Yo stage 5 needs to be accompanied with a lift kit.

OMG you people crack me up. I just joined this site from Cobaltss.net and am not any kind of sponsor. I am fairly new to tuning and wa expecting more Hp as well. My car is a 2005 and came stock with 205 Hp. I have added a Injen CAI and a Ark Grip exhuast before the stage 5 kit from Intense. The only change I made was a 2.7 belt instead of the 2.5 as Intense told me that I would have to upgrade my fuel delivery to a return style before going to the smallest belt. The total upgrade including the kit, cooling mods and header was 3000.00 parts labour tax. Have I not received a good tune as I felt I would get a higher gain with the supporting mods I had already done.

I will post pics once the ##%^&$# snow is gone......and of course my sticker:)

damn, and my AC condenser upgrade just slows my car down... at least my fat ass will be nice and cool :troll:

Sounds about right

Just curious how much it would have been to convert it to the turbo setup used on the Cobalts vs Staying with your Supercharger. The Turbo's make way more power more easily to they not?

Berz out.

Why not go Turbo and Supercharged? :troll:
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$3000=50hp?

You could have bought 50 horses for that.

The most win aspect of that set-up? The pink accents under the hood, a girl owns a car with a F/I set-up many car guys don't realize is possible.
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its not a girl's car. (STi pink)

twin-charged STi? wowwww, nice.

as for the OP, sounds like a nice upgrade kit you got there. although, the "stage 5" labeling sounds a little off. usually a stage 5 type kit would net you big big power. however, the $3000 price tag sounds in line with the type of hp you are currently making. I would highly suggest you get the kit tuned properly. I wouldn't be surprised if you would hit near 300whp with some proper tuning!

im just wondering... why didnt you just opt 4-5 more grand towards the newer 2008+ turbo cobalt ss instead of spending 3k on a stage 5 supercharger? gm made LOTS of enhancement on the 2008+ cobalt ss, which they ditched the super charger and came factory turbocharged, launch control, brembo brakes, lsd, 260crank hp
used ones can be found for around 20k.. no?

i could be wrong on the price though, i dont really look up cobalts often but just sayin

Why buy a slowbalt in the first place?

^idn man.. the newer refined 2008+ turbo cobalt ss are actually quick cars... one of the guys at my work had one and it gave me a whole new view towards the cobalt ss'...

The Turbo Cobalts are actually pretty damn quick.

Berz out.

They're two different engine designs (LSJ vs LNF), I don't think many parts are compatible. Not to mention that LNF's are direct injection...

let me shed a little light here...the supercharged cobalts came with 205 crank hp and 200 crank tq...stage 5 is offered by a company called intense racing.. which practically NO ONE buys from any more because they were a terrible vendor for the cobalt guys ...it is very rare to hear someone buying anything from them...their stage kits are also rediculous...they change one little thing and called it another stage kit.....most cobalt guys with the supercharger buy a stage 2 kit from over the top performance which is just injectors, smaller supercharger pulley and a belt and tune out of the box... whp should be around 230-250 with that and exhaust/ intake... keep in mind that theres power through most of the rpm band so its actually faster than u think .....the new lnf (turbo models ) came with 260 hp 260 tq at the crank from factory...they had factory stage kits (1 and 2) bringing them up to around 300 / 300 crank ...but good tune and turbo back has been known to produce around 330 whp and 360/380 tq its direct injection so no injector change really possible...going turbo on the supercharged cars as possibly stated about they don't use the turbo model turbo they go after market and make anywhere from 260-(we've seen) 400whp anything after that required work / didn't last long and blew up and rebuild was needed

what a waste of money

yeah i heard the cock bolt is pretty quick

gm's stage 2 made them go about 14 seconds flat on the quarter mile at about 100-105 mph ...stock turbo models did the 14 flat stock and with the tune / turbo back do about anywhere from 13.0-12.5 seconds depending on driver..they'r epretty damn quick little fwd cars...until that little renault megan striped out version car did the nurburg ring the turbo cobalt was fastest fwd car to ever do nurburg 8:22.8 - Chevrolet Cobalt SS ..8:17 --- Renault R26.R <-- fastest FWD record (its a striped out basically street race car like the gt3rs so kinda bullshit imo) and fastest before cobalt came along..8:32 --- Volkswagen Golf R32 Mk IV

heres the list from the renault to the old record before the cobalt

8:17 --- Renault R26.R <-- fastest FWD record

8:18 --- BMW Z8
8:18 --- Ferrari F355
8:20 --- Audi RS6
8:20 --- BMW M3 E36
8:20 --- Camaro SS (2010)
8:22 --- BMW M3 E46
8:22 --- BMW M Coupe
8:22 --- Mercedes-Benz C55
8:22.3 - Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R

8:22.8 - Chevrolet Cobalt SS

8:23 --- Aston Martin DB7 GT
8:23 --- Porsche Boxster S
8:23 --- Porsche 996 Carrera 4
8:24 --- Audi S5
8:24 --- Subaru Impreza WRX STi
8:25 --- Lotus Exige S
8:25 --- Mitsubishi Evo VI
8:25 --- Mitsubishi Evo VII
8:26 --- BMW 335i Coupé
8:26 --- Mercedes Benz SLK 32 AMG
8:26 --- Nissan 350Z
8:28 --- BMW E49 M5
8:29 --- Mercedes Benz CLK 55 AMG
8:31 --- 2006 Cadillac STS-V
8:32 --- BMW Z4 3.0 SMG
8:32 --- Lotus Exige

8:32 --- Volkswagen Golf R32 Mk IV


*edit* btw this list is from like 08 or something but i don't htink for fwd its changed

Its still a slowbalt. Ugly, FWD w/ long wheelbase. I don't really care what the production model ring times are. After 400bhp you cant get much else out of it unless your crazy baller rich. I'd rather buy a mark4 r32 and invest the savings i get from not buying the slowbalt.

And if your going to fail me why not attach an argument with it as well?

how about this as an argument..why get fwd at all for that matter..and what do you drive if you don't mind me asking

Holy Crap Euro! Please dont try helping me OK. I like this site and have thick skin. I stubbled into the car I have as a sporty cheap mode of transportation and when I looked closer found that it sort of fell into a tuner car market which was new to me. I love doing this and likely will go to a more mainstream type tuner once this summer is done. I joined this site to learn more about imports so my next purchase will be an educated one. For now I do love driving my cobalt with the new power.

I have to agree that pic of the STi is SICK. I dont know how to paste pictures into my posting so I am adding a album of pics I shot today and can you suggest a good tuner?

Superforce lets see some pics!