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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 12:02 AM
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Hi everyone.

My name's John. I picked up my '04 Commemorative Edition with 6 speed transmission last year. Long story short, the balancer started walking off lol, so decided to do some upgrades which then spiraled out of control. Just recently got the car back and tuned after doing BTR stage 3 NA cam, headers/x, BTR shaft mount rockers, afe intake, c6z fuel pump, McLeod rxt clutch, trans/diff brace, fiperformance rear mount, hinson motor mounts, and an mgw shifter. Made 404whp down at Dyno Tune Motorsports in Columbus.
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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 01:22 AM
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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 07:26 AM
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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 08:46 AM
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Congrats and welcome John!!
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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 08:59 AM
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Welcome to the Forum, John, and congratulations on your C5!
Sounds like the changes you made to your car were all necessary with the balancer fix.
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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 09:02 AM
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Greetings John and welcome to the forum!
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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 10:42 AM
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Welcome, and a need for speed!
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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 11:54 AM
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Moving this to C5 General - and a nice set of mods you did. Welcome to the forum.
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Welcome from a fellow modded CE 6mt owner! Pics are of course always appreciated! Here's mine when I was picking it up to bring home.
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Welcome to the forum!

I give you credit for addressing those safety issues. How about some pics of the car and mods?

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Old Sep 4, 2022 | 06:51 PM
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As requested. Some pics of the car. I recently did a one step with a rupes yellow wool pad and rupes yellow compound and used both my rupes lhr21 mk 2 for the large areas and my maxshine m312 for the tight spots. Topped it off with ammo reflex pro. Pretty killer results given the condition of the paint. ​​​Still have some interior cleaning to do though.








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Beautiful color! And brownie points for the cool LEDs…

Do the headers give you any noticeable heat?

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Originally Posted by JTernes
As requested. Some pics of the car. I recently did a one step with a rupes yellow wool pad and rupes yellow compound and used both my rupes lhr21 mk 2 for the large areas and my maxshine m312 for the tight spots. Topped it off with ammo reflex pro. Pretty killer results given the condition of the paint. ​​​Still have some interior cleaning to do though.



You can press the middle module further down so they line up better.

Welcome to the forum!
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Old Sep 5, 2022 | 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by vette4fl
Beautiful color! And brownie points for the cool LEDs…

Do the headers give you any noticeable heat?
I mean, I'm sure they do, although I have not had any issues from it yet. It's to be expected going from thick, cast manifolds with heat shields to exposed, thinner steel.
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Great color choice and welcome!
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Yeah... and now you can actually drive at nite and actually SEE!..
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