Moderation is the Key to Mods A hot cam, the stickiest R-compound tires and the latest trick suspension pieces aren’t going to do anything for a track neophyte. And since classes are mostly defined by the level of track prep, you might just wind up modding yourself out of your class.      Plus, there’s […] More »

Chop Cut Rebuild works on concurrent builds over the course of 13 episodes. In its seventh season in 2010, the CCR team worked on two start-to-finish build-ups. One was a 1969 Dodge Hemi Charger; the other was a Corvette Grand Sport tribute built on a contemporary C6 chassis. The build was planned in late 2009 […] More »

Next, the CCR team visited the Edelbrock facility in Torrance, California, to detail the fabrication of the E-Force supercharger that would add 200 horsepower to GS. For the next episode, they returned the following week to CSOC with the hardware to document the installation of the E-Force supercharger on the second C6. This was followed […] More »

Starting on the morning of March 18, 2010, Laurent attacked the C6 ?Vette like a man on a mission. Front bumper, rear bumper, rear fenders ? all removed. The rear window, gone. The interior was stripped down to its barest essentials. With the first segments in the can, it would be a month before the […] More »

The C7 Will Look Like… It’s a given the body won’t be made out of metal?but the truth is we just don’t know what the General’s new baby will look like. At this point, the only people who could accurately say are still hard at work refining it?and none of them are talking. The clearest […] More »

The C7 Interior Will be World-Class Even among its die-hard fans, the Corvette’s interior has always been a point of contention. Because while the current car can run with high-end Italian exotics at the track, interior materials and build quality have seemingly languished in the malaise era. But GM is a very different company now […] More »

The Base C7 Won’t Get a Turbo V6 Despite the fact that the Corvette debuted with the Blue Flame straight-six engine, the V6 rumor has perhaps been the most terrifying for enthusiasts. Because for most of its life, the Corvette has been synonymous with a big V8. At this point, it’s safe to say a […] More »