What should I do to my 2.2L Cobalt Lt? I've already lowered it on Eibachs and put 17" rims on it. Now I want to I want to get into engine performance. This is my every day car so nothing to rediculous but I still want to be able beat pretty much all the lil rice burners (nothing against them but they always rev up at me) lol. So some suggestions would be appreciated!

 

Forced injection, the SC is like a days worth of work, and turbo is about 2-3 days of work if you have eveything there, and people helping.

 

Where are you at in Tampa man?????

 

forced injection how about forced induction

 

There are alot of factors that go into choosing what mods to do, like what your skill level and knowledge is when it comes to cars for one example

 

CAI, Header, DP, Exhaust, and a 2.4 mani swap and you'll rape every little rice burner around, assuming you mean honda's with fart cans, older eclipses, and neons. But then again you should beat them stock Oh but their are two HUGE downfalls to this car and they are........

1.) You'll never go over 250HP without swapping internals cause they'll blow
2.) Your car won't go over 105mph and you can hit that in 4th gear at about 5250RPMs

 

Just gotta get Trifecta tuned to get rid of that

 

not sure about his but my 2.2 hasn't shut off yet and i hit 120

 

I think it depends on what year. In 05-06 all cobalts shut down at 105 except the LS Sport and SS/SC. Prolly the 07 2.2s as well. Dunno beyond that

 

seriously i hope to god because any race i ve ever lost was because of that stupid thing and i was always like what the **** seriously 4 gear and that's all i get but i gotta wait for a tune because i m ordering zzperformances header/dp combo then getting a custom bent exhaust put on then i want to swap a 2.4 TB so then i would have to tune but i think it will all be worth it in the end i hope anyway

 

mine shuts down about 120

 

They must have bumped it up for 07's in that case.

 

my 07 hit 111mph i backed off because of the crappy stock conti's

 

It has nothing to do with the year.. Its all in what tires came with the car. If yours came with the shitty continentals, you were restricted to 105 because they are only speed rated to 107 i believe. but if you got the 16 inch alloys with the michelins (pretty sure they were michelins) on it your gov is set to 124

 

Pirrelli P6's

 

On the LS/LT's? really?

 

thats what mine had when I got her. Nice tires, lasted longer than any others i have had on the car.

 

huh, i didn't know that.. That would have been nice! I got the shitty conti's they were bald by 12,000 miles!

 

I live in South Tampa off of west shore

Also I dont consider myself to be an expert on cars but Im not dumb when it comes to it either and I have a couple friends that own their own shops so I can get pretty much get everything I need done without a problem

 

in that case, it would come down to money and what kind of goal you wanna set power wise. An example would be, if you want 200+ hp then you need to plan for a turbo or supercharger.

 

yeah 200hp seems to be the standard all the 2.2 guys want to hit i know i do but everyone says for that you will need a bottle or turbo/s/c i think its possible to go n/a and do it but it would just be extremely difficult

 

I'd say EXPENSIVE

 

You are correct, this is what came with mine, 2006 LT3.

 

yeah but i don't really have the time to tear down the whole thing and turbo it otherwise i might have considered but at the same time i guess i could call myself original who else has a 200whp 2.2 N/A