man if only you got the front lip and it were lower

 

Will add a front lip at some point and while I do love my eibach pros when my struts wear out I will switch over to fe5 shocks/struts with the pedders.

 

i want your rims so bad

 

A few pics I forgot about....







And thanks to some vandals. The car is back in the bodyshop. But on a good note from this due to where they did some of the damage a few of the scratches and such are getting fixed. Also from them either kicking my bumper or cracking it when they walked over my car its now getting a whole new bumper. And with that comes a more professional version of the evo mod. As well as an SS/TC upper grill.

So in short they walked over my car and egged it. Total damage of 3900 bucks so far....

Will have more pictures coming this week as I repaint the wheels and brakes. But heres some bodyshop shots (crappy).

The roof decklid and rear bumper will be completely recleared and blended. So ironically the bumpers should match the car better than they did from GM.



And Because we were bored....
Me vs a TL-S with about the ending youd expect. I hit the brakes at 85mph. I did better than I thought I would. Race was from 20-85.

my buddy and I decided to run his 97 Eclipse GS 5 spd with full exhaust,intake,underdrive pullies against my cobalt (only had the intake and HID's at that point). Should be easy to figure out whose who. He has standard halogen if you need help.



Mods at this point:
SS/TC wheels
SS/TC gauge cluster
SS/TC Seats
SS/TC upper grill
Eibach Pro kit springs
ZZP shorty header
CTI 3" to 2.5" catted downpipe
SLP catback
Moog Swaybar endlinks
DDM HID lowbeam (6k)
DDM HID fog/driving lights (6k)
Gen 4 projectors
Victory red painted front chevy emblem
Mostly debadged
38% front tint
15% rear tint
Injen CAI
DD 1508 Sub (8 inch)
Sony Explode 600w amp (not great but works well especially for the price)

No real plans beyond this due to modding the camaro. But it might see an LSJ throttle body and a tune. Unless I end up feeling the need to break into the 14's then might break down and do zzp s1 cams and balanceshafts. But kind of doubting I will do that.

 

Nice dude tastefully done 2.4 sell me your seats! Lol I Just got an Lsj tb I'm hoping to see noticeable gains

 

damn...when did they egg your car?
I cannot remember if you told me bout it last time we talked or not.


I still have my LSJ TB and the m62 that I took off....I think you need both

You should also do the front lip also; even my dad noticed how much of a difference something small like makes.

 

dont tempt me! But Id need all the other crap as well.


And they egged it and walked across it. Did a decent amount of damage though I didnt think they did 3900 worth!

 

And some crappy cell phone shots.

Thanks to the vandals I got a tc grill for free. Also got the evo mod painted professionally.
It looks a lot better and seems to get a lot of positive attention.

Still need to get the sun strip added back to the windshield as well as the tc lower grill.

Will get some better pics later on.

 

few more recent shots. Some might be reposts some wont be.....


Not the best look for it (when I had the tc grill out and was painting it black)

grill in and painted black

Fully debadged

giving the car a bit of love today...

Hood shot

Passenger side shot

And the 3 of them sitting the cobalt kind of lurking...


thats about it... haven't really done much to the cobalt for a while....

 

First off, LOVE your balt, using yours as a baseline for the mods I am doing to mine come good weather.

Secondly, a couple questions.

What kind of paint did you use for all the black and hows it holding up?
Where can you find the honeycomb grills?
And, I may have missed it, but what headlights are those? Thanks mate.

 

Paont on the grills is krylon fusion.
Paint.on the wheels is basic krylon.
The headlights are gen 4's.
The grills you can get on crateenginedepot.com

Got a couple more parts coming once winter is over but this car is pretty much done unless I run across some deals of the century. Lol

 

Haha sweet man, thanks so much.

 

Little teaser...



yes I know they arent the greatest for performance but it will work just fine on a 2.4!
Picked up the JBP header from Victory Red looking like this


Made a pass at it with a green scotch pad and saw a bit of shine come through....

so figured id go ahead and polish it. Nothing too aggressive and its far from perfect but it will look good in the car!
First pass with the polish after 2 steps of sanding/wet sanding

Final step (the way its going to go on the car....











Over all Im pretty happy with how it came out. I gave up on this car being fast as its an auto 08. So I will throw this on with an lsj tb and a tune and hope for a 14.9 out of her. Beyond that I have a lip sitting in the garage waiting to go on her.

This part will hopefully go on with verbatim's help wednesday to replace my zzp shorty header.
So thats my very small update for now

 

Cool Story Bro......


haha really though, car looks great and has come a long way. i need to do something like this for mine. of course i didnt satrt mine yearsa go and keep a log like this, but i can make something work!

keep it up man. how many miles you got on her now?

 

72k now... shes starting to get up there. Thinking about getting my eclipse going again to keep the miles on the cobalt low.

 

I'm about to hit 80k soon. Keep doing oil and filter changes and don't crash and she'll stay true for years.

 

i've got more than 100K over you Cordia, she should last you a long time!

 

lol the crashing seems more upto the esc than me sometimes

As far as oil changes. She gets 0w-30 synthetic during the winter and 5w-30 synthetic during the summer.
Good to know!

 

I'm at 103k and turboed and I'm running strong. You should be alright man. Car looks good by the way.

 

Nice! Definitely came along way from day one, and also very nice job on the header! Looks brand new compared to the condition it was in when you bought it

 

...**** that header...
was easier doing SC swap on my 2.4 compared to trying to get that header on

 

Told you this car is cursed lol

 

And with a huge thanks to Nathan!!

Well finally got the new header on.....

But new control arm bushings as well as the header are on. This has got to be the weirdest sounding cobalt I have ever heard! Sound kind of like a wrx
The header finally on...


the old header and the nice crack....

The old control arm bushings.... 4 years old and only 70k miles on them...

The new moog bushings


Not much of an update but still an update....

 

Looks good mate. Should post a video clip with the sound though, sounds interesting - no pun intended. =P

 

Heres a very crappy very very short video of it. Didnt have much battery life left on my phone. Will get a better one tomorrow probably...