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steddy2112
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I guess this where I put things about me here.
I've been lurking around here for months before joining up because I knew it was about to be time to make child hood me a real happy camper.
Wife's car payment went poof and we had discussed replacing a very beloved and dear to me car with something that started its life off as a performance car rather than a hot version of a pedestrian car. I was on the hunt for a 2016 or newer Z51 M7 coupe because I had gotten used to creature comforts like android auto and well liked all the issues being sorted out on the early LT1s. Not to mention it was going to burn my soul to buy something that was older than what I was replacing. Bonus if it was a 2LT of higher because fancy HUD. I knew I had EVERY intention of tracking the car at least a couple times a year because I've basically being doing the track thing since 2007 either on a bike or in a car so a Z51 was the goal. I mean, everyone always looks at the higher packages and wishes, but a Z51 would do what I was asking of it without batting an eye.
So then began the searching which is how I ended up here anyways. Weeks of autotempest and cargurus and looking at the classifieds here when I had found a white 2019 Z51 M7 coupe with only 3k miles about 40 minutes south of where I lived. Weird carfax, had 2 owners with that low of miles, it was worth a looksee, until I found, the same exact day, a Torch Red, single-owner 2017 M7 Grand Sport. Carfax says it was bought at a dealership I previously bought two Cobalts at and it was traded in at Kerbeck...er...Ciocca, about 2 hours from where I live. The best part about it? It was in my budget.
Saw it online on a Wednesday, talked to the wife about it on Thursday, checked it out/test drove it Friday and left a deopsit, and bought it on Saturday:
And yeah, she likes it too:
So yeah, I'm still pretty blown away we pulled off.
A bit about the car: it's a 1LT but the previous owner put the PDR and camera system in it...kinda...it only has one camera in the front grill instead of the two I see everywhere else. Of course, that camera already got pwnt, but the fender cameras are awesome for lane changes. If anyone knows what setup this is so I can learn about it a smidge that would be cool.
Plans are to keep it stock as a rock until I bend/crack an OEM wheel and then switching to a set of Apex wheels that'll fit some 200 TW tires, throwing some DS2500 pads on it, and being an HPDE hero lol.
I know some people have had SOME luck with their stock wheels not bending or cracking but I managed to bend a Volk ZE40 on my previous setup so it's only a matter of time. What car was that? I thought you'd never ask.
It was a 2016 VW GTI SE with some things and stough done to it. IS38 turbo swap from a Golf R, a tune that you can't anymore, catless turbo back exhaust, ohlins coilovers, bigger rear sway bar, camber adjustable front lower ball joints, caster increasing control arms with delrin/polybushings, stiffer rubber engine mounts, bigger intercooler, bigger radiator, fluidampr pulley, intake, better clutch, floating rotors all the way around and ran Hawk 5.0 pads and Motul 550 fluid. Bunch of body control module tweaks to be able to defeat stability control while keeping ABS. Was a huge fan of the dunlop direzza z2 star specs on my Cobalt so when it came time for the GTI to run a 200TW tire I kept it familiar with Z3s. Ran 1:28s on Thunderbolt at NJMP pretty consistently but asking that much from it would lead to it getting really hot by the end of a session. So I knew I was pretty much at a nexus with it. Either turn the power down, which, well, I mean, is like, really hard to do, or finally get something that started its life with what I like to do in mind. It was the best car I have ever owned. 400 hp, sub 3000 lbs, tons of aftermarket, EASILY got 30 mpg on the hwy(28 combined) and beyond reliable. Even let me get my first(and probably only) set of Volk wheels. Been to the Tail with it a couple of times too
C5 content!!!! lol My buddy's old car with me and another friend a the Cherohala Skyway, not too far from the Tail
Anyways, now that I've whored up my own thread a bit with pics and what not I could prattle on and on about my older rides, but I'm sure there's a thread around here somewhere for that...so...yeah...hope to keep reading up on things and learning a new platform and working on gittingud with the Corvette
-Steve
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I've been lurking around here for months before joining up because I knew it was about to be time to make child hood me a real happy camper.
