[Guide] 1997-2004 C5 Corvette Bolt-On Mods to Make More Power

To Remain or Not To Remain Factory Equipped? That Is the Question…

Every Corvette owner knows that driving their car can be incredibly fun.  Hard acceleration, high top-end speed and unbelievable cornering makes driving a Corvette an experience that no driver will soon forget.  Even mashing the gas pedal to the floor in a base model, bone-stock Corvette can be a hair-raising adventure – at first.  

However, like anything else, even the most extreme driving machines can become familiar.  What we once accepted as exhilarating performance becomes almost commonplace, and it leaves the driver yearning for more.

From a factory standpoint, Corvettes have gotten more and more powerful with each successive generation.  

In the early nineties, Chevrolet introduced the LT1, which boasted a respectable 300 horsepower, in 1997, the LT1 was replaced with the LS1, and bumped the horsepower up to 345.  By 2005, with the introduction of the LS2, even the base model Corvettes were pushing north of 400 horsepower.