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We see this question a lot on forums and Google searches. The bottom line: Both the C5 and C6 Corvettes are great cars. They’re very well engineered and carefully built. We’re not going to defend everything GM has ever done – the company has turned out some real turds, but the Corvette has never been among them, even during its worst, lowest-horsepower days in the late 1970s. Every Corvette has contained the General’s best engineering, and for the most part the people building them have taken …

It has been seriously busy in the Vette Lab shop lately, but due to some of the employee precautions we're taking because of the COVID-19 virus, things are moving more slowly. At least the speed of the work is a little slower...the Corvettes coming out of Vette Lab have been anything but! Vette Lab is now a distributor for some outstanding performance parts companies: Magnuson Superchargers, Katech Engineering, and Halltech Cold Air Intakes. That we carry Corvette performance parts from the …

Corvette exhaust primer: Axle back vs Cat Back exhaust systems When you’re shopping for a new 1997-2019 Corvette exhaust system, you’ll quickly come up against two similar terms: Axle Back and Cat Back. Even though both types of exhaust systems will give you the throaty rumble (or wide-open roar) you’re looking for on your C5, C6 or C7, there’s often a significant price difference between them. You need to know what these terms denote so you can choose the exhaust system that’ll …

The midengine C8 Corvette is here. Let’s find a spot for the nitrous bottles… As everyone in Corvette world no doubt knows by now, the new, radical 2020 C8 Corvette launched last night at a big shindig in Southern California. The big change is the engine placement behind the driver for the first time in Corvette history. But there’s a lot more to this new Corvette that’s going to require sorting through. The monoleaf springs are gone, for example, replaced by new coilover units and c …

Adding Nitrous to your Corvette: Here's What It Does Whether it’s a Corvette or some Brand X machine, when it comes to the internal combustion engine, big horsepower comes down to fuel and air. Adding nitrous oxide to your Corvette engine contributes to that equation on the ‘air’ side of things – oxygen, to be specific. You know adding a supercharger or turbocharger to your Corvette packs more air into that LS or LT V8; put in enough fuel to be able to use the extra air, and you ge …