hey guys. im getting a 2.4 SS probably mid this month or in january cuz a ******* totalled my car..yep long story.i was wodering wut some mods would do to this car. im looking to do some modding. i'll put on a Cold air intake,GMPP header, C/A 2.5 Highflow cat DP, GMPP Performance exhaust and tune. what do u think the whp will be at. im going auto. cuz i dont want my first car that i own being stick. i rther buy a POS and learn stick on it..which i plan to do. i need the remote start for the early hours for class. im not sure how much power we would drop down with that and run in the 1/4mile. any ideas guys. i would be goin with HPtuners. just cuz i have cobalt addiction 10min. away from my house and im good friends w/ kenny and thats wut he uses....ne ideas?

 

dude ask a friend to take you out and teach you how to drive a standard, if you have one. yyou will regret getting an automatic to mod. -no offense to the automatic guys- but you soon start to realize it takes a lot more work to make it as fast as a standard. and definately wayyy more fun driving a standard, seriously.

 

dont forget atx have like 25-30% whp loss and standards only have like 10-15% loss

 

automatics are boring, everyone knows that.

 

hmm 25hp, maybe 30hp depending on the tune

 

yes yes i made a point to go manual, and you know what i learned how to drive manual on it too. i honestly think i would be a waste of money to buy another car no matter how much just to learn how to drive on.

plus the manuals are way funner, especially as torquey as these cars are!

 

like say, my 2.2 has i/h/e, with 10% loss i'm estimating i'll be around <150 whp, your 2.4 auto stock with 20% loss would be like...>140 whp..with i/h/e you'd probably be at around a little above 150 whp, since you have an automatic and your exhaust is already better than my 2.2 stock exhaust.

and i only payed 13k for my car.. if you're gonna pay a lot more for a faster car..make sure its faster:P

 

Dive four hours a day in traffic and then decide.
Do you like to eat and shift at the same time.
Do you want to replace the clutch every 60,000 to 100,000 depending on how you drive.
I mean if it was a mustang gt or something with power and you put a stall in than yes

 

lol, i do delivery for pizza hut in a standard..if you know how to drive a standard its still fun and if you are good you can eat and shift:P

 

either that or replace an entire tranny after 100-150k miles...seriously...and who eats in their car? besides fat people who cant wait.

 

LOL good one. Its a big no no to eat in my car. Friend spilled some tator tots all over it the other night after sonic and i made him pick up every last crumb lol

 

i learned to drive a standerd 15 years ago on my first car .Automatics tend to wear better
stick do have there advateges like saving brakes down shifting but i dont care who you are
you can not out shift a automatic so what you lose in whp you gain back in shift speed.

even if you could get close you would ruin your clutch in no time

 

where are you getting this informatoin from??

 

dude no totts in my car rule number one in my cobalt


1" no ****** food or drink otherwise there is a tax"

 

Your friend should have picked them up on his own **** happens why don't you plastic the whloe inside of your car then don't dive it life happens.
Don't you take road trips cloth and seats can be replaced friends can not

 

ok sorry i dont know the EXACT amount of drivetrain loss i didnt invent the automobile but my concept is right

 

haha you crack me up, man...since when did this become about losing friends over a tater tot! OKok...MANLAW: no eating in a car. I have to call burt reynolds now to make it official.

 

actually, it's not even close... it's a few percent at MOST in the cobalt, and in some cars, the auto is FASTER than the manual...

 

maybe in supercars or the DSG in GTI's....

 

i just cant imagine my MTX 2.2 dynoing stock at 115 whp like my ATX 2.2 did. my car must be pretty ******* fast for 115 whp.

 

you tend to forget the fact that its a 4-speed vs. a 5-speed...you know what that means? the gearing on the auto sucks, and hence a lot slower REGARDLESS of whp. AM I WRONG!? AM I WRONG!?

 

lol Its not like I was seriously pissed off. Relax but I did make him pick them all up because I know I would have to do the same in his 06 WRX. And theirs no plastic in their because that looks like ****.

 

in theory? no, you're not wrong... but, lots of people that drive manual cobalts are not very good drivers... a good driver with a manual will take anyone with an auto... shitty manual driver, and i'd give the race to the auto...

in theory, that is ass backwards, and i'm probably talking out of my ass because i'm going on no sleep, and should have been in bed hours ago...

 

haha, i just wanted to do the Big Lebowski impersonation because i am currently addicted to that line, 'AM I WRONG!? AM I WRONG!?'

But naw seriously, I thought the auto SS is running around 15.9 while the stick SS is running around a 15.4.

 

MANLAW this is the 2OO6 not the 1950s most people just about live in there cars these days cummuting if they did not eat in there car they would not see there families not only that but a car should be able to withstand a few tots here and there that is what a vacuum is for .