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how did i end up paying more for my ls??

i feel pretty damn stupid now

what was the damge??

 

wasnt to bad some body parts,axles,control arms,enlinks ,radiator,i think that was it oh and paint and minimal frame damage..... How much u py for the ls and how bad the damage

 

^^ Right place, right time I guess... I doubt that many have had that good of luck.

*edit* Wow, if this pic from your gallery is of it when you bought it, our definitions of "not too bad" are quite different.

I would say that you understated the damage a little and that your $2600 wasn't much more of a bargain than my $5000 was, if at all...

 

Wasn't that bad:

around 900 to fix it, got it for 3200

only body parts where damaged though

 

it just looks super bad lol i do admit it took a while to work all the bug out

thats not bad at all

and yeah its a salvaged tittle because the insurance totaled it out..... still looks good though nice job man

 

thanks, credits to the friend that hooked up the work though haha

op, hows the car going?? any new pics??

 

Still working on it - am at a standstill thanks to UPS breaking the radiator that I had shipped to me...

I have to wait for them to inspect it to see if they will cover the damage (it was packed by the UPS store and the package was insured for $400 by the seller) before I can move forward with the rest of the work.

At present, I have replaced the steering hub, shock and axle on the driver's side. The car moves under its own power & runs beautifully - allthough I can't run it for long due to the cracked radiator.

I have sourced a new front bumper and lip (thanks for the Auto Fit suggestion by the way Krizlx) & will be getting them painted soon.

Hopefully, UPS doesn't take their time about this & I can get some cash from them to get another rad soon. Once I get that, I can assemble the car the rest of the way & get it inspected.

 

For spindles and the sub, check this link.

http://www.zzperformance.com/cobalt_...cts.php?id=166

There are three options for knuckles: SS/SC, Competition(/G6), and SS/TC. To use the competition or SS/TC knuckes requires some modification, though I don't remember what off-hand. Powell Raceshop would be able to help you with that info as well as the parts (PM "quikredline" on here).

Good luck with the rebuild!

 

good find on the car man looks like it has plenty of potential

 

Thanks for the info. I was trying to find some SS/TC spindles, but just ended up replacing the one spindle that I needed with a stock SS/SC for now, since I found one pretty cheap.

I have upgraded the axles to OTTP Stage 1 axles and ordered their suspension package that has the SS/TC struts/shocks with the Pedders springs. I also found an Ingall's Stiffy and a set of B-Woody Traction Bars for decent prices, so I grabbed them too. It should ride pretty nice once I get it all together.

 

Sounds good, you doing all the work??

yeah no problem did you find anything on auto fit though??

 

Competition knuckles require no modification at all.

TC knuckles do.

Control arms are as good as they get.

OTTP Axles is a good choice.

 

Yeah, I do all my own work whenever possible.

I will have to have somebody pull out the trunk floor a little bit so that the rear bumper cover fits right & the trunk lid lines up - I will probably just have them spray the front bumper cover & lip at the same time. I've got a decent sized compressor & a paint gun, but am not yet good enough with the paint gun to be comfortable doing that myself.

Yeah, I found the front bumper cover and lip at Auto Fit for about $400 total. Both were brand new OEM factory painted pieces - supposedly they're blemished items, but I found nothing wrong with them. I wish that they were silver, but the bumper is black and the lip is blue.

 

^ dam well at least you got them cheaper, i got a friend that can probably hook you with the paint job if you want, he lives on 55 ave and highland though i don't know where you're staying at....

 

Hmmm... I have been thinking about a 2 tone...

 

^ i was too i was going to do black top and red bottom but nah something told me no lol
yeah Ima go with him to get my tail lights tinted

 

I'm toying with the idea of a midnight blue bottom with the stock silver on top.

Of course, I could always go with a cobalt blue, ...

 

yeah I'm not a fan of blue cars but laser blue cobalts look hawt!!

 

sub'd

 

Well this blows...

I have the car mostly put back together, but can't finish it up because I am waiting on a UPS claim for my broken radiator. Until they figure out what they are going to do, I'm at a standstill in the repairs.

 

oh snap, is there any chance you were in Houston/Sugarland TX area earlier today??? sorry dont mean to thread jack or anything...

 

^ I'm actually out of town right now, the balt is chillin in the garage, well at least i fukn hope so, my uncles friend lives in houston Texas, he has my keys and well it's his garage, but that would be some fucked up ****!!! I'm about to make some calls right now

Maybe you saw his;
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...69#post4260969

 

holy you paid 5k for a salvage one. I paid 2500-3000 can remember some where in there for mine. and repaired it for a total of 6k for a car with 34k miles on it. But my car is a saturn ion redline.

 

listen to this guy

 

I hear ya, but I still think that I did alright. I didn't buy it to make money, so the salvage title doesn't matter to me. If I wasn't upgrading a lot of parts, I could have put it back together for about $1500 - putting me in the car for roughly $6500 total.

Instead, it's going to get treated to a few tweaks as I decide what direction I'm going with it. So far, the list of non-necessary purchases are as follows:

OTTP stage 1 axles
SS/TC struts & shocks
Pedders springs
BWoody traction bars
Ingall's Stiffy
ZZP mid length header/downpipe combo
ZZP Stage 3 heat exchanger

Things may change depending on what I decide I want out of the car. I'm still toying with the idea of buying one of those new LSD trannys that were being offered a while back, but I'm trying not to go too crazy before I even get the thing on the road...

*EDIT* On a side note - krizlx, I will have a full stock SS/SC suspension set up if you're interested...