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Quick Tech: Resetting Corvette Tire Pressure Monitor Sensors
Since the 1987 model year, Corvettes have come with tire pressure monitoring systems to keep tabs on the air pressure on all four corners. While it’s convenient (and a necessity for Corvettes equipped...
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Introducing Project Y2K
When I was growing up, the year 2000 seemed unimaginably far in the future. To the ten year old Paul, the idea of being an old man of 32 was hard to grasp. Of course the reality of the year 2000 was...
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Project Y2k: Stage 1 & 2 Upgrades from Corvette Central Performance
For a significant number of Corvette owners, the car as delivered from the factory is as good as it can possibly be – they go to great lengths to preserve originality and maintain their Vette exactly...
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Project Y2k: Stage 3 & 4 Upgrades from Corvette Central Performance
Welcome back to the second and final part of our series on upgrading Project Y2k, our in-house 2000 Corvette, with the help of Corvette Central Performance and their Stage 1-4 kits for the C5. In part...
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SCT Upgrades Late Model Corvettes with the Push of a Button
What if there was a way to get more out of your C5 or C6 Corvette, without ever opening the hood? Who wouldn’t want that – to be able to extract extra performance and tune the car without ever getting...
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Project Y2k Gets a MSD 2-Step Launch Control for Track Consistency
As America’s favorite sports car, the Corvette can be found in a variety of forms these days, from stock daily drivers and factory-correct weekend cruisers to blown track cars and nearly unbeatable...
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Project Y2k: Drag Race Upgrades From Lingenfelter
If you own it, you should drive it. At least that’s the consensus among car owners that see no point in owning a vehicle if it’s just going to sit in a garage or be trailered to an occasional show....
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Nitrous Express 3-Bolt LS Plate System: Putting the Squeeze on Y2k
Project Y2k, our 2000 Corvette testbed You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much horsepower on tap. While we’re perpetually broke to the point of ordering off the dollar menu at fast food...
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Project Y2k Driveline Upgrades with LG Motorsports and RPM
Some people will never break their Corvette. For some owners, their Y-body is a piece of art – a collectable rarity that just happens to be able to get from one place to another under its own power....
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C5 Tech: Pfadt FeatherLight Generation Coilover Suspension
It seems that whenever late model Corvette handling comes up in conversation, there will inevitably one person armed with just enough knowledge to be dangerous who will say, “I can’t believe they still...
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BBK LS Intake Upgrades – Project Y2k Goes Big
While the classic small block Chevy has to be at the top of anyone’s list of all-time great designs, part of what made it so awesome was the way it responded to hot rodding. A carb swap, a pair of...
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Installing Z06 Brake Cooling Ducts with Corvette Central
The introduction of the Z06 Corvette for the 2001 model year brought with it many improvements over the existing “base” C5; foremost among them was the LS6 engine, initially rated at 385, and later 405...
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Project Y2K Gets an Aluminum Makeover with Moroso
Although some C5 Corvettes are now nearly old enough to drive themselves, with proper maintenance and a little elbow grease, they can still look nearly as good as they did when they left Bowling Green....
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Corvette Central Seat Cover Replacement Install on Project Y2K
There’s no question that a C5 is a great beginner Corvette – it’s got an LS1 powerplant, a six-speed Tremec transmission, and can be found for under $15k. Just like any used 10+ year-old vehicle, the...
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Project Y2k: New Stopping Power for Our C5 Corvette from DBA USA
Our mission statement for Project Y2k, our 2000 Chevrolet Corvette, was to create a “blue collar supercar” – a competent all-around performance vehicle that excels at a wide range of different things,...
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Quick Tech: Resetting Corvette Tire Pressure Monitor Sensors
Since the 1987 model year, Corvettes have come with tire pressure monitoring systems to keep tabs on the air pressure on all four corners. While it’s convenient (and a necessity for Corvettes equipped...
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Tested: Nitrous Express Maximizer 4 on our Project C5 Corvette
“With great power comes great wheelspin.” No, it’s not yet another terrible reboot of the Spiderman movie franchise — it’s just a fact of life when it comes to extracting the essence of horsepower and...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning: Corvette Coilover Rebuild with aFe Control
With more than three years and nearly 30,000 miles on the clock since they were installed, we decided it was high time to get Project Y2k's coilover suspension rebuilt...
View ArticleUpgrading Your Clutch While Maintaining Drivability With Fidanza
After a recent thrashing, we noticed the clutch in Project Y2K had seen better days, so we turned to Fidanza Performance for a clutch and flywheel replacement that could handle the horsepower this car...
View ArticleQuick Tech: Resetting Corvette Tire Pressure Monitor Sensors
Since the 1987 model year, Corvettes have come with tire pressure monitoring systems to keep tabs on the air pressure on all four corners. We show you how to reset them.
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