pedal feels so much better / easier to drive.





Then she hibernated for the winter.

Early April I snagged an HKS exhaust w/ a magna flow res welded into the x-pipe section of these boards for a good deal and slapped that on there.















Shortly after this my clutch stopped working. Replaced the master cylinder and slave cylinder and while re-bleeding the slave realized the issue was something in the trans itself. Pulled the whole trans only to realize it was the damn clutch fork pivot ball that literally just sheered in half. Had to pull the whole trans to replace a 5 dollar part.. Ended up upgrading to the z1 billet clutch fork while I was at it. sorry no pics of this.

While the car was on stands though I popped open the headlights and painted the housings black.







Next up was a set of ART pipes from motordyne



I skipped out on zdayz this year in favor of the euro car event SoWo with a bunch of buddies. Did the tail twice and it was a blast. Ended up buying some of the pictures from run on the way down. The rain looks awesome.







Then did nothing for like 3-4 months until finally my seats came in. Ordered a set of Recaro Sportster CS seats that I got for a hell of a deal (perks of working at the company I suppose). A set of recaro sliders and some brackets from wedge engineering. Also had the covers pulled and custom diamond stitching sewn in. Aboslutely love these seats. They are so comfortable and with the wedge brackets sit a good 2-3 inches lower than stock which just feels right. And no more head hitting the roof with a helmet on.









About mid August after an auto-x event I noticed the clutch was not up to snuf anymore and slipping like crazy at anything above like 1/3 throttle in almost any gear. Got myself an Exedy Stg1 kit with the light weight single mass flywheel. Car feels so much more connected and I just love this car so much more now. Between the seats and the clutch in the same week basically it feels like a brand new car.

Also pic of the old pressure plate to show how bad it was... 2 giant grooves from the rivots of the clutch disc.. literally no material was left.. surprised the car even moved at all.



Anyway.. Sorry for the huge update but I it apparently was way over due.

 

for a sec i thought this was the thread with the guy who waited 8 years to get wheels lol. got me all excited to see his return.

 

Sounds like you are having a real blast with it. I recently ordered the RJM bracket and am just counting down the days til I get it installed. I am not 100% sold on your headlights personally, but it is a subtle and tasteful mod nonetheless.

 

I'm not 100% sold on the lights either. But I like the all black front end as opposed to the random silvery headlights from before. Ideally in the future I want to go with a set of quads and black housings but Function > Form for me. This this is slowly being turned into a prepped ESP auto-x Car / Track Day car while still being fun and comfortable to drive on the streets.


Also to the guy above commenting on the title of the thread.. I agree its dumb.. Sounded like a good idea at the time but don't know how to change it at this point so its w/e.

 

what a nice find!, congrats and enjoy!

 

Keep it clean bro...... NICE...........

 

Sick................

 

Serously!!..and Welcomee!!

 

I really like what you have done with you're car. Lucky for you, you personally knew who had the car before you. That's a big plus, and what part of Florida do you live in if you don't mind me asking.

 

^ I don't. My Brother Lives in Orlando where I snagged the car from. I actually live up in MI

Video from yestedays Auto-X with the Northwest Ohio guys at the Toledo Express Airport.

Video is from GoPro, 'data logging' from Track Addict iPhone app, and Race Render program to stitch it all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2cTvn-TwvQ

 

So nice, he had to say it twice...