Not a Cobalt, but still fun to see. Finally hit the track with the new big turbo e85 setup. Owned the car for 11 years and it's finally in the 10's. Currently the fastest/quickest SRT in AZ until someone else steps up.

 

Damn man your car is fast. Good job!!!!

 

and if you get your 60ft down. even better, I see more potential with that mph

 

To me that's a fast neon, congrats man

 

Thanks guys. And yeah, it has full boost in 1st which is way too harsh. Just spins and makes it hard to grab 2nd gear. Tweak the 2-step and boost and it should work better. Just gotta be careful as this is the only local track, and it's a strict NHRA one. I got kicked out on that pass, after making 3 previous test passes on the brakes so they wouldn't get upset.

 

Why would they get upset?

 

sweet thats a nice skittle whats the rest of the setup consist of

eddie you must meet certain safety criteria based on your trap speed and or et i cant remember the details though

 

Yeah i dont know much about drag racing never been to one lol

 

Anything below 11.5 needs a certified roll bar (i forget how many points on it, 6?). As well as a fire jacket (just got one, good there). Possibly belts too. Things start to get extreme down there. Drop below 10 seconds and it gets really nuts and expensive. I don't plan to cage my car as it would most likely ruin the nice interior and make the back seats unusable

As for the setup. It's a twinscroll log manifold with a pte5858 on e85. Fully built motor.

 

Ohh that makes sense. Well still a sick car

 

Congrats man thats impressive. I want it lol

Its really surprising to me that youre still making more torque than horsepower at that power level

 

very nice
thats a fast car period
how does it act on the street?

 

I think it's the race head combined with the twinscroll mani. It spools extremely fast right at 4k causing a bit of a torque spike still. Anything bigger than this would probably make less torque than hp.

I cant run the track tune on the street. 3rd gear blows the tires off, even when i'm running very sticky 235/60/15 drag radials. I actually have a street tune that ramps 3rd gear from about 430hp up to 540hp at the end of the gear. It works surprisingly well.

 

What you using for tuning?

 

Emailed tunes for Diablosport.

 

Work on your 1/8mile most of the time to get your 60' down and make a pass ***** to the wall and leave with the middle finger up

 

Awesome man congrats!

NHRA regulations always crack me up. You can't race your street car here unless you meet all our demands! Then they toss you, so where exactly do they think you are going to race after that?

 

NHRA regulations do seem kinda bogus, but iirc it's a liability thing;
i personally would like to see the rule relaxed for 100% street cars;
IIRC the 2013-2014 is headers and slicks away from being a ten second car...
With the Hellcats becoming more commonplace, you might expect to see that many more street cars in what used to be full-on-drag car territory...

@ OP - congrats!
That is seriously awesome!

 

They did update the rules a few years ago to encompass the ever increasing speed of stock cars. "Unaltered" vehicles 2008 and newer are allowed to run as low as 10.0 and 135mph i think. Something along those lines. Neons are not exempt though

 

oh?

I did not know that.

Well, I'm sure some pre-2008 Super Snakes are knocking on the 10's in full street trim...
Maybe you will get grandfathered into this revision ~ I think the key should be that it's a street car - as opposed to a gutted "streetable" car.

 

I remember when NicD's Camaro ran some ungodly low time there on his low boost setting. I can't remember if he was in the 8's or what. They kicked him out because he needed a parachute, etc and it's not like he was going to go toss that on a street car.

But the freeways are always open.....if you don't get caught.

 

Just saw this now, very nice work! It would be cool to check your car out next time I'm down there this fall. Seems like a very well put together and thought out setup.

I can see why you spin 3rd with how the tq comes on. My car hooks 3rd on the street 90% of the time on 245/40/17 R888's with stiff rear suspension, but my tq is nowhere near my hp. 625whp/530wtq is the highest I've ran it on the street.

 

I've seen you out at 51st and Bell. I think I saw you yesterday on 59th driving by too. I'll try to stop by your car next time I see you to say hi.

 

OP - very nice... thing hauls