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12-07-2018, 01:46 AM | #1 |
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Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
I thought I had enough and got out of the Stocker game when I sold the AMC, but since my girlfriend didn't like the trade in amount the dealership offered her when she bought her new car, we still have her 2007 Chevy Cobalt....and I have the green light to make a Stocker of it if I can't get my dragster into a chassis shop by the end of the year.
Has anyone played around with the naturally aspirated 2.2 Ecotec? What has worked? What hasn't?
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Re: Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
Well Zippy, it would run D/FS as it's natural class. It's probably a little heavy for that. Take it to the track and see how fast it goes completely stock. It's a 15.60 index so if it goes mid to low 16s I'd say try it.
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Re: Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
16.90 in 80 degree semi-humid air
Weighs 3010 so it's only 180 lbs over 111 hp on a Dynojet bone stock
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Re: Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
MPH?
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Re: Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
1.30 seems like quite a ways to go... just to get to the index.Whats the record?
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Re: Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
We had it at 13.96..Back to a minimum now. 5 tenths under. 15.10
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Re: Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
The Ecotec engine has a lot of potential and will make great power when tweaked. In the shop I used to managed, we built them for off road racing. The engines built for the off road sealed engine class made easily over 215 HP on the dyno with the stock components and stock cam.
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Re: Anyone try an Ecotec in Stock yet?
As an example , the Monte went 85 mph with 200k on the clock, 2.93 gears , pure stock. We figured that was enough to run the index at the time, so we went ahead with it.
It ran 1.05 under @ 94 on the first pass. 80 is probably enough potential to get you under the index. Biggest problem will be getting enough torque out of it, with not enough gear. Might want to check if you can get 13" or even14" wheels on it.
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Quote:
http://www.bassettwheel.com/legends_mini.html Any advice on back spacing? Having a harder time finding skinny front runners in that bolt pattern. Can anyone point me in that direction? How did you go about tuning the computer Mark?
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