that last one was a blast. not many showed up and it was still fun. can't wait until saturday.

 

change me to Fishers

I'll be living in Indy again in two months hopefully....I hop from one city to the next

 

so who all is going thus far?

I still plan on being there

do we need to bring food, drinks, or chairs?

 

Hey I Live In The Franklin/greenwood Area...i Would Love To Come Hang Out With You Guys..let Me Know When Are Where.....

 

yeah chairs are a good idea! Maybe we can all chip in on a few pizzas, I'm sure I can find some coupons.

 

i will be there with cobalt07ss too...

 

so far how many is that? and did you say chairs? i'll ask the misses where ours are. i have a few. just have to find them. and pizza sounds awesome. if ever in doubt pizza is the way to go.

 

well my car is down for the count! since Im texting from my cell phone I can sum it up with 5 words...cobra heat exchanger epic fail! Hopefully she will be fixed tonight, if not Im screwed

 

can i get someones number that is planing this meet? so that when i leave i can get ahold of someone if i where to get lost. i will be going down with cobaltstg2.

 

well i think that cobaltstg2 is getting tuned so are you gonna go with him to that? and if so i will probably be there also so you guys can just follow me if you want. or just pm me and i'll give you my number.

 

I live in indy. tell me where everyone is meeting and when. stock but would love to come and play.

 

where at in indy? we are meeting at prozac's house. pm him for directions. if your close to me or someone else you could follow them there or just go on your own.

 

I have prozak's number still

if you need mine I'll gladly PM it

just to let you know.....I get lost pretty damn easy

 

After 2 days of hell the cars gods smiled today and blessed my cobalt with...



I went through hell just to get this cobra heat exchanger ... first a bid war on ebay for a week.... won the the h/e for $91 shipped, but the seller had two parts for sell and sent me someone else's ****! So that took about a month to fix and with the other parts I had to buy to make this happen totaled about $160


So with the help of my good friend Dave, we started to install this BEAST!!








just to give you a rough idea of the hell we went through.. and yes removing the fascia has to be done!!

Heat exchanger mounted:


This were things got a little scary... with the fascia removed we thought that we could use the stock heat exchanger as a bleed off...



well we found out the hard way that GM loctites the aluminum screw that they put in the stock h/e..... which means our night was done

the next day Dave gets a tap set and recut the threads in both the h/e and stock screw...
luckily the screw set perfectly with no leaks!!!

with the system bleed off we had the joy of putting the fascia back on with just enough clearance





popped my lower grill back in.. you will never see the h/e

 

I wish I had that lower grille....I probably could have kept my H/E w/o worries

oh well, I don't really plan to mod this one like crazy

 

how hard was the install total cause i plan on doing this next weekend

 

I would say its pretty damn difficult! Way beyond anything I could have done without my friends. I noticed on the way home that the car was running aroun 178-183 .. about 2 degress cooler for my car.

Test time will be tues night at orp

 

that seems high. my car the setup that i have right now doesn't get above 180 unless i'm at a stoplight and it might go to about 185-188. but its usually around 177-179 while cruising down the road.

 

my car usually runs pretty close to 185 so on my setup it seems like it helps

 

well there ya go. who tunes your car?

 

I'm paying the guys at work to detail my car, so you guys better not flake out on me! It's costing me $100 for a full detail which isn't bad.

Now if I could talk the body shop guys into painting my hideous, blotchy valve cover.....

 

no worries here man. i'll be there. 100bucks to detail your car. damn. it cost me free.99. and it takes me about an hour. i plan on doing it in the morning. and washing it of course. that will take som time

 

I don't have all the supplies and always end up doing more harm than good to my car when detailing.

This is all basically to keep it clean enough for the meet and whenever I go to swap trunks at work. The sale's manager will be pleased with how my trunk will look and I will have myself a spoilerless trunk...>FTW....by next week hopefully.

Plus, I just received a good hunk of money today in my paycheck.

 

i see i see. i really want to go with a wingless trunk. i guess a buddy of mine knows a kid that wants my trunk and he has a base trunk. so maybe i'll have one as well

 

I've talked to my salesman over and over about it and he keeps telling me that I'm making a mistake. What he doesn't know is that I could trade at anytime. There's always someone looking to go wingless.

I might just have them do the outside of the car since I can detail the interior and I do the engine almost monthly. Seems like it would be a waste to pay for them to do it all. Oh well.


I hope no one minds that I'm a bit sick. I'll try not to breathe on anyone at the meet.