I am looking at trading my 2008 Cobalt SS turbo in on a 2004 forester XT. The cobalt I love. It's an incredibly fast 4cylinder that is one heck of a sleeper. I've ran 1/4 miles in the high 13's stock. The downside to the cobalt is well it stays parked for most of the year. I have a 4x4 for winter but I kind of want to get down to a 1 vehicle house. So that brought me to this subaru. I've got it for an overnight test drive, and I have been running it pretty decent to see what it can do. The nice thing of course is traction, right now my FWD cobalt has pretty much 0 traction through 2nd and even some times 3rd gear when the roads are this cold. This thing still launches hard with hardly a chirp out of the tires.
So the car is plenty fast enough but can I reliably make it as fast if not faster than my cobalt with out pulling the motor and lots of $$$? What about the auto transmission can it hold up? I'd be going from a car with low miles, 14k, to a 90k mile rig. So how many more miles can I expect out of it? The big thing for me is reliability, GM just came out with a stage kit for my cobalt and people are dynoing around 320 wheel torque, and I still would be under warrenty. I've worked on cars quite a bit pulled a few motors, so I know a few things but still I dont want to be buying something I'll be dumping lots of money into?
hopefully this isn't too much of a ramble.
anyways any thoughts would be great.
Thanks
So the car is plenty fast enough but can I reliably make it as fast if not faster than my cobalt with out pulling the motor and lots of $$$? What about the auto transmission can it hold up? I'd be going from a car with low miles, 14k, to a 90k mile rig. So how many more miles can I expect out of it? The big thing for me is reliability, GM just came out with a stage kit for my cobalt and people are dynoing around 320 wheel torque, and I still would be under warrenty. I've worked on cars quite a bit pulled a few motors, so I know a few things but still I dont want to be buying something I'll be dumping lots of money into?
hopefully this isn't too much of a ramble.
anyways any thoughts would be great.
Thanks