Description
Author: Walt Thurn, ISBN: 9781613250266, 144 pages, softback, colour illustrations, CT-SA127
The magnificent-looking C5 Corvette was a huge improvement over the previous Corvette, and offers a great platform for performance modifications. This book combines the best parts of a Corvette buyer's guide and a Corvette builder's guide.
Author Walt Thurn shows you how to upgrade your Corvette's engine, from basic bolt-ons to serious engine modifications. There are also chapters on tweaking your suspension, drivetrain, brakes, wheels, and tires. This book features tables, charts, photos, and build sequences to explain how to correctly modify your C5 for drag racing, road racing, autocross, or simply to turn heads on cruise nights. Additionally, the book provides readers with a detailed model guide and horsepower rating of all Corvettes built from 1997 to 2004. The photos in this edition are black and white.
About the Author
Life-long Corvette enthusiast, expert, and historian has been documenting and driving Corvette's for most of his adult life. He has owned multiple Corvettes and has written numerous magazine articles on C3, C4, C5 and C6 Corvettes. He has authored the High-Performance C-5 Corvette Builder's Guide. Walt also has covered international Corvette racing events in the United States, Canada and Europe. In 2000, Walt joined the Pratt & Miller C5R team as a writer. He spent one year with the factory Corvette team covering the 2000 season. He accompanied the C5/C6 Corvette Registry on three Le Mans trips in Europe and wrote stories about those experiences in their quarterly magazine. He has been published in VETTE, Corvette Fever, Corvette Quarterly, C5/C6 Registry Newsletter and other Corvette magazines.
