Build Sheets · Track Day Diaries

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 Blank off the front brake ducts to cut drag and add front downforce on tracks where brake heat allows. 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 Neutralizer Tool Built For Sale SendCutSend laser-cuttable, or milled in-house on my tiny CNC. Holds the C8 DCT in neutral so the car can be moved without the engine running. V1 requires hold; V2 self-locking pending interest. 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. Mounts via N52 neodymium magnets. Sticks to any steel surface in the cabin. Sold as STL or full kit (printed mount + magnets + adhesive). 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. Driver eye-line position, no glare. 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 The big one. I tapped the C8's chassis CAN, sniffed the traffic, decoded the messages, and wrote DBC files that turn raw frames into named signals: RPM, throttle, brake pressure, steering angle, fluid temps and more, for AIM, MoTeC, and any DBC-aware tool. Available standalone, or as a kit with harness, install guide, and video walkthrough. 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.

2023 C8 Corvette · Track Spec