With only a 100 shot, not touching the rest of the car, you will not hit 13's.
If you will get: stage 2 clutch, stiffer springs, lower it maybe, an intake, an exhaust, and reduce your weight to under 2900lbs including driver, then you may look at a 13.9-13.7. Drag slicks would go a long way too.

Try it stock, but you won't get where you want to. If you are assuming some support mods with this 100 shot then it may be more realistc. And even so your engine will not take too many runs on a 100shot before pop, there goes the rod.

 

I dont know dick about the car your speaking of. But on the springs comment, he would be better off with his stock springs. Lowering springs with a stiffer rate are only going to hurt your 1\4 mile times. As far as the car running this or this at the track I have no idea about those things so best luck to ya bro.

 

Lowering springs actually do help 0-60 and 1/4 mile times in FWD cars. This is because, with a shorter spring there is less spring travel so when you hit the gas, the car can not 'squat-down' on its rear springs thus creating less weight transfer off the front driving wheels and onto the back wheels. If your car is RWD or even mid engine, you would want soft springs to get all the weight on your rear drive wheels.

 

well I won't be making runs on stock tires. It will be on drag radials. And mods will include intake, maybe ignition mods, 100 shot wet, and maybe eibach pro kit springs. Gotta love leased vehicles

 

Nitrous on a lease, "they not gonna like you". (props to anyone who knows where that lyric comes from)

 

its probably 50cent or something

 

^ ^ ^ wow, actually yeah. PROPS.

 

Finally found some specs on my car: (well closest I could find to my car, I have a base w/o abs)

Chevrolet Cobalt LS - I4 2.2L (145 hp) M5 + ABS
0-60: 8.17 sec.
Quarter: 16.37 sec.
Speed: 87.60 mph.

If thats correct, no chance in hell at 13's lol. I thought I read somewhere it did the quarter in 15 seconds.

Time to pull out the GTech Pro. I think I can hit 60 at least quicker then that. Maybe not though.

 

come on... you CAN ALWAYS get it faster... for free too! I can never find the links when I want to... damn it... Well, they stripped (I wana say a civic) down to just the frame, engine and wheels... and got it down into like the 10's or 11's... BONE STOCK!!! ANYTHING is possible... It's just a matter of how far you want to take it, and the $$$ you are willing to spend... Face it, if you want a FAST 1/4 mile car, go get RWD or 4WD or AWD... trying to make a FWD fast is like trying to teach an eldery person to race in Nascar... Yes, it can be done, and there is some accomplishment in doing it, but you need to realize that you are limited from the start by simple physics (well, not so simple, but...)...

*No offense to anyone who prefers FWD, it's just for straight line acceleration, it is proven inferior...

 

well yeah I am not a fan of fwd anything. But not much of a choice with this car. My next one will be rwd at least.

 

All very true, but whats more impressive to watch?

a 2002 Camaro SS running the 1/4 mile at 13.10

OR

a 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP running a 12.98 beside it and winning (I have watched it many times, and a 11.98 second Grand Prix GT with turbo)

I think lining up my SS S/C agains some older 5.0L 'stangs and beating them will be fun.

 

I know of a 02 transam on stock 17'' ws6 rims that is preety quick.

 

True, true... But what is more impressive, a $400,000 civic running an 8 second 1/4, or a Ford Pinto running a 7 second pass. With its rusted exterior, not looking like anything.

At the local track, I saw a guy with a beat up Pinto that put a super charged 502 into it... Kept the outside COMPLETLY stock and rusted... Man could that thing fly... Just don't get rear-ended

 

Yeah, this is kinda the same point I was trying to get across. You should the looks on guys faces when a 4 door family sedan (GTP) smokes them at the track. My friend keeps it completly stock, right down to the stock rims, just to trick and embarress people at the track.

 

Haha. Nice. As a beater? Why do you care about the 1/4 mile if it'll be a beater when you've TransAm?

 

89-92 Quad 4 HO had 180, 93 had 175, and 94's were 170 due to increased emissions resrictions.
91-93 Quad 4 W41 had 190, and a 7400rpm redline. A rare find only in select 1991 Oldsmobile Calais 442's and 92-93 Oldsmobile Achieva SCX's both identified by the W41 stickers on the front fenders.
Not too bad for a NA four cylinder, especially in 1989.
Stay away from 95 Quad 4's

 

damn---your as smart as me!! Don't know anyone besides me that knows these tidbits. Yes for the day it was a kick-ass engine. I often read of prototypes with turbos or S/C but it never materialized.


Just to correct MikeSS---the SOHC version of the Qaud 4 had 8 valves and was called the Quad OHC. It was either 115hp or 120hp. Only around for a short time--maybe 2 years.

When the Quad 4 came out it was 150hp. A couple of years later it was 160hp

 

My buddy had a '91ish Grand Am sedan with the Quad 4 and automatic.
The thing was able to chirp second gear pretty easy. Not too shabby!

 

for a Cobalt LS
0-60Mph= 8.17s
1/4 Mile time= 16.37s
1/4 Mile Speed= 87.60mph

 

i read 0-60=8.6
1/4= 16.6

um, i hope it runs low 16's... hmm..

 

Go to a post in the Cobalt Forum called Timeslips. I just ran the 1/4 2 days ago.

 

Hey guys, I'm new here. Long time fan of Chevy and also a Saturn guy. I'm getting a bunch of people down to Atco Raceway in Atco, NJ on Friday June 3 if anyone wants to come down and surprise some people. Several of the SS/SC sister cars, the ION RL, should be making an appearance. I currently own a Saturn SC2 w/ just an intake and exhaust and am running low 16 second passes, so if some of you non-supercharged guys want to come down and get a good race in, I'm fair game. I'm looking to trade up to the ION RL. Sorry guys, but if I'm gonna buy a bowtie, it has to have Z06 in the name (never know, maybe I'll get both the RL and SS/SC). Again the date is this coming Friday June 3 at Atco Raceway. Looking forward to seeing a few Cobalts there.

 

Is anyone going to Atco this Friday? It's been like 2 days and not a word.