These
days, you just can’t build a fast car without carbon fiber; apparently, the guys at Specter Werkes/Sports know that, and they’ve liberally applied the stuff to their Corvette GTR. Chief among the carbon-y items on this wicked Corvette Z06–based machine are the sweet HRE CF40 carbon-fiber wheels, which are wrapped with Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 tires. Weighing in at only 22 pounds each, the wheels reduce unsprung weight, meaning this beast will have even less trouble breakin’ ’em loose and ripping off one massive burnout.
Of course, the stock 505-hp powertrain is perfectly suited to that task even with the factory wheels, but Specter went all nuts under the hood anyway, adding a twin-turbo LS7 from Lingenfelter Performance. As a result, 800 horsepower rumble under the modified hood. StopTech six-piston front and four-piston rear calipers harness all those ponies when its time to slow down.
Backing up the Corvette GTR’s asphalt-annihilating power is one pissed-off and remarkably tasteful body kit, and the car wears attractive custom blue pearl paint from BASF. The headlight housings, front splitter, and mirrors are all matte-finish carbon fiber. A Corsa exhaust system with some rather appalling finishers—really the only misstep to our eyes—rounds out the GTR package, which can be applied to any C6 Corvette of your choice. The Corvette GTR is bowing at the 2009 SEMA show in Las Vegas.
