Wow qwik you've got like every Powell part

 

x2...stg 2 rotato-potato trans mounts, front & rear tow hooks, hardcore rear sway, harness bar, under car rails...still he has more i want


yup, i actually heard my car creak last night and i was like ...but i realized it was just the ice covering the roof haha


Hells yeah, runs what's good!

 

<stiff car is stiff...nuff said...

 

I saw koni a couple times in this thread... These mods play well with stocks shocks and struts

 

they play well but there better with konis i only have the rears but there awesome and adjustable

 

yup looks like konis at the rear are a step up, its only a couple hundred bucks more....

 

ucr just in time for the new year season lol

 

haha woo hoo thanks john have u gotten on the rear konis yet?

 

Get front konis to compliment the rears! Night and day difference

 

We want PRS new years sale!

 

meh ill get them later not ready to hack up my front struts yet lol

 

Oh, your subframe bars run down the length of the car, Here is what I had on my cavalier.



Had everything you can think of, front rear upper and lower strut/tie bars, tokico Dspec struts, eibach prokit springs, everything but sway bars and racing rims/tires.

 

in the cobalt i cant see that doing much.... epsecially something like that in the front. with a complete hydroformed cradle i doubt its going to do anything. its rigid as is.

 

My car is my DD. I'd like to get some UCRs and a rear sway @ least. I'm completely stock @ the moment, but looking for the better upgrades to do 1st.

 

It keeps the frame rails from twisting, granted much may just be butt dyno, but at least you know, that if there is any flex back there, you are removing most of it with that bar.

Plus, it makes a GREAT platform for triangulating the rear strut towers.

 

which i never believe those did a whole lot anyways lol... yeah might just be the but dyno... attaching it to the floor is what makes me not believe it but on the other hand i think it would be more effective being attached to the frame underneath. looks like a nice piece though ill give it that.

 

I agree. That bar isn't doing anything back there.

 

finally picked mine up in the summer and got stolin and now its back :-)

 

Well, it bolted to the top side of the frame rails, cavaliers are sloppy *****, so it helped them ALOT, the whole chassis in those things flex and twist.

After I installed it, I felt more like the rear end went around a turn in a even and flat pattern. Like you knew the car wasnt going to come out from underneath you.

 

this is way off topic but pretty much after the twisting beam mounting points which are in front of the rear wheels, there is not a whole lot to be gained with bracing,structuraly.

If you tied the cavvy rear chapman struts across, or the cobalt shock area with a tube welded in through the structure you might gain something. Like this:



to this:



and pretty much any tie bar with two bolts on a blade attachment is weak as heck. Good for keeping the jack tools in place on a cavvy maybe

 

hell then i might need something just to stop my stupid car from flexing. me passenger door doesnt seal all the way anymore and i can hear the wind through it pretty well. almost 7 years old and 176kmiles with some offroading have beaten the **** outta my balt. if i go down the road at 70 or more the wind will buffet enough that the passenger door shakes to **** and damn near sounds like its going to fall off. i have to roll the window down or roll mine up.

 

So, is the hardcore bar fine for the street then? No problems?

 

i havent had any.


but i havent dont any now/ice driving with it either.

rain and dry no problems

 

Thanks! I doubt my car will ever see a track but I want to give the suspension a little tweaking. The obvious choice then seems to be the streetbar, but everybody I've heard from so far has said that the hardcore bar is fine for the roads. Anyone else have any input?

 

I would not hesitate to run our 1.25 hardcore for general driving and spirited occasional use. Especially with a TC which has a marginally thicker (.5 mm) front bar... and a lot more torque than any other Cobalt