SLEEPER Cobalt vs GT-R & ZR-1 

I got a stock 06 sc... I never did anything to it due to always getting in trouble lol... but I wanna tune it now... where should I start? any advice appreciated :)

Depends how much $$$ you want to spend but the gm stage upgrades are a good place to start, suspension, maybe even covert it to a turbo if you've got some $ to burn. I've got two Cobalts a 2006 LS with the L61 since brand new(which have grown to love this platform from her) with just basic bolts on's like cai, 2.25" exhaust manifold back w/high flow cat, short shifter, jet maf sensor, front strut brace, Bosch +4 spark plugs, power stop rotors and pads. My other cobalt is a 2010 SS/TC for a few years now with k&n/aem upgraded short ram intake, xs 3" turbo back and will do the gm stage 1 upgrade soon along with suspension and brakes. since this will be my Sunday driver and my 2006 will have a fully built ecotec(not sure but leaning towards an LSJ block for mpfi) will be my project.

Cobalt is shit. Chevy needed it to boost their mpg ratings for the epa. Their main money is in their trucks. My ecotec suffered the infamous timing chain failure. Built cheap, sold cheap

OFFICIAL NSA your stupid it’s direct injection is powerful you trendy moron you don’t know anything about how engines work probably an idiot that thinks engine size wins races this car has various advantages over the gtr it’s lighter it has a coolant boost intake and exhaust modes with performance chip and gdi oil with a race filter and magnesium rims and a special suspension system and plenty of traction an awd won’t help it cuase the car has no weight in the back the awd would just weigh it down

you can with good fab knowledge and some research...theres civics running awd k series kits off honda elements and honda pilots pushing 7s and 8s on the track. there are even aftermarket companies like humble performance selling bolt on rear trailing arm kits for the rear diff. and mounts, im pretty sure these kits could work on a cobalt.

check out on youtube snobalt vs gtr alpha

Will do thanks man!

Stoney Baker mines built and youre right....NO ONE sees it coming lol

uh, everyone builds them. I only know of a few that are still stock lol. WAAAAAAY more rare to find them stock than modified.

Stoney Baker I use to whoop so much ass in my turbo balt. One with full boltons n tune can beat pretty much anything with 400whp or less on the road. I even beat scat pack chargers up to about 155mph

AMEND brother!

I love my 09, my last car was a 08 zo6 and had an 04 zo6 before as well. I honestly must say my cobalt is so much fun and it pulls as hard as my 04 zo6 in its current tune. Fantastic power for the money. Great little car.

Bought a J-body with the, then new 2 .2 Ecotec. Each of my three kiddos drove it. I still got it. And it still gets it. Delta platform seems to iron out suspension issues. The J's on launch, squat aft pretty bad. Mulling a set of KYB Adjustables. But I'm old. My kidneys don't like the bumps.

Yo tengo el Chevy cobaltl 2006 es una chulada

Because it's usually driven by ricer kids who are forced to buy domestic. Not all cobalt and srt-4 drivers are ricers, but many are.

It doesn't matter what car you have, you can make all cars go fast in a strait line.

***** Of course you can make it faster. Different engine in it, and you are done

osp80 this is a LSJ

No shit , the little cobalt that could , I've put 200 thousand dollar cars to shame on a stock turbo cobalt with e85 and bolt ons. Get real people. Cobalts aren't some fucking joke if done right.

Your drunk bud people mad hate on the cobalts too. I get lots of flack for owning one. Especially being its not the juiced up turbo or super'd model

There is no aftermarket support for colbalts... No serious one. You gotta build em

all it gets is jdm fanboys saying "iT CoPPieD thE R34 TailLIgHts iTs tRYinG tO Be gOOd lIkE JDM"

Civics are like basic chicks they’re just passed around

@@bakedcornbread9093, ever hear of ZZP?

Did you not see the bun??? hahaha

***** damn track food

usually the cheap ass hockey puck burgers at the dirt track i worked at were the best.

Probably because hungry. Needed food right then. No time for extra stuff.

