Ty's '07 Cobalt SS/SC

I just noticed the Saab cover is different :lol:

Yes it is. If you look at the Cobalt cover, it's raised in the middle. The Saab cover isn't raised there because of the countersunk screw holes, which I guess makes up for it? It fits exactly the same :lol:

It looks better. Stock one looks like an eBay special or something.

Yeah, well... You know GM. If they can make it cheaper, they will :lol:

Like Ford and their Chinese starters that I've killed 2 of in less than 2 years? :lol:

I'll always bring this up...

Back when I worked at the Buick dealer, some lady brought on her 07 Buick Lucerne for charging issues. Bad alternator obviously. Replace the alternator with an AC/Delco unit, goes bad in a week. Replace it again, three days. Once again, a week and a half.

All three being AC/Delco alternators. Not OEM, but GM parts made in Mexico.

Three alternators later, they finally replace it with an OEM alternator, which ironically was a Denso unit made in Japan... And she never had an issue after that.

I never buy AC/Delco, hell I never buy the shit parts stores carry. I've paid less for brand new/not remanufactured generic parts from rockauto that have been better quality, perform better, and last longer than the expensive shit parts stores sell.

If you ever need a replacement stock radiator, Spectra premium is usually the cheapest, and they're usually on par with oem in my experience. The one I put in the mustang came extremely well packed, and didn't even have a single bent fin.

I wouldn't buy Delco for anything other than a GM... That's just stupid :lol:

Well ya'know... vatozone tries to push that brand on you any time ya go there for something. :lol:

They usually try selling me their shit brands before anything else :rolf:

SS oil cap came in.





The company that makes them also makes like 6-7 different Saab caps, and offer them all in a polished finish.... All except for the SS cap. So can you guess what I did? :lol:









Before


After



That was a coat of Blue magic, two coats of Mothers, then another coat of Blue Magic. Came out alright....






Haven't gotten to the powder coating yet because a valve cover gasket is fucking $50..... Also thinking about redoing the coil cover (when the valve cover is off) with a palm sander so it's even.

:rolf: That's like the oem 4.6L gaskets, fuckin' $80... I just cleaned my old ones up, gave it a thin coat of rtv, and reused them.

I did that every time I had to take the F4's vc off and so far it hasn't started leaking either.

At least there's two heads on a 4.6 :lol:

$50 for a 4cyl? A bit shitty

Just get black rtv, pull off the old gasket, clean it with a simple green soaked towel/old microfiber, then use your fingers to coat the whole gasket in a thin even layer, set it in the cover with the cover upside down, seat it in place good, give it 5-10 minutes so it sticks to the vc, then put it on, lightly snug it down, give it another 10-15, then torque it down.

I've done it twice on the geezer, once on both valve covers on the stang, and three times on the F4. Haven't had a leak yet. :lol:

As long as the gasket isn't damaged or crusty there's no reason it shouldn't work as long as you do your part right, and it's easy as fuck.

Coil cover attempt #2....


Got the palm sander, went 60/120/240/400/800/1200/2000/3000 grit. Only used Mothers on the spot between the bottom two screws so far, which fucking killed my arm :lol: , so the buffing wheel and compounds will come out tomorrow.