I'll be coming to you when there's 1000 miles on my ss/tc when it gets here late september

 

You think putting a de-cat pipe and a cat back would help the top end more?


BTW...you and that modular...=******* nuts

 

that was stock?

 

I have a Solo Performance Hi-flow cat I am going to test out next week. I will let you know if cat pipes help a lot. I bet they would.

 

my question above..?
ha


was the car the way it came from the factory..if so.
thats just rediculous

 

Actually we are foreseeing some issues with the 2009+model year cars from GM. They are starting a new warranty process for all 2009+ cars according to what we learned at the Arizona Automotive Council. I will try to get more info from SEMA when I go later this year.

 

I would like to know more about this as I was looking at picking up a 2009 5.3 Colorado.

 

Aaaah!crap!I read all 33 pages then to get to that paragraph!That sounds bad...hopin not,but it does.

 

wuts up guys n rissa lol. na i dont kno anyone here, new member but i did happen to read this entertainin thread ya'll are havin here. now i was wondering wen is da famous psyko comin by houston? by the way da name is mario like super mario without the super.lol

 

You have my attention.

How so?

 

October 4th I believe.

Its not even because of customers. The new actions are coming about because of crooked dealers. Dealers have been charging labor to customers cars and charging for parts that they want to write off when the service is never being done to the cars that they bill them for.

So they are going to have a service module plugged into the 2009+ cars that makes the car be physically present for all warranty work so the bad dealers can't F GM over. This also means that they may or may not be able to pull your ECM codes etc on all 2009+ GM cars. We don't know what this holds in store for tuning on 2009+ cars.

 

I would imagine onstar would have this capability already, no?

 

Sounds ugly...let's hope it does nothing more than verify that it's really your car, kind of like the computer makes sure the CD is in your drive before you fire up your favorite game. (for those of us that actually use CDs...) If they start proactively looking for reasons to void warranties, trouble would follow.

 

This just makes the car be plugged into GMs Service Network before anything can be billed to it. But it MAY let them pull the ECM info too.

Yeah for diagnostics.....not the other stuff.

 

Btw how much airflow are you seeing in stock cars vs cars with exhaust/intake/ic/cat mods?

 

I am noticing that power is held to a higher RPM on intercooled cars. That's about it, I don't have any hard CFM numbers. I have noticed that the cars with the "CAI" actually draw in hotter air.....oh the irony.

 

That totally doesn't surprise me...the snorkel on the Sol/Sky goes right to the edge of the hood, right? Like, almost sealing around the edge of the engine bay? I didn't see a stock one, but it's easy to tell that the CAI cars are only pulling in some air from the outside. The rest is nice and toasty warm from the engine.

Wonder how the Cobalt intakes will fare compared to the stock set up. The sound is certainly sweet, but if it's going to hinder performance in any way, I'll save 200 bones and get a high-flow filter for the stock unit and live with a "quieter" car.

 

this is wack... all i want is a tune and intake and i have neither

 

i have the K&N drop in filter all ready ... I thought of buying HP tuners credits and then asking Psyko for his tune and doin it that way but I do not own a laptop

 

That is one of the biggest woes of HPTuners is that you practically have to be rich to use it. Not to mention know what you are doing to some degree.

 

lol im not rich and have it, and have a halfass idea of what im doing lol.

 

But owning a laptop, then paying another $550 for the program cost a significant amount of money. Certainly more than a $400 handheld tuner that requires no computer.

 

Only problem is the only handheld out there (as far as I know) that'll do this is going for 4-digit pricing.

 

LOL well i did have to go out and buy a laptop too, what 400 handheld are you talking about?

 

$400 tuners exist for most other cars. Nobody bothered to get them for cobalts etc.