this is true. But look at mike Kramer just put some old cobalt Ohlins modified to suit his redline and won at VIR (your home track) Shows how important good damping is....

triple x all gone more in 2 weeks lol

installed mine today. did not crash on the way home. so far, so good.
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didnt know that you run the stock muffler still too :lol:

will your fancy twisting beam(like will has) not fit on an ion?

i think he has an lnf muffler on there

haha i think so too but still saw that and thought that was funny lol

that one is an LSJ actually. old LNFwas too loud. Going to try an LNF again....

thats a TC twb. Why go to the Time Attack rear beam? too much impact harshness from the sphericals.... I gotta different solution.....not currently made for others...:lol:

sneaky...whats the blue by the right rear wheel?

a brake caliper? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Still wanna know what John is cookin up for rear adjustability!

figured, but iono never looked ar the rear much lol

so does that mean it will break the record of the time attack cobalts time at willow with
the setup you are currently building? =p

ohh whatever hes doing me want me want lol

he building stuff most dont need. some do most dont and just buy it because they think its kool to have.

haha all john powell parts are cool to have matt duh lol

his harness bar and under car rails work wonders on strengthening the whole car

which do u think is best bang for buck andrew? im having jpr withdrawals lol

easiest would be the harness bar, but they both work great esp. together...no more sunroof squeak for me!

Ooo I want that even more now. Added perks FTW

yup that right there tells you that the parts are actually adding strength lol keeping it all stiffer that from the factory

haha thank god i dont have a sunroof but ok cool ill prob get that first and then maybe underails werent they a bitch to install?

nope none of its hard.

not too bad if you just want to bolt them on

but to really make them stiff you need to weld them or use lord fusor

Ordered one yesterday to test out :)

I like how when I go on Powell's online store there's nothing for cobalts. LOL

yup... let's just say I'm glad I got John to install my UCR...

He was saying lovely things about the install lol

...totally worth it, i used my buddy and did it at my work :lol: took us a long ass time though

suprisingly does take a long ass time..especially when ur pinch welds are flat to begin with lol

haha u welded them on andrew? wtf lol

hells yeah! my cars stiffer than a pecker in the morning!

hey guys becareful... I did something stupid a few days ago..

I jacked my car up, using the ucr point... put axel stands underneath on both sides...

Well I was pulling off my right rear tire.. my car moved down a bit? so I'm like what the hell?

Look underneath looks good...

Did my left rear tire.. same thing... so now I double check the stands...

Turns out the rear of the car was about .5 of an inch to high for the axel stand lol

that's how much it stiffens up the car, had to raise the car a bit more.. jut to get the axel stand on the rear to sit lol

So its interesting. Now I tried the new XXX bar on the street. Scott Herbert and Slowbalt have reported car handles better in auto x. Slowbalt actually got fastest RAW time last weekend, congrats.

But for the street? Actually the car is really nice on off /on ramps; I gotta couple favesw I like to dick with that are long decreasing radius that can give a fwd fits. Good. very good.

What does happen not so good, is subtle though. "head toss" is one thing; hard sprung cars suffer from that. Thats when you drive down the road and the car reacts to bumps and undulations by a movement that causes your head to "toss" side to side.

and lastly something that happened back in the day with rwd muscle cars that were characteristically undersprung and over bar'd. The big front bar would make the car d dart unnecessarily or behave like it had bump steer on small undulations... only now with this rear bar, its different, the car does it at the rear. very slightly, not alarming, but the first time it does it ,you think "wtf did I run over something?"

Need to drive in wet weather next, but both Scott and Allan are happy.

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so am I

lol

ps next bar will be candy blue for me...

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PS not the thread but UCR'S bonded are the way to fly...unless ur name is Rootbeer and u weld them

When is there going to be a site to buy all these parts?

John your killing me. Im putting money aside for the old new daily and vacation.

you got me wanting to grab the ucr's the harness bar and the xxx bar from you :lol:

And the way you describe the bar makes me think of my old work truck as far as the bumpsteer comment. Ironically I always found it a bit fun when the truck did that :lol:


Keep up the good work man!

1.5" is weak. You need 1.75 ;)

Thank you. Its fun. Like why else? YOU should see the trick twisting beams I am playing with.... but seriously and frankly I would do UCR and Bar before i did something else, like say.....

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oh well, anything else. :lol:

still the only one, but if you add the 1.5 and the stock tc weld in, its pretty close to what you got. only the shear point/roll center is different...

Tip, get konis for the rear. That problem will go away. The uphill esses @ VIR triggers it quite badly. Totally gone after I got the Konis and saw the shock dyno. Stockers do not have enough low speed rebound.

Looking forward to my bar.