C5 Corvette tr6060 swap guide/overview
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I am looking to pickup everything for this swap for my C5. My current trans needs shift rail bushings, and the diff whines so I figured might as well upgrade. Couple quick questions:
1. How is the NVH with the hinson mount, any real noticeable difference?
2. Did you just loop the cooler line for the TR6060 from one side to the other with no cooler?
3. Did you do the same thing with the diff?
4. Any pics of how the exhaust needs to be modified?
1. How is the NVH with the hinson mount, any real noticeable difference?
2. Did you just loop the cooler line for the TR6060 from one side to the other with no cooler?
3. Did you do the same thing with the diff?
4. Any pics of how the exhaust needs to be modified?
Last edited by Roland1094; May 1, 2026 at 05:17 PM.
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1. The hinson mounts didn't add any NVH for me, but my car is gutted, has the aluminium blockoff plate for the trunk dip, has poly/spherical bushings everywhere, solid shifter mounts.....I would not worry too much about it.
2. The cooler line for the 6060 gets looped, do ***not*** block it off. Cooler or not is your choice. RPM(those guys are awesome) gave me the loop line for free when they rebuilt my 6060.
3. My diff never had a cooler, but I'm pretty sure you can safely plug those ports if you do have them.
4. No pics but it's pretty simple. The C5 style exhausts just need the "over the axle" portion extended, I would just take the car to your local muffler place and have them cut and weld, it cost me $200 to have the local guy cut my system and make it fit. ***do not drive the car far without the axle back portion or you will melt your new hinson mounts. They were kind enough to send me a replacement set of the poly bushings for a significant discount, but you can learn from my mistake.***
2. The cooler line for the 6060 gets looped, do ***not*** block it off. Cooler or not is your choice. RPM(those guys are awesome) gave me the loop line for free when they rebuilt my 6060.
3. My diff never had a cooler, but I'm pretty sure you can safely plug those ports if you do have them.
4. No pics but it's pretty simple. The C5 style exhausts just need the "over the axle" portion extended, I would just take the car to your local muffler place and have them cut and weld, it cost me $200 to have the local guy cut my system and make it fit. ***do not drive the car far without the axle back portion or you will melt your new hinson mounts. They were kind enough to send me a replacement set of the poly bushings for a significant discount, but you can learn from my mistake.***
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1. The hinson mounts didn't add any NVH for me, but my car is gutted, has the aluminium blockoff plate for the trunk dip, has poly/spherical bushings everywhere, solid shifter mounts.....I would not worry too much about it.
2. The cooler line for the 6060 gets looped, do ***not*** block it off. Cooler or not is your choice. RPM(those guys are awesome) gave me the loop line for free when they rebuilt my 6060.
3. My diff never had a cooler, but I'm pretty sure you can safely plug those ports if you do have them.
4. No pics but it's pretty simple. The C5 style exhausts just need the "over the axle" portion extended, I would just take the car to your local muffler place and have them cut and weld, it cost me $200 to have the local guy cut my system and make it fit. ***do not drive the car far without the axle back portion or you will melt your new hinson mounts. They were kind enough to send me a replacement set of the poly bushings for a significant discount, but you can learn from my mistake.***
2. The cooler line for the 6060 gets looped, do ***not*** block it off. Cooler or not is your choice. RPM(those guys are awesome) gave me the loop line for free when they rebuilt my 6060.
3. My diff never had a cooler, but I'm pretty sure you can safely plug those ports if you do have them.
4. No pics but it's pretty simple. The C5 style exhausts just need the "over the axle" portion extended, I would just take the car to your local muffler place and have them cut and weld, it cost me $200 to have the local guy cut my system and make it fit. ***do not drive the car far without the axle back portion or you will melt your new hinson mounts. They were kind enough to send me a replacement set of the poly bushings for a significant discount, but you can learn from my mistake.***
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On the stock eccentrics I had no trouble at all getting more camber, but I also installed the camber lockout plates which help(sorta) adding camber. If your car is hdpe/autox/drift with any real tire you should buy the lockouts anyway.
On a side note, I'm not understanding the correlation between adjusting camber and how the wheel sits in terms of fore and aft spacing in the wheel well. Camber adjust will only move the lower control arm inner or outer. It will not change how far forward or rearward the actual wheel sits.
For some addl context, I have 315/30/18 r888rs on the z06 speedlines and haven't seen any rub/issues caused by the slight wheel bias.
On a side note, I'm not understanding the correlation between adjusting camber and how the wheel sits in terms of fore and aft spacing in the wheel well. Camber adjust will only move the lower control arm inner or outer. It will not change how far forward or rearward the actual wheel sits.
For some addl context, I have 315/30/18 r888rs on the z06 speedlines and haven't seen any rub/issues caused by the slight wheel bias.
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I have the same tire size in Azenis which are 25.4" diam. The question in my mind is that I also have a set which are 27.6" diam and how they'll end up, and later on what about Dr's or slicks which will expand?
