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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 03:38 PM
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congrats buddy,
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 03:38 PM
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im done. Good for another year, and i got the best news of all for christmas, that im going to be dad in 2011!!
Congrats man!

When should we expect our cigars .

Joel
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 03:58 PM
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congrats buddy! Hope everyone has a great xmas! I'm hopin for some stuff for my car!
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 04:43 PM
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congrats tjay...... thats awsome!!!!!! when is she due???? i better see a cigar at least!!!!!!!!!! lol
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 07:44 PM
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june, and there will be some cigars
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 09:38 PM
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So car my car back from the shop today, It cost a little more then I anticipated. My exedy clutch is wicked, Grabs really HARD! actually so hard that I stalled it 3x's on my way home hahaha
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Old Dec 20, 2010 | 09:42 PM
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So car my car back from the shop today, It cost a little more then I anticipated. My exedy clutch is wicked, Grabs really HARD! actually so hard that I stalled it 3x's on my way home hahaha
congrats!

one of my little qualms with our cars (or at least mine) is the fact that you cannot feel where the clutch starts & stops engagement... every other car I've had or driven, you could feel where the points were in your clutch pedal travel...
I know this is why I occasionally goober a shift... I don't exactly granny shift the car too often... I mean, where's the fun in that!?!
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Old Dec 21, 2010 | 09:50 AM
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nice congrats to all!!!!!!

actually i happen to like the clutch that is in the car..... could be better but it also could be worse..... i am sure a stg 3 would be better...
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Old Dec 21, 2010 | 11:01 AM
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@ Jr;

What I'm talking about would actually be the complete elimination of the infamout "missed 2nd shift" - on every other car I had you could push the limits, but you could clearly feel the point where your pedal was actuating the clutch...
All I'm saying is that the pedal feels no different (to me) from right up top till fully depressed...

I'm used to it, but it did take an adjustment period for me.

...

actually a thought just occurred to me;

@ CalgaryBalt;

Does the new clutch have a different pedal feel?
>>Can you feel where it starts & stops engagement??
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Old Dec 21, 2010 | 11:45 AM
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when i goober my shift to second i believe i am trying to force to much with too much gas going into releasing the clutch.... i think honestly it can be improved but really is there such a perfect clutch out there?
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Old Dec 21, 2010 | 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by jrmotosports 88
... i think honestly it can be improved but really is there such a perfect clutch out there?
sure there is;

just about everything Detroit cranked out from about 1964-1974 that was behind a 300+hp V8



yup, I'm biased;
I like the mechanical linkage, because if you take the time to fine tune a musclcar's shifter setup, often it's bullet proof...
I believe the cables tat all cars of late have are the culprit behind shifting issues, the cables bind/ flex/ move... and it doesn't take much for it to be screwed up...
but critics these days wouldn't like those setup's they complain about a "notchy" feeling shifter ~ crap, what they call notchy, I call solid.
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Old Dec 21, 2010 | 01:50 PM
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we actually wore out a exedy disk....but the chromoly flywheel looks good and the pressure plate isnt wore too bad. guess ill get em machined up and order a new disk...just in case.
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Old Dec 21, 2010 | 08:46 PM
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i like my clutch, it definatly engages and engages hard. But that is what i want once o drop drag radials onto it this year. im chasing mid 12's this year.
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Old Dec 21, 2010 | 08:48 PM
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btw i posted but obviously it didnt work before

Thank you everyone for the congrats
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 09:49 AM
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do you know what your having? or are you keeping it a surprise? she is due in june? hahahaha exciting times man, enjoy!!!!!!!!!
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jrmotosports 88
do you know what your having? or are you keeping it a surprise? she is due in june? hahahaha exciting times man, enjoy!!!!!!!!!
keeping it a surprise. And yes June
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 05:07 PM
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congrats tjay hope you all have a great christmas i only know that i am getting winter classic tickets seeing as i had to tell my mom the ticketmaster password lol and good seeing you yesterday jon its been a while since i had seen a clean cobalt lol
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by kissrocker52
... and good seeing you yesterday jon its been a while since i had seen a clean cobalt lol
I was surprised that the mall wasn't that bad...

Yeah that trickery on the bottom of your rear bumper got me, hook, line, and sinker.



was that contrived between you & mark?
-I instinctively look (when at a distance from any CSS) at the rea lower bumper - passenger side;
I saw grille type material there, and (probably becasue I was driving) didn't look any further...

after you turned off to park, I saw a silver SS/na leaving the parking lot, then a blue SS/SC coming in off McLeod, then another SS/na after paying my insurance...
That was (besides my car of course) four CSS's whith in a couple minutes...

got part of a gift done... but I think I'm going to head up to rocket(?; on 17th) thursday...

then I got to wrap...
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 10:18 PM
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hey jon. do you still have access to cam specs and such for the 2.4's
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by outtamymind
hey jon. do you still have access to cam specs and such for the 2.4's
they're not really in depth, but yeah I got them here somewhere...

lemme find them...
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 11:35 PM
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ok cool. i need a ton more info but thats where i need to start lol. finding spec's for the 2.4's is hard to do. in my travels figured out that the valve springs are the same across all motors from factory
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 11:59 PM
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here's three sources which cite the same info (no lobe centerline, and no installed 'straight up' info - and it's all in metric.);

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-0l...-sheet-127726/

http://www.crateenginedepot.com/store/PDFS/ECS.pdf

GMTunerSource.com - ECOtec Tech Topics
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Old Dec 23, 2010 | 12:31 AM
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ya i already have all the info. i need to know what the info in imperial is for the software the data is going into
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Old Dec 23, 2010 | 02:28 AM
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oh - that's a straight conversion;

Millimeters to Inches (mm to inches) conversion calculator
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Old Dec 23, 2010 | 03:27 AM
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@ CalgaryBalt;

Does the new clutch have a different pedal feel?
>>Can you feel where it starts & stops engagement??
Ya the Clutch is alot heavier then the stock one, and has a good feel to it, Its just very surprising when it engages as you are expecting a dinky little engagment like on the stock but BANG it grabs really hard.
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