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Lieutenant Colonel Plummer's Weapon of Choice – The Lingenfelter Corvette
By AdPix.Biz

Model: Jennifer

Yet another reason to support the troops – this one's appropriately exercising Good 'ol American Freedom and Capitalism to build this Monster 'Merrican Vette, when he's not overseas “Exercising Opportunities to Eliminate Hostile Assets” on your behalf.

And as you'd expect a colonel to do, he blandly describes this Number One Sierra Hotel (slang for high praise) road rocket with way too much reservation. But don't be fooled. This thing is fast. It's like a greased 50-caliber slug. It explodes power like a daisy cutter.

Colonel Plummer got up at Stupid O'clock to vector this hot ride hundreds of clicks to our shoot, with that sly “I Got Air-Supremacy, Boomers, and the 6th Fleet” Grin, all the way.

He cranked this thing inside its trailer and the trailer was suddenly one giant sub-woofer on wheels. It was not really loud, but thorough, like the ground was waking up, and wasn’t happy about it. Were we on a seismic fault? Our chests vibrated. People nearby thought we were being invaded. French people were waving white flags.

It slowly rolled out, looking like a nice but regular corvette with a nice paint job. As he maneuvered it around for the photographs, the strange lumps on that hood started looking a little, well, menacing. Those cat's-eye racing Specter headlights, and the front splitter with the red lip, and the extra screened air inlets - they started to appear quite purposeful after all. About then, with the engine still throbbing away, the whole package suddenly made sense and you wanted to duck or something, about like when your brain belatedly connects a whistling through the air with the far off shout “Incoming!!”




Colonel Plummer is a Corvette nut, with a rare 1996 Grand Sport Coupe, and a 1972 under restoration. This one he purchased new in 1999, the first year of the fixed roof coupes (FRC) while on leave from his tour in Saudi Arabia. He had to immediately put it into storage for the six months remaining on the tour.  But that just gave him time to plan his strategy.

According to The Plummer Car Strategy Doctrine (PCSD), leaving a car stock is just wrong.  But improving an FRC C5 is no easy task. He had to reconnoiter through some difficult choices to find improvements that would actually improve the asset. This was no Willys Jeep.

The Plummer C5 has been through three major upgrade engagements over the years, not to mention minor upgrades (Surgical Strikes) such as wheel and tire combinations, lowering, different intakes, two types of catback exhaust systems, three hood styles and countless other mods.

Although the Plummer C5 had just come out of its safe storage, and was therefore still essentially brand new, Plummer executed the first major upgrade, Operation Mongoose, in the spring of 2000. He had already added Mallett wheels, a Borla exhaust system, and a Donaldson Filter assembly as “Minor Incursions”, so to speak.  Plummer had specialist Ron Bilyeu of Pro Auto Tech in Fort Myers, Florida install his “Mongoose 460” package.  This was essentially a head and cam upgrade that included among other things headers and the custom PCM (the engine computer) reprogramming to make it all work.

Colonel Plummer reports that Operation Mongoose was a success. In fact, the change in the car was immediate. The 402 rear wheel horsepower and 373 pounds of torque made the car a blast to drive and sent many pretenders home with a big sad face.

His country called for him again and the car sat in storage another year. But on leaves Plummer added 3:73 gears, a hardened transmission, to include hardened input shaft by Rodney, and added an X-pipe to open up the exhaust and make those Borla Stingers come to life. An XM radio was added for the long excursions Plummer likes to make in his new war machine.

Then in the Fall of 2002, while serving duty in the Sinai, Plummer saw an article that made him realize that 402 horsepower was still not sufficiently in the Heavy Cruiser league. It was time to execute Operation Lingenfelter, Part I.
 Over the last 25 years, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering (http://www.lingenfelter.com/) in Decatur, Indiana has developed a solid reputation over for delivering quality upgrades to factory cars, with upgrade packages that are engineered as well, or better, than the cars themselves. Lingenfelter's packages upgrade the entire powertrain, from intake through exhaust, including programming, and the completed car leaves with a chassis dyno report and two year warranty!

Lingenfelter had developed a supercharger based on the Magnacharger unit. Plummer knew that when it comes to horsepower per dollar, a supercharger is hard to beat. Operation Lingenfelter was also a satisfying success, yielding a proven 480 rear wheel horsepower and 460 pounds of torque.


Lingenfelter's engineers, especially Ed Potter's specialist team, impressed Plummer so much, he returned in the Spring of 2003 for Operation Lingenfelter, Part II.

This trip involved a new, strengthened clutch, and some mysterious additional tweaking, which Plummer can neither confirm nor deny. But reliable sources indicate its new theater of operation is in the 500
rear wheel horsepower neighborhood, give or take a few ponies depending on conditions.

Operation Lingenfelter, Part III, is on the drawing board. Meanwhile, Plummer's attack plans turned to cosmetics and handling.

The paintjob was loosely patterned after one of the paint schemes used on the early C5R Corvettes in the American Le Mans professional road racing series.  It was done at the local Chevy dealership that has a special team of body-shop employees, code-named “Helen and Team.” They took Plummer's idea for the paint job and ran with it.

Already lowered, and with beefy wheels and tires, Plummer added Hotchkis sway bars front and rear and Bilstien shocks.

The result: this cruise missile screams down the ¼ mile in the mid 11-second range on street tires and corners like its on rails, yet Colonel Plummer can easily drive it to work among unknowing civilians who may suspect something powerful is nearby, but are blissfully unaware of the true potential of the cloaked weapon that rumbles by.