All,

so today i'm goin down I-75 rite at the M-59 interchange, i look behind me as i jump over a few lanes and see a yellow cobalt.....with silver wheels.

at first i thought it was a 05-07 until it got closer and i saw the mulit-spoke silver wheels from the 09+ cars.....i was most excited by this.

by the time he got close to my rear bumper i had the cruse set at 80 and he came up on me going at least 90....

as he pulled even with my rear quarter window i dropped it to 3rd and gave her the go pedal, boost rolled in and i begin to pull away...BUTTTTTT at a rather slow pace...i'd say form 90-120ish (3-4shift) i put about 1.5-2 cars on him...

after we cleared some traffic we went at it again, he hug pretty good thro 3rd but once i hit 4th i started to pull better

in my current winter form i'm at 17psi from 3900-7400 with 21deg of advance a solid 275-285whp set up.(edited below)

thats the upper end of dam near all LSJ set ups (2.5 cars with all the works) and the LNF car was staying REAL, REAL good with me...i was VARY suprised.

now i'm the biggest LNF hater of sorts, the engine has massive limitations and huge hurdles to overcome before it can be vary aftermarket friendly but none the less at STOCK LNF car is going to shock and surprise dam near every one on here....

the people with basic 2.7 set ups are going to be doing allot of "WTF" looks.

keep your eyes peeled for the new cars guys, think twice before goin at it...you'll be suprised.
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i dug up some old dyno pulls....i only did 1 low psi pull(16psi) and ran up 274whp

so at 17ish i'd say 285ish tops.....

 

damn, guess its time for juice

 

eh im not to worried about the new ones beating me lol

 

Um...

 

i guess their quick

 

06 weve met before at some of the OU meets, and now im gettin the itch to convert to turbo. i know you have ALOT of knowledge on our LSJs and i know you converted yours to turbo. so i was wondering if you could possibly help me out a lil. sry, not tryin to thread jack, just realized it. just pm me if ya can. thanx

 

you best have some money ready!

 

Im not worried at all about them haha

 

give me some time with one and then you will be.

 

I thought they weren't out yet?

 

they're out?? wonder where he got the car from? could you hear the turbo blow off??

 

theres a few runnin around out here.

 

i am almost postive they dont start production till april. could be wrong but im pretty sure...anyone else think this??

 

ya man, i don't buy it... i checked the site and there's nothing on there. if this car was out they'd at least be advertising it on their site

 

it MIGHT have been a pre-production unit on the road, i'm in the heart of auto-co land....the major proving grounds are all rather close to my location.

no "m" plate on the car tho...

couldent hear ****.

the wind noise, my car, ect made it just about impossible to hear any thing from that car.

 

Meh, I got mucho love for my future turbo cobalt brothers. Doesn't bother me that they are faster. I still prefer my screamin' blower.

 

not true,

it may not be SOP(start of production) yet but there are several pre-production units, always are.

its a production validated unit thus no "M" plate so its production spec.

 

screw the LNF cars.....They will need 300+whp to touch me, most idiots wont know to just put a 150 shot of nitrous on them cause they will be scared of breaking the warranty, when in reality the DFI is amazing and you can make power safe, but those idiots are going to be like SRT-4 owners and blow their **** up left and right cause they will just keep trying to turn the boost up.

 

lol thats such a bad example.

 

QFT!

 

I find this not very realistic.

Sorry, but I would like for you to explain to me how you were able to tell that the "08.5 Cobalt" had the correct wheels? I know for sure that at 80+mph almost all wheels look the same.

Are you sure they were a split 5 spoke, or did you get to slow down to a point where you could tell for 100% that they weren't an 8 or 10 spoke wheel?

I would guess it was just a 05-07 SS that had just slightly less mods than you and aftermarket wheels.

Oh and for the people who are still misinformed, you won't hear the BOV because there isn't one. It has a sort of bypass valve that vents back into the intake pipe.

 

they dont come out untill april... one i know this because its so well discussed on here.. two all of the central ohio dealers agree on that too lol... call chevrolet themselves... its not out yet... ever thought that they might have bought some aftermarket wheels?

 

after the run we got off at the same exit, i beleve he had intentions to fallow me, however i had to make a u-turn back toward my proper exit.

the two lights we were stuck at gave me the needed time to look the car over.

the badging and wheels were all correct.

just because the cars not 100% production yet does not mean the car doest exist, not even in the smallest since of the word.

i live in the mixing pot of the OEMs, there are camouflaged test mules on the road almost every day, let alone PV'd pre-production cars.

 

Cool, did you get a chance to check out the front grills, or see if the seats were the new cloth style?

If you saw either of those, I'm a believer.

Good kill. But if you are right, it does sound like the SS/TC will be a contender, I'm really curious to see what the stage kit will do to this car.

 

the seats i have seen plenty of times, i used to work in the safety industry and we did the testing on the camaro and the cobalt rite before i jumped ship.

they are a net-cloth material.

i did not take a good look at the front grill however.