MadMaxWell

New Vette owner here! Picked up an 04 base 6speed with 89k on it in November. Well, the week before Christmas it started making a bad rattle noise, turned out the crankshaft balancer bolt had come loose. I decided to replace the balancer with a new ARP bolt, and pin the crank. While it was apart I did some performance upgrades:

TSP 228R cam, 112LSA
TSP longtube headers with high flow catted x-pipe
Double valve springs w/ Ti retainers
GM high performance oil pump
LS2 timing chain
NGK TR6 plugs
MSD plug wires

Also fixed quite a few leaks and performed some other maintenance before having it tuned by Skaats Precision Motorsports in Hebron KY. I am VERY pleased with how it turned out, driveability around town is near stock, and the overall performance upgrade feels significant to me. My previous vehicle was a 2004 Civic Si that I motor swapped and tuned, I loved that car but boy does this Vette feel different! Im done with performance upgrades for a while, I drive the Vette 500 miles a week and think I've already found a good balance of performance and comfort. Figured some people would want to see results on a setup as basic as this, it put down 382hp and 358tq on a mustang dyno.

tombrammer

Pretty nice, thanks for sharing, always nice to know what different combos do.