So as many of you know, I lost all of my coolant into my oil recently. Well, since then, I do not trust my stock block in the least bit as it got pretty hot when I tried making it to a gas station and is most likely warped. Whether it is or not, the year my engine was made is included in the porous block bunch and therefore I am not trusting it and am going with a new preassembled ZZP engine as it is only a few thousand more than a new factory engine. That is all, lol.

 

Make GM fix that First! even if you want to upgrade im sure someone would buy that brand new block off you for a build!

 

GM wont fix it with an S256ET attached, lol!!!

 

back to stock

 

Lol. they wont even notice!

Back to stock! do it!

 

at least try it for the LOLz... if they say something.. play dumb

 

Tell them the S256 was a factory upgrade and they only made one.

 

"It's the gm stage 4 kit, you've never heard of it?"

 

sad thing is.... some techs would actually believe that haha

 

umm, i thought our engines were near bulletproof?
why did yours blow up, and why did you make reference to bad blocks? is there certain build dates that are bad?

 

A lot of cars built in 08 have porous block problems.. there's a thread specifically on it around here somewhere

 

I didn't really blow it up. It just got coolant in the oil and ruined the bottom end and got so hot it prob warped the block as well. I just don't want to have an issue again.

 

Good choice on the ZZP built block... plus your S256...

 

It's the early '09 models.

 

Yes 09 but on the build date its in 08

 

gm doesn't even know cobalt ss's exist so how would they know its been modify?

 

Lol, If the car was driveable, I'd try it. It runs and has a bad peck but theres no reason it wont start puking up oil and coolant on me going down the road, lol!

 

And I wonder why I get haggled so much when I have a legitimate warranty claim......

 

I beielve zzp Gurdled blocks are scarecrow. Get ahold of one of them.. I had two customers call them and they said no blocks till the mid of year!

 

From the word "scarce," your phone picked "scarecrow?"

 

Wow. So sslobalt whatever happened to you and i tuning?

 

Lol, I dunno. I was told 2 weeks until its shipped.

 

I went with Tom. Nothing personal.

 

 

Welp, just ordered the ported head and cams. The stock head and cams will be sold along with my stock turbo, fidanza flywheel with 500 miles on it and arp bolts, my stock turbo set up, and possibly my second ecm. I also have an MPX FMIC that I am not sure if I will sell it yet or not. Charge pipes + bov is next in line as I really dislike the fitment of the lower hahn cp, especially with the 3 bar map sensors, and the upper charge pipe is just plain noisy and rubs on everything.