5 Cool Aftermarket Body Kits for C8 Corvette, One Huge Rear Wing

2022-03-12 06:02:50 By : Mr. carson wang

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From front splitters to rear wings, somebody out there has just what you’re looking for.

The still-new Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray is a thing of beauty and a joy forever. To most people. To some, however, it needs a few trim pieces to make it truly magnificent.

Chevrolet is happy to sell you any number of unique trim pieces directly from the factory—everything from a front splitter to “High wing spoiler in Carbon Flash Metallic-painted, Genuine Corvette Accessory $1,250.”

There are 46 items to check under “Exterior Options” alone on the 2022 Corvette Stingray build-and-price page at Chevrolet.com, from carbon-fiber roof panels and composite rocker extensions to the Corvette-themed graphics package and Stingray R logos. You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on hardware without even leaving the Chevy home page.

But that’s not enough for some Corvette enthusiasts and for them there is the aftermarket. Here are some ways C8 owners can make their rides uniquely their own.

Rocket Bunny is a brand far better-known to the import culture than to traditional American Corvette buyers. You’re far more likely to see a Rocket Bunny kit on a Datsun 240Z or an OG Toyota AE86. But here you go. Rocket Bunny was founded by a Japanese guy from Osaka named Ken Miura, who is something of a demi-god to the JDM crowd. He is best-known for wide-body kits of all kinds. GReddy sells these kits online for a cool 8 grand and swears they are designed by Miura himself.

“Each part is manufactured in Japan with high-quality materials and time-consuming care to ensure its designed shape,” says GReddy.

This kit consists of a front lip spoiler, side skirt, front over-fender set, rear over-fender set, and rear wing. Parts are sold separately. That rear wing you want sells for $1450. But if you’re going to do this, go big or go home. One of these kits on a 2020 C8 Corvette sold at Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale last year for $148,500. So you can say it’s an investment!

Now don’t get too excited about the price of this kit. It’s only the front splitter and rocker panels. But it’s carbon fiber in your choice of matte clear and gloss clear finishes. SpeedKore is better-known for its carbon-fiber Dodge Chargers, among other products, but this is still a nice, lower-key choice for semi-private C8 owners. As if there are any of those.

This RSC kit doesn’t include any fenders or deck lids but does include all the aero trim pieces you may want to make your C8 stand out from the crowd. It includes: two choices of front splitter, two rear wings—a ducktail spoiler or a high wing—engine hatch vents, two choices of side skirts, a rear diffuser, mirror covers, and side vents and front intake vents, all done in carbon fiber.

“The Racing Sport Concepts Carbon Fiber C8 Corvette Body Kit & OEM Carbon Fiber Replacement Components are the finest Carbon Fiber parts and products available for your Chevrolet Corvette C8,” says RSC.

The parts were well-reviewed on corvetteblogger.com and c8corvetteblog.com, too.

We first saw these guys at the Tokyo Auto Salon two months ago, but they’ve been around a lot longer than that. As we noted then, Liberty Walk is a Japanese company that makes body kits for numerous cool cars.

It’s been doing this since it modified a Lamborghini Murcielago customer car in 2008. After that, LW decided to make a kit for other Murcy owners. From thence came all kinds of “modifications,” as Liberty Walk calls them. They showed Murcielago kits at SEMA in 2009 and again in 2012. As Google translate says from Liberty Walk’s home page, “The impact of this was strong.”

At the 2013 SEMA show, Liberty Walk displayed a 458 Italia and a GT-R, followed by an Aventador in 2014. Now they have modifications for just about every cool car made—and even some uncool cars.

At this year’s Tokyo Auto Salon, Liberty Walk unveiled this kit for the C8 Corvette, with new front and rear bumpers, side diffusers, wide body fender kit, and a big ole monster rear wing. It’s $19,580 in fiberglass reinforced polymer, while in carbon-fiber reinforced polymer it costs $21,780.

The kits shown in the photos indicate the body was also lowered, which Liberty Walk suggests you do with an air bag suspension, though pricing for that is not on the spec sheet. So plan to sort that out on your own to get the exact look shown here.

If you want to basically throw away all the hard work done by the GM design staff and start over with an entirely new take on the C8, consider the Sigala Designs Corvette C8RR Widebody kit. Maybe you could pay for it by selling all the factory panels you’ll replace!

The Sigala Designs kit consists of no fewer than 32 pieces: hood with two vents, front bumper extensions, front splitter, front splitter extensions, wide body fenders, side skirt extensions, side splitter extensions, wide body quarter panels, rear diffuser, rear bumper extensions, rear winglets, hi rise wing, roof, halo, afterburners, and two quarter-panel moldings.

It’s $14,995 in fiberglass and $24,995 in full carbon fiber. They’ll sell you wheels and tires separately: 20x11 front wheels, 21x13 rears wrapped in 295/30/20 front tires and 355/25/21 rears. Just thinking about those numbers is causing a mild heart attack or two.

That rear wing alone looks like something Don Johnson would have confiscated from a Miami Vice bad guy. And yet, the thing in its entirety is fascinating to behold. Would love to see one in the flesh, or the carbon fiber. Sigala Designs is in San Diego, California. Check ‘em out. And let us know how it all went.

LG makes all kinds of performance parts for C8s and other fun cars, but only two exterior parts for this particular generation of Corvette, both of them rear wings. The smaller wing is called, ironically, the Rear High Wing and is so relatively small that it might be overlooked.

But no one will miss the monster Tera Dactyl flapper you see here. LG raves about the wing’s downforce which, if true, would mean you’d need an equally gargantuan front splitter to balance it out, right? Even I know that. But the front splitter is “under development.”

So unless you source another company’s front air dam, you’ll be doing aerodynamic wheelies if you go faster than normal freeway speeds with this thing on, as is. Remember that, should you consider tracking this beast. But it has a presence—a veritable aftermarket gravitas—that is unmatched.