Howdy new guy from Louisiana. Bought a 2007 Cobalt 2.2 dirt track car for my son and here to learn what I can and share what little I know.

 

Welcome! Post some pics.

 

welcome
Pics
mod list?

 

Sounds like fun!

 

Haven't had time to read how to post pics yet but when I do I'll have some for y'all. Cavalier also.

 

Ahh, I know you from Saturn forum.
Welcome.

 

Welcome to Cobalt land, Once you enter there's no escape.

 

Yep that's me. Still trying to learn all I can about the 2.2 j bodies and now the 2.2 Cobalt.

 

My 13 year old son Garrett with his Cobalt dirt track car.

 

Well that didn't work. I guess I'll have to read again.

 

if you click it with the scroll button or open the link in a new tab you can view the pic in the link above....


this is the first cobalt ive seen take advantage of the monster truck status height.

What are you looking to learn ? Goals for the car ?

 

 

hahah that's crazy

 

thats pretty awesome! is it stinger class? thats what we call it here

 

Like I said, I can help you out. And I don't live to far away. You just need to know what direction you want to go in.
This is a lot better of a forum to work with for things like this. Saturn Forum is more so just for basic trouble shooting.

 

Looks like fun.

 

Thanks guys. As for the height of the car I told my boy it reminds me of a bumble bee. Too high of a center of gravity for me. But the car/cage is well built and safe. I prefer my Cavalier. No mods yet we just got the car. I probably won't do anything motor wise for now I just want to get it to handle well for my son first. I work 14-14 and didn't have much time after we got it to really dive off into it. It does run in the stinger class. And it's fun as sh*t! I have read that I can use different struts to stiffen it up some. Maybe a control arm swap because I heard it's a little weak. I'll do plenty of searching before I ask a stupid question, I hope.

 

Here is the run down of suspension. The stiffest stock, you want the fe5 setup from the cobalt ss/tc (08-10).
shocks/struts/control arms. You want spherical control arm bushings for the fe5 control arms. A rear sway bar will help a lot as well.

 

Thanks goaliemo. I found a sticky on here that even had the part numbers for the fe5 suspension. Full of good information here.

 

check the classifieds too for plenty of suspension parts .... p.s i have FE5 control arms if your interested just PM me.

Ill also have some FE5 Struts up for sale in about a week or so.

 

Is that Honkey written on the rear quarter? I'm offended please ban this car

 

looks like monkey

 

shhhh was a limp attempt to poke fun at current events


....but seriously OP car looks cool, should S/C that thing

 

i know down here, they arent allowed to do forced induction and really arent supposed to do any modifications, but i dont know how they can tell if you internally upgrade it, tune it with hptuners, use stock looking le5 shocks and struts, use the le5 intake manifold, use a gmpp exhaust manifold, or hide a bottle. ive always thought the cavalier or cobalt would be awesome in the stinger class because of the parts availability and stuff you can do to them

 

I know a lot of classes make you add weight if your HP is above a threshold.

I wonder if you could get Vince to write a dual tune that you could activate a higher HP mode via a switch. Would be cheating, but could be awesome in small track setups.