The Honda Accordian is a 2004 Honda Accord that finished it's street car life when it was gifted to a teenager for their first car. Two weeks later, said teenager was texting and driving and drove it into a prius. The teenagers father bo…
One of the fun parts of getting back into the PNW for Track Days is that I used to track a sport bike at many of these tracks back in the day. It's really fun to get back out to these tracks and have a blast in my Corvette. ORP is a trac…
The C5 Corvette is notorious for coming with a very excessive OEM steering wheel. At 380mm, it's incredibly excessive. This can cause a host of issues for track going folks. In my case, I couldn't fully turn the steering wheel without hi…
Friday June 14th was the PIR track day with Cascade Sports Car Club (CSCC). The original goal was to bring my Corvette along with the Accordian, but the Accordian was not ready along with Dave unable to get into the novice group. I howev…
I found myself in the unfortunate situation at my 29th and 30th track day / time attack at Thunderhill West where the tires I'd come to the track day with where pretty much cooked and I needed another set of tires. While there was a bit …
In my quest for improved performance and handling on a budget, one thing I heard a lot of people mention early on was that some people would go with a "square" setup for wheels/tires on their C5 Corvette. A square setup is equal size whe…
So per my C5 Corvette Weight Loss Article, I am trying to drop weight on my C5 corvette, and a fair bit can go off the front to better balance out the car. One area of rather sizable weight up front is the splitter. My splitter is rather…
The weight loss on the C5 Corvette inside was so significant and full of so many pictures I decided to break it off from the parent article about overall c5 weight reduction. That article was already starting to get pretty significant in…
Lately, I've been wanting more from my corvette. After a weekend with a mustang group where they'd all corner so slow but gap me on the straights, I was frustrated. Then I went and competed in an SCCA time trial weekend where I yet again…
Leading up to the track day Coming into this track day, I hadn't really accomplished much on the car. I'd been pretty busy with a second gig I picked up, along with just not feeling as inspired to work on the car. I was putting some effo…
