Recent content by hawk02

I got caught up in the mod circus when I owned a 2013 Camaro ZL1 — bigger crank pulley, cold air intake, catch can, the usual stuff. It turned into an expensive nightmare. The biggest issue wasn’t the parts, it was finding someone who could actually tune the car correctly. After the mods, the...

It’s the dirt in the bearing sound that goes up and down in intensity. Towards the end of the video it almost disappears in volume as the engine warms. That sound eventually turned into a constant loud squeal that necessitated replacement of the pulley.

I had almost the exact progression on my previous 2017 Camaro ZL1. For the first couple years, there was an unusual noise on cold startup that would disappear as the engine warmed. In year two it turned into a loud squeal, which ended up being a bad bearing in the supercharger idler pulley. The...

“Stuck with” is a good choice of words to describe the Tremec DCT in the C8.

The Tremec TR6060 in my previous ‘17 ZL1 would shudder a little when taking off in first gear when the transmission was fully warmed up on a hot day. Everything I read said this was normal behavior for the TR6060. OP, what you’re describing is classic low-speed clutch shudder when everything...

Are you trashing your car? Why don’t you want to go with Carbotech 1521s? I put them on my 5BW this past summer and have been very satisfied with their performance. They’ve reduced the brake dust by roughly 80%.

Whether people want to believe it or not, a manual Corvette seems increasingly likely. My guess is that it will debut as an option on the “unofficial” Grand Sport variant that seems to populate so many threads on the Corvette Forum. If Porsche can offer a manual transmission in its mid-engine...

I ordered the OEM filter from Amazon in March. I just now looked at my order history and it shows 6 left in stock and if I order within the next 14 hrs and 56 min I can have it delivered Saturday, Jan 3.

This was exactly my experience with the Sottozeros. Okay when temps dropped below 40 degrees, not much better than a summer tire in the snow.

Nope. Several weeks earlier I had swapped the Goodyears for Pirelli Sottozeros. The Sottozeros were the Camaro team’s recommended winter tire for the ZL1.

I’m one of those pearl-clutching old ladies (actually an old man) whose Blackwing’s tires will never experience snow as long as I own it. I once made the mistake of driving a 2013 Camaro ZL1 home from a performance shop in the snow. It was less “exhilarating” and more “slow-motion insurance...

Well…I’m one of those “old farts a heartbeat away from Depends.” I’ve owned four Camaros (including two ZL1s), a C8 Stingray, and I currently have a Porsche Boxster GTS 4.0 sitting next to my 5BW. Out of all the so-called sports cars I’ve had, the Blackwing has the fewest annoyances. I only...

I figured it was probably a DIY setup. I did track down the reservoir itself — it comes from here: https://protouringstore.com/products/universal-intercooler-fluid-reservoir-tank-plastic-gm-ford-mopar-supercharged-air-to-water What I’d really like to know now is who made the bracket. It looks...

Yes, this article is where the photo came from. However, Tapout only sells the LMP intercooler reservoir. Per the article, it doesn't appear to have installed the reservoir in the photo either. I'm guessing it was already on the car when it arrived from Connecticut.