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Old 07-06-2012, 10:11 PM
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Corn it up, Hugger!

Use some of that corn sauce us Iowans provide ya'll with
Old 07-10-2012, 06:15 PM
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No offense, but can that guy in the vette drive? As much as I respect modded cobalts, there is something wrong here.
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Originally Posted by callmedoc
No offense, but can that guy in the vette drive? As much as I respect modded cobalts, there is something wrong here.
do you not understand how much 8600 DA will effect a NA engine? the Cobalt has a Huge advantage being FI and using e85. he trapped 110 mph in 8600 DA. DA corrected would be roughly 12.47@115 MPH

if a stock NA car ran the exact 13.1 his corrected DA time would be 11.58@122
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Originally Posted by GXPPOWER
do you not understand how much 8600 DA will effect a NA engine? the Cobalt has a Huge advantage being FI and using e85. he trapped 110 mph in 8600 DA. DA corrected would be roughly 12.47@115 MPH

if a stock NA car ran the exact 13.1 his corrected DA time would be 11.58@122
Ive just seen so many people at the track who make these Vette's look bad. A good driver makes a HUGE difference w/ these cars. Just my experience.

Good kill OP
Old 07-10-2012, 07:39 PM
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GHP nailed it though.
I was pissy when my cammed hugger ran 13.3 in Colorado.

Damn Sti with minimal boltone was runnin 13.0

Grrrrrrr
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Originally Posted by GXPPOWER
do you not understand how much 8600 DA will effect a NA engine? the Cobalt has a Huge advantage being FI and using e85. he trapped 110 mph in 8600 DA. DA corrected would be roughly 12.47@115 MPH

if a stock NA car ran the exact 13.1 his corrected DA time would be 11.58@122
N/A cars lose 2-3% percent of their hp for every thousand feet of elevation.
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Originally Posted by M29_Formula
It's terrible... about 18mpg city and 22mpg highway. Used to be ~23mpg city and a little over 30mpg highway on 93 octane. The power increase is worth it though. That and premium is about $3.70/gal here right now, so it costs roughly the same per mile to run E85.
Depends on how its tuned for the ethanol and whether or not you're running full on e85, which IMO, isnt necessary with DI to take full advantage of the knock suppression. I found that my car was fastest running a mix of 25-30 percent E and 87 octane


Car runs hard though buddy! Nice work.
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Originally Posted by T.Man
Depends on how its tuned for the ethanol and whether or not you're running full on e85, which IMO, isnt necessary with DI to take full advantage of the knock suppression. I found that my car was fastest running a mix of 25-30 percent E and 87 octane


Car runs hard though buddy! Nice work.
TMan, it says your location is in the desert? Which one? Anywhere around Vegas?
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Nice kill OP. Wish GM would've done the Pontiac G5 in a T/C version.
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Originally Posted by bamaballa205
Nice kill OP. Wish GM would've done the Pontiac G5 in a T/C version.
Could always have built a 2.2 or 2.4. ZZP makes a nice turbo set-up for the 2.4
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Originally Posted by jbs02somws6
N/A cars lose 2-3% percent of their hp for every thousand feet of elevation.
It does suck. My T/A traps 106-107mph at 6800ft and in Sacramento at near sea level (800-1200ft) I trap 113mph and 114mph at close to 0 DA. At 6800ft I'm at the top of third through the traps and at sea level I'm deep into fourth at the end of the quarter.
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Originally Posted by willizm
TMan, it says your location is in the desert? Which one? Anywhere around Vegas?
Arizona



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