Just have to attach all hoses and electrical thingys

im pullin an all nighter

I will say this now putting an engine in the cobalt by yourself is a true bitch


Mounting the tranny back to the block and aligning the slave cylander into the pressure plate is a joke and that tranny weights a good 250 so holding it wasnt fun



I reccomend anyone that does this have at least 3 individuals to help with reinstall dont do it solo like i just did

I dropped the tranny on my foot in the process

 

U sir are a true Cobalt fan! I give mad props to you as I will be doing this exact build in the next two weeks! lol

 

dude get lots of redbull and you as i have will take up smoking from stress

yes this thing has driven me to smoke

its nuts

 

congrats on being a true cobalt enthusiast.

 

Haha yea I already smoke trying to quit but I have some help. my gf's uncle and two cousins build race cars in Illinois and they are going to help me out. Her cousin has a lift in his pole barn at his house so I have access to everything I need. They said they would even hone the cylinders and everything for me. So Im pretty excited I wont have to do this by myself in my garage!

 

replace cylander sleeves trust me

 

Great job bro. sounds liek your havin alot of fun lol. let us kno how it runs when you take it out for a drive. I kno your feeling so happy right now. lol. i would be.

 

so when are you gonna start her up?

 

its 50 / 50

im happy it will be done very soon yet i just looked at my credit card bill....

 

i hope to fire her up around 7 am when my buddie gets here to help me preliminarly tune it

im gonna try to tune it so i can drive it safely for 3-5 days to break stuff in

then ill play some more

 

lol...now i found your thread. know what you are doing now

 

I hope your foot is ok, I'm sure it will be well worth the pain in the end. Specially if your going to have well over 300hps and 250torq...Keep up the hard work.

 

dude after reading all your threads lately, and the enthusiasm you have for this....I truely hope it fires up and pulls ******* hard.

I hope your pour down 340hp on the dyno and it runs strong for a long time.

Your an inspiration for the rest of us who are to broke or to scared to let go of the warranty (me) lol

keep posting. your car is gonna be idolised soon hehe.

 

you have got alot of ***** man no way i would pull this task i would have my friends shop do it for me lol

 

I dont trust shops, i might not be the best machanic but i know i do **** right even when i know im right i double check it

ive double and tripple checked everything i only have one possible problem but we wont go into that

Dont worry im broke to

 

Yeah I'd quad-check everything

It would suck sooooo bad if you fired that bitch up, and something went wrong

 

next time call me! i' woulda helped you out... well let me know how it goes!

 

right on man

well imnot to worried i know timing is dead on we spent 6 hours on it and redid it 3 times and all three times were correct we rotated the crank by hand 10 times to make sure also

so honestly i dont see anything major that can **** up maybe just a wrong wire or some cels lol

 

You have put a ton of time effort and money into this project. We at CPP are waiting for you to fire that thing up and show some decent numbers. Hopefully scare the **** out of a few people when you blow by them.

 

Hey you guys know I love you best customer service out of any vendor on this board and look at that the one I ordered most of the parts from lol

 

great job man, u truly dedicated

 

awesome man! Can't wait to see what this beast can do!

 

Dude that tranny weighs like 75lbs. Lol. Lining it up ain't no thing. Why is it that everyone just decided to build the **** out of their LSJs in the past month? I thought I was going alone on that one right now.

 

Blown ring lands tend to inspire people to upgrade internals.

I just thought of this, while you had it out you should have swapped to the Neutral balance shafts. I heard that with the stock balance shafts the crank can't handle much more than 370 at the crank. A Red Line guy already snapped his crank at 7800rpm because he didn't swap the balance shafts. He dynoed 425 at the wheels but admits the dyno wasn't accurate.

 

That RedLine guy also beats the snot out of his car on a daily basis. Who is to say he didn't damage the crank prior to that build from detonation or something like him revving to 7800 rpm and this extra power added to it and broke the bitch. GM says the crank is good to like 550. I'd stick with that estimate.