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TechFloor®

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">Modular flooring systems have become all the rage these days. Their popularity supports...

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SC-167 Valve Spring Compresor

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The CAC&rsquo;s...

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Cushion/Offset/Flex Ratchet and Swivel Plug Socket

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>If you regularly visit the CAC product review section, you know I have a fair amount of GearWrench tools in my rollaway. Can&rsquo;t help it. I like their...

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Iridium Power spark plug

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff; text-align: justify;">At one time, I used NGK spark plugs but, in the...

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Odyssey Battery

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="text-align: justify;">I have Odyssey Batteries in most of my other cars, so, a couple of years ago, when my Wife and I bought a 2012 Z06, I began to think...

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Offset Oxygen Sensor Wrench

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #032add;">I bought one of these Oxygen Sensor Wrenches back in 2006. I...

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GearWrench Flex-Head Flare Nut Wrench Sets

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="text-align: justify;">Ah, the Internet... <br /><br />We tool freaks love it because there's no end to the nifty stuff you can find. I had a...

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Fuel Injector Flow Testing and Cleaning

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>Anyone who is calibrating (some call this "tuning" or "programming") the ECM in their Corvette is likely doing it in the interests of improving performance and...

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Flexalloy hose

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="text-align: justify;">The Quest for a Hose which lasts.<br /><br />When I wash my Vette, clean parts, hose down the shop floor or the driveway,...

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Zora Arkus-Duntov: The Legend Behind Corvette

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p class="p1">Visit a book store with an automotive section look right&nbsp; at Amazon.com. You'll find many books about Corvettes: engine building, racing,...

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Jack Pad Tool

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Geneva; color: #032adc;">Most 5th, 6th and 7th generation Corvettes have bodywork which wraps around the bottom...

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Corvette: America's Star-Spangled Sports Car 1953-1982

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;">If there was a college-level course on Corvette appreciation and history, the text book for the early...

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Automotive Service: Inspection, Maintenance, Repair, 5th Edition

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Geneva; color: #032adc;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Automotive Service: Inspection,...

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How to Rebuild and Modify Muncie 4-Speed Transmissions

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>This book, How to Rebuild and Modify Muncie 4-Speed Transmissions, is a Muncie-specific sequel to the Author's earlier manual transmission book, How to Rebuild...

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Titanium Lug Nut

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">Lug nuts&ndash;made of titanium on a street car?</p><p style="margin: 0px;...

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Starter Kit

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>If you work on cars, especially repair or restoration of cars built after the use of plastic became widespread, you probably have had to repair a plastic part....

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Oil Filter Cutter

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">"Oil analysis"--if you're an "advanced DIY", you've probably heard...

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LC-2 Wideband O2 Sensor Kit

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>If you do "tuning" or "calibration" work, or just "cal", as some car company engineers say, undoubtedly, you are working with a wideband oxygen sensor (or WBO2S)....

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Atomic Air Force intake manifold for LS7

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">The newest player in the intake manifold market is MSD, LLC. With...

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Multi-Function Ratchet Set

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff; -webkit-text-stroke-color:...

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Headlight Restoration Kit

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>Corvettes have had headlights under plastic lenses starting with the C6. A problem with plastic headlights can be that, over time, plastics made from...

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Fast & Cool Blower

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">In the CAC testing shop, we've been evaluating a Maradyne...

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Dash Control Display Control

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">A couple of years ago, reading posts by some of our members here on...

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Odyssey Battery Charger

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p class="p1">I use Odyssey Batteries in most of my cars. Odysseys are premium, absorbent glass mat (AGM) batteries known for their high pulse-cranking current and...

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Battery Extender BEX-3000 and BEX-5000

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">You may own late model Corvettes which are...

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200-mm Lug Guides

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color:...

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CP9690/9680 Scan Testers

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #032adc;">A number of years ago, I started using...

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Drive-Smart 61 LMT-S GPS Receiver

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: #0433ff;">Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S GPS...

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GM Service Information (GMSi

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: #0433ff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;...

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Time-Sert Thread Repair

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <h1>Threads Strippped? Here's the Easy Fix!</h1><p>If you're a regular DIY working on Corvettes, at one time or another you've probably stripped the...

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3/8-drive and 1/2-drive Electronic Torque Wrenches

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="text-align: justify;">Gear Wrench Electronic Torque Wrenches<br />by Hib Halverson<br /><br />This is our first experience with...

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Industrial Strength Cleaner & Degreaser

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="text-align: justify;">As more and more states, counties and cities regulate solvents we DIYs use to clean parts, water-based or "aqueous" parts cleaners...

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Grypmat

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="text-align: justify;">The "Grypmat" is a flexible tool tray made of silicon-based rubber which "sticks" to whatever surface it sits upon. This product has...

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___The Corvette Hunter

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>Most of the books I've reviewed for the CAC have been soft-cover and technical in nature. This one was a little different. It's not technical and is a "real"...

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120XP Ratchets

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff; -webkit-text-stroke-width:...

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150 Lumen LED Work Light

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff; -webkit-text-stroke-width:...

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120XP Universal Spline XL Ratcheting Combination Wrenches

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff; -webkit-text-stroke-width:...

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Direct Fit Catylitic Convertors for C5 ZO6

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: #2c2cfb;">Don&rsquo;t...

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Corvette Special Editions

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff; -webkit-text-stroke-width:...

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Big Ass Lightbar

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff;...

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Brake Pressure Bleeder

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color:...

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ProPower Coil for LS2/3/7/9

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff;">The original versions of...

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Mechanic's Creeper

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>Mechanic's creepers have been around for decades. Back when I was working as a service technician, I remember the shop which employed me had two of those wooden...

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C7 Odyssey Performance Series Battery

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>At the Corvette Action Center, when we put the "Bad Black and Yellow", our 2019 ZR1 in service, right away I began to think about an Odyssey Battery for the car....

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GM-licensed Corvette luggage

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: #0433ff;"><span...

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GS1R Monoblock Forged Aluminum Wheel

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>These days, Forgeline Motorsports is my favorite wheel maker. I think they have some of the coolest wheel designs on the market. Another reason I like Forgeline?...

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3000 Lumen Rechargeable Area Ligh

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>This is our third product evaluation of a work light for automotive shop use which can can double as emergency lighting during power failures. In several months...

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Electronic Torque Wrench

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Arial Black'; color: #0000ff;"><span...

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Diamond Tip Screwdrivers

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p>Why does anyone need a "diamond tipped screwdriver"? Is it because the diamond tips are stronger and more durable?<br /><br />Not exactly.<br...

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Nighthawk LED Headlight for C4

by: Hib HalversonDescription: <p class="p1">Anyone who&rsquo;s driven a C4 on a back road at night knows its headlights are substandard for a high-performance sports car. Shortly after I...

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