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Been on here for awhile even before I had a cobalt ss and I am happy to say I finally managed to find a good one! Flew to cali from new Mexico and drove her straight hope 13 hours like a champ. Shes got 124k miles but a new head from zzp after cylinder 4 went on the previous owner. Pretty much a full bolt on zzp car with an hp tuners tune and 4.45 gears. I cannot wait to do a full paint correction and ceramic coating and a retune for this altitude but figured I'd stop by and say what's up!
How was it with the 4.45 driving 13 hours? I drove 16hrs for mine straight piped it sucked lol
gearing was amazing! Much more usable power all the time and sitting around ~3k rpm at 75. Thankfully she has the zzp Downpipe and the turboxs rfl catback with 2 resonators so the drone isnt yoi bae. I've gone through straight pipe freeway driving and my bleeding ears hated me haha
I keep my 4.45 geared car on highway and forget about buzzing it at 75mph. That's a lot of rpm for a long haul. Congrats!
yeah. By no means was i giving it in 5th gear, way too much load on the motor especially on a long drive but it was nice to have some passing power if I needed to get by a semi. Thank you! I'm extremely excited haha.
3rd and 4th hear with the 4.45 is awesome. 1st gear just plain sucks.
haha I bet. Thankfully the tune is almost a boost by gear, first is limited to 10lbs. I need to check my bpv though I spiked 15lbs today and I got the code for the bpv
It's much harder to get a good start in 1st gear because of the low ratio in the trans and the final gear. If you spin out of the hole it's hard to peddle it because of how fast you get to redline. You also get a lot of wheel speed quickly.
It's much harder to get a good start in 1st gear because of the low ratio in the trans and the final gear. If you spin out of the hole it's hard to peddle it because of how fast you get to redline. You also get a lot of wheel speed quickly.
this is gunna be a blast at the track then 🙄🙄🙄 the factory launch control definitely will be useless. I'm on some semi sticky tires and I still spin through first on a roll so I can only imagine off a dig.
It's much harder to get a good start in 1st gear because of the low ratio in the trans and the final gear. If you spin out of the hole it's hard to peddle it because of how fast you get to redline. You also get a lot of wheel speed quickly.
what do launch at personally to avoid spinning out of the hole?
You can either ride the clutch and let it out slow, or you can walk it off the line at 3k or so. Either way you are north of 2.0 on your 60ft. I spun out of the hole on everything I've tried so far, but I never got the slicks down under about 11psi. I'm using a wot box that helps develop about 4psi of boost and I'm trying to leave about 5200.
I've tried around 4000 with drag radials to no avail. At least I don't spin in 2nd with slicks, as I did on every other tire than them.
When I switch to a 4.05 ratio it will be better. I didn't struggle near as much on the 3.82 gearset.
You can either ride the clutch and let it out slow, or you can walk it off the line at 3k or so. Either way you are north of 2.0 on your 60ft. I spun out of the hole on everything I've tried so far, but I never got the slicks down under about 11psi. I'm using a wot box that helps develop about 4psi of boost and I'm trying to leave about 5200.
I've tried around 4000 with drag radials to no avail. At least I don't spin in 2nd with slicks, as I did on every other tire than them.
When I switch to a 4.05 ratio it will be better. I didn't struggle near as much on the 3.82 gearset.
are you on full slicks or street radials? I've been debating if I want to do a setup like an MT street or an NT555R or just do slicks. I dont wanna destroy an axle. My issue with the 3.82 is the 3rd gear wear 😏
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