We have had reports back that the install was straight-forward and easy. 9-12 hours taking their time has been the norm.

 

Is it something that needs to ship to a business or commercial address or can it be shipped to a home address?

 

I'm not worried about the price, it seems reasonable.

I'm just wondering if the car is going to be able to handle the kit's abuse without breaking down, number 1 transmission, number 2 pistons over long term.

 

you will be fine man just buy the kit and welcome mid 11's

 

Im tempted to slap this **** on my hhr when tax season comes around and then suprise a few more people haahahhahah

 

It all depends on the tune and how you drive it. If you go out and beat the heck out of your car then yes reliability is going to suffer. I've had mine on for 3 weeks and I have been pretty happy with it.

cmiller, sorry man I beat you to it, I was putting mine on the weekend after the Small Car Bash. From what I hear you and I have matching cars (exterior), and now you're going to have the same turbo kit as me....

 

I still will be faster. Just kidding, but that's sweet, we need to here about it when people get the kit. You going to be at the dyno day at bigshot?

 

I guess someone has to lead and follow

So how you liking it, any major glitches or snags with installing it yourself?

 

Quicker, yes for sure! Faster...well...we will have to see. I'd like to get out of town but I won't be able to make the bigshot dyno day. It's about a 10 hour drive from where I am.

So far it's fun, just on "low" boost right now taking it easy. It's making a bit more power than on the stock turbo but nothing crazy yet, I'm guessing 350-375hp. My daily driver went down about the time we got the kit put on the Cobalt (swapping in a new engine this weekend) so I've been hesitant to break the Cobalt too.
As far as the kit install goes, it was straightforward, Matt did a good job on the instructions. There are a couple of things that could be overlooked so pay strict attention to the instructions. If you get the wastegate recirculated you'll probably want to pull the rear tranny mount and run the downpipe into the cradle before mounting the turbo to the manifold.

I have one lingering issue that no one else seems to have that's done the swap, there is a horrible squeak at idle for some reason and it's caused by the PCV. We're still sorting it out but everything else is great.

I have everything but a spare block to build the bottom end of the LNF so we'll probably really crank it up once that's done.

 

For some reason I thought you were in Ohio.