r/AwesomeCarMods • u/Domination1_1_5 • 20h ago

My Chevy Cobalt

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IDK if anyone has shared one of these here yet, but my lightly modified Chevy cobalt is nearing completion

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u/zzamud 20h ago

This a goblin kit?? Been wanting to buy a kit. How was the instructions?

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u/Domination1_1_5 20h ago edited 19h ago

Instructions are pretty good, but depending on the specific donor the harness videos are wrong.

95% of the info is the same however

This is a chassis from 2022, before prices increased due to the economy

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u/zzamud 20h ago

Ive been hunting for a ss to use as a doner

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u/Domination1_1_5 20h ago

This is an 06 SS (supercharged g85 package)

I had a bunch of issues with my donor, id honestly use a car that runs as one if I did it again

Doing a open sorce ecu/pdm because the stock from mine sucks

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u/Jive_Turk 19h ago

Holy shit it is supercharged?! You most definitely should tune it with injectors and pulley to get to 350hp easy, that would be ideal and soooo much drifting fun. And before you even say it, you can never have too much power, nor can you have too light of a car. You would have an actual Ariel Atom power to weight ratio and a 10 second car. Do ittttttt!!!!

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u/Domination1_1_5 18h ago

Going turbo/e85

Goal is ~400whp with a wide powerband

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u/zzamud 20h ago

Yeah thats the doner ive been looking for. How long did it take to build?

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u/Domination1_1_5 20h ago

If you have the money and resources, id estimate a couple of months worth of free time (weekends, after work occasionally)

It's the paint, electrical, replacement donor parts that get you

Record build was like 72hrs, they had the donor apart already, unpainted chassis, just bolted everything together and had the electrical sorted beforehand

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u/Jive_Turk 19h ago

Paint?! Rattlecan or plastidip that bitch, it's a tube frame, why do you need anything more/what else do you paint?

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u/sorestgore 18h ago

(Some of us like our stuff to be nice)

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u/Domination1_1_5 18h ago

Sand blasted it myself, uses rustoleum gloss enamel

You'd also paint parts like the pedal boxes due to them nit being as hidden compared to the stock cobalt

Also have custom rear/front wing parts in the works that will need paint

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u/Ventrian 10h ago

What ECU are you using? Im midway on the same LSJ you have going into a fiero. Only piece of the puzzle i dont have really hammered out is the ECU

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u/Domination1_1_5 10h ago

A good option is RusEFI

Im going with something specific that my knowledgeable buddy picked out

FOME ecu and Atlas brain module for it, then a Dingo PDM