fishpick
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As the title suggests - this is going to be a very deep and compelling post...
I have driven my car one time since delivery - and that was home from delivery... now it's STILL snowing and MORE salt going down... but I have my first offical mod already...
Our driveway is a little over a 1/3 mile long and gravel. So first thing I noticed when coming home was - the DCT, as the manual says and as other DCT's I have driven - does NOT LIKE the slow idle creep required to go up our driveway... ohh well... such is life... It shouldn't hurt anything - it's just not a "smooth" ride - but I'll deal with a smile
Car is MUCH BIGGER in the garage than the C7 was. And I love the front of these cars. I always thought the nose on a C7 looked a little like an asthmatic kid in regards to the grille shape. The whole car was sexy AF with the hard lines and angles - but the actual nose / shape of the grille was too soft and rounded, like old cat fish camaro. They fixed that, IMHO with the ZR1, but whatever. The nose end of this thing looks aggressive and angry AF - like it wants to eat a smaller car... love it.
Back to the mod...
After I got out of the car in the garage and looked down...
Half the driveway rode in with me.
So - I ordered up a set of these nice little rock blockers from JLT... directly - as their shipping for like 3 ounces of foam was $0... and the fine folks at Lethal wanted a crack head $23 in shipping on top of the product price...
https://www.jlttruecoldair.com/jlt-rock-blockers-2020-2021-gt500/
Installation is as simple as pulling back a little on the plastic and sliding the block in there. I did clean the painted surface off nice before hand - but nothing to it for installing - and no pathway for the rocks to migrate en masse to the side splitters for free rides.
100% will remove for the track - and since you don't have to fasten them - you can also pop out when you go to cars and coffee, cruise ins, car shows, like whatever "your thing" with the car is - if you want to show it off native style. But they really do seem like they will solve the issue shown above.
For a pair of laser cut foam block - it's pretty exciting! Like what-else am I gonna do while it's snowing...
(I also bought a new 9 gallon shop vac from Harbor Freight that I used to clean these off... mostly because the one in the garage died and I was too scared to "wipe" them off and too cold to go into the barn and get the one that lives in there - but man - for the price - that thing from HF really sucks up the dirt!)
I have driven my car one time since delivery - and that was home from delivery... now it's STILL snowing and MORE salt going down... but I have my first offical mod already...
Our driveway is a little over a 1/3 mile long and gravel. So first thing I noticed when coming home was - the DCT, as the manual says and as other DCT's I have driven - does NOT LIKE the slow idle creep required to go up our driveway... ohh well... such is life... It shouldn't hurt anything - it's just not a "smooth" ride - but I'll deal with a smile
Car is MUCH BIGGER in the garage than the C7 was. And I love the front of these cars. I always thought the nose on a C7 looked a little like an asthmatic kid in regards to the grille shape. The whole car was sexy AF with the hard lines and angles - but the actual nose / shape of the grille was too soft and rounded, like old cat fish camaro. They fixed that, IMHO with the ZR1, but whatever. The nose end of this thing looks aggressive and angry AF - like it wants to eat a smaller car... love it.
Back to the mod...
After I got out of the car in the garage and looked down...
Half the driveway rode in with me.
So - I ordered up a set of these nice little rock blockers from JLT... directly - as their shipping for like 3 ounces of foam was $0... and the fine folks at Lethal wanted a crack head $23 in shipping on top of the product price...
https://www.jlttruecoldair.com/jlt-rock-blockers-2020-2021-gt500/
Installation is as simple as pulling back a little on the plastic and sliding the block in there. I did clean the painted surface off nice before hand - but nothing to it for installing - and no pathway for the rocks to migrate en masse to the side splitters for free rides.
100% will remove for the track - and since you don't have to fasten them - you can also pop out when you go to cars and coffee, cruise ins, car shows, like whatever "your thing" with the car is - if you want to show it off native style. But they really do seem like they will solve the issue shown above.
For a pair of laser cut foam block - it's pretty exciting! Like what-else am I gonna do while it's snowing...
(I also bought a new 9 gallon shop vac from Harbor Freight that I used to clean these off... mostly because the one in the garage died and I was too scared to "wipe" them off and too cold to go into the barn and get the one that lives in there - but man - for the price - that thing from HF really sucks up the dirt!)
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