Bought a 2010 Vette Grand Sport LS3 - E85 upgrades?

[waynieZ]

Congratulaton's Beautiful car. I hope you get warm eather and dry roads untill late in the year to enjoy it.Those seats look really comfortable.
Sweet!

[jski67]

Congrats! My '09 is cyber gray too...awesome color.

[coolwelder62]

Awesome,that's one sweet!!! vette.And the color is smokin cool also.Some day if I sell my 69 camaro I want to buy a vette.Nice chioce.

[byndbad914]

thanks again for all of the compliments! I have to admit, word has traveled fast even at my place of work and tons of people love the color combo and we had a company picnic and it was a line of people asking about it (!), so sounds like I made a good choice My uncle (my biggest influence from a young age with hot rodding) called me up back in IA (word is traveling!) and he is planning on coming out this August to stay a couple days, hit Pinks All Out at Bandimere and tear around town in the car.

Having been a blue blood Ford guy most of my life, I have to admit GM hit the grand slam with this car. The Ford mod motor stuff sorta turned me off, and when I actually had an LS engine apart for the first time years ago, I realized that they dropped the bad designs of the SBC and took the fundamentals of the 90deg SBF and took it to the next level with the LS design, so my loyalty was changing with that insight. The C6 nailed the coffin shut on that loyalty That and a ride with a great driver at Buttonwillow track in his C5 Z06 back in 2005

[Karl Buchka]

Unless there's a plug-and-play solution, I'm not sure it's worth the effort. E85 brings some other issues to the table, like hard starting in cold weather and oil contamination.

Have you talked to Ken about it? He's been running E85 in his 745 for at least a couple of years now.

[GregWeld]

Hate to be the negative nellie here - but I can't imagine - for the life of me - why you'd want to buy a brand new 'Vette - that is awesome right from the factory - and start messing with it.

For me - I want the new cars to be simple and hassle free... function like they should (and do) - have the factory taking care of any issues that arrise etc.

When I want to play with a car - that's what the hot rods are for... For those - I want the opposite of the factory stuff... I want loud and rowdy... and if they mess up - "oh well".

Killer color combo on the Vette...

[byndbad914]

Originally Posted by Karl Buchka

Have you talked to Ken about it? He's been running E85 in his 745 for at least a couple of years now.

Funny you mention Ken, he has been my friend since 1990 in SoCal when he had a V8 SBC Volvo and I had a 70 Mustang - we met each other thru friends and started going to the street races, etc in Compton CA back in the day. So needless to say that is sorta how I ended up in the same city here in CO as well. Also who I got the $800 wagon from and finally where the thoughts of running E85 stem from.

Considering I have no intentions of driving in the winter here I am not too concerned. CO also goes down to around a 70% blend in the winter, so it isn't true E85.

Greg - I here ya and that was my intent from the beginning, leave it alone and enjoy it. And I have the race car already and that is what gets tracked, so I am likely not going to mess with the Vette given I too like the warranty idea of driving and letting others fix any issue for free, and sounds like any gains are minimal to none.

Off to pop the top and get some lunch! What I really bought it for anyway

[srh3trinity]

Nothing to add on the E85 convo, but I love the car. I think the new GS is a great looking Corvette and a nice option to the Z06 for the money. Love that gray color, is it cyber gray metallic?

[Karl Buchka]

Originally Posted by byndbad914

Funny you mention Ken, he has been my friend since 1990 in SoCal when he had a V8 SBC Volvo and I had a 70 Mustang - we met each other thru friends and started going to the street races, etc in Compton CA back in the day. So needless to say that is sorta how I ended up in the same city here in CO as well. Also who I got the $800 wagon from and finally where the thoughts of running E85 stem from.

Considering I have no intentions of driving in the winter here I am not too concerned. CO also goes down to around a 70% blend in the winter, so it isn't true E85.

He actually showed me pics of your Porsche a couple of years ago when we were hanging out at his place in Broomfield. Very cool build.

My brother and I machined the torque converter adapter he has in his wagon.

[byndbad914]

Stephen - yes, cyber gray metallic and the wheels are match painted.

Karl - after my post I ended up running over to Ken's to work on the beater's AC later that day and mentioned your post and found out you had been out to his house and he mentioned the adapter plate. We then were talking about your car as I had seen your thread awhile back on this site. Funny... small world sometimes.

On the race car I am finishing up a complete conversion to dual A front and rear suspension from scratch and new wheels just showed up this AM, so when that is all done I planned to post some update pix in the race car forum here.