Again... I disagree. Pulling the airbox lid off of the stock intake and zip-tieing the filter in place shows real gains at the drag strip. The stock intake is choked down for water ingestion/enginenoise constraints.

 

I highly doubt that, and I've experienced and tried all the mods over the years.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

 

Search out J-rod's old posts... for a long time he held the record for a bone-stock C5 Z06 1/4 mile. Then he removed the airbox lid and zip-tied the filter in place and picked up ET and MPH time and time again.

While I agree that all the little crap like air bridges and ported TBs and aftermarket MAFs are a waste for a mostly stock car, replacing the filter/airbox housing isn't... it works. GM's setup is restrictive.

 

Dont know about anyone else but I dropped 3/10's at the strip with just a vararam.

 

I think everybody has problems from time to time but people who are mechanically inclined seem to be more objective and just deal with it rather than critizing the car. I have an extended warranty for the big high $$ stuff and fix the small stuff myself. Even with a warranty, there are a lot of little things not covered that would be expensive if you had to pay someone to do it. The satisfaction of fixing stuff yourself is part of the enjoyment of owning the car.

As for the mods, I can say honestly that I was really disappointed with the car's performance when I bought it bone stock with 13,000 miles on it. It didn't feel anything like what I thought a corvette should feel like. Only after adding the basic bolt ons - CAI, headers, hi flow cats, cat back, getting it tuned and putting in a 3:42 rear end did I finally begin to really enjoy the car's performance.

Corvettes will always be one of the coolest cars on the road and owning one makes up for a lot of the little quirky things that you need to do to keep it running great. Its no different from the stuff any other car owner deals with but look at what YOU are driving compared to them.

 

I get a few of the Corvette magazines, and a lot of the Q&A's are guys who write in with this problem or that, and then they list all the stuff they did to dicker with the car. If you know what you're doing, fine, but I think a lot of people think they know more than they really do.