I was wrong, 16 psi of boost by 2200 RPM in 4th.

 

now if we can get a gt30/percision 5457 to do that!!!

 

My car has a lot less lag after tuning. It starts building boost at around 35% load wheras stock it was around 55% load. A good tune is the best thing you can do for these cars as far as the fun to drive factor goes. Will you look into developing an intercooler setup that does no require removing the front crash bar?

 

We could probably put together an intercooler upgrade that won't require a change of the bumper. We've fabbe'd up everything to be modular. You can take the intercooler pipes and bolt them right up to the factory intercooler. We went down the road of the bumper replacement in order to be able to fit the biggest IC core that we could. We were also looking at it as a way to stiffen up the chassis, since it bolts straight up to the unibody's frame rails. With the tubular bumper does not eliminate the 5 mph foam bumper behind the plastic cover. And, also bear in mind that the crash/airbag sensor is on the main radiator support. The before and after measurements of static flex is considerably less with the new bumper. But there's no real test except road racing track time.

 

How much of a weight savings is it?

 

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The tubular bumper is around 5 pounds lighter than the stock bumper, but that intercooler is definately heavier than the stock one so it not going to save you any weight in the end.

 

Sounds interesting, I must superscribe to see what tricks you guys can come up with. I have question for Synapse, will a stiffer spring help the stock "BOV" with some of its problems for those of us that don't want to go crazy with mods?

 

that'll never happen with a 2.0 motor

 

it was a joke.

 

thank god

 

Add a small shot of nitours, and you will see what wonders it will do for you.

-Karo

 

and kiss your engine goodbye

 

I am ordering my spring soon. I will see if it helps with spoolup and sealing it only 10 bucks. I have an SRI on my car now and it souds as if my BPV may be leaking a little.

 

Never knew a 20 or 30 shot would kiss your engine goodbye.... but then again, I don't know anything about nitrous....

 

If your timing and fueling are tuned for nitrous the motor will handle a small shot without blowing up. The only reason Choko blew his up was because he was runnning a dry shot. No extra fuel was added with the nitrous that creates a very lean condition.

 

that new impact bar looks like sex i want one and it would def help with mouting a intercooler on base models haahahah

 

Be very, very careful. A stiffer spring will only have the BOV react and open later, causing Flutterdump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUWEsqoWz8

The Cobalt is the first application I've come across that actually throws a check engine light for turbo flutter.

From my time with the Cobalt and the Solstice, the Stock BPV, can hold the boost pretty good. It is the ECU and the solenoid connected to the BPV that is purposely leaking the boost at low RPM.

 

God I cant stand when I get the flutterdump!

 

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