Meet GheyRay: Lower, Wider, Lighter! - Page 40

A//// Guy · 07-25-2019

Good to hear, weird on the noise though. Car is getting old at 40k!

Cool on vettebbqsaus, wish it were closer haha. Dang 25 cars up north, did your dad discover the northern mn vetteclub? haha

**Kracka** · 07-25-2019

I think I'm just being hyper sensitive/paranoid trying to hear a noise. Julie thinks I'm crazy and says she doesn't hear anything.

He did! Corvettes North Car Club is what it's called. They do an annual summer picnic and they're hosting it at their place this year.

**Kracka** · 08-07-2019

Another check engine light, more failed parts. Both rear o2 sensors went bad. New ones in and testing good. Let roadtrip season begin!

**asshanson** · 08-08-2019

Hopefully no more issues for awhile!

**Kracka** · 08-08-2019

Fingers crossed! 700 miles coming up this weekend so that will be a sure test.

**Halon** · 08-08-2019

O2 sensors seem like not a big deal. Good work and good luck on the trip.

**Goat Blower** · 08-08-2019

Coming from the DSM world, you should have a tool box and jackstands in every vehicle and be ready to replace those O2 sensors on the side of the road.

**Kracka** · 08-08-2019

It was such a smooth effortless 5 years I've lost my inner DSMer

**Kracka** · 01-15-2020

Let's see... I might as well throw out a quick winter update:
The car's been sitting covered up and plugged in for 2+ months now with likely another 3+ to go. Fun!

I've been toying with the idea of adding a Callaway shifter to it since they get great reviews and honestly I just need something to tinker with. I'll proably get that ordered in the coming week. I also plan to have my front splitter repainted this spring; some dumbass drove it straight into a parking curb down in Houston. I'm not sure who it was so don't ask

I'm also going to replace the Big Daddies angled o2 sensor spacers with the straight ones to see if that adds a little exhaust flow back to the rear o2 sensors. They're still triggering a CEL, but because they aren't seeing enough dirty exhaust and the ECU thinks they're dead (which they're not, they're brand new). There's also a suspension clunk that developed over the summer that I need to get back to tracking down. The shocks are new, the end-links are new, the swaybar bushings are new, so I'm thinking it may be a ball joint. We'll see! I'm not overly impressed with the durability of suspension components considering the car has less than 50k miles on it (49k to be exact) and a lot of these issues started developing when it came out of storage last spring at 43k. At least most (shocks excluded) OEM ACDelco parts are cheap (maybe that's why they're failing so early on) to replace.

**Kracka** · 03-23-2020

I swapped on a new ported throttle body over the weekend to replace my nearly 6 year old ported unit from WeaponX. I sent a brand new OEM core to Soler Performance and had him machine it to spec. Long story short, its actually engineered with read R&D testing to back it up vs. just porting to make it smooth & pretty.

Plenty of actual data here: https://www.solerengineering.com/technical

We'll see how it feels once I fire the car up for spring, but figured for a net cost of $200 (after buying a new core and selling my WeaponX) it would scratch that mod itch a bit and give me a little wrenching time in the garage.

I doubt I do much else to the car this year besides the above post plus general maintenance/fluids and what not.

Pics of the two side-by-side:

**Goat Blower** · 03-23-2020

TB mods! Seems a lot easier than the adapted Fox body stuff I was putting on my GSX back in the day.