This is my first post on here. I just thought I'd show all the new parts I just installed on my 2.2 Cobalt. I bought a ss/sc exhaust manifold and ported and polished it to make it like the GMPP extrude honed exhaust manifold and painted it silver with high heat paint, looks and sounds great. Then installed the GMPP performance catback. Then the GMPP cold air intake. There is a definently a gain in hp/tq and gas milage. I'm getting about 60-70 miles to a tank of gas better, hard to believe but true. I reciently got my valve cover powder coated red to match my car which looks great. I had alot of problems finding a gasket for it tho. I had to order one from my dealership (over 50 dollars). I installed the ss/sc Fe5 springs which lowered it a little. I have 17" Kazara rims wrapped in Goodyear eagle f1 tires. I have the complete ss/sc body kit being painted right now, I will hopefully get it back with in the next couple of days. Here are some pictures of it all. Let me know what you think.

 

Real nice car man!!! And welcome to the site!!! Keep up the good work!!

 

nice lookin balt! welcome and enjoy the stay!

 

I'm likin those wheels

 

Nice job on the manifold. Did you do the port and polish yourself? How much did it cost?

 

Yes I used a dremel with a pen extention. Best way to do it with a dremel is buy a cutting/grinding bit set. I used 2 23mm cutting wheels over lapping each other which made it grind/sand more than cut. I also used a couple other grinding stones to get around the bends. Then topped it off with the sanding wheels to smooth it down as much as possible. It took alot of work but it looked and worked great when it was done. I cleaned it real good with some degreaser and shot 4 coats of silver high temp paint on it.

Here is a couple pictures I took while I was working on it. These are before I smoothed it out.

 

nice looking 2.2L!

 

Looks narce! : ) How much did it cost for the gmpp p. catback and CAI?

 

Dude what kind of rims are those? There awesome

Also how much was it to have the SS body kit painted?

 

Looking real good Love teh valve cover!

 

i like the valve cover, I'm thinking about painting mine red

I don't know if I would've wasted my time with SS/SC springs though...

 

Bandicoot//...u a braves fan?

 

Nice ride, welcome to the site. And ofcourse VIC RED FTW!

 

Nice job. The only advantage to Extrude Hone is that it does this the entire length of the passage.

 

Hey! Nice car man. Did you paint the drums on the back red or what did you do? I'm stuck with what do do about the calipers / drums. The calipers look awesome now I know i am def. paintin them atleast. Thanks.

 

I got them both at crateenginedepot.com. The intake was $262 shipped and the catback was on sale so I got it $80 off and spent about $400 shipped.

Those rims are Kazera KZ-B. I am getting a friend to paint my body kit so I am paying NO where near the price it would be anywhere else. He is doing it for $250, I just had to buy the paint and reducer.

 

Sharp lookin ride man. Sounds like she's gonna be one nice ride when your done.

Welcome, by the way

 

Yea I wasnt sure about the springs either but it wouldnt screw up my warranty. I got them for $15 so where could I really go wrong. It did make the backend not sit so high, which was worth it. It handles alot better than the LS springs do. After comparing the ss/sc to the ls springs I can see why.

 

lol check out the join date

 

It was a real pain to get to the middle of the exhaust manifold but I did with many hours of trying to stay relaxed . Thought I would never be able to get all of the inside done. It was well worth every metal flake in the eye, metal splinter, and all the broken dremel bits .

 

LOL!! I got owned..I usually check that stuff first.

WOW!!! 6 posts since 2005...

 

Yes

 

Yea, I never really had anything to say lol not untill I started buying parts. I just like reading about everyone's cars and what they have done.

 

I know I am bringing this back but what is the part numbers for the GMPP exhaust, My girlfriend is getting ready to buy a 2LT cobalt coupe and I'm trying to find a exhaust and she seems to like this.

 

You know, if I could find an intake and exhaust that wouldn't make the car sound like an airplane, I'd do it just for the mileage increase. It seems that most who have done this have gotten an increase in MPG...