Good morning everyone
My name is Doug and i am finishing up the repair of a 2006 cobalt SS 2.4L It was Tboned in the passenger quarter panel. we replaced the quarter panel and door, painted that side back to OEM color, cleaned it all out and am just waiting to replace the lower control arms and she'll be back on the road. This will be the daily driver as to keep the Miles off of my 2014 dodge charger AWD so it won't be heavily modified but come on.... can't keep anything stock am i right?

 

Unless you boost the car you will likely be let down lol.

Lower it, some nice wheels, and rock it.

 

LOL atleast you're honest.

If i want to go fast i'll hop in the Hemi

I was thinking about just installing K&N drop in filter for the intake, replace all filters ( cabin air, fuel, air filter) do a tune up, and drive it for the winter to work any bugs out... speaking of Winter she needs new shoes.... any suggestions?

 

Is the Hemi stock?

Toss new spark plugs in as well.

I would rock ws60 or Altimax for snows when I lived in cleveland

 

it's the 4th Gen hemi with the sport 2 controller package, in the spring it'll be getting a custom Tune from one of the speed shops around here. Only thing do to it so far is LED lighting. can't figure out how to attach images on here yet though.

 

Upload them to a hosting site like photobucket.
Then copy and paste the [IMG] code here.

 

Cobalt SS Network - reptile610's Album: My cars,

uploaded them to the albums page

 

Nice charger; they look good from the front. Thats what matters since that is what I see in my mirrors.

 

HA! i love mine, just wish the darn thing didn't weigh 4600LBS!!!

 

yeeee

 

plans for the charger are:
1. Tranzformer II
2. custom tune
3. mopar CAI and 180 thermostat (why mopar decided that these cars need to run so hot are beside me)
4. headers
5. supercharger

but these are probably only one step a year or something like that. Stuffs expensive!

as far as the cobalt i'm not quite sure yet. Like i said, i want to get it up and running and see how it does this Winter before i sink any money into it. from what i keep reading if you change out to a SRI it has a tendency to start throwing codes? not quite sure i want to go about custom tuning this car as well in order to run bolt ons.

 

They operate hotter for emissions and MPG reasons.
Sacrifice some power to meet numbers to please the democrats.

 

So do you have the R/t?

 

yessir, to be specific i have an R/T AWD sport (the sport is a package that comes with a black grille, blacked out rims, and the sport 2 controller) 2014 was the last year they made AWD with the hemi so i think i'll be keeping this car, it's a lot of fun!

picked up new spark plugs and radiator support bushings yesterday from the dealership, once i have the cobalt put back together (i have to put on the front and rear bumpers and replace the lower control arms) i plan on running 2 or 3 tanks through it before i do my tune up, i'm almost certain it's been run with 87 octane fuel and i read the manual says it needs premium gas and it's been sitting for about 6 months so im sure it's hurting for some good gas and a good run down.

 

If it's the 2.4l SS I'm pretty sure they just use 87. The turbo and supercharged have to have premium, but I could be wrong, it's just normally N/A 4cyl don't run premium.

 

http://www.vadengmpp.com/owners-manu...let-Cobalt.pdf

page 5-5 :P

 

I would not waste the money putting 93 in the 2.4

 

It says you may also use 87, either way, premium usually is only used on the boosted cobalts.

 

And bluelnf is right, don't waste that money, take into consideration the extra money it takes everyone you fill up, may only be a few dollars difference, but, add that up for throughout the year and you could have a couple hundred towards modding the charger.

 

is the 2.4L a sub par motor?

very true.... the manual for my charger says 89 preferred 87 acceptable, so i run 89. maybe i'll run 89 in both so i don't confuse myself at the pump LOL

 

It is not that it is sub-par in general, it just is in the Cobalt world with the LSJ and LNF...

 

The 2.4 is better than the other N/A cobalts power/looks but compared to LSJ and LNF there's a huge difference, completely different experience. There's even a huge difference between LSJ and LNF.

 

i seen the HP claims on the main page. crazy to think some of these cars are putting out more HP than my charger and weigh about as much as my Hemi engine not stock of course LOL

 

I have my stock turbo on right now and a stock Hemi just isnt enough.


These cars can handle some power when done right, but boost is the answer. However, even with all the power we are still Fail Wheel Drive.

 

i will say that nothing has beat me off the line except a nissan GTR ( which there was no competition, those cars are stupid quick) AWD FTW!