Ketchup weight reduction, race car thinking

Interesting how no one is bitching about the ZR1 and its mods...

mikeflemming711 it's kind of a shame, really. The datsus is actually a nice car - it's throngs of playstation racer fanboys give it such a bad name though.

It wasn't over 9000.

I see what you did there.

Kyle Tatum under 9000?

Yea boyy

Yup

0:05 drakes first cousin?!

Facts

Exactly. That balt is a bad bitch.

you aren't alone! :)

Deerrr... 720

I didn't laugh, just got pissed, but I know what you're saying.

Lmao yeah that was funny

laughing at his accent and the way he talks? at least he owns a GTR and speaks 2 languages ;)

B0SSNINE right with ya on that. Quick little bugger. Thought my ST would blow right past this cobalt... stayed dead even the whole time. Props to Chevy on this car

Hell yeah I love my 08 cobalt ss with every mod it gets better n better I'm saving up for the turbo upgrade package from zzp for the lnf that package and stage gm 1 sensors and a stage 3 clutch itll be about 4400.00 bucks but will be so worth it I cant wait I'll have to sell the knn dry air intake that the package comes with cuz I'm keeping my aem cold air intake on cuz that's the best intake imo

Makes you gay too 😆

Like 600 at the crank. No way a 450 hp cobalt is going to beat two "700" hp cars

600whp gtr is already faster than 650hp zr1

***** just did. That's what he's making I know for a fact.

That's what I was thinking...that guy prolly didn't even dyno his car..

***** he's 2900lbs, and the gearing is probably very short in the cobalt, the zr1 has gearing to go over 200mph, a zr1 is around 3600lbs and the GTR is heavier besides that he has slicks, weight is a lot more important than you think.

I drive a cobalt stock but getting a turbo for it soon

shut up bitch stop crying

beastson what an educated response, you must be so proud of your 4th grade level education

Alot of these guys still have stock transmissions and rear ends, when you put more power in the car then you should and then try to dig on a prepped surface their little super cars blow up, its just people with a lot of money taking their toy to the strip.

JU5TBL4ZE a person with a tag name like that, you are gonna go FAR in life. no not really, flip those burgers boy

***** i am cute as fuck

Not even close actually. Fastest cobalt turbo does mid 9's. None of these cars including the ZR did under mid 11's

+Michael Harris yeah...but only one of em had four cylinders...and costs tens of thousands less...

9000?!

Don't SSleep Dragonball

I just got myself a little LS coupe manual. Nowhere near a sports car, not that fast, but it has plenty of get up and go and most importantly.. it's fun as all hell to drive.

You can make it fast lol

JD B Sure. For thousands of dollars. I bought a $1,700 car for a reason. I'm broke.

Yeah true for about 2 grand you can turbo it. I forget how cheap these cars are now. I have had mine for 9 years but have the same LS manual. Partly because they are so cheap I couldn't get rid of mine for that because it is worth more to me, so I made it fast instead lol. It's a blast to autocross.

JD B Mine was in a minor accident(hit a deer, dented the hood, slightly bent the radiator core support) and also had a dent from a drunk neighbor kicking the passenger door and the guy I bought it from was about to have twins when he already had two kids so didn't want a couple. Got it for a steal of a price. Fixed up the minor issues. Bam, great car to get to college for the next few years at least. With 141k miles on it I likely won't turbo it, but in the future when I have more money I may end up buying an SS because even the LS is incredibly fun to drive.

Went back and watched. Can't say I get it.

I think he was laughing because of the accent.

My old SS/TC would go circles around the R33 I owned in Japan.

I love the gtr and i also like the cobalt

what race were u watching, it didn't get realed in at all

tomjw7 By the end of the quarter mile he caught up so much lmao

the zr1 did the gtr didn't catch up as much.

Still makes me laugh to this day

Glad you decided to keep the car

P.s. the supersaab is at 30 psi e85 with newer setup

He's 19. That's my boy. He was driving that night.

TURBOLSJBALT06 damn that's awesome at 19. good for him, he's got a badass cobalt

TheMainMan318 what’s his name ?? I wanna know more about the build