Add shipping onto that and you've nearly got what I paid for my entire car...

 

My car is being sponsored by DSG Performance, so ill be paying a fraction of the cost. But thats just approx numbers without shipping or anything.

 

Owners Manual, that thing is at least a pound. Go on a diet (totally applies to me!)
Weight also helps w/gas mileage guys, it's not just for speed. "An extra 100 pounds in your vehicle could reduce your MPG by up to 2 percent." Seems to be the numbers floating around the internet. I think less weight is always an advantage unless you're driving in snow, or ramming something right?

 

i tried to use the gas mileage excuse when i was trying to justify the money on weight reduction mods to my ex when we were together. Now ill just do it..lol.

 

Other simple mods us Cobalts, or anyone, can do that will affect weight: Cat delete, muffler delete, and high rise delete. Most people just do those for looks and performance, but they reduce weight as well.

 

Look at all the weight and cash you saved by dropping the ex

 

I prefer to ram something that has a weight reduction to it I dont ram fat chicks

 

I know, i already took the passenger foot pegs and seat off my bike. Dropped over 5lbs right there..lol.

 

dont forget the extra helmet

 

She took her helmet, jacket, pants and gloves with her. Not sure why, she doesnt have a bike. She doesnt even have a drivers licence.

 

Pop the rear seat off at the track so ur buddies can seat on it while u smoke the civics
O and also use nitrogen air on tires instead of regular air... And u might want to pump less gas in ur tank than usual...

 

cobalts werent made for drag racing, yet says the guy that goes and runs at the drag strip with his cobalt

and who are you to say cobalts arent meant for anything ? there meant for what ever each owners feels like doing with them.

 

I agree. I dont really understand how a cobalt is made for corners...lol. Not saying it cant take corners but its no more made for corners then it is for the drag strip.

 

Oh gawd...

Nurbergring, nuff said on that topic.

Sure you could drop $8400 and save 200 pounds.. that equates to 2-4 tenths in the 1/4 mile which you could gain from ONE bolt on and less than a grand. Seems silly considerind that is the price of a used ss/sc. Too each their own though right.

I have sigs turned off and didn't see the OP was already fully bolted and turbo swapped. My apologies, you cobalt kids jump on opinions faster than fat chicks on skinny black guys.

and Kdub, sorry was talking 1993/02 f-bodies, the new ones are piggish. Everyone knows old ls1 camaros are capable of low high 11's with just slicks and cam.. for a lot less than %8400 including the cost of car.

 

True on the 02 fbodies ive seen it! Or maybe its was 12s...

 

Ok you do realise what i posted up is parts that you can do after pulling out jack/tire and **** like that. You can rip out probably another 100-200lbs out of the car for free. As well as in the case of the OP, with bolt-ons and turbo, what else is left to do to make him go faster? weight reduction!

Like i said in my first post on this thread. If you are going to be DD the car and not setting it up for track then do the basic **** like removing **** from the car. ~100-200lbs (depending how far to you go for free). In the case of my Evo, its being set up for the track. Since my engine and turbo kit is costing me about 16k, i wont be putting in the cage until next year. So until then im doing everything i listed over the next year or so to get my car under 3000lbs.

Oh and just because a cobalt ran on the ring, doesnt make it a car for corners lmao. I've seen videos of smart cars on the ring, does that make it a car ment for corners?

 

The biggest crime in this thread has to be you both misspelling Nürburgring.


lel

 

well for one the smart car didn't roll off the factory floor to be a performance automobile in any regard. if the cobalt ss wasn't designed to handle good then it wouldn't be beating cars that ARE meant to take corners on the ring and GM performance division wouldn't have wasted tonnes of money and time tuning the suspension on the nurburgring.

there is no rule saying that FWD cars can't be fast in a straight line. who cares which wheels drive it? any car can take corners or do the drag strip. anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.


not ever car given a RWD setup is meant to hit the drag strip... there are plenty of fast FWD cars in the 1/4 regardless of the advantage RWD has over FWD.

that's like saying 4 cylinders aren't meant to go fast because they have half the cylinders of a V8 and don't have the same power potential..

 

What im saying is GM did not build the cobalt for corners, GM did not build it for drag. Its a general purpose car. It doesnt have a dedicated purpose. Take the evo for example, whats its main purpose? Rallyx. But it can also take the corners for time attack and even though it wasnt ment for drag racing, it still can. The cobalt was never given a dedicated type of racing for it to show its performance.

 

[QUOTE=Cobalt_Daddy;6907708]well for one the smart car didn't roll off the factory floor to be a performance automobile in any regard. if the cobalt ss wasn't designed to handle good then it wouldn't be beating cars that ARE meant to take corners on the ring and GM performance division wouldn't have wasted tonnes of money and time tuning the suspension on the nurburgring.

there is no rule saying that FWD cars can't be fast in a straight line. who cares which wheels drive it? any car can take corners or do the drag strip. anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.


not ever car given a RWD setup is meant to hit the drag strip... there are plenty of fast FWD cars in the 1/4 regardless of the advantage RWD has over FWD.

that's like saying 4 cylinders aren't meant to go fast because they have half the cylinders of a V8 and don't have the same power potential..[/QUOTE]




I hear this one all the time

 

I'm gutted with corbeau seats (stupid light) and a 4 point roll bar. Made a huge difference.

 

Because racecar!

 

yes the cobalt base wasn't designed for cornering or going fast but the SS was.. hence why GM tuned it on a world renowned benchmark track and boosted it's HP giving it the ability to run the 1/4 mile just as quick as cars that were designed for straight line performance like the camaro and mustang. you can't honestly sit here and tell me a base model lancer was designed for rallyx.. the evo is a base lancer modified for that purpose.. just like the base model cobalt was modified to give a balance of performance in all aspects. if the EVo isn't designed for but can drag race and do road courses decently, then why can't the cobalt do it if it can do it just as well?

i don't remember GM saying this car wasn't meant to go in a straight line quickly or take corners. i have the original sales flyer that came with the car and im pretty sure it's straight line performance and handling were both mentioned in the cars performance highlights. the evo and STI are shitty cars for roll racing at higher speeds unless they are built due to the AWD drivetrain loss and extra weight... does that mean that people shouldn't roll race these cars?

no..

 

thats not really gutted, thats more like removing the rear seats. lol.

 

I never mentioned anything about comparing base to top model. lol. I think you are taking what i said with a grain of salt. I'm not downing the cobalt at all. All im saying is the cobalt was never designed for one time of racing. Its a general purpose car. Where as a car like the evo is more directed at RallyX/Time Attack.