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Longtime member of the C4 generation. I owned a 1995 for over 15 years and sold her in 2015. I couldn't resist the itch of being without any longer, so last month I bought a low miles 1998 C5. Torch Red with black interior same as before...Meet Torch II . Already started with upgrades!
Congrats on your C5. Welcome to the C5 section, the members here are an awesome group of real Corvette enthusiasts and car guys.
Years ago I had a Torch Red '94 and moved to a '98 Silver Convertible in 2002 and was so happy I did. You will love the '98. Hope you enjoy 15 years with your C5 now.
I kept my last C5 for nearly 14 years. I now have a 2006 now but still spend most of my time here. A C6 is a C5.5 anyway..
The grass is always greener on this side of the C5 forum fence. Welcome and congrats on your new-to-you C5. I went from a '91 C4 Torch Red to my '04 C5 Torch Red almost 10 years ago. You'll find the C5 much more comfortable and roomy vs. your old C4.
Had an almost perfect condition 95 with a 396 stroker in it. Had every brace possible and many suspension upgrades.
While I loved it at the time, it doesn't hold a candle to my '02 Z06
<-- That's me in it, in my avatar, trying to hold back the '02 Z06 I now own...
The C5 is the sweet spot to me, so many things worked out at that point, I'm honestly not even interested in a C6/C7
Thanks - I looked at and test drove a few C6's, but the ones in the Houston area had very high mileage 100-110k, and the ones with low miles were way overpriced. So I found this 98 with just over 50K from Virginia and it ran like it hadn't even been broken in yet. I'm the 2nd owner, so it pretty much sat in someones garage for a long time. The wife likes it....she says it's a lot easier to get in and out of. LOL!
Congrats.....I traded my 86 C4 that I had for 32 years for my 2000 C5 FRC torch red....yep, no comparison. You will get a lot of miles out of that one. Mine has 117,000 miles and runs like a top.
We just bought our first Corvette. It's a 1999 torch red coupe. Over the years we started with a 1967 Beetle, then a 1973 Beetle, next was a 1999 Miata and the last car before the vette was a 2007 BMW Z4. Needless to say the Vette is the most powerful and comfortable.
Front suspension needs to be lowered a lot more. The rear is squatting.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check that out, but I have to be careful with lowering, as I have a pretty steep incline on my driveway. One of the downfalls of buying a house on a raised lot.
Front suspension needs to be lowered a lot more. The rear is squatting.
Again...thanks for the heads up! I took a tape measure and yes the rear passenger side was sitting about 1/2" lower than the rest of the car causing the entire body shift slightly. I never noticed it when I bought it and it seems to ride fine. I took her to an alignment shop and they found the rear spring insulator bushing on the right side was dry rot and falling apart. The parts are no longer available at the dealer so I had to order them from a local Corvette parts supplier "Houston Corvette World" I'm also going to go ahead and replace all the stabilizer links as well since they looked a little brittle as well. The car only has 50,000 miles on it, so I'm assuming they just rotted from being in storage.
07-20-2021, 12:00 PM
New to the C5 Generation
Welcome to the C5 section, the members here are an awesome group of real Corvette enthusiasts and car guys.
Welcome and congrats on your new-to-you C5. I went from a '91 C4 Torch Red to my '04 C5 Torch Red almost 10 years ago. You'll find the C5 much more comfortable and roomy vs. your old C4.
