It's me Pirates Mod thread
03-20-2014, 12:43 PM
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Burning Brakes
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It's me Pirates Mod thread
All right well i'm jumping on the bandwagon too. I figure it would be cool to be able to see everything I do to my a C5 in one place so I'll start a mod thread of my own. I just bought my C5 a few months ago back in January of this year. I have a huge list of mods planned but here is what I've done so far.
Here she is the fist night of ownership. We drove out to Old Town Kissimmee for the classic car cruise and some fun
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First MOD! Corsa Extreme exhaust with Xpipe Before - After
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Next thing I did was bolt up a back up camera and run the wires [IMG]
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Next thing I pulled modified my radio trim bezel for double din and installed a Kenwood DNX890HD double din head unit
with navigation, bluetooth, and of course my new back up camera :-)
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Time to install HUD! New gauge cluster, projector, dimmer switch.
Had to yank the dash out to install wasn't nearly as bad to do as it looks
While the cluster is out went ahead and installed a set of gauge trim rings to jazz up the gauges a bit
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/just4fun777/Cars/Corvette/20140305_092355.jpg[/IMG]
All back together and working great
Time for some easy and cheap stuff. I ordered some decals to dress up the steering wheel and pass side air bag.
I must say Im not all too impressed with these especially for the price. They are no more than vinyl decals and certainly
not worth what they charge for them.
I ordered all new interior LED bulbs in blue and put them all in. I'm not really feeling the blue so much in my car so
think I'm going to order another set and change them over to Red.
Which brings me up to today.
LOOKY LOOKY what just came it! I'm putting new drivers seat foam in and haveing custom covers made for my seats.
Going from all gray to black and gray with some custom embroidery in the head rest
[/IMG]First MOD! Corsa Extreme exhaust with Xpipe Before - After
[/IMG]
[/IMG]Next thing I did was bolt up a back up camera and run the wires [IMG]
[/IMG]Next thing I pulled modified my radio trim bezel for double din and installed a Kenwood DNX890HD double din head unit
with navigation, bluetooth, and of course my new back up camera :-)
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[/IMGTime to install HUD! New gauge cluster, projector, dimmer switch.
Had to yank the dash out to install wasn't nearly as bad to do as it looks
While the cluster is out went ahead and installed a set of gauge trim rings to jazz up the gauges a bit
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/just4fun777/Cars/Corvette/20140305_092355.jpg[/IMG]
All back together and working great
Time for some easy and cheap stuff. I ordered some decals to dress up the steering wheel and pass side air bag.
I must say Im not all too impressed with these especially for the price. They are no more than vinyl decals and certainly
not worth what they charge for them.
I ordered all new interior LED bulbs in blue and put them all in. I'm not really feeling the blue so much in my car so
think I'm going to order another set and change them over to Red.
Which brings me up to today.
LOOKY LOOKY what just came it! I'm putting new drivers seat foam in and haveing custom covers made for my seats.
Going from all gray to black and gray with some custom embroidery in the head rest
03-20-2014, 01:44 PM
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I KNOW!!! and I didn't even post the stuff that I am ordering today or what I'm still waiting to come in LOL
03-20-2014, 01:56 PM
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Nicely done so far. I will say that once the mod bug bites, it seems that there is no cure.
03-20-2014, 02:13 PM
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I've been himing and hawing over whether to put much money into this car or just enjoy it for a bit, do a few little things then sell it for a C6 but I really love the car and after seeing a sea of C6's at the Corvette Corral and only a handful of C5's mostly all stock I've been leaning more and more to just making this one into the vision that I have for it. Then I unexpectedly met a fellow CF member yesterday at a gas station his name was Joe and goes by Road Pilot here and good god almighty his car is wicked cool! I was just in awe of it's coolness and how much work and time he has put into it. That was it i'm going all in with my C5 I'd much rather have the C5 I dream of than a stock C6 Still love em both but I'll wait on the C6 until after i do everything possible I can think of my C5 and give it a whole S____load of Pirate attitude
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03-20-2014, 03:35 PM
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Burning Brakes
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Thank you I wanted to get a few electronic creature comforts before doing much else
I think I'm a lost cause... just ordered Carbon Fiber C-style rear wing and side skirts from Pete at CC
I wanted to get a few electronic creature comforts before doing much else ... just ordered Carbon Fiber C-style rear wing and side skirts from Pete at CC
03-21-2014, 12:25 AM
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Look'n good, great job on the bezel. Can't believe you didn't change out your shift boot while you had the console out. I'm about to to replace mine and install a auto **** adapter so I can replace the shift ****. I figured as long as I'm in there, I would like to replace the stock bulb with an LED, so many to choose from
...and away we go...Keep us posted on your mods
I'm about to to replace mine and install a auto **** adapter so I can replace the shift ****. I figured as long as I'm in there, I would like to replace the stock bulb with an LED, so many to choose from...and away we go...Keep us posted on your mods
03-21-2014, 10:53 AM
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Thank YOU! but I don't know... didn't Adrian cut the roof off his FRC? Thats takes ***** the size of TX
03-21-2014, 10:55 AM
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03-21-2014, 10:57 AM
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Its all having fun, and you certainly are having fun.Nicely done.
