Cobalt SS making a name for itself.

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Nov 18, 2005 | 01:39 PM

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Cobalt SS making a name for itself.

TIME ATTACK November 8th at Buttonwillow
Alot of big tuners showed up and a Cobalt took 1st overall in a field of highly modded Skylines, Evos, STI's, RX-7s, ect.. A full write up is coming up in a future issue of SuperStreet Magazine. This is the same car featured in the Street Tuner Challenge show on Speed TV

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The Chevrolet Cobalt SS Supercharged "Time Attack," which was displayed at the SEMA Show, made an impression at Buttonwillow Raceway Park on Nov. 8 to say the least, finishing with the fastest time overall (1:51) and first in the Front Engine Front Drive (FF) Unlimited Class at the Toyo Tires Time Attack presented by Super Street and eurotuner magazines. It is the second-fastest time ever for a Time Attack run at Buttonwillow and eclipses the previous records set for FF Unlimited (1:57) and all-wheel-drive (AWD) Limited (1:54) classes. The Front-Wheel-Drive (FWD) Cobalt SS Supercharged bested more than 50 competitors driving such established AWD racecars as the Nissan Skyline and Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution among others, and was one of only three domestic entries along with the Ford Mustang and Dodge Neon.

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Nov 18, 2005 | 01:42 PM

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Re: Cobalt SS making a name for itself.

Some of the competition:

Nov 18, 2005 | 01:52 PM

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Very Cool!

Nov 18, 2005 | 02:03 PM

Jason E

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Those cars may be faster than mine, but I wouldn't be caught dead in any of them. Speed doesn't mean beautiful with those, that's for sure...

Nov 18, 2005 | 02:22 PM

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The Time Attack is factory backed right?

Nov 18, 2005 | 02:28 PM

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I can't believe how much effort GM is putting behind the Cobalt... Well, actually, it does make sense since they are trying hard to tap into the sports compact crowd..

But makes me wonder, if/when we get the next Camaro, will GM put at least this much effort?

Nov 18, 2005 | 02:38 PM

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I can't believe how much effort GM is putting behind the Cobalt...

If only they would have put half as much effort into the 4th gen

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But makes me wonder, if/when we get the next Camaro, will GM put at least this much effort?

We'd all better hope so or else the 5th gen will suffer the same fate as the 4th

Regardless of these things though...It is nice to see them putting some effort into an affordable performance car, (even if it is wrong wheel drive), and kickin' a$$ with it

Nov 18, 2005 | 02:41 PM

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The Time Attack is factory backed right?

The Cobalt was a factory backed endeavor but not all the teams/cars were factory backed.

Nov 18, 2005 | 03:19 PM

90 Z28SS

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The Time Attack is factory backed right?

You or I could duplicate that car . Its nothing exotic or 1 off . The stg. 2 GM kit will be out within the next month and 1/2 , the GM Corsa exhaust is out , GM extrude honed manifold or a choice of headers are out , coil overs avail ect ect . The shortblock , supercharger and transmission are factory pieces . Its a pretty simple car . John heinricy(sp?) unfortunately is probably untainable

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But makes me wonder, if/when we get the next Camaro, will GM put at least this much effort?

Their efforts with the Cobalt should show nothing but positive news in regards to factory support of the next gen Camaro .

I am loving this because toooooooo many people wrote off and still write the Cobalt SS as a joke . Sure , its got alot more ground to cover before it gets any respect , but I thinks its doing a pretty good job of that within its first year of production . And looking at the aftermarket shops for this particular car , the aftermarket is gonna explode this year for the ol Cobalt .

Nov 18, 2005 | 04:15 PM

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Have they figured out how to get into the ECM yet?

Nov 18, 2005 | 04:53 PM

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Have they figured out how to get into the ECM yet?

The aftermarket has not . GM has it sealed up like a vault . It probably has alot to do with their tuned pcm's with the staged kits . I could see why they would wanna be the first one out with a tuned pcm . There would be ALOT more pulley kits on the market released before GM's staged kits if the aftermarket had full control of the PCM . But their was only one that offered a piggyback pcm .