Welcome a new member of the family: Balto!

[SoulTerror]

Brian just go to page 1. They where black before but maybe he did them in a gloss black now?

[MP81]

They were mold-in-color like a dark gray.

I painted them satin black.



There's where I taped, so the top part of the grille (in the engine bay) is still the stock molded color, and below is painted.

It's much more noticeable in person, though subtle still.

[JoeliusZ28]

Im with jonny on road racing! when is the 5-speed swap happening?

And dont be afraid of the headlights, I did them on my Colorado. The seals turned out "OK" but i blame it ENTIRELY on the digustingly cheap quality of the housings in the first place You can check them out saturday morning before the convoy. Hopefully your cobalt lamps are better. Be sure to use permatex ultra black for the re-seal and ship it!

[MP81]

Im with jonny on road racing! when is the 5-speed swap happening?

And dont be afraid of the headlights, I did them on my Colorado. The seals turned out "OK" but i blame it ENTIRELY on the digustingly cheap quality of the housings in the first place You can check them out saturday morning before the convoy. Hopefully your cobalt lamps are better. Be sure to use permatex ultra black for the re-seal and ship it!

Haha, 5-speed swap will only happen if my trans esplodes, and at that point, I might just rebuild the auto, and throw a stall in it....and forge the engine while it's all apart.

People seem to be all right on the Cobalt forums, if they put them back in the oven after painting and then put them together - but I would probably apply more silicone to seal the deal.

And yes - the quality of the plastic is shitty, but the lenses are pretty good (lenses being the reason I don't just get projectors, I don't want to deal with cracking/peeling shitty lenses)

[JoeliusZ28]

the problem with my housings is that the fitament of the back-halves to the front-halves was never what it should be. Some places would seal snugly, and other places id have a 1/8" gap no matter what i tried. And thats why they are known to condensate so bad in the first place I would imagine!

[MP81]

Oh wow, that is real bad!

Some Cobalt headlights do that and some don't...GM has always seemed to have condensation issues in head and taillights.

[MP81]

Shit...where'd my lights go?


Mmm, shiny






My taillights are shinier than my car, re-Niteshaded them, then put 2 coats of some real good clear from a spray gun (well, my Little B did that part), they look sooo much better in real life compared to the faded paint job before.

Spray gun > Rattle Can

[meissen]

Good job, Kyle! That nightshade sure looked like it was fading/wearing off.

[white97z28]

looking good!

[MP81]

Good job, Kyle! That nightshade sure looked like it was fading/wearing off.

looking good!

Thanks guys!

And yeah, it was. It was very strange, but it definitely had gone away. Fred said the same thing happened on his truck.

[Gottork]

looking better everytime you take pics

[MP81]

Bought a coil pack cover and strut tower brace off a friend of mine.




Went autocrossing at Dixie motor speedway last weekend...honestly I'm surprised my brakes actually worked there, in hindsight...

Couple pics of my car from there:




And this is what happens when your tires suck, and they don't stick when they normally do. I managed to keep it from spinning completely, which was nice.




Car handled incredibly, aside from the tires sliding everywhere.
If I had driven as good as I did in the fun non-timed runs at the end of the day as I did during the timed runs, I would've had much better times. It was my first time autocrossing, so I didn't expect to impress anyone.

So I went to change my brakes this weekend to new Raybestos Advanced Tech rotors & Hawk HPS pads up front, and new Raybestos drums out back with new Centric shoes (found out my shoes were perfectly fine, but replaced them anyhow), and painted the new drums.


Was jacking it up by the front subframe (too low to get under the jack points - not sure why I didn't drive up onto blocks like normal), jack slipped out, and the car slammed down - onto the jackstand I had sitting underneath waiting to go under the side subframes - with the radiator, and now it leaks.

Anyhow, went ahead with the brake job.



What's left of the stock pads...which is nothing, or less than nothing.



Rotors, old and new - yeah, just a tad warped...with some metal on metal.



All new!




Painted new drums

Bought a new radiator and was able to drive her up to school, and today I pulled the front fascia off (takes me hardly any time now), and readied it for radiator removal. Just need to drain the coolant system, and pull the trans lines out of the radiator and then I can swap it over.

[Gottork]

GLAD YOUR BACK!! lol

Sorry to hear about the radiator, glad your road course was fun though..

[OIF1VET]

Saw your radiator on FB, sure glad you weren't under it(car when it fell)! Mines sitting up in the air now.. Hopefully be crawling round under it this weekend..

[meissen]

Wow - good thing you weren't under the car when it fell, Kyle! That radiator sure is dented up!