2017 cruze oem cold air ordered..

Ragalyisp said:

I'd like to see a poll of all the broken pistons, what percentage ran 87,89,93etc.
I never run anything but 93.

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Mine (2016 gen2) has been run with 87. Went 43k miles, broke the piston #1 cylinder. I will get it back Wednesday with a new engine (trashed the cylinder wall in that cylinder). I have a thread currently running on it...

****, I've only ran 87 octane until about 19,000 miles then I switched over to 93. But I want to do stuff to this car because I'd like to get into cars and well this is how I can but I don't want this car to go to **** on me. Is there anyway lets say a mechanic or dealership can inspect my cylinder walls and piston heads?

Celdwist said:

****, I've only ran 87 octane until about 19,000 miles then I switched over to 93. But I want to do stuff to this car because I'd like to get into cars and well this is how I can but I don't want this car to go to **** on me. Is there anyway lets say a mechanic or dealership can inspect my cylinder walls and piston heads?

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If it's under warranty and your only car, then leave it alone. Making horsepower isn't the issue, but reliability is. If there's mods available with warranty like exhaust , brakes, lowering springs, spoiler, etc then start there.

Anytime you increase boost on a turBo car you cut its lifespan in half. My subaru lasted 15,000miles at 18psi on 93oct, my 05 civic lasted 11,000 miles at 6psi.

What the guys who mod their cars don't tell you is that it won't last. I spent over $45,000 in two years on my subaru, then I dumped it. It would go a few weeks, then blow something else up.

So I'd suggest if you want to learn to modify cars, get a second car. Only reason I have a cruze is because I had to roll over my debt from car to car because I keep screwing myself from modifying my daily driver and voiding warranty.

Even if you can make the hp, it costs thousands to make it reliable.

Ragalyisp said:

Anytime you increase boost on a turBo car you cut its lifespan in half. My subaru lasted 15,000miles at 18psi on 93oct, my 05 civic lasted 11,000 miles at 6psi.

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Not even remotely, unless you do it wrong.

MP81 said:

Ragalyisp said:

Anytime you increase boost on a turBo car you cut its lifespan in half. My subaru lasted 15,000miles at 18psi on 93oct, my 05 civic lasted 11,000 miles at 6psi.

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Not even remotely, unless you do it wrong.

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Name one stock turbo car that will last just as long at high boost. Without fully building the engine of course.

My Cobalt started life as a stock, base Cobalt. 85,000 miles and 9 years later after running 16 psi of boost from the M62 and it is still going strong.

The GM 2.0T can handle some severe abuse without going into the bottom end. 3.8L Turbo V6 in the Buick Grand National...

And when I say "do it wrong", I meant put way too much power on a stock bottom end. Your initial post said nothing of that.

MP81 said:

My Cobalt started life as a stock, base Cobalt. 85,000 miles and 9 years later after running 16 psi of boost from the M62 and it is still going strong.

The GM 2.0T can handle some severe abuse without going into the bottom end. 3.8L Turbo V6 in the Buick Grand National...

And when I say "do it wrong", I meant put way too much power on a stock bottom end. Your initial post said nothing of that.

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85k isn't much in terms of mileage. I'll do that in 3 years. My cruze has 20k and I just got it in december.

How did I know you'd mention the grand national? Lol I swear to God I thought that. There's a few holy grail engines that will last under high boost, but most wont.

4 cylinder engines that run at over 110% volumetric efficiency from the factory, then you want to increase that even more.
A v8 making 450hp yet will last 200k+ because it's still at only 75% vol efficiency. Half of the problem is we are running these things so lean in order to make them so efficient.

When I started things were different. We ran them so rich it would burn your eyes and stain the bumper with soot. Plus the cars were different. My buddies had a 98 supra, a 01 ws6 trans am (brand new), and an integra type r. I had a procharged s10. That s10 made it 240k miles at 4.5lbs of boost.

I have the GMPP exhaust already install and thursday january 10 the Intake will be install with the tune i will give an update. I'm not expecting a big gain but more power on the low and mid range rpm ont the power band.

Please do I’m interested in the results!

OliDesbiens said:

I have the GMPP exhaust already install and thursday january 10 the Intake will be install with the tune i will give an update. I'm not expecting a big gain but more power on the low and mid range rpm ont the power band.

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So by chance how did the install go? Did you get the Cruze tune on by dealership? How about pics and/or video?
Also I found a link to a site that shows a government document proving this kit does come with a tune with details on why and what it does for the Cruze.

ww3.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aftermkt/devices/eo/d-126-43.pdf

Any updates by chance? Aha

I got this Intake and it might make a small performance difference. The thing with this intake is there isn’t really a noise difference at least not the cold air intake noise people may be looking for. However, if you take the plastic cover off then it will make those noises from the turbo. I don’t know if that really causes problems running it that way.

Ragalyisp said:

Like I said... I'll take the plunge for the **** of it. I'll post results whenever I get it and it's installed. Really though, it's a plastic/rubber design so less likely to heatsoak. I'm not here to argue anything , but I will report with whatever facts I come across.

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Lmk when u install