For the newbie here.
11-05-2010, 12:36 PM
#11
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Join Date: 06-30-2008
Location: hiram, georgia
Posts: 82
After shipped stuff back and forth it comes up around $180 or so if I can remember right.
http://pcmforless.com
Here is their website. I cannot access it from this computer. LAN restrictions..
http://pcmforless.com
Here is their website. I cannot access it from this computer. LAN restrictions..
11-05-2010, 04:01 PM
#17
Member
Join Date: 06-30-2008
Location: hiram, georgia
Posts: 82
OK so this is the responce I recieved, kinda sounds promising.....
"We may have time to do some R&D on these in December. For Nov we have a bit too much on our plate at the shop. We would probably need a 2.2L for 2-3 days. I am pretty certain that if it's still in beta that reading it will return an invalid OS/VIN pair, which is going to have to be fixed by HPTuners (sometimes takes a while for them to get back to us) before we can actually tune it. "
"We may have time to do some R&D on these in December. For Nov we have a bit too much on our plate at the shop. We would probably need a 2.2L for 2-3 days. I am pretty certain that if it's still in beta that reading it will return an invalid OS/VIN pair, which is going to have to be fixed by HPTuners (sometimes takes a while for them to get back to us) before we can actually tune it. "
02-03-2011, 09:48 AM
#20
Senior Member
Join Date: 03-19-2009
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 296
I know I may have a lot of posts under my belt, but I am still new to my HHR.
Since I have no idea what to look for for quality parts, I was hoping someone could help me figure out brands and prices for performance mods to my 2008 Shadow Edition..
I am looking to get a Cold Air intake, Larger injectors, Performance Spark Plugs and MAYBE a nos kit if I feel so warranted to do so.
Any help here guys?
-Officer1151
Since I have no idea what to look for for quality parts, I was hoping someone could help me figure out brands and prices for performance mods to my 2008 Shadow Edition..
I am looking to get a Cold Air intake, Larger injectors, Performance Spark Plugs and MAYBE a nos kit if I feel so warranted to do so.
Any help here guys?
-Officer1151
When it comes to modding a car you need to look from the start of where Air enters the intake track and when it exits and from every part of that process there are most times a place where it can be improved. BUT being that said sometimes there is a trade off of driveability or something like interior cabin noise or rattles do pop up. The question is what can you tolerate?
My Wife's 2007 HHR LT came out of warrentee this past Sept. so basically we are going to own this vehicle long term, kinda sucks, not a fan of it but might as well make the best of it.
Since it has a Eco-tec engine in it, at least there is some support for it and as a guy who races I would look beyond HHR for some of the internal mods and look at places that sells stuff for Cobalts for example.
Looking at the options you can do alot of things such as buying a cold air intake or even making one. I saw one that want to do as it will pull from the grill. Then looking at other "bolt on" mods such as header, and removing the CATS, down to a high flow muffler. You can get a kit made for the car or one fabbed up.
Then looking at internals such has cyl head work, changing compression or even changing cams those will help power.
Doing tunes are great and help cars from making stock power and changing timing and shift points, removing limiters etc etc. BUT when you change the A/F Ratio, you really need to have it retuned not only for WOT (Wide Open Throttle), but also PART throttle and IMO a dyno tune is key.
Street tunes are fine as long as the data can be logged and a competent Tuner can make the correct changes.
I have more, but im at work and I will post more on this subject.
