🔧 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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Lead Pipe

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The headlamp bulbs are a solid upgrade! Wish they had a easier set up when I had my formula, worst night driving ever in 4th gens.
I don't have any pics but I have LED's in my T/A too. It required me to swap to an LM truck housing. The car still hasn't been on the road since the install so I can't saw how well they work.

LED in stock housings? Curious to hear what you think of the output and pattern when on the road. I’m not opposed to that at all, just wondering how well it works.
From my experience LED's seem to be less blinding than HID's to oncoming traffic. I wanted to try the stock housings before spending $400 on projectors since they both take the same bulb. I'm heading to Tail of the Dragon in a couple weeks and needed a quick upgrade to the terrible stock lights when driving in the Smokies at night.
 
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I don't have any pics but I have LED's in my T/A too. It required me to swap to an LM truck housing. The car still hasn't been on the road since the install so I can't saw how well they work.
Before I sold my formula I was looking into that conversion. Looked simple to do and not all that expensive.
 

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Last weekend the gf and I went on a little long weekend road trip. We started out in Pigeon Forge then heads to NC. While in NC we hit Tail of the Dragon, the Cherohala Skyway and Moonshiner 28. On the way home we also detoured to the National Corvette museum. I'll work on a new thread about the trip but here are a few pics of the car.

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