Wife's car payment went poof and we had discussed replacing a very beloved and dear to me car with something that started its life off as a performance car rather than a hot version of a pedestrian car. I was on the hunt for a 2016 or newer Z51 M7 coupe because I had gotten used to creature comforts like android auto and well liked all the issues being sorted out on the early LT1s. Not to mention it was going to burn my soul to buy something that was older than what I was replacing. Bonus if it was a 2LT of higher because fancy HUD. I knew I had EVERY intention of tracking the car at least a couple times a year because I've basically being doing the track thing since 2007 either on a bike or in a car so a Z51 was the goal. I mean, everyone always looks at the higher packages and wishes, but a Z51 would do what I was asking of it without batting an eye.
So then began the searching which is how I ended up here anyways. Weeks of autotempest and cargurus and looking at the classifieds here when I had found a white 2019 Z51 M7 coupe with only 3k miles about 40 minutes south of where I lived. Weird carfax, had 2 owners with that low of miles, it was worth a looksee, until I found, the same exact day, a Torch Red, single-owner 2017 M7 Grand Sport. Carfax says it was bought at a dealership I previously bought two Cobalts at and it was traded in at Kerbeck...er...Ciocca, about 2 hours from where I live. The best part about it? It was in my budget.
Saw it online on a Wednesday, talked to the wife about it on Thursday, checked it out/test drove it Friday and left a deopsit, and bought it on Saturday:
And yeah, she likes it too:
So yeah, I'm still pretty blown away we pulled off.
A bit about the car: it's a 1LT but the previous owner put the PDR and camera system in it...kinda...it only has one camera in the front grill instead of the two I see everywhere else. Of course, that camera already got pwnt, but the fender cameras are awesome for lane changes. If anyone knows what setup this is so I can learn about it a smidge that would be cool.
Plans are to keep it stock as a rock until I bend/crack an OEM wheel and then switching to a set of Apex wheels that'll fit some 200 TW tires, throwing some DS2500 pads on it, and being an HPDE hero lol.
I know some people have had SOME luck with their stock wheels not bending or cracking but I managed to bend a Volk ZE40 on my previous setup so it's only a matter of time. What car was that? I thought you'd never ask.
It was a 2016 VW GTI SE with some things and stough done to it. IS38 turbo swap from a Golf R, a tune that you can't anymore, catless turbo back exhaust, ohlins coilovers, bigger rear sway bar, camber adjustable front lower ball joints, caster increasing control arms with delrin/polybushings, stiffer rubber engine mounts, bigger intercooler, bigger radiator, fluidampr pulley, intake, better clutch, floating rotors all the way around and ran Hawk 5.0 pads and Motul 550 fluid. Bunch of body control module tweaks to be able to defeat stability control while keeping ABS. Was a huge fan of the dunlop direzza z2 star specs on my Cobalt so when it came time for the GTI to run a 200TW tire I kept it familiar with Z3s. Ran 1:28s on Thunderbolt at NJMP pretty consistently but asking that much from it would lead to it getting really hot by the end of a session. So I knew I was pretty much at a nexus with it. Either turn the power down, which, well, I mean, is like, really hard to do, or finally get something that started its life with what I like to do in mind. It was the best car I have ever owned. 400 hp, sub 3000 lbs, tons of aftermarket, EASILY got 30 mpg on the hwy(28 combined) and beyond reliable. Even let me get my first(and probably only) set of Volk wheels. Been to the Tail with it a couple of times too
C5 content!!!! lol My buddy's old car with me and another friend a the Cherohala Skyway, not too far from the Tail
Anyways, now that I've whored up my own thread a bit with pics and what not I could prattle on and on about my older rides, but I'm sure there's a thread around here somewhere for that...so...yeah...hope to keep reading up on things and learning a new platform and working on gittingud with the Corvette
-Steve
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