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Old Oct 15, 2024 | 10:39 PM
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The SAE offers a Corvette book on new vehicle engineering and technology history of the Corvette.

There is a lot of good info in this book of all kinds. Much on the C5 on Aero and other features like stability control and Competitive driving mode.

These are numerous SAE engineering stories they have published from the Corvette engineers.

‘’It is a bit techs but interesting.

The SAE offers the book on their web site it is on back order at $99. It covers most years but much on the C5.
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https://www.sae.org/publications/books/content/pt-118/
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Sounds like it might be a good buy for someone that gets into doing their own repairs on the car.
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Originally Posted by Vetteman Jack
Sounds like it might be a good buy for someone that gets into doing their own repairs on the car.
Not really. It is not a service book.

The Engineers Dona paper on things the designed for the car. It explains the items and how and why they were developed. Suspension, electrical items etc,

It also document things like wind tunnel numbers and the changes made,

It would help a track time car just for the aero info. Things like rounding the b pillar etc are explained and numbers to show improvement. Same all the way up to under trays to spoilers GM tested. Even the effect of removing the front and rear plate covers.

There are papers from even older projects from Zora, Ollie and others.
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Thanks for posting about this. Wind tunnel tests are a part of my misspent youth before I succumbed to the allure of the Corporate Machine.
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Originally Posted by PetrofMII
Thanks for posting about this. Wind tunnel tests are a part of my misspent youth before I succumbed to the allure of the Corporate Machine.
‘They have some interesting results that don’t agree with sone web experts.
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