Bought mine, 2007 Red Colbalt SS

 

TurboXs charge pipes and plasti dipped and cleared the center of my front bow tie

 

Made a shift boot. Came out decent.

 

Did a leakdown test 10-12% across the board with 170k hard miles. was thinking about doing head and cams (top end rebuild)but didn't want to do it on wore out bottom end. time to start saving and sweet talking the wife. lol

 

What did you make it out of? I'm trying to come up with something unique myself.

 

I used suede and some regular black fabric.

 

It's not completely done yet. I'm going to do something different with the top of it

 

How did u make out with the e-brake?

 

About that...well on Tuesday it came in and they sent me a damn manual shift knob instead. So I sent it back and I have to wait until they get it back before they can send me the corret one.

 

Start porting and polishing my head =) coming quite nicely

 

^pics or didn't happen

 

Just paid $200 to get my steering fixed again after having the recall done just over a year ago. Not happy!

 

Oh yeah for sure. Im at work. Will be posting soon as I get home. Stay tuned =)

 

 

Intake side. Still havent cut the ridges out of the port side yet

 

before and after cleaning it up. Purple power does magic =)

 

I got tired of clunks, squeaks and vibrations and ordered pretty much everything to R&R the front suspension on the car.

Went ahead and took it apart today. CV axles have a ton of rotational play in them, and the boots were dry rotted & holed on the drivers side. TCAB's were totally shot as usual too, almost completely separated from the CA. Sway bar end links are all dry rotted, but the sway bar bushings themselves seem to be in good shape.

I'm also going to go ahead and replace the inner/outer tie rods since I'm here, what the hell.

The struts actually seem OK, the bearings are smooth and the bushings look OK. I would like to replace them, but its money I can't spare right now so I'll do that in a couple months.

Cleaned the wheel wells throughly too while I'm here.

Transaxle fluid looks like ****, lifetime fill my ass... glad to be replacing that.

Car looks like a beached whale

 

Started my retrofits, 3" FX-R projectors with Panamera shrouds.

 

Here's the finished product of the shift boot I made and my new shift knob.

 

the last week i spent putting my car back together.. tore it apart thinking i had a blown engine, turned out to just be warped head...added zzp long tube header and 2.5" catless DP and replaced all gaskets. Just got it up and running yesterday

 

Finished tuning for the TVS

 

Looks good, going to flow bench it?

 

Had my Turbo XS catted dp and RL catback installed this afternoon, cars sounds f'n awesome now.

 

Took out my MAPs to clean with electrical cleaner since I've had issues with the lower MAP every time it rains/high humidity.
Took them out and realized only the MAP on the intake mani had the blue o-ring (which is what the GMS1 sensors should have), which explains why every time it rains, the lower MAP will mess up and make me go in/out of boost randomly, throwing a CEL, and some times putting it in limp mode. The green o-ring is smaller so it explains why water would get in there.
So happy I got it fixed!

 

Filled spoiler holes with fiberglass. Body fill, painting, and clear will come Wednesday and Thursday