Hello, my name is Dan. I have a 2014 Laguna Blue Corvette, Z 51, auto, performance exhaust, red calipers. I have never joined a forum before, but this site intrigued me. I have been reading a lot of great information here. I have had many muscle cars, I cant seem to leave them alone, I am truly a speed addict. I got crazy on one of my cars, twin 53mm Precision turbos, boosta pumps, throttle body, 90lb injectors, headers, cat delete (a no no here in Ca.), and more than I would like to admit. I put 813 rwhp, (sae dynojet). It was a rocket. I won't be doing that again. I now have the 2014 Corvette Stingray, first Corvette btw. I love it. Especially taking it through the canyons. I added an AFE cai, didn't seem to do much for the sotps. I just emailed Mike at Diablo for the I1000 hand held tuner. Anyone have any real live experience with the cai and tuner combo? Worth doing? Looking forward to being a part of the Corvette Forum experience. Regards, Dan

 

Welcome to the forum from So Cal !!!

 

Thank you very much!

 

congrats on your C7 and welcome to the forum!

 

Thanks, I appreciate that. I look forward to all the resources that are here!

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Thanks!!!

 

Welcome and enjoy

 

Thank you for your "welcome", I appreciate it!

 

Welcome

 

Thank you!

 

You're welcome!

 

Brandon, I was considering adding s/s long-tube headers with cats and x pipe. I dont want a tune because it will void my warranty. What are your thoughts of adding headers on a 2014 C7 Corvette? Thanks!

 

Well I personally have found that in all of the times where I had something break on me, it was "not covered under warranty"...so therefore I don't really pay a whole of attention to warranties as they always try to get out of them. So IF you decided that the warranty means more to you than it does me, I would do what it takes to remain inside the boundaries of the warranty. However, if you feel about how I do on warranties and you want the extra power, sound, and improved performance of adding headers...then I would go ahead and build your car the way you want it. One thing you could do, is tune it, and if you knew that you had to take it in...you could reset everything possibly to default settings.


I didn't want to build my 2012 Camaro up too much because it would...void the warranty. The 5th generation Camaros are great, but they are flawed, and I had a manual transmission. The design of the clutch pedal assembly and shifter, and slave cylinder were weak. My Camaro was temperamental at best. It was a beast when it ran and drove though. Went through 3 sets of tires in about 2 years or less. But when it came time to fix it, EVERYTHING that was breaking was not under warranty. All of the things under warranty worked and never had an issue. So that was my "final straw" with the warranties.

If you plan to own the car long enough that the warranty would expire, and can wait that long to do the mod, it might be worth it to wait. But I personally would just go ahead and install them. I would keep everything stock and in case something needed to be fixed, and I was going to mess with warranty work...I swap parts and then later re install them. A pain yes, but that is one way to get around the voids possibly.



Hope that helps.

 

Not a C7, but here is a buddies custom C4 with a custom X pipe no cats, no mufflers, headers, cam etc. The headers and X pipe truly woke this C4 up. Sorry for the crappy audio from my old phone.