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Keeping any performance car cool is a pretty common topic. We've talked about it a bunch in our articles ranging from decisions the GM Engineers made to common ways to improve cooling on the C5 Corvette. One resourceful author came up with a way to swap out the OEM fans for improved performance fans that move notably more CFM, the Pro-Form 12" Cooling fan. Here's what they did to install it on their ride, and how it worked out for ...

The C5 Corvette is an amazing machine. It features a lot of components that can take users well beyond what the car was ever originally intended to do are other folks covet to swap into their own cars... but there are a few shortcomings. The harmonic balancer, the ABS/EBCM woes, the guibos in the torque tube... there's things that just weren't going to hold up for 25+ years of life, let alone the abuse a lot of enthusiasts are throwing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...