Jeff's winter Corvette thread.

[Duck Vader]

I have to admit, I am a little jealous right now. If I wasn't looking to move I would probably be getting something too.

[Jeff V.]

Very, very nice car Jeff.

Thanks!

So now that Vira has the Vette. What are you going to drive?

It's funny you say that...

So the Audi is out with a cut tire.
The truck is in pieces.
And I've got a couple of reasons for not bringing the new car to work just yet.

So I'm driving the VR4 today

I told Vira to take the Vette to work. She has a really short commute, but she's still scared of something happening to it. So it's tucked away in the garage for now.

I have to admit, I am a little jealous right now. If I wasn't looking to move I would probably be getting something too.

You'll get there. You'll end up with some beautiful house on a gorgeous piece of land and then I'll get to be the one who's jealous but also happy for you.

[aaronatstate]

[quote=""Jeff V.""]So I'm driving the VR4 today [/quote]

They all come back

[Chris GTO TT]

Nice!

[J-Groove]

HELL YEAH!! CONGRATS MAN!

-John

[DCIV]

Very freaking cool! I'm glad you finally got something you wanted (that's not a toy). I will own a vette one day, they are just too bad ass not to own one.

Congrats man.


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[Jeff V.]

How much does it cost to do a clear vinyl covering for the entire car? Because my car has that. I'm pretty sure it was a pre-cut kit due to the perfectly rounded corners on all the pieces.

I haven't gone over it with a magnifying glass, but it looks like it was perfectly installed. That couldn't have been cheap.

[Chris GTO TT]

Lots! A friend of ours offered to do the front of our Outback to the doors for his cost of materials. It was like $1500.

[ChargerX3]

I just did the front of my truck. Asked the guy at the shop I was at about the Ferrari outside. Said it was his customers. Charged him 5k for the whole clear wrap. Yours should be close to that.

[Jeff V.]

I just did the front of my truck.

Oh yeah? Which one?

*HINT HINT*

[ChargerX3]

No spilling the beans now but not that one.

[mjannusch]

Yeah, the Xpel protection seems to be popular with the Corvette crowd. Looks like it works well.

[Jeff V.]

Aaron was asking me questions about the brake system last night. I thought this was a good read.

https://www.essexparts.com/news-blog/c7 ... ack-worthy

It looks like there were pictures associated with it at one point, maybe as a forum post somewhere. Those would be nice to have.

[Chris GTO TT]

That was an interesting read. Seems like they made fairly typical compromises on the brakes.

[Jeff V.]

Yep. I'm just glad they went with a standard pad design.

[mjannusch]

The Z51 brakes have easily taken everything I've thrown at them. I haven't done a full-on track day sort of scenario, but anything you'd ever see on the street or a dragstrip is cake for them. Ripping around on country backroads and doing hard braking for corners doesn't even tax them.

The stock pads throw off dust there's no tomorrow. I'd recommend ceramic coating your wheels, if they aren't already. Carbotech also has a pad that seems to work well and keep the dust down, though I still have the original pads on my car.

[alienviking]

Congrats! About time

[tabasco122]

not a fan of the vinyl wrap, but if the whole car was done thats one of my peeves taken care of (lines).

I would have argued that your audi and my bmw were similar as far as what they were capable of. Looks like you upgraded while i downgraded lol.

[Jeff V.]

I would have argued that your audi and my bmw were similar as far as what they were capable of.

I dunno. There wasn't much I could have done to mine to make it faster without dropping 10 grand on a supercharger.

This is pretty interesting. I was wondering what these safety wired parts were on the front rotors. (Yes, the wheels are dirty. CarMax did a decent job, but I need to give them a proper wash. )


It's part of the track prep package you get with the Z51 option. They're aluminum cooling rings. The front of the car has brake cooling ducts. Under street use, some of this air is allowed to pass through the rotor to avoid over-cooling the brakes. Brakes that are too cold don't stop as well.

On the track, the full amount of cooling air is applied to the discs by blocking the pass-through with these rings.

What's interesting is the dealer isn't supposed install them at delivery. It's for the owner to do, and they're supposed to be removed after your track time. The manual says leaving them on can lead to corrosion issues.

So now I'm wondering if someone installed them "just because" or if the car was tracked. I'm more curious than concerned. I'll take them off when I get some jacking pucks.

[DCIV]

I thought slotted roters just ended up with less braking area and didn't help with heat or exhaust gasses from the brake pads...or whatever crazy things they use to say about them.


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