To answer your question.
My job itself may not be safe, but I'm kind of lucky since I'm a CPA and can generally find a job pretty easily.
Thanks in part the porr job my profession has done in the past, Congress has enacted much legislation, like Sarbanes / Oxley that increase the work CPA firms mut due on Publically traded companies and other types of investments.
I'm sure more legislation will be passed due to the bank & guys like Maddoff that will help keep me working.
Ah politicians, don't you just love them.
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Hey Jamie, sorry to hear of your car woes.
It seems when you get over 600 RWHP with these C5's everything starts falling apart. To bad duct tape wouldn't help
With the big power you're making and plan to make, I'd do the iron block as it will flex less and take way more abuse.
I would just tear down and start selling off the good parts and then slowly start buying parts and working on it every couple of weeks with the cash you get from parts sales and that you make from the job.
Big powered cars cost big $$$$. With the power you're making you should be looking at C6 Z06 tranny and differntial combo, along with a 2001 torque tube.
With this **** poor economy, it will probably take you awhile to pull the funds needed to finish up the car.
I'm moving slowly with my project car too, as I don't really want to spent a lot of money until I know things are getting better or at least leveling off.
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It seems when you get over 600 RWHP with these C5's everything starts falling apart. To bad duct tape wouldn't help
With the big power you're making and plan to make, I'd do the iron block as it will flex less and take way more abuse.
I would just tear down and start selling off the good parts and then slowly start buying parts and working on it every couple of weeks with the cash you get from parts sales and that you make from the job.
Big powered cars cost big $$$$. With the power you're making you should be looking at C6 Z06 tranny and differntial combo, along with a 2001 torque tube.
With this **** poor economy, it will probably take you awhile to pull the funds needed to finish up the car.
I'm moving slowly with my project car too, as I don't really want to spent a lot of money until I know things are getting better or at least leveling off.
Tony
Thanks for the insight Tony. Looks likeI MAY have a line on a built bottom end right now but,...its up in the air. We'll see what happens in the next week.
I do plan on doing a C6 rear and trans setup in some point of the build but,..only as its needed(as in one part fails).
Depending on what happens on this motor,...we'll see how long it takes to do a swap. Everything is up in the air right now. Thank goodness I picked up a daily driver a few months back. If it wasn't for that, i'd be in trouble.
Although I am dissapointed the car is down, maybe it'll give me more time to better it, and reroute some things and do some other random things i have been brain storming about. Like air ducting,...maybe a belly pan,...mybe a homemade defuser... etc. At this point, I have accepted that the car is down,...but it'll return,......and when it does,....i'll be reaching for the skys.
Thanks again Tony. Good posts.
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Lots of tears in this thread...
This is a good example of why my TT Firehawk is sold and I'm happy with a clean stock Zo6.
A friend (boosted Firehawk) told me when he heard I bought the Incon kit, "Welcome to the wild, crazy, EXPENSIVE world of forced induction."
How right he was. A $7500 complete kit cost 11 grand when the dust settled. The power still didn't make me happy. F-that.
This is a good example of why my TT Firehawk is sold and I'm happy with a clean stock Zo6.
A friend (boosted Firehawk) told me when he heard I bought the Incon kit, "Welcome to the wild, crazy, EXPENSIVE world of forced induction."
How right he was. A $7500 complete kit cost 11 grand when the dust settled. The power still didn't make me happy. F-that.
I'm used to issues, hard times. Not the end of the world. Although some days greif will hit harder then others, i have accepted this a long time ago,..that ****, no matter what, happens. It's a shame i'm not super rich. Truth is, i'm not,...so, when **** happens,..all it does,...is make me wiser and more aware of what could break.
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.
Even after ALl of the little things that happened with my cars over the years,....I have no regrets,...and I wouldn't change anything.
In the end,...I am still in the midst of a personal childhood dream,...of one day owning a TT corvette.
25k is a walk in the park for a good TT setup. Even after all of that you have to continue spending money on maintenance. I remember picking my car up with one thing I had to fix. That small thing ended up causing other problems. After finally fixing all those other problems the other weak links started to break. After a while you are afraid to drive the car.
One of my buddies owned a C5TT and had nothing, but problems. He finally got everything sorted after over a year of heartache and decided to sell it while it was running good. The new owner calls him all the time to tell him how happy he is with the car. That would personally **** me off... Hence the reason I am not giving up. I am going to apply everything that I have learned and continue making the car better and better via the knowledge in my case was not there when I first started this project...
One of my buddies owned a C5TT and had nothing, but problems. He finally got everything sorted after over a year of heartache and decided to sell it while it was running good. The new owner calls him all the time to tell him how happy he is with the car. That would personally **** me off... Hence the reason I am not giving up. I am going to apply everything that I have learned and continue making the car better and better via the knowledge in my case was not there when I first started this project...
25k is a walk in the park for a good TT setup. Even after all of that you have to continue spending money on maintenance. I remember picking my car up with one thing I had to fix. That small thing ended up causing other problems. After finally fixing all those other problems the other weak links started to break. After a while you are afraid to drive the car.
One of my buddies owned a C5TT and had nothing, but problems. He finally got everything sorted after over a year of heartache and decided to sell it while it was running good. The new owner calls him all the time to tell him how happy he is with the car. That would personally **** me off... Hence the reason I am not giving up. I am going to apply everything that I have learned and continue making the car better and better via the knowledge in my case was not there when I first started this project...
One of my buddies owned a C5TT and had nothing, but problems. He finally got everything sorted after over a year of heartache and decided to sell it while it was running good. The new owner calls him all the time to tell him how happy he is with the car. That would personally **** me off... Hence the reason I am not giving up. I am going to apply everything that I have learned and continue making the car better and better via the knowledge in my case was not there when I first started this project...
The latest and greatest upgrade is to install a C6 Z06 tranny and differential into the C5.
Not a cheap mod, but the new differential and tranny design is meant to take way more power. Throw in a 2001 + torque tube and a good clutch and you should be good for awhile.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-f...ous-power.html
That's the biggest problem with some of these high powered vettes, keeping them together, especially the 6-speeds.
The latest and greatest upgrade is to install a C6 Z06 tranny and differential into the C5.
Not a cheap mod, but the new differential and tranny design is meant to take way more power. Throw in a 2001 + torque tube and a good clutch and you should be good for awhile.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-f...ous-power.html
The latest and greatest upgrade is to install a C6 Z06 tranny and differential into the C5.
Not a cheap mod, but the new differential and tranny design is meant to take way more power. Throw in a 2001 + torque tube and a good clutch and you should be good for awhile.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-f...ous-power.html
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25k is a walk in the park for a good TT setup. Even after all of that you have to continue spending money on maintenance. I remember picking my car up with one thing I had to fix. That small thing ended up causing other problems. After finally fixing all those other problems the other weak links started to break. After a while you are afraid to drive the car.
One of my buddies owned a C5TT and had nothing, but problems. He finally got everything sorted after over a year of heartache and decided to sell it while it was running good. The new owner calls him all the time to tell him how happy he is with the car. That would personally **** me off... Hence the reason I am not giving up. I am going to apply everything that I have learned and continue making the car better and better via the knowledge in my case was not there when I first started this project...
One of my buddies owned a C5TT and had nothing, but problems. He finally got everything sorted after over a year of heartache and decided to sell it while it was running good. The new owner calls him all the time to tell him how happy he is with the car. That would personally **** me off... Hence the reason I am not giving up. I am going to apply everything that I have learned and continue making the car better and better via the knowledge in my case was not there when I first started this project...
amen.