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Agent☣Orange
01-17-2015, 05:09 AM
Agent☣Orange
II

Well hell, it's been a while since I update the Agent☣Orange I thread. Turns out, my ride was fully "warranty blocked" from GM about three weeks after leaving the factory. Tried to delve into it and best guess was a hurricane condition at the dealer lot turned my ride into scrap even though I paid full retail at CarMax because it wasn't recorded on CarFax. That's a heads up to anyone doing business with them to do your diligence before signing anything...something I learned the hard way.

Anyway, offloaded the scrap Vette and letting the lawyers handle it but I managed to convert on fourth down to a beautiful 2012 Grand Sport four months ago and neglected to follow up here, well honestly I was just cautious for the other shoe to drop just in case I made another mistake. Nevertheless, on my path to my C7 Z06 in a few years, I'm currently piloting this beautiful beast that I took some picts of today.

It is a 2012 Corvette Grand Sport with Z16 suspension, dry sump oil in Inferno Orange compared to Atomic Orange before. Basically, if you were to take an ordinary C6 and add a bunch of mods like the Z-51 suspension, huge-ass brakes and tires, performance gear ratios, dry sump oil system, flared fenders and the like, you'd end up with a Grand Sport. Cheaper to buy it this way than to piecemeal it together.

So, all the parts I was amassing before still apply and since it's still orange, my screen name is still valid so here goes so picts:

http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2515eml_zpsa87e343e.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2510eml_zps89d4d0dd.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2523eml_zps9ef98292.jpg



http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2519eml_zps6a4dc64f.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2528eml_zpsb2464cc0.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2514eml_zpsc9b12e30.jpg

Agent☣Orange
01-17-2015, 05:11 AM
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2529eml_zps2227308b.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2520eml_zps69830ecb.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2521eml_zps5702fe00.jpg

Agent☣Orange
01-17-2015, 05:20 AM
Nothing really exciting here, just sitting at a drive through waiting and trying to capture one mode of the HUD. It looks much better behind the wheel, not cut off.
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2504eml_zps40f03d2a.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2564eml_zps55d2a89e.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2565eml_zps982de865.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2561eml_zps7c5aeb89.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2549eml_zpse7408540.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2540eml_zpsb5b19289.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2538eml_zpsc56315b0.jpg

Agent☣Orange
01-17-2015, 05:21 AM
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2537eml_zps232b07de.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2536eml_zps211b5cd9.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2530eml_zps55a7190d.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2531eml_zpsb61e50db.jpg

Agent☣Orange
01-17-2015, 05:22 AM
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2549eml_zpse7408540.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2541eml_zpsd91977ad.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2539eml_zpsf969607b.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2535eml_zps10ee2d8f.jpg

Agent☣Orange
01-17-2015, 05:23 AM
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2603eml_zpsb11457e3.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2595eml_zpsb74cc48e.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2581eml_zps49bbf346.jpg


http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/IMG_2585eml_zps2b30a64b.jpg

Agent☣Orange
01-17-2015, 05:27 AM
All for now. Plans include 1" drop, tinted windows, stereoeeoh install, shift kit, LED lighting, F1-style rear lower lighting that I'm fabricating, headers, cam and a bunch of other stuff I'll create a separate thread for.

Dandy
01-17-2015, 08:50 AM
Needs Hooter's girls.

Phatmiata
01-17-2015, 12:34 PM
Do you work for Monsanto ?

atank
01-17-2015, 07:20 PM
Looks Great AgentOrange!!!

JLBMX5
01-17-2015, 07:33 PM
We just purchased my wife a new to us car. I almost went to carmax myself but I read a bunch of bad reviews about their shady warranty department and was always confused about how a remaining manufacture warranty would not be covered on a car that is still within year and millage warranty I guess your expierence is one of the reasions as to how it would not be covered. We instead went to a ford dealership and bought her a ford certified preowned vehicle and its warranty goes even longer than buying new . It was alittle bit more than carmax prices but piece of mind and knowing when we pay the car off in 4 years its still gonna have some warranty on it .

Agent☣Orange
01-19-2015, 08:20 PM
Needs Hooter's girls.

Okay.

http://i62.tinypic.com/2bxz85.jpg

Phatmiata
01-19-2015, 10:13 PM
Nice try but that's not your car.

Agent☣Orange
01-19-2015, 10:23 PM
He just said needs Hooter's girls, not that I specifically needed them. They can really scratch the hood IMO, especially the more substantial ones. Besides, unless they're wearing waxed shorts and micro-fibre tops, I don't really want them on my car.

Greasemonkey2000
06-06-2015, 02:40 PM
That sucks about your first C6 but you upgraded so its not all bad! Who DOESN'T love vettes? I have been wanting one for a while and C5's just keep getting more affordable, C5Z06 will be soon enough for my cheap self too! Look forward to the mods!! :drinkto:

Agent☣Orange
06-06-2015, 03:17 PM
Oh man, C5s are simply the best bang for the buck IMO. They're affordably priced, plentiful (many lower mileage garage queens) and are gorgeous, powerful beasts. The aftermarket is crazy full of performance parts for cheap and you only have to spend a weekend's beer fund to add another 100hp.

Even up against a Miata, a C5 is the best value around but it won't last forever...and I love Miatas!

Agent☣Orange
06-04-2016, 01:28 AM
I'm going to be starting a build thread but since I'm just getting my windows tinted by a pro, it doesn't really qualify as the start of a build thread so I thought I'd go ahead and post this here. Turns out, my installer had two cars today, mine and a Z06 right in front of the Honda dealer I just got my Civic from. In fact, he tinted my Civic too.

That Z has an aluminum chassis, a 427 bored out to some unnatural size with forged internals and nitro. Nothing in the state can touch it. Here in the land of retired pilots, Ferraris and Lamborghinis run around freely until they encounter this car that not only embarrasses them but steals their hot, Scandinavian girlfriends.

Anyway, after doing nothing for the past year, I decided to get the ball rolling and at least get the windows tinted in order to spark my interest in stereo and performance installs this summer. Your's truly is the Inferno Orange on the left and the Z06 on the right is in red. Personally, I'm no fan of black wheels so while the Z is meaner looking, my beatch is sexier and with much better manners despite the family resemblance.

If you're even the slightest bit color blind, it's hard to tell the difference. In fact, even the military tests for this at MEPS so if you can tell the difference, you're good to go, if not, don't worry because somehow they still let me in anyway.

We went back and forth on the more expensive ceramic stuff compared to the plain dyed stuff but since he did my Civic the week before, he gave me a break on the price. Hey, it's a small business hustle so I don't mind paying a little extra for the theatrics and turns out he was right anyway.

Still, most of the time the roof is off and the windows are down but what the hell... Here is Agent☣Orange today but by the end of summer (well maybe a little into winter and summer of next year), it's going to be a whole lot lower, faster, meaner and louder than a zero-interest-for-18-months, credit-card can handle.
http://i1194.photobucket.com/albums/aa375/YellowYata/ACsVette/Inferno%20Orange/67F444F0-2253-4624-BC4B-84D8DACCE130_zpsb54trrzm.jpg

Dandy
06-04-2016, 04:20 AM
Gorgeous.:8): Is it OK if we refer to the color of your car as evolution orange, just so we don't get confused?:lol:

Phatmiata
06-04-2016, 05:59 AM
Looking good