Autocross

The C5 Corvette is an amazingly well engineered machine. It needs nothing from the factory, and for most folks, the car only needs routine maintenance or replacement of items as they begin to push 20 plus years of age. However, raise the performance ceiling a bit, and you start to find new limitations. One such limitation folks start to encounter early with Autocross, Track and Drift, is the OEM wheel bearings. As soon as you introduce frequent and more significant ...

In our last article with the Dead To Shred C5 Corvette, we took out the D2S C5 Corvette and track tested it with five different drivers. While all the drivers had fun and had some general positive takes on the C5 Corvette, the complaints that were consistent across all drivers was that they all lamented the lack of ABS, and the vibration on the car was clearly an issue that needed to be sorted. These were all pretty attainable goals ...

Want to know what a "worst case" journey with a C5 Corvette is like? Well have we got the journey for you! Our staff writer Shred Jesse went and picked up a 2001 C5 Corvette 6 speed manual for a modest $9000. That's a steal post COVID... or was it? The "Dead to Shred" series will be an ongoing series of articles on saving a C5 Corvette. Make that a C5 Corvette that nobody wanted and most folks would consider ...