Yep Winterpeg is colder.

Also with a block heater keeping the coolant warmer allows the engine to warm up faster therefore producing heat for the cabin faster, and also allowing you to not have to run the car longer then necessary hence saving fuel and emissions! A block heater sure helps when it is down near -40 before windchill.

 

First off, last winter here was on average milder than normal - but averages don't tell it right;
When you average you takes highs/low and divide by days - I clearly said that we get temperature fluctuation, which you seemed to have missed.

Some peopel prefer your winters because the body adjusts to the cold, and it stays there;
around here we will never see the snow accumulation that you do, because we go through a cold-snow-warm-cold cycle which sees the snow regularly melt... which is also why we deal with more ice than you do.

I was born in Winnipeg, and have lived there at two separate points during my life;
Half of my extended family still lives there;
I am well aware of how cold it gets, and differences between here & there... like how we don't have any gun-slinging ninja bicycle riders around here

Wind chill only affects living beings - not cars.

I ever posted saying that block heaters ect were useless, but my recent post was merely trying to offer that you probably could get away w/o one...

I posted trying to help - I don't only lurk in the Winnipeg thread because the Calgary guys don't like me...

 

Wtf? Thats wierd lol. With this cold weather you must be makin lots of powa!

 

sounds as accurate as walls dyno

 

Mike- glad to hear the guage works nice. Did you screw it in or 2 side tape it? It really is a nice pod and will set off the interior. And that 490 whp isn't a mistake, the interceptor has a built in hydrogen based flux capacitor that gives you all that power on demand. Teehee.

As for all this oil pan heater talk, is it really necessary to have one? My Balt seen one winter and i never plugged it in. Started every time no problem. She threw out heat quick too. It is synthetic oil after all... Just my 2 cents

 

Lol well if that bastard would get back into town soon i could still redyno before the snow flies

 

i blow my load on girls faces from 15 ft away more accurately then walls dyno

 

Well apparently it's recalibrated. He did a before and after with a cobalt he borrowed from vickars and it was a 36whp difference. So he said he would give me a free dyno session. If it was that far out i think it's gonna be pretty close to motions now i think.

 

go take your oil and try and pour it at -40. it will be like pouring tar out of a bottle. now think how long it would take for this tar oil to flow through all the passages in the bolck and start lubricating your rotating assembly. I would be a lot more concerned about the viscosity of my oil at -40 than my coolant freezing.

They make coolant hydromoters to check and prevent your coolant from freeezing.

 

I can see why

I'm kidding, but all joking aside....all I want is a damn block heater or oil pan heater. There's no doubt in my mind it will start all winter, and if it doesn't - thats what GM Roadside is for!

Anybody have a remote start installed in theirs?

 

Most synthetic oils are rated to -35 and -58f before they get viscous

 

Ya No **** eh? too funny. Tried it again last night and it hit 535 hp almost crashed from laughing so hard.

 

This one I know because of having been in the industry years ago;

most auto starters are not setup to work with m/t cars becasue there's no way of verifying that it's not in a drive gear - but I've understood that you can have an autostarter installed in a MT car...

to have one installed in your car, you're either going to give up your spare key, or have a spare made, which will be "sacrificed" for the auto starter to work - but doing so effectievely disables your anti theft;
the reason why I say this is that either the whole key, or the part of the key with the chip in it needs to be mounted as close as possible to the actual ignition lock cylinder to "fool" the anti-theft into thinking that it's ok to start.

I don't know if GM offers any kind of remote start that doesn't require a key be sacrificed, or if the aftermarket has gotten to the point where sacrificing a key is no longer needed... but there would have to be some kind of "fix".

I hope this helps you some.

Please post up on if you do install either a coolant or oil heater - and which brand/where you bought it from - as I for one am interested.

 

there is a vehicle weight calibration. enter your correct weight.

 

the weight must be calibrated at 7400lbs lol.

 

These are cheap:

cobalt ss winter tires and rims - Winnipeg Tires, Rims For Sale - Kijiji Winnipeg Canada.

 

those are the G6 steel rally wheels.

I have seen them on several non-LNF cobalts - but they will not fit LNF cobalts without a brake swap.

 

cool thanks gonna give em a call

 

Got them for 160

 

Now you need 2 summer tires lol

 

Smokin deal!

 

st3 i saw you driving down keewaitin today

 

wow creep much?

 

i was heading the other way to work.

******

 

So are most of you guys gonna drive your cobalts this winter?