Turbo RL

Bro, you really think that the GM aftermarket is bad?? That's just nuts... there is no evidence that you could possibly support those statements with. I guarantee you that if you look at how much money trades hands, for ONLY GM branded cars, it would astonish you. If you've been on the Eco boat since it started, that would be all of like 5 years. Really, the last 3 years in particular. That's no time at all. Maybe you need to work a little harder at finding parts because these kids I was watching run 13's in Cavi's last year sure had it figured out. I'm not really sure what support you were looking for since you can buy everything for a Cavi that you can buy for any other sport compact. Hell, Jackson Racing and Turbonetics make direct fit kits for forced induction solutions for them, so what lack of support are you complaining about? I'm not sure what aftermarket you have looked into, but the GM aftermarket from a company wide standpoint is immense.

i think what was meant by "gm's aftermarket is bad" was that GM's aftermarket support for their vehicles is bad, which i would agree, but what car manufacturer provides "good" aftermarket support? Scion? that's a joke, DCX obviously, but that's a fairly new trend, and toyota with TRD performance parts is ok, but not comparable to the "actual" aftermarket.

GM is coming with stuff for us, i have no doubt about that, but we have to be patient, especially considering that the cobalt isn't even out yet (SSs/c), so time will tell.

aside from that, GM cars always receive HUGE aftermarket (not always, but on worthy cars), IN TIME. unless you're doing it yourself, you've gotta wait for stuff to be available, so if you're in a hurry, start e-mailing companies you want to see produce stuff, that's all you can really do for now...

I'm in Chicago. They were running at the Super Chevy Show, there was between 3 and 5 of them. Two were show cars, the rest were running the quarter mile. All of them had either forced induction or nitrous or both, and they were FAST. Me and my roommate watched the first one line up, made fun of it for about 30 sec, due to the huge wing and the green dragon down the side of it, and then wathced in amazement as thing took a Z28(SS?) by a large enough distance that we could tell it from the starting line. We went over and talked to the kids that weren't running the 1/4 mile for about 30 min, since I was wondering if they had any tips I could get to use on my SC2.

There aren't many companies that really provide lots of factory aftermarket options man, if that's what you're talking about then GM and all the rest suck. Not just GM. You can still buy plenty of go fast goodies from them, but if you already have a car tuned by the performance division then there isn't likely to be alot available form the dealer. Almost all of them will sell parts that are used in other vehicles that are considered performance parts, like you could buy the Redline's engine from GM right now, and drop it in anything that it fits in. I imagine that you could also buy the supercharger itself and the aftercooler and drop it into something as well. If you already own the 'high performance' pieces that they sell, then there isn't alot you can buy from them. At the auto show here, you could actually buy the exhaust from the Redline/SS and drop it into your Cobalt or Ion and there you have an aftermarket exhuast. In my opinion, if you wait for the manufacturer to provide you with your aftermarket options, you're in for disappointment.