Jcas
Well-Known Member
I am sure that I am not the first to feel like a kid in a candy store that has been told get what ever you want (Special thanks to my wife of 22 years). Along with the excitement I can't help feeling a bit overwhelmed. I have to both pinch myself to see if this is a dream and assure myself that this is broke down so easy and I have all of you here. They say a journey of a 1000 miles starts with the first step. I have been spending the past few weeks ordering things from amazon to ensure that all things will be organized and labeled. I have even gotten a couple more USB thumb drives to store pictures and more pictures on. I have spent many hours pouring over all of your post in high hopes to not make the same mistakes as you have but I will ensure that I will make some that you all can learn from LOL.
I now have to do my due diligence and now keep you all up to date as to my successes and failures as I have now put the wheels in motion. In the past few weeks of owning the Cobalt I have done very little to it as I have found that the work space that I have seems to not be as dry as I had hoped. So I hope this weekend to at least put a tarp over the roof of the detached garage (to at least get me through to nicer weather to put a new roof on the garage) and have made arrangements to store our motorcycle in the neighbors garage to make room for the new project. I have spent some time to figure out why the right turn signal didn't work (bad turn signal switch) and tried to get the Low voltage Mass Air flow code to go away but feel that during the accident the plastics between the throttle body and mass air flow sensor are shattered so have decided rather than try to seal this long enough to clear code may just be a waste of time and beings that this section all gets replaced with a cold air intake that most likely this code will take care of itself.
Our plans with this build is to tear the Cobalt down and do the needed work to get it into the Goblin. Once there and most bugs worked out I will be ordering a supercharger from most likely zzp and up grade our NA to SC. Once that is done I have a huge learning curve that I am in high hopes I can get my help here on. I am very much old school and we are no longer setting our timing by twisting the distributor or using our golden screw driver to set fuel mixture.
We have many longer trips planned for the Car possibly some autocross and maybe a road course or two might also be in the future of this little car. One fact I know for sure there will be plenty of rides given to those that ask.
I now have to do my due diligence and now keep you all up to date as to my successes and failures as I have now put the wheels in motion. In the past few weeks of owning the Cobalt I have done very little to it as I have found that the work space that I have seems to not be as dry as I had hoped. So I hope this weekend to at least put a tarp over the roof of the detached garage (to at least get me through to nicer weather to put a new roof on the garage) and have made arrangements to store our motorcycle in the neighbors garage to make room for the new project. I have spent some time to figure out why the right turn signal didn't work (bad turn signal switch) and tried to get the Low voltage Mass Air flow code to go away but feel that during the accident the plastics between the throttle body and mass air flow sensor are shattered so have decided rather than try to seal this long enough to clear code may just be a waste of time and beings that this section all gets replaced with a cold air intake that most likely this code will take care of itself.
Our plans with this build is to tear the Cobalt down and do the needed work to get it into the Goblin. Once there and most bugs worked out I will be ordering a supercharger from most likely zzp and up grade our NA to SC. Once that is done I have a huge learning curve that I am in high hopes I can get my help here on. I am very much old school and we are no longer setting our timing by twisting the distributor or using our golden screw driver to set fuel mixture.
We have many longer trips planned for the Car possibly some autocross and maybe a road course or two might also be in the future of this little car. One fact I know for sure there will be plenty of rides given to those that ask.
Sounds like you are moving along nicely and have not encountered any problems yet. Did you get a label maker? Don't forget photos of everything before disassembly will help later on.