03-21-2014, 12:57 PM
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Last night I installed an automatic shift **** adapter and shift ball kit from SICKSPEED that I ordered from Ebay. I must say I love this mod and its a great bang for he buck mod as well. I did have a fitment issue with the adapter and had to slighty mdify it to get it to fit and work correctly but it was not a huge deal and I detailed what I had to do in this install thread if your interested here is the link to that. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...r-install.html
in the end I love the look and feel of this over the stock shifter. It works really well so far and the shift ball that you get with the kit is actually really nice but I so plan to swap it for a brushed aluminum one that I have pictured in my head but would have no problem keeping this one If I can't find the one i'm thinking about.
in the end I love the look and feel of this over the stock shifter. It works really well so far and the shift ball that you get with the kit is actually really nice but I so plan to swap it for a brushed aluminum one that I have pictured in my head but would have no problem keeping this one If I can't find the one i'm thinking about.
03-22-2014, 10:50 PM
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All right well i'm jumping on the bandwagon too. I figure it would be cool to be able to see everything I do to my a C5 in one place so I'll start a mod thread of my own. I just bought my C5 a few months ago back in January of this year. I have a huge list of mods planned but here is what I've done so far.
Here she is the fist night of ownership. We drove out to Old Town Kissimmee for the classic car cruise and some fun
[/IMG]
First MOD! Corsa Extreme exhaust with Xpipe Before - After
[/IMG]
[/IMG]
Next thing I did was bolt up a back up camera and run the wires [IMG][/IMG]
Next thing I pulled modified my radio trim bezel for double din and installed a Kenwood DNX890HD double din head unit
with navigation, bluetooth, and of course my new back up camera :-)[/IMG]
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[/IMG
Time to install HUD! New gauge cluster, projector, dimmer switch.
Had to yank the dash out to install wasn't nearly as bad to do as it looks
While the cluster is out went ahead and installed a set of gauge trim rings to jazz up the gauges a bit
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/just4fun777/Cars/Corvette/20140305_092355.jpg[/IMG]
All back together and working great
Time for some easy and cheap stuff. I ordered some decals to dress up the steering wheel and pass side air bag.
I must say Im not all too impressed with these especially for the price. They are no more than vinyl decals and certainly
not worth what they charge for them.
I ordered all new interior LED bulbs in blue and put them all in. I'm not really feeling the blue so much in my car so
think I'm going to order another set and change them over to Red.
Which brings me up to today.
LOOKY LOOKY what just came it! I'm putting new drivers seat foam in and haveing custom covers made for my seats.
Going from all gray to black and gray with some custom embroidery in the head rest
[/IMG]First MOD! Corsa Extreme exhaust with Xpipe Before - After
[/IMG][/IMG]Next thing I did was bolt up a back up camera and run the wires [IMG]
[/IMG]Next thing I pulled modified my radio trim bezel for double din and installed a Kenwood DNX890HD double din head unit
with navigation, bluetooth, and of course my new back up camera :-)
[/IMG][/IMG][/IMGTime to install HUD! New gauge cluster, projector, dimmer switch.
Had to yank the dash out to install wasn't nearly as bad to do as it looks
While the cluster is out went ahead and installed a set of gauge trim rings to jazz up the gauges a bit
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh88/just4fun777/Cars/Corvette/20140305_092355.jpg[/IMG]
All back together and working great
Time for some easy and cheap stuff. I ordered some decals to dress up the steering wheel and pass side air bag.
I must say Im not all too impressed with these especially for the price. They are no more than vinyl decals and certainly
not worth what they charge for them.
I ordered all new interior LED bulbs in blue and put them all in. I'm not really feeling the blue so much in my car so
think I'm going to order another set and change them over to Red.
Which brings me up to today.
LOOKY LOOKY what just came it! I'm putting new drivers seat foam in and haveing custom covers made for my seats.
Going from all gray to black and gray with some custom embroidery in the head rest
Vette Works international for the stickers (3d Domed they are great )
03-23-2014, 08:39 AM
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03-23-2014, 08:43 AM
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