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10 Tips to Better Handling
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10 Tips to Better Handling

C4 ('84-'96) suspension secrets

By Cam Benty

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Those '84 through '96 Corvettes are everywhere. Cheap and fast, they are, as Dick Guldstrand would say, "America's hot rods of today." Best of all, parts for these vintage Corvettes are readily available and the cars are easy to work on. So how come they have such suspension handling woes?

Well here's a chance to fix up your C4 and have it ready for the Solo I competition in your town next weekend. The following are 10 tips from the great mind of legendary Corvette race driver Dick Guldstrand to help get your Corvette handling like a dream. The vehicle used to demonstrate our "10 improvements" was one of Dick Guldstrand's original GS 80 cars used for the detail photography within this story. For a time, this specific GS 80 held the closed-course record of over 170 mph at the Talladega International Raceway. A good testbed for suspension pieces for your Corvette? We think so.

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