Vette Hack in Hot Rod Magazine

[subtlez28]

ATTENTION: Other forums have the whole negativity thing covered. I'd really like for this thread to be constructive. Please, keep in mind I am building a C4 so to come here and post C4s are turds is both rude, and inaccurate. There is a reason they put C4 suspension under hot rods and muscle cars. And even in lightly modded form they will kill a lot of cars at the road course. So, again lets talk about the possibilities here and if you think it was fun or not. Lets leave the bashing to the other forums. This was an experiment to see how weight effected handling, and is destined to become some sort of track toy. (edit)

I belong to several forums (including some corvette specific forums) and I cannot believe I only found this today. I did search here, so I apologize if it is a re-post.

The first part of the story is in the Hot Rod Magazine I got today (Nov 2010).
Here is a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfpQTAFoTU4

I thought the article was really fun. In the video I was a little put off by cutting and sledge hammering the car up, rather than unbolting stuff (it is easy - I have had my C4 quite far apart). That said I liked watching it and it was again fun.



Freiburger talked about the rage on forums such as Corvette Forums, in his editorial so I went to see what the fuss was about:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c4-g...ack-video.html

Needless to say some die-hard Corvette guys (especially C4 guys) are/were up in arms.

Personally, I think it is interesting. In fact I have been searching for more info for a couple hours now. I cannot wait to see what the end product is!

But then I picked up a C4 because it was a good hot rod / track car platform, so I'm not a typical "corvette guy". I figured guys and gals at this site might be more like minded with me on this issue.

I have always thought a company like factory five should make light weigh race/street car kits using C4s as donors rather than mustangs. I'm hoping it is something like that!

What do you guys think?

Anyone have more info?

All I have been able to find is it will get caged, and see track time.