Vehicle Description
2000 Chevrolet Corvette Lingenfelter Convertible ?One of only
13,479 ?Vette convertibles made in 2000 ?52,833 actual miles ?ATI
ProCharger Supercharger 5.7L LS1 V-8 engine with sequential fuel
injection and multiple mods (see below) that puts down 600
horsepower! ?Borg-Warner T-56 six-speed manual transmission with
B&M Ripper Shifter, Z06 clutch and 3.73 gearing plus
limited-slip differential ?Car has been lowered nearly two inches
?Magnetic Red II Metallic exterior (code 86U) with red/black
interior, light oak trim and Grenadine power-folding canvas top
?Air-conditioning, speed-sensitive power steering, power four-wheel
disc brakes; power windows, power locks, power seats with memory;
power sideview mirrors; cruise control; ?Dual front airbags,
traction control and anti-lock brakes ?Chrome roll bars ?Head-up
display (HUD) ?PASS-Key II theft deterrent system ?Documentation
includes original window sticker, various performance brochures,
receipts and other assorted documents ?Clean CarFax By the turn of
the Millennium, America?s Only Sports Car was a few years removed
from its long-lived C4 self and into the fifth generation. For
Chevy, Corvette and other collectors who have been on the lookout
for one of the specialty Corvettes, we might have just what you
want in this 2000 Corvette Lingenfelter Convertible. This custom
Corvette is consigned by a local client who has kept the car
garaged for the past 13 years and only has 52,833 axtual miles with
a clean CarFax. Like all Corvettes since mid-1981, this Corvette
was made at GM?s Bowling Green, Kentucky factory. It left the
factory with the following options ? polished aluminum wheels;
adjustable sport bucket seats with leather-trimmed seating
surfaces; Delco-Bose AM/FM stereo with 12-disc compact disc
changer; Active Handling system; Head-up Display; Dual-zone
electronic air-conditioning; power telescoping and manual tilt
steering column; six-way power passenger seat; Memory package; fog
lamps; and Twilight Sentinel. This example was shipped to Woodfield
Chevrolet in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. Finished in
Magnetic Red II Metallic Tint Coat, the car?s paint and trim are in
overall very good order. The bodywork is straight and solid, the
engine bay is extremely tidy, the Super Starter battery looks new,
the cargo area behind the seats is neat and tidy and the
body-colored bumpers are in excellent shape. Only 2,941 examples,
or 8.7 percent of the 2000 run came painted in Magnetic Red II.
This car rolls on Hankook radials, 245/45ZR17 in front and
275/40ZR18 in back. Each tire is mounted on a factory polished
aluminum wheel. The tires all have good tread and the wheels look
great. The car?s Baer Eradispeed racing brake rotors have been
cross drilled and slotted for better heat dissipation along with
rear brake cooling ducts. Bilstein Sport shock absorbers keep the
ride taut and smooth. Under the forward-hinged carbon fiber hood is
a 5.7L LS1 V-8 with some major upgrades that generates about 600
horsepower! Shortly after purchase, the original owner, Anthony S.,
in Arlington Heights, Illinois, bought several Lingenfelter
performance parts ? ported and polished cylinder heads, larger fuel
injectors, larger intake and exhaust valves in October and November
2000. This car also has an ATI ProCharger supercharger, a
ProCharger intercooler, B&B Triflow headers, a set of FLP long
tube headers with high-flow catalytic converter and a X-pipe Corsa
Indy Pace Car catback exhaust and quad tailpipes; a FLP level IV
transmission with a Yank 3000 torque converter and a DTE 3.73:1
rear end with hardened output shaft; LS6 intake manifold; LS6 valve
springs; MSD Ignition; Racetronix fuel pump with 42 lb/hr
injectors; Motor City Mold carbon fiber hood; lots of chrome and
painted pieces under the hood. A Borg-Warner T-56 six-speed manual
transmission, Z06 clutch and a limited-slip differential back this
engine. Driver convenience and safety features include electronic
climate control with dual zones, speed-sensitive power
rack-and-pinion steering, power four-wheel disc brakes with
anti-lock, traction control, dual front airbags, cruise control,
power telescoping and manual tilt steering column, power bucket
seats with memory settings, power windows, power locks and power
and heated sideview mirrors. Remote decklid and fuel filler door
releases. Red and black bucket seats are in overall great condition
while the carpeting is in good, original order. The leather-wrapped
steering wheel, instrument panel and inner door panels are all in
very good shape. The center console and console-mounted shift lever
look good. Ancillary Autometer Cobalt boost and fuel pressure
gauges are mounted in the driver?s side interior A-pillar. A
factory Delco-Bose AM/FM stereo with a 12-disc CD changer with an
Infinity Beta 10-inch subwoofer and an Audison 250-watt amplifier.
A major change from its predecessor the C4, was a hydroformed box
frame, a design that offered an improved structural platform,
especially for a convertible bodystyle. To improve handling, the
transmission was relocated to form an integrated, rear-mounted
transaxle assembly. Connected to the all-new LS1 engine via a
torque tube, the engine/transmission arrangement enabled a 50-50
percent front-rear weight distribution. The manual was replaced by
a Borg-Warner T-56 six-speed. In 1997, only a hatchback coup? was
offered, with the convertible ? the first to offer a trunk since
1962 ? following later for model year 1998. Aside from cosmetic
differences and new offerings for optional equipment, there were
few fundamental changes from one model year to the next within the
production run of the C5. One of the more popular ?high-tech?
options introduced in the Corvette line was a head-up display or
HUD, while another innovation was the Active Handling System (first
available as an option for 1998, then standard on all 2001 models).
The C5 was also the first Corvette to incorporate a drive-by-wire
throttle; and variable-effort steering, whereby the assist level of
the power steering is varied according to vehicle speed (more at
lower speeds, less at higher speeds). Notable, though rarely
discussed, is the C5 generation was the first model to adopt the
parallel or ?tandem? windshield wiper configuration, abandoning the
opposed configuration used on every previous Corvette model since
1953. The manual transmission?s Computer-Aided Gear Shifting (CAGS)
results in an obligatory shift from first directly into fourth gear
under certain driving conditions; the system can be deactivated
through PCM tuning or the use of an aftermarket device. Suspension
choices for the base model C5 were limited to the standard
suspension (RPO FE1), with options for either the
autocross-inspired FE3 Sport Suspension (included with the Z51
Performance and Handling Package and standard on the 1999?2000 FRC)
or the F45 Selective Ride Control Suspension, which permitted
?on-the-fly? driver selection of different ride characteristics
(sport or touring). Late in the production run (starting with the
2003 model year), the F55 Magnetic Selective Ride Control
Suspension replaced the F45 as the third suspension choice. The
racing inspired FE4 suspension used for the Z06 is stiffer than any
offered on the base model C5 and is unique to that model with no
optional suspension offered. The C5?s suspension consisted of
independent unequal-length double wishbones with transverse
fiberglass mono-leaf springs and optional magnetorheological
dampers. The C5?s modular body panels make excellent use of a
lightweight composite material known in the automotive industry as
SMC or Sheet Molded Composite, a type of fiberglass that is blended
and bonded with plastics. SMC provides better protection against
direct blows because it is very stiff and will not dent. The
floorboards on the C5 are a composite sandwich of SMC with balsa
wood in the middle. Balsa wood was chosen for it
