Posts by MP81
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Well that's definitely an interesting way to do things...use the intake for the exhaust and then bump up the intake. It does make sense though, based on the exhaust as is - you need a big turbo to take advantage of anything exhaust.
Looks like it has a bit more lift/duration going from the exhaust to the stock intake, and then the intake to ZZP intake has a tiny bit more lift but a fair amount more duration, at least just from what I can see looking at a picture.
Looks like it has a bit more lift/duration going from the exhaust to the stock intake, and then the intake to ZZP intake has a tiny bit more lift but a fair amount more duration, at least just from what I can see looking at a picture.
You'd be surprised - the Cobalt hasn't been made for 11 years and it still has a healthy aftermarket/community.
Hell, even what ZZP started on, the 3800/W-Bodies, are still going strong. They actually just introduced a brand new set of their own Coilovers for the W-Bodies. My brother is seriously considering those for his '01 Century to go along with their big ZZP swaybars we already put on.
Koni makes single-adjustable Yellows for the 1st gen cars. Since you can't get B6s for the rear (you can, but Bilstein simply refuses to actually make any), these are probably what I'll end up going with in the event we need new struts/shocks.
Yup! I just did full Koni yellow SA's on my brother's '01 Mustang GT last year.
And yeah @Blasirl , Bilstein B8s would be a great option, too.
For ours, I'd really prefer the B6s, as I don't expect to put any kind of lowering spring on the car, and would prefer not to have adjustables, but who knows...
Jegs, but they're drop-shipping from Global West. GW's site does say they're experiencing delays, which is understandable, but I'd think by now I should have at least an update. I'll probably email Jegs here to see if they're heard anything, or can prod GW for an update. I ordered the GW solid body bushings as well, albeit from Summit Racing, and those were in stock and I had them within a week.
Jegs is good too, similar shipping times and pricing.
Yup! Mainly because I need to replace the body bushings, and the GW subframe connectors come with the rear two. They (GW) then sell a kit of just the remaining four bushings instead of buying all six. I might as well just do SFCs at the same time.
FWIW, my brother made the same decision for a similar reason on his Mustang. Yes coilovers are better, but single-adjustable Koni Yellows and the H&R Race springs is also a very good combination. He doesn't need all the adjustability - with the very real potential to screw the settings up (and it would have been even more work for me anyway). That all said, we might very well go with coilovers on his Buick, but who knows - given it gets driven in winter, that may not be ideal...
I think he's at the point now where he can probably bring the Konis up off full soft - been almost a year and good few hundred miles now, so he should be good and broken in.
That's specifically why I didn't go with the yellows on my Cobalt.Yeah. I don't really like to have to adjust things more than once or twice. I like to get it dialed in and leave it there FOREVER.
On my Cobalt, I adjusted the dampening settings twice. Although I only had the KONI's on it for 8 months. They were the insert style dampners in front and it seemed like they never held alignment because there was always a little movement between the insert and the strut housing.
Thankfully the KONI's for the Cruze are struts and not inserts.
STBs were literally an appearance mod on the Cobalt as they were already a very stiff car - I'm assuming the Cruze probably is similar, though I'm not entirely sure if it is.
Swaybar, Stabilizer Bar, also Anti-Sway Bar. Lotsa names! They make a huge impact on street driving, though a rear bar moreso than a front bar on a FWD car. The 1.25" rear bar on my Cobalt works wonders with the 24mm SS/SC FE5 front bar, but I would never want to go with a larger front bar.
Swaybar, Stabilizer Bar, also Anti-Sway Bar. Lotsa names! They make a huge impact on street driving, though a rear bar moreso than a front bar on a FWD car. The 1.25" rear bar on my Cobalt works wonders with the 24mm SS/SC FE5 front bar, but I would never want to go with a larger front bar.
Yeah, I recall those and the Progressives being larger than FE5 up front, but that's why I stayed away from them - a bit too large, IMO, for the front of a FWD car. Car doesn't need any help understeering, haha.
Ahh okay, the TTR bar was the 1" bar, which was equal to the Powell street bar. I have the 1.25" Hardcore bar, and then they still have a larger 1.5" XXX Bar.
I guess it's better than my signature - ever since we switched to the new forum, I cannot edit it, because it's far longer than it can be, so I can't update anything because I'll have to make it way shorter.Unexpected Update: I have a problem and I need some help to fix it. I ran out of space, character wise, in my signature for all my mods.
Not the end of the world, I know, but I'm open to ideas to rework my signature if anyone has one. I'm not the creative type.
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