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The hardest part was getting the other one off. You'll want to use two wrenches / pliers, one to hold the antenna bracket in the trunk and one to twist the antenna. It took like 5 - 10 minutes. Reception seems to be about the same, but i never listed to the radio anyway.
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do not heat your springs. im a mechanid. springs are tempered steel. if you heat them up they become a lot more fragile. if you want to lower your car vut the springs. ive seen what heating a spring can do. spring snaps and parts go flying. and on your car they can break also. so moral of the story. if you want to lower the car. deff. cut the springs and not heat them up.
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where can you find bowtie overlays. I want black chevy symbols, but I don't wanna paint them. I guess I could use plastidip, but that seems hard too vs just buying overlays lets say from Motor City Vinyls
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do not heat your springs. im a mechanid. springs are tempered steel. if you heat them up they become a lot more fragile. if you want to lower your car vut the springs. ive seen what heating a spring can do. spring snaps and parts go flying. and on your car they can break also. so moral of the story. if you want to lower the car. deff. cut the springs and not heat them up.
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heres a cheap awesome mod i did,,,
chrome vents for the cobalt
go to autozone and get the chrome door molding,, not sure if you need 1 or 2 packs, but its 3 dollars for a pack, you have to somehow figure out the length of the vents inside the air vents located on the dash,, easiest way is cut a piece and keep trimming until it slides on, then duplicate that piece enough times to cover the vents,, i payed 30 dollars off ebay, but this time im doing them myself for nowhere near that price spices up interior quite a bit and is very cheap
im all about the cheap mods that are fun
chrome vents for the cobalt
go to autozone and get the chrome door molding,, not sure if you need 1 or 2 packs, but its 3 dollars for a pack, you have to somehow figure out the length of the vents inside the air vents located on the dash,, easiest way is cut a piece and keep trimming until it slides on, then duplicate that piece enough times to cover the vents,, i payed 30 dollars off ebay, but this time im doing them myself for nowhere near that price spices up interior quite a bit and is very cheap
im all about the cheap mods that are fun
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7 pages and no one has mentioned it wow..im suprised...but if u go to a junk yard and find a 00-05 impala or 00-05 malibu remove the third brake light on the trunk which for those cars is LED and do some EASSSYYYY electrical work to yours and replace ur bulbs with LEDS easyy stuff really and total cost 10$ and some basic electrical knowledge and patience
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What about hollowing out the cat isn't to hard. Most (if not all) cats are honey comb shaped which is pretty easy to hollow. No need to buy something to put in it's place if you just remove it.
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Interior Trim Dash rework - $20 and a day of warm weather
Cable Reroute (Aux / Ipod) - Patience and finesse to remove the console parts
Power reroute - Moving lower E-Brake accesory power to trunk latch release location - $8 in electrical blades from Radioshack
Cable Reroute (Aux / Ipod) - Patience and finesse to remove the console parts
Power reroute - Moving lower E-Brake accesory power to trunk latch release location - $8 in electrical blades from Radioshack
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Move trunk poppers, as stated above, until you reqlize that most of the time you need your seat droppes is when your putting something in the trunk
Paint bowties, tape off silver very carefully n use a razor to push it in the cracks, scuff with 320 or finer, mist w the color of your choice a few times. Once its dry remove tape.
Ventshades. Weathertechs are a bit more than autozones but look oem
Neffywrap. Instant carbon fiber for any part
Wideband, interceptor etc. Guages in your cluster. 2" pvc, some bondo and skill will have you under 20 bux and a good lookin piece
Led for trunk. I think my 12 led lite was 10 bux w universal adaptors. My trunk lites up like a spaceship
Wire a reverse relay into your. Lites that turn on w map lites, add autozone led strips under dash and seats to see like its daytime when your doors open
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Paint bowties, tape off silver very carefully n use a razor to push it in the cracks, scuff with 320 or finer, mist w the color of your choice a few times. Once its dry remove tape.
Ventshades. Weathertechs are a bit more than autozones but look oem
Neffywrap. Instant carbon fiber for any part
Wideband, interceptor etc. Guages in your cluster. 2" pvc, some bondo and skill will have you under 20 bux and a good lookin piece
Led for trunk. I think my 12 led lite was 10 bux w universal adaptors. My trunk lites up like a spaceship
Wire a reverse relay into your. Lites that turn on w map lites, add autozone led strips under dash and seats to see like its daytime when your doors open
Trickshit.jpeg
#171
I put a 2.0L SS/SC exhaust on my 2.4, WHAT A CHANGE. It's got a ral nice rumble to it but it's quite when cruising around town but when you hit the highway at around 3500 with my AEM CAI ( REAL CAI, NOT ONE THAT PUTS THE FILTER AND INTAKE TUBE RIGHT IN FRON TOF THE MANIFOLD....LOL ) It sound sick! I got mine outta a wrecked car at a junk yard. 50 bucks for the hole thing and I got the manifold incase I wanna go SC