Learning about the C6
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St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'09-'10
Learning about the C6
After a few years with a C5 Vert, I figured there wasn't much about my C6 Vert that I wasn't aware of. I've had it less than two months and am slowly making upgrades. Today was paint the calipers day and to my surprise the first wheel I tried to remove wouldn't budge after removing the lug nuts. I pried it loose with a 1X4 and found that the hub concentric was rusted and would not let the wheel slide off. This was the case on all four wheels. Needless to say some chassis grease was applied to aid future removal. My second surprise was that there are cool air ducts to the rear brakes, but I couldn't see any inlet. The car has the Z51 option and I wonder if the ducts have something to do with that.
I, also, found it interesting that Chevy finally went to a true X pipe intermediate exhaust rather than that H setup.
I, also, found it interesting that Chevy finally went to a true X pipe intermediate exhaust rather than that H setup.
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'10
After a few years with a C5 Vert, I figured there wasn't much about my C6 Vert that I wasn't aware of. I've had it less than two months and am slowly making upgrades. Today was paint the calipers day and to my surprise the first wheel I tried to remove wouldn't budge after removing the lug nuts. I pried it loose with a 1X4 and found that the hub concentric was rusted and would not let the wheel slide off. This was the case on all four wheels. Needless to say some chassis grease was applied to aid future removal. My second surprise was that there are cool air ducts to the rear brakes, but I couldn't see any inlet. The car has the Z51 option and I wonder if the ducts have something to do with that.
I, also, found it interesting that Chevy finally went to a true X pipe intermediate exhaust rather than that H setup.
I, also, found it interesting that Chevy finally went to a true X pipe intermediate exhaust rather than that H setup.
The addition of the X-pipe came in 2008 with the LS3. The 2005-2007 LS2 Corvettes have an H-pipe.
