🔧 BUILD I did something stupid V. FRC

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So my T/A build is taking forever and I have been missing having a fun car to tool around with. I also have made some changes in my personal and professional life and decided to treat myself. I had a line on a car in CA that sold a couple weeks ago. As luck would have it I found pretty much an identical car last week and today I picked up an extremely clean 1999 Corvette FRC from a local dealer in the exact color combo I was looking for. I may have paid a little more than I wanted but the car has 37k miles and the interior looks like it was sealed in a time capsule. Plans are up in the air right now but it already has a CAI, LS6 intake, hurst shifter and Borla catback. Short term it’ll get tints, wheels, headers and a cam. Long term I may go off the deep end and forge the motor, throw on a huron speed TT kit and wide body quarters. Right now I’m just going to enjoy it, can’t wait to bring it to Luke’s this week.

I present Corvid 19:

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    DanJoy said:
    So I got curious how much C5’s were going for today and did some online shopping. Yours was the first non auto, non vert that popped up :rofl:. Those all seasons have got to go.

    You could have gotten this for only $135K
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    Yeah I was hell bent on getting an FRC. I didn't want a coupe and the Z06 was slightly out of my budget unless I wanted high miles and beat to piss. Think of the FRC as the Grand Sport of the C5. Same drive train as the base vette but with Z06 looks.
     
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    I'm going to try to keep this thread more updated than the turbo T/A thread. Mostly because I care and plan to be making changes fairly quickly. I unfortunately won't be at Luke's tomorrow but will be at cars and coffee Sunday.

    Car goes in for tints next Tuesday. 5% sides and back.

    Also after a lot of deliberating I have decided to plastidip the wagon wheels "brass monkey" for the rest of the season and invest in some decent aftermarket wheels next season.
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    Lastly I'm also planning to buy some cheap chinese headers in the next month or so. Stay tuned.
     
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    frank said:
    I see a tune in the near future ..... who’s going to perform the tune?

    I had Frost do my tune on my formula, best tune ever and it was just a bolt on / gear car.
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    I’m going to have Speed Inc. do the tune. They’ll be doing a cam and heads swap next spring for me.

    SleeperLS said:
    Ohhhh. What did you get, headers? Also, what % tint did you get?
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    Yup, 1 7/8” long tubes. I hope they fit well.

    I went with 5% sides and back. The rear is starting to peel at the dot matrix on the top so I need to figure that out.
     
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