Txslow6's Corvette

[txslow6]

Honestly if we could do it all over itd be a sts setup or a supercharger. These twins kicked our ass everyday for a month in the driveway but learned a lot in the process. The tti kit puts you around 540wheel on pump gas and 7psi

I bet. TT setups can be quite finicky, and something I would not want to mess with as it's more things to be concerned with. The S/C setups in these cars seem like the way to go. Simple and easy install and looks clean in the engine bay. 540 to the wheels is no slouch I bet that car pulls like a frieght train when the gas is mashed.

Headed to the exhaust shop today and they got me fixed up with the muffler issue.

I had them go ahead and hack off the factory H-pipe. I'm sure some will hate this (and everything else), but it helped to achieve the sound I was looking for.

New idle and rev video after work was completed:

 

[Fivefingerdeathpunch]

Do you really still have to put these cars in R to get the key out??

If so thats still really really gay, we have a 1986 corvette in the shop at work that we are married too for the last month and it has to be put in R for the key to come out. But it has the super dumb 4 speed manual with the automatic overdrive button.

 

[txslow6]

Do you really still have to put these cars in R to get the key out??

If so thats still really really gay, we have a 1986 corvette in the shop at work that we are married too for the last month and it has to be put in R for the key to come out. But it has the super dumb 4 speed manual with the automatic overdrive button.

are you serious? That's hilarious. I do not have to put the car in R to get the key out. I can take the keys out in a gear. With that being said the 05's require the driver to put the car in R otherwise the battery will die. LMAO

whats wrong with the C4?

 

[Neil98gt]

Just ruined a keyboard with all the drooling over here. I love this car.

 

[Fivefingerdeathpunch]

The throw out bearing went, then it ate the bearing on the end of the input shaft and was making gobs of noise.

So the owner wanted a new clutch and the transmission rebuilt/freshened up. Tossed in a new rear main seal aswell and put it back together. Less than a week later the car doesnt move, it gets towed back. The slave went out, we didnt replace that because it wasnt part of the job as it's an external slave. It runs and move again only to have the new throw out bearing be bad so out comes the tranny and it gets done again.

Fast forward 2 weeks and the car is 50 miles away and we get a call saying it's slipping bad. So it's gets towed back, the owner said that someone told him the new rear main seal is leaking oil on the clutch and making it slip........ Up on the lift and it's dry but the clutch smells hot and burnt, after 4 days sitting we test drive it and it drives great and no slipping at all and the mech beat the crap outta it.

Needless to say the owner and his girlfriend have no idea how to drive a manual car well, and that fact that it has a overdrive button on the shifter doesnt help. They said the car will buck from time to time and it's beacuse they would engage the auto overdrive while in a low gears and that will just blow the thing up. So it just sits at the shop with nothing wrong but bad drivers but they think it's something we did.

 

[Bio248]

saw a camaro (gen5) that i thought was manual yesterday. then i thought it wasn't by the way it was driving.

then i actually saw the person take the left hand turn, bucking all the way through the intersection, bucking into second. then i noticed the stickers on the windows. it was a test drive.

i understand you have to start somewhere with learning how to drive stick....but COME ON.

 

[txslow6]

Just ruined a keyboard with all the drooling over here. I love this car.

haha thanks, now go buy one so you can drool on the seat and really have some fun.

The throw out bearing went, then it ate the bearing on the end of the input shaft and was making gobs of noise.

So the owner wanted a new clutch and the transmission rebuilt/freshened up. Tossed in a new rear main seal aswell and put it back together. Less than a week later the car doesnt move, it gets towed back. The slave went out, we didnt replace that because it wasnt part of the job as it's an external slave. It runs and move again only to have the new throw out bearing be bad so out comes the tranny and it gets done again.

Fast forward 2 weeks and the car is 50 miles away and we get a call saying it's slipping bad. So it's gets towed back, the owner said that someone told him the new rear main seal is leaking oil on the clutch and making it slip........ Up on the lift and it's dry but the clutch smells hot and burnt, after 4 days sitting we test drive it and it drives great and no slipping at all and the mech beat the crap outta it.

Needless to say the owner and his girlfriend have no idea how to drive a manual car well, and that fact that it has a overdrive button on the shifter doesnt help. They said the car will buck from time to time and it's beacuse they would engage the auto overdrive while in a low gears and that will just blow the thing up. So it just sits at the shop with nothing wrong but bad drivers but they think it's something we did.

That's one of the main reasons I got out of working on cars. It's an underappreciated job and customers always think it's your fault even though it's clearly not. That C4 sounds like it has been a nightmare. You guys should have some kind of package deal that includes "driver education" on driving a manual.

 

[ILoveAudi]

I love this car.

 

[Jomamma]

It sounds better without the H-pipe.

 

[txslow6]

Added some Jakes for the center caps:

Imperfections, rock chips, and buffing marks it was time to bid farewell to the vinyl:

PB blaster did wonders on removing glue then hit it with a buffer and some compound to finish it off.

 

[Elite6]

Much better IMO without the stripes

 

[loopy smurf]

Very nice! Love the exhaust!

 

[REDCRAPGP]

Yellow banana! Looks way better without all the vinyl! Keep up the good work!