Matt built his car with is own two hands, unlike half the drivers that podium regularly. He developed parts, brought people out of retirement to make the body. If you don’t remember that was a totaled flood car, the frame rails and body were full of sand and mud.
Headphone users BEWARE...damn thing about blew my eardrums out in the first 2 mins. Anyway, great job Larry....can't wait to see your pics and videos throughout the FD season. Sending love from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Good video but you're wrong that there were a few people who doubted the C6 platform unless you don't know about cars. Even the hardcore JDM guys like myself know how good of a starting platform the C6 is like Matt mentioned. You could tell you weren't familiar with the platform when you sounded surprised that you can simply bolt a coilover kit straight on to the C6 and make it handle better than most cars but those Corvette guys have been doing it for over 20 years since the C5. One of my buddies with a C6 only simply did coilovers with no other suspension mode and he walked a fully tuned FD, look up Driver Battles C6 vs FD.
really stoked to see the car back together. I think that accident was heartbreaking for everyone to watch. Freddy was going for gold and just over sent it... Freddy was humble and you could tell he was hurt emotionally as much for matt probably as matt was, but either way it was too much to fix. Just a crappy scenario. On to Atlanta!
@@motoweenies4431 dang I just saw the note in the beginning after rewatching. I got buried in the build and wrote that halfway through. I don’t doubt the cars back together already unless they’re missing parts
Whoever says that Corvettes are difficult to work on have never worked on a Corvette. There are a few difficult things but all the generations are relatively easy to work on.
12:03 I wonder if he would see any benefits on track if he switched to an aluminum Z06 frame. Might give him more flexibility for distributing weight at the expense of durability and repairability.
nah, check out taylor ray's youtube channel. he had an aluminum zo6 chassis he was building for FD/clutchkickers. but ended up selling that and switching to a base c6 bc of all the difficulties of aluminum
For me it’s the skills to keep an out of control car in control and at the same time putting it centimeters away from the wall or from the lead driver, then you get the style and freedom to build whatever chassis with whatever power plant you want, drifting has a lot more freedom and personality than a lot of other motorsports and to me I think that’s why so many gravitate towards it
@@ethanwild3301 that aswel, I fell in love with drifting when I was little, seeing a car go sideways when it wasn't supposed to was so cool to see. Still get excited when seeing a race car get a little twitchy