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Last we left the Dead to Shred C5 Corvette, we had just sorted out ABS and the EBCM in Episode #5, and we'd gotten the Corvette to turn laps for our group of drivers at ORP in episode #4. The car was doing good, especially with the ABS added, but every single driver described the rear end of the car as not being confidence inspiring with it's group from mid turn to exit... and when you're ripping around a track ...

Unless you've been sleeping under a rock these last few track seasons, you've likely heard of Vitour. They released their Vitour Tempesta P01R tire and not only quickly started setting records, but also found the tire banned from SCCA racing for the year. Now to some that may sound like a negative, but that was a stroke of marketing magic as they were clearly the tire to get when they were legalized for next season. Sure enough, Vitour increased their ...

The Indy 500 pace car has always meant business. When the pace car first comes out, it's the last few moments before the race really kicks off. Every car, every driver, every team is on the field, and every eye is on the track. Excitement is building like pressure behind a cork, and Chevrolet has been the exclusive pace car provider for the Indy 500 since 2002. The C5 made its first appearance on the track before then, though. 1998 ...

No single point of failure on the C5 Corvette is more prolific than the EBCM failure. It'll light your dashboard up with warnings, take out traction control and ABS with it, and the issue has only gotten worse as the platform ages, as more units are failing and GM discontinued production of the units. Enter the DIY enthusiast market. Folks have figured out how to troubleshoot the problems, and companies have stepped up to repair the units that can be ...

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 ...

In our last episode of the Dead to Shred Series, the Dead to Shred Corvette proved it's back from the dead, but it also isn't thriving just yet either! In this episode we're taking the car from limping along with a lot of known issues to being sorted enough for its first track day! As with the rest of the series, we're running into pretty much every problem you as a reader are likely to encounter if you own or ...

With the Dead To Shred Corvette buttoned up and no longer facing concerns of internal motor issues, it was time to give the car a proper shakedown. While a multitude of street driven trips confirmed the car was not dead, we need a real motorsports event to confirm the car was really alive! Enter, Autocross with Bridge City Autosports. They had an event coming up for the weekend and the weather was looking to be warm and sunny. When the ...

So if you read the first part of the Dead to Shread Series #2, you know that we did a pretty good analysis of the motor and replaced some external common culprits along the way. We changed out the cam chain, we replaced the harmonic balancer with a known good harmonic balancer, we inspected all of the cylinders, tested compression, and even dumped the oil and sifted through it and the oil filter for any of the forbidden glitter associated ...