benji's_z28

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so on my way back from doing an errand, i see this soltice with handicapped license plates. and he gets behind me rather quickly . so maybe he wants to mess around, so i go out to a country road on the edge of town (this was only a few blocks away anyway). so i give it a little go go juice and he is still on my ***!!. so i thought to hell with this... and i went WOT. and he slowly fell behind.

i get to a turn around point and he stops and says he always wanted to see one of these cars run, and he said he missed 3rd so thats why he fell behind . so i asked him if its the GXP, and sure enough it was.

then he continues about how he used to have a 69 road runner and blah blah..... so we turn around and face the other way ( the cross road was gravvel).

so he leaves the gravvel part first and guns it, so by the time i get on it i heard him hit 2nd already but that didnt matter, by the top of 1st i could tell i was gaining on him and by the top of 3rd i was on his bumper.

cool older guy smokin a ciggarette just curious about my car thats all.

this is the closest thing ive had to a race in about a year so i had to post lol.

itsslow98

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guy i work with went 14.0 at 101 with his 07 solstice GXP, not bad little cars i bet there fun to drive(if your 5'5")

jlink

Lol. Not bad at all I ran a 14.0 in my stock 04 gto on street tires.

WSsick

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The GXP's have the LNF that the Cobalt SS/TC's have (and the HHR SS) so they can be pretty quick. The RWD helps them actually able to get off the line too (hugger can attest to those issues) . Cool cars, I wish I saw a modded one around here. Ive tried fitting in a Solstice before, not good at all unless your short like someone said (Im 6'2).


Im guessing yours is a stick and you dont know how to launch your car

NightmareTA

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They're cool little cars. Don't see them around much though, especially the GXP's. And I've never seen a modded one yet. I'm sure they respond great to mods though because I know the new turbo cobalts really wake up with a few things. I can't imagine those little cars are all that heavy either.

AWDTBSS

the gxp has the same dif as the cts-v.
tuned they can be quick but idk if it will have enough top end to keep up with a LSx motor

hugger1975

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i can certaintly support his statement on traction
id love to have my setup with RWD. i too ran 14.0 @ 105 with a freakin 2.35 sixty footer

hell of a fun roll car. i can only imagine how fun the solstice iswith a tune.
me want (but i am 6" with 1.5 kids)

hugger1975

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p.s good story

almost pulled a

(i just bought some brand new 235/50/18's so im buggin my neighbor to line up with his stock 99 z

WSsick

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Knew you'd weigh in. Quirtcherbitchin about that 60' and beat it! Try out the launch control, too.

projectX

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dammit I need more mods... lol

hugger1975

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(baby boy due late oct

im goin back one last time with he new tires and will try te launch control at the track.....maybe the computer grannies can modulate the launch better then me?

marc97taws6

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My dad has an 07 Solstice GXP w/ 11k miles on it and those babies are fun to drive. I too think it is funny that my nearly 50 yr old dad (6'0, 270lbs) is in that car.

When the warranty runs out he wants to do some mods like Stage 2 and exhaust

Good to see an Iowa guy having fun

AWDTBSS

The gm stg2 and 1 kit are all covered under warranty...why wait?

hugger1975

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this/

why wait?
sure an aftermarket gets you even more power but the GM tune is at least where the car should be!
no lag, more HP/tq, etc with warrenty.....

do it!!!!

marc97taws6

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He wants to do all the aftermarket exhaust stuff and Stage 2 at once. His warranty is due to run out soon anyway so it might be soon anyway lol keep in mind it is a 07 and GM only did 3yr/36k on their GXP's. I think he has like 2 months left of warranty

AWDTBSS

07+ is 3/36 bumper to bumper but 5/100k powertrain. stg2 is under warranty so mine as well do it now then add exhaust. but if hes waiting til after the warranty screw gm crappy conservative tunes get a custom tune

GXPPOWER

if you go over to some of the solstice forums. apparently the solstice gxp something about the pcm/ecm make them hard to tune much. i just remember thinking about getting one but then after reading some forums came to the conclusion they were a pain to mod. this was a couple years ago though so...

hugger1975

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trifecta and a few other guys have figured it out.
lots of power to be found in just a tune.

camaro98z28

If you get a TUNE make sure make sure to stay under 24PSI at Full boost. There are issues with rings and I am probably the first to destroy the 2.0 turbo engine with boltons and an HP tune. I hit 26 PSI.. It was fun and fast but I blew the engine and I spent months fighting the dealers to fix it. LOL They did and Im back to just a Stage Kit which is plenty.

99C5JA

I call there is no street racing in IA

I just picked up an '07 Cobalt SS as my daily driver. It's the stupidcharged version, but is still fun to run around in (the 33MPG it's been averaging doesn't suck either). I've read up on what they can get out of them with some of the mods (including the factory stuff Marc mentions) and it's pretty impressive.

I've seen a couple of Solstice GXP's running around and wondered how quick they were. Good kill