Anyone have any info or know how on changing our Final Drive to the Grand Am Cobalt's 4.45? I would very much like to do this along with my Cams & Pistons. Thanks.

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Haha... that guy cracks me up.

 

The factory service manual doesn't list gears available. What you posted after I posted says you can. Just takes $$ and a knowledgable shop to do it....

 

... NOT a PONTIAC GRAND AM's gear... the Cobalt that participates in the Rolex Grand Am Cup... they changed the Final Gear Drive to a high acceleration 4.45.

 

The F35 trans with 4.45 final gears was in the 2000-2002 Manual L-series saturns. It was never offered with a LSD, however, and you have to totally disassemble it to install the LSD.

 

??? I don't want LSD... all I want to do is change my Final Gear.

 

Give "WOP" (I think that's it), a PM off the redline forums. I asked him about this awhile back, and he said you can get the final drive ring from a saturn L-series to work, but that it was alot of labor to do it. Let us know what you find out.

 

Are you going to change out 1st gear as well? 4.45 final drive with our stock first gear is going to make it absolutely useless.

 

why would you not want the LSD???? and when I redo my tranny I"ll probably end up usind that ratio

 

Swapping that out will essentially make you a 4-speed stick. 1st will become even more useless than it is now, unless you have the stickiest of slicks, but it'll be fairly easy to launch in 2nd.

I think it would help immensly on road course and auto-x, where you probably spend the majority of the time in 2nd-4th gears, but for straight line and street, I'm not so sure. Your mileage will suffer, and your car would also be buzzing at a noisy 3400 rpm at 80 vs about 3000 with stock gearing. Keep that in mind if you plan on taking it on any road trips.

 

well I"m also doing the 6 speed swap so I don't think it will be a problem

 

Yeah, in case you should be good to go like Taco Bell.

 

I can't help you but I hope it works out for you. If thats what you want to do, do it!

 

The six speed swap looks cool, but a little too expensive for me.