Regardless of year, you will always have to perform a seed key relearn and crank position variation learn any time you replace the ecm. The 606 code was due to a Cobalt box being used on a G5. We've never advertised our kit as being compatible with a G5. Had I known what car it was going on, I would have asked for the original ECM to flash which would have solved all three of the situations you mentioned.


You should check the wastegate/boost control vacuum lines and routing. There's no reason the boost should be that high unless the boost controller is turned up nearly two turns.

 

fair enough on the g5 aspect.. however I"ve done tunes on cars with different ecms and never had the issue.. some sstcs and ss/scs

i emailed you guys about the way you get vacuum do you have any details about that I could see. I like the setup .. right now i'm tapping the brake booster the "old" method .. and I don't feel comfortable with it

he keeps periodically throwing a P1862 code .. but that seems like it's a ignition issue not something with the kit

the crank relearn and P0606 seems like we've fixed for now thought over all great kit.. open dump = loud LOL

 

Thanks for the feedback. We do want to improve our kit wherever we can.

I'll look for your email.

 

what were the mods on the car? and what stage is that? 1 or 2?

 

stage 2.
no big mods, that dont come with the kit.

I guess when i sent whoever I sent the VIN to (twice), they didnt see the fact that it was a G5?

the controller is all the way down.

 

eh that boost controller was one of the things I really didn't like about the kit, I say step up to a decent MBC (I know the issue with that is you get a bunch of retards trying to push 20psi out of it). everything else though was good.
Might take a stab at going over the tune on the thing in a few weeks to clear it up a bit.

 

I would appreciate that

 

If you want to double check what color spring you have in the gate, we can send you a lighter spring if necessary.

 

box was marked 5.8 psi.
I don't see him taking that apart......
I'll see what I can see next time he's around, wish I knew earlier saturday when he was at our shop.

 

If I am walking by then Id be down, i wanna see the kit.

 

Wait what? What happened man

 

Nothing really, little slip at work. had my foot on the arm of the lift, pushed down to get out of car and my foot slipped to the floor(5 inches at most) by the end of the day I couldnt stand.....Been out of work since 11/19. Had MRI Monday, haveanother follow up on Friday.

 

damn dude, hope ya heal quickly

 

Thanks, me too. I am already down with the whole not workign thing.

 

Good luck Maven! I'd hope youd get better by the time I'm done with this, I havent even made up half the money yet, and I only make like $150 a week ahaha. Minimum wage

Ever active member should paypal me a dollar to expedite the process! I'll take pictures of the entire install hahaha

 

anymore updates?

 

i have a question, does anyone have any issues with the kit?
i'm referring more to any tuning issues?
car running to rich or lean?
any codes?
and if possible how much of difference or an average on mpg with normal driving (rarely to occasional runs, not senior driving :P sorry) city or highway or both

thanks,

 

there were a bunch of codes thrown due to a cobalt ecm being used on a G5 it was a safe tune but it had room for some nice gains, if you stay out of boost you wont see any worse MPG you might actually see better mpg

 

still not all fixed up?

 

^^^^
So you are saying that if i stay NA i'll get better mpg right. (sorry noob question but i got confuse)
but i wanted to know an average that ppl get.

 

In a way, if you stay out of boost (not too hard on the gas with turbo installed) it will essentially be the same as a NA car because you wont be using boost which = more fuel being used.

 

no he was saying, that if you do go with a zzp kit, that you would probably see better mpg when daily driving if you dont beat on it and stay out of boost. Turbo/supercharged cars arent always in boost, if your light on the peddle, it wont go into boost and you will get great fual economy as long as you have a good tune. If you floor it everywhere and keep it in boost, you wont get very good fuel economy.

 

hell on 60 lbs injectors (which are notorious for having to runs really rich idle ratios) I can get like 34-36 mpg all highway with boost .. I was getting like 26- 30 mpg on my daily commute to work which was like 28 miles and it's 60 highway 40 city and I have a sc so it's easier to hit boost lol

long as you're not in it you'll have decent MPG i drove from NJ to NH and got 350-360 miles for the tank and i raced a few people lol and was boosting alot just for fun lol

 

yeah I had gotten some real nice mileage when I was turbo'd, not so much on the built motor though w/the ported head and whatnot. I also was running a big turbo that didn't really start to spool until 2500 rpm though

 

when my 2.4 was supercharged i got way better gas milage then when it was stock, wierd lol