TRACK DAY DIARIES

The build sheets

2023 C8 Corvette · Track Spec

Everything bolted on, welded in, or fabricated for pace. Updated as the build evolved.

Top down illustration of the Track Day Diaries C8
Build complete · Car sold Five years, every part documented below. A lot of it is for sale. Browse the part out
Aerodynamics Bought · Built · For Sale
  • AJ Hartman C8 Splitter Kit Bought Carbon-fiber front splitter with profiled underside. ajhartmanaero.com
  • GT4 Wing Bought High-downforce wing for Thunderhill and Laguna pace.
  • Verus Carbon Rear Diffuser Bought Verus Engineering A0422A full-carbon rear diffuser, the roughly $2k piece. Keeps the rear planted on high-speed sweepers. verus-engineering.com
  • Custom Splitter Endplates Built For Sale Endplates and mounting designed for the AJ Hartman splitter. Get the STL · Buy the pair
  • Splitter Diffuser Built For Sale "Baby diffuser" design extending the AJ Hartman splitter underbody. Get the STL
  • Front Brake Duct Blockers Built For Sale Blanking plates from my front brake-duct setup. Use depends on your brake-temperature data; no measured drag, downforce, or braking benefit is claimed. Get the STL
  • Control Arm Ventilation Strakes Built Verus Engineering design, printed in-house. Original Verus product Get the free unfinished STL
Brakes Stopping Power
  • AP Racing BBK Bought 6-piston front kit with floating rotors for repeatable pedal feel.
  • Racing Pads Bought Track compound matched to rotor temps.
  • Stainless Lines Bought Full kit to lock pedal travel even when fluid is boiling.
  • Front Brake Rotor Temp Bracket Built Printed bracket with M5 threaded inserts. Holds an IR/temp sensor at the rotor for track-day brake-temp data. STL on request · email me
Suspension Grip & Balance
  • Penske 8300 Coilovers Bought Two-way adjustable, GSpeed C8 kit with remote reservoirs.
  • Swift / Eibach Springs Bought Swift front, Eibach rear on the Penskes, with spare front rates to tune balance.
  • aFe CONTROL Adjustable Sway Bars Bought Front and rear with quick-change settings for different tracks, on Eibach end links.
  • AMT Motorsport Camber Kit Bought Locking camber plates that replace the slip-prone factory eccentrics. -3.5° up front to keep the fronts alive. amtmotorsport.com
Safety Strap In
  • Paragon Performance Harness Bar Bought Bolt-in bar behind the seats to factory hard points, no welding or drilling.
  • Driver Seat · OMP WRC-R Bought FIA fiberglass shell on AMT Motorsport ultra-low mounts with the sub-belt cross bar.
  • Passenger Seat · Sparco QRT Performance Bought FIA shell on a Planted floor bracket, with a Paragon lap-belt bracket.
  • 6-Point Harnesses Bought FIA-dated OMP FIRST harnesses, both seats.
  • Fire Extinguisher Bought 2.5 lb bottle within reach of the driver. For car fires, get a bottle rated for fuel and electrical fires (Class B and C) with a metal head and a gauge: a Halotron clean agent if you want to save the engine bay, ABC dry-chem if you just want the fire out. Skip the plastic-head hardware-store bottles.
  • Custom Fire Extinguisher Mount Built For Sale Premium Self-fabricated aluminum mount under the driver seat, laser cut via SendCutSend, secured with a quick-release pin. STL alternative for budget builds. Buy assembled · Get the STL
Wheels & Tires Contact Patch
  • Wheels Bought A rotation of forged sets: Apex VS-5RS 18s, Apex SM-10s, and staggered BC Forged RZ10 19s.
  • Tires Bought Bridgestone Potenza RE-71RS, the favorite combo: 275 front, 285 rear on the last set.
Engine & Exhaust Sound & Flow
  • Corsa Sport Cats Bought High-flow catalysts for the LT2.
  • 2M Fab Long-Tube Headers Bought Mid-range torque and tone. 2mheaders.com
  • Paragon Stainless Catback Bought Stainless cat-back, wakes up the LT2 above 5k rpm. Highly recommended.
  • Soler Throttle Controller Bought Bought mostly for its throttle-off mode: park at a remote track with the throttle disabled and the car is a much harder target to steal.
  • DCT Park Release Tool Built For Sale Handheld machined tool for the DCT manual park release. Releases the park pawl only; does not release the electric parking brake. Must be held by hand while the car moves, with two people following the manual procedure. Does not latch. See the tool
  • DCT Service Kit Built 3D printed organizer box plus every tool needed to access the DCT: T15 stubby ratchet driver, magnet pickup, trim removal tools.
Data & Telemetry Numbers Tell the Truth
  • AIM XLog Data Logger Bought Primary logger. Wired into the C8's analog and CAN signals for full-spectrum capture.
  • XLog Magnetic Mount Built For Sale 3D printed XLog cradle with a stick-on magnet base plate. Sold as STL files or a printed kit with magnets; logger excluded. Get the STL · Buy the kit
  • AIM Solo2 DL Mount Built For Sale 3D printable mount for the Solo2 DL. (No longer running Solo2 myself, the file still works.) Get the STL
  • TeamPlus TPMS + CANgate Bought Live TPMS feed routed through the CANgate gateway into the car's data bus.
  • CANgate Screen Holder Built For Sale 3D printed cradle for the CANgate display. Positioned toward the driver’s eye line. Get the STL
  • Telemetry-to-XLog Wiring Built Custom analog and digital wiring tapping selected C8 sensors directly into the XLog.
  • C8 CAN Bus DBC Pack Built For Sale Premium AiM Solo 2 DL v2 configuration and custom protocol from my C8/CANgate setup, plus CANgate sensor DBC references. Digital files only. See the exact manifest and compatibility limits; fresh import and live-channel validation are not established for this release. Get the DBC pack
Audio · Video · Comms Capture the Run
  • Rear-Mounted Exhaust Mic + Plate Cam Built Microphone wired through the engine bay to the rear license-plate area paired with a rearview camera. Clean exhaust audio piped straight into the camera's audio/video input.

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