Before and After...
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Le Mans Master
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Before and After...
Thought I would post up a few before and after shots...
Four years ago, I bought my '97 MN6 coupe - it was completely stock except for a K&N air filter and a B&B Tri-flow cat back.
After about a year, I started thinking about mods...and I decided that I needed a theme to guide my modifications. It didn't take me long to decide that my theme would be a C5 Grand Sport. My goal was build what GM would have built had they actually produced a C5 Grand Sport, so a lot of effort was take to make sure my mods would accurately reflect just that - a factory C5 Grand Sport.
I love the way it came out...hope you like it too. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Four years ago, I bought my '97 MN6 coupe - it was completely stock except for a K&N air filter and a B&B Tri-flow cat back.
After about a year, I started thinking about mods...and I decided that I needed a theme to guide my modifications. It didn't take me long to decide that my theme would be a C5 Grand Sport. My goal was build what GM would have built had they actually produced a C5 Grand Sport, so a lot of effort was take to make sure my mods would accurately reflect just that - a factory C5 Grand Sport.
I love the way it came out...hope you like it too. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Drifting
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It looks great, I especially like the interior I think the only things I would have done different would have been going with Black Z06 wheels and Torch Red floor mats..and when your paint starts to fade..you definitely should paint it Admiral Blue, I would love to see a C5 in that color..my 2nd fave all time Corvette color 
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Le Mans Master
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Props to my cousin Don
for designing and making them for me (same 3M-type decal material used by GM). If you have seen Transformers 4, then you have seen his work before - he designed the Western Star truck that was Optimus Prime!
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Looks very good. Have you thought about a single wide stripe going down the center of the car?
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Drifting
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Looks nice but I would have put the grand sport sticker down by the bottom of the front fender. It would be in closer proximity to a straighter edge instead of the angled edge of the front vent. These sort of mis-matched lines seem "unharmonious" (if that is a word).
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Here is the thread for the mod red interior project...see post #16 for detail on what I did...
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...dye-paint.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-g...dye-paint.html