its details like this that make Darton one of the best.

 

agreed, glad there stepping up were gm left off as well. well there's a 2.2 race block but no 2.0

 

Sounds interesting. Bet this will help out the community a lot with all the sleeves cracking as of late.

 

That is just sexy, ive talked with cody for a few years from RDfabs on the cav forums. love the IM and piping to the IC

 

yeah i never wanted to go all out and sleeve a block because of a single horror story of the 2.2 installed in 2.0 and it wiped out the whole build.

but now im down and since darton offers install for 600 cant beat that, you know it will be done right, plus im local.


so 685.00 retail for sleeves and 600 for install. 1285.00 and a few bearings and gaskets (i already have everything else) and it will literally be bullet proof with 130,000 psi tensile strength.

check out this link of the full install, it starts off in the pics with an old quadratec motor but the pics in the end is a 2.2

http://www.dartonsleeves.com/Ecotec%20Manual.pdf

 

That's definitely not bad on pricing. I've looked at the install link already, and it does look pretty stout.

 

one of the cleanest fab jobs ive ever seen !

 

I've already started talks with Darton about sending my block out to them for these new sleeves...

Yeah, they did a very good job...

Manifolds can be reproduced, since they have them at the shop at the moment, but my technically everything was completely one-off. The charge piping was designed to be more efficient so the path they took requires some trimming behind the bumper and entrances to the engine bay. They specialize in custom turbo projects, not kits that sacrifice efficiency for time.

Their price for a custom turbo kit would be right in the same ball-park as buying a pre-made kit from one of the other manufacturers, just guaranteed fit cause the install is free...

 

Whelp, sleeves are ordered. Production starts next week because of SEMA this week. Timeline puts my car back together and to the dyno in about 1-1/2 - 2 months...

 

nice you got the dartons?
hope all goes well for you.

 

I want your intake

 

I hope it all goes well too,

Thanks!

Which intake? The 3" RD Fabs M62 one? If so, I sold it along with the M62 last year, sorry...

...they have measurements to make more, though...

 

eveytime i look at this i hate my self i wanna turbo. thats y my car is about to be down and stripped selling sc kit and looking to turbo finally

 

sub'd for return.

 

Same here,

 

Probably the nicest turbo install I have ever seen on a Cobalt! Props!

 

Thanks!

I can't wait to get the motor back in it and get back to tuning for the spring...

...btw, are you the one that won 1st place at Carlisle P&S two years ago? If you are, my wife and I checked out your car while we were there and thought it was extremely well done. Clean two-tone, real impressive setup.

 

I'm watching this closely

 

Ryan took advantage of the downtime and had my manifold blasted and coated with a Hi-Temp coating. Made my day!!!

 

I just took my Turbo mani to get ceramic coated friday also took the exhasut side of the turbo...

yours looks good

 

Yeah, my turbine was coated for the initial install, but will probably need to be recoated before everything goes back together...






Another teaser...

 

the design on the manifold is nice.. but those welds and piping alignment arent the greatest..

 

lovin this build man!! very clean! i would love to do something like this in the future...

 

This manifold was the very first, a prototype if you will. There was a fitment issue on the one primary, but no issue with the flow on the inside. The welds are purged, and with stainless, sometimes the weld will walk. The issue has been resolved for production pieces and will no longer be like this. You have to remember, this isn't 16ga T304, this is Schedule 10 T304 which is much, much thicker and more difficult to weld.

The plus side is that a heavy duty manifold like this will probably outlast the car itself...

Thanks!

 

well being it's a proto that makes sense I've seen their work and they do great stuff hense why i was shocked/ brough it up