What Have You Done To Your Cobalt Today?
04-24-2013, 07:04 PM
#2577
Simple answer: Arear bar on a car helps keep the front wheels on the ground. Front bar helps the rear wheels stay on the ground.
On a FWD car picking up the inside front wheel is an issue in corners. Any FWD car can really only understeer as it is not possible to modulate the gas pedal like in a RWD car to change rear tire slip angles.
BUT if you increase the rear roll stiffness and you change the roll center ( which our bars in fact do both the way they are designed and mounted) then you can keep the front wheels well planted in corners, and the rear stiffness will help the car rotate when turning into the corner. More stiff rear bar, more turn in .
so all good. Unless you drop the throttle suddenly when turning in and the sudden wt transfer may create serious oversteer with the xXx. In this case the solution is to "get back on it" and accelerate.
all good.
On a FWD car picking up the inside front wheel is an issue in corners. Any FWD car can really only understeer as it is not possible to modulate the gas pedal like in a RWD car to change rear tire slip angles.
BUT if you increase the rear roll stiffness and you change the roll center ( which our bars in fact do both the way they are designed and mounted) then you can keep the front wheels well planted in corners, and the rear stiffness will help the car rotate when turning into the corner. More stiff rear bar, more turn in .
so all good. Unless you drop the throttle suddenly when turning in and the sudden wt transfer may create serious oversteer with the xXx. In this case the solution is to "get back on it" and accelerate.
all good.
04-24-2013, 07:19 PM
#2579
Yeah I dont know. it just wouldn't fit on there. kept oozing out and i didnt get it done.
04-25-2013, 03:53 PM
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Did you buy that from apicia on here? Looks just like his car.
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/comp...-miles-293944/
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/comp...-miles-293944/
04-25-2013, 04:11 PM
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Did you buy that from apicia on here? Looks just like his car.
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/comp...-miles-293944/
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/comp...-miles-293944/
04-25-2013, 08:18 PM
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on a side note i put my my summer tires on,took storage insurance off of it and drove it around my neighborhood. felt good.
going from my 94 saturn with no power steering,sloppy vagina shifter and so many noises. it felt damn good driving it.
saturday i'm picking up my retros and cleaning the hell out of it. spring is finally here!
04-25-2013, 10:09 PM
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Plasti-dipped my grill crossbar, and evo mod...
Got bored and pulled my retrofits apart and plastidipped those...
And then did my grandsport stripes...
And did this to my buddys Ion, dipped grill, lights and fender stripes.
Got bored and pulled my retrofits apart and plastidipped those...
And then did my grandsport stripes...
And did this to my buddys Ion, dipped grill, lights and fender stripes.
04-25-2013, 10:44 PM
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I would love to but I'm scheduled to work that weekend plus It's my first stick ever. I wanna get absolutely perfect at driving this thing before I take it any distance. Today was the first day but I can get it moving pretty good, stalled quite a few times at first though. Slowly but surely improving. Worse thing that happened was too much gas on a hill and spinning tire. I'm so worried about breaking something it's ridiculous haha
04-27-2013, 09:03 AM
#2598
Great looking wheels their Jason can't wait to see them in person. And as far as what I have dinero my cobalt lately well it would be my turbo swap I just finished. Precision PT5558, custom Hahn turbo manifold, 40mm CompGate wastegate, TTR Intake manifold, Hahn intercooler and piping, 40mm dumptube, 3in Hahn downpipe, 80# injectors, 3in Hahn intake
