'00 FRC Hardtop - moar LS/Murica/long distance high speed cruising

[nsogiba]

Love this! My brother has a yellow C5 z06 and it's amazing. Looks like you have the magnesium wheels on it too, I think those are pretty hard to come by. I'll be watching this for sure, loved your e39 build.

Yah I love the mags, they are easily the best C5 wheel out there besides the Z06 10-spoke which I don't think belongs on a non Z06. I am planning to try out some E39 M5 style 65s on this thing the next couple weeks

[fifty3bags]

Love this! My brother has a yellow C5 z06 and it's amazing. Looks like you have the magnesium wheels on it too, I think those are pretty hard to come by. I'll be watching this for sure, loved your e39 build.

[nsogiba]

Thanks. I'm hoping for as much crackling and popping on decel as possible. The setup I had on mine before seemed to have quite a bit.

[white out]

not the greatest, but you get the idea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZpmgqGifQU

Idle and normal driving RPMs sounded what you expect a stock Corvette to sound like.

[nsogiba]

Great build thread.

The titanium mufflers sound good with long tubes. Perfect if you're trying to stay under the radar.

Do you have any sounds clips? I think you had the same setup.

[white out]

Great build thread.

The titanium mufflers sound good with long tubes. Perfect if you're trying to stay under the radar.

[190Evan]

Well that purchase just justified everything ever that this world has ever had to offer ever, so congrats man.

[electricalbox]

Awesome purchase story and updates sir!

[nsogiba]

So I finished cutting the bends for the passenger side of the factory midpipes, and got it all tacked into place. For some reason it went much more slowly than the driver's side. The compound bend (lateral and vertical move) was being a real PITA, but I finally got it to fit while keeping the tailpipes level. That was strike 1, got me kinda pissed off. Now that the system was tacked, I was ready to drop it and finish weld everything. Removed the 6 header nuts - 2 came out clean, the rest snapped the studs - that was strike 2. Disconnected oxygen sensors, removed midpipe hangers, and dropped it down. Set it on my shop cart and got all set up to finish weld it, and had a bunch of issues with the wire birdnesting inside the gun tip - so I had to stop and clear the jam every couple of minutes. Now I'm pretty ticked. Finally get a rhythm going and the wire runs out. Strike 3. At this point I decided to quit for the night before I lit the whole thing on fire.

Go inside to wash up and have a beer, and I see that Huron Speed is having a sale for their longtubes and x-pipe, $50 off and free shipping. I thought about how much fun it would be to remove 4 broken studs in the existing manifolds and 30 seconds later placed my order. I still plan on welding up the existing system I fabbed, but will keep it in the basement in case the catless x-pipe is too loud.



Cliffnotes: Welded stuff. Broke studs. Got pissed off. Longtubes on sale. Cha-ching.

[nsogiba]

In for more. My dad has a built Z06 that I help him work on, recently installed long tube headers and will be doing a muffler delete in the spring.

Awesome! How was the install? Plan on throwing on some headers maybe this summer.

[nsogiba]

The ti mufflers are lame they make the car as quite as an accord.

reading can be tough! keep at it though!

i plan on also welding in a set of cutouts for those times when I leave the wife at home and feel the need to go full retard. Plan on mimicking this setup.

[PorscheRacer]

The ti mufflers are lame they make the car as quite as an accord.

[btns44]

In for more. My dad has a built Z06 that I help him work on, recently installed long tube headers and will be doing a muffler delete in the spring.

[nsogiba]

slow but steady progress. I dusted off the welder, chop saw, and unpackaged the mandrel bend and flanges that came in.

First I installed the Ti muffler on the driver's side, getting the tip level, and then held the front flange in place with a jack and a 2x4.

Now that point A and point B were fixtured I connected the dots. The blank flange bolted to the muffler flange gave me a lot of leeway and made it fairly easy.

All tacked up:

_DSC4710 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

_DSC4712 by Norbert Ogiba, on Flickr

Now I need to repeat the process for the passenger side.

[royalife]

TITS. carry on.