Spare Time Toy

A long time ago around 77-78 I had a 73 with 454 and a 4 speed. We did the eklers body mods to put N50s on the back the L88 hood and nose extender to dump the rubber bumper and put the headlights in the grill opening. We rebuilt the engine with lots of go fast parts cause that's just what you did back then and ran true header side pipes with no slip ins in them. It was loud and fast just what every 19 year old kid in central Wisconsin needed. While the C5 is fast and corners like its on rails there is just something about an old hot rod.

LS4 PILOT

Lots of LS4 cars out there looking for a loving home .

No law says you can't have two cars .

Paul L

Strangely I was thinking of going in the opposite direction but the electronic complexities and flaws of the C5 told me no. The lack of replacement modules for the 1997-2001 years is of particular concern.

sgtwallydog

He said Modules

early shark

Paul,
So was there a change for the '02 - 04' models? Did these years use something different? I have a late '02 coupe I bought brand new and is my daily driver.

BKbroiler

Memory makes the heart grow fonder, or something like that. That 73 probably wasn't as fast as you think it was. Probably needed frequent work too. I have a 2004 C5 with 45k miles on it now. Its fast, troublefree and gets great gas mileage too.

Brandons72vette

I had a yellow 2001 coupe with rare tan interior, automatic, a really nice car. It had less than 12,000 miles, still had the new car smell, etc. I really miss it now, but I had an option to keep my '72 or the '01. I chose to keep my '72. I am glad that I did, but sad I sold my C5. If you can, try to buy a C3 without giving up your C5.

Spare Time Toy

I remember having it at 150 indicated and it would run 110 in the 1/4 I don't remember the times thoug.

Paul L

I am not an expert. I just read.

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...m-failure.html

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-c5-ebcms.html

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...ere-yours.html

prlwng

Been looking at c5 for sale ads a lot. But do not want to get rid of c3. Would like the handeling and performance verces my 82. But don't want to spend the cash.

Instead lookin at charging my rst pickup and doing some other work for cornering on it. Time will tell. Mama says I gots to many toys now. I always tell her she is main toy.

mrvette

Being as I own a '72 vert, that has been updated from wheels through roof, nothing is stock, I never got into the newer vette forums, and so totally ignorant of these happenings with the newer cars.....

so reading links here and following some threads through, it would seem to ME, that simply getting a wiring diagram and removing surplus electronic crap would be a hell of a lot easier


Over the last few years I have had an S10 and a Silverado in the family and both of them were drawing current, after setting for a day, or maybe more depending on use, the batteries would be dead.....

found the drain with the S10 body control module...pull the ten amp fuse and the drain went to zero, ran a wire from hot side of fuse with tab bent over to a switched hot position on the fuse block....

the Silverado was more harder....had to put an ignition controlled relay to enliven the FIFTY amp fuse called LIGHTS/LIGHTING stopped a 3 amp drain, went nutz in both cases looking for a lightbulb still on when not supposed to be....no go....

so IF I had any car with too much electronics in place, time to wire around it.....

bj1k

Correction The problem years were 97 through 2000. Starting in 2001 there were many improvements and the module was one of them . If you must have a C5 , 2001 through 2004 are the years to buy , but beware that all newer corvettes after the C3's are subject to electrical and many other strange problems.