GM Tuner Source Blog http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog GM Tuner Source Blog RSS 1.0 feed. daily 1 GM Tuner Source Blog http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/logo.png Whitfield Racing – Chevy Aveo in Super Street Magazine http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/07/15/whitfield-racing-2013-chevy-aveo-in-super-street-magazine Many of you are familiar with the amazing green Chevy Aveo that has been touring the country all year on the infamous GM Tuner Tour. Jason Whitfield of Whitfield Racing – www.whitfieldracing.com - built this car and did an amazing job on it. Many people across the nation that have seen the car have fallen in love with the incredible simplicity and attention to detail on the performance side. 2008-07-15T15:35:31-05:00 2008-07-15T15:35:31-05:00 Andy Williamson Bryan Jimenez wins Pro Import; Dai Yoshihara Runner Up in Drift at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/07/14/bryan-jimenez-wins-pro-import-dai-yoshihara-runner-up-in-drift-at-las-vegas-motor-speedway It was an exciting weekend of drifting and drag racing at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway this past weekend. The Vegas track provides a great venue for both drift and drag racing fans, with great views and easy access between the two tracks. Vegas weather in July tends to be brutal, but the weather gods were with us this weekend. A storm hovered nearby, providing strong winds and some clouds, which relieved us from the desert sun without actually raining on our parade.\nBryan Jimenez delivered a win for GM Racing and Chevy Cobalt, by powering through a full field of Pro Import competitors. It was great to see the line of cars trying to qualify for this class! Bryan started in the second qualifying spot and then picked-off each competitor for the final win. Congratulations to Bryan Jimenez and crew chief Juan Quintanilla. 2008-07-14T12:31:47-05:00 2008-07-14T12:31:47-05:00 Carmen Smith Drift Racing Get Involved In Grand-Am Online http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/07/07/get-involved-in-grand-am-online Whether you’re a weekend road racer or just someone who loves the thrill of watching cars carve out a track, you’re going to love what the folks at the Grand-Am Racing Series have put together for you.\nThey just have placed the finishing touches on their forums in order to give fans a place to talk about recent and future races, the teams, the cars or anything and everything Grand-Am. Also, they have put all the fans in touch with the drivers and staff of the Grand-Am Series by implementing blogs for drivers to chat about the races so you can read about how your favorite driver handles the track in your backyard. GM has some amazing teams out there racing in the Grand-Am Series, which we love to cheer on and support them in every opportunity possible! 2008-07-07T15:32:17-05:00 2008-07-07T15:32:17-05:00 Corey Mullane Product News GM Drops the Shades at HIN Night Shift in NY http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/26/gm-drops-the-shades-at-hin-night-shift-in-ny It was an exciting weekend at Belmont Park in New York this weekend as the GM Tuner Tour dropped in at its first Hot Import Nights “Night Shift” event for 2008. The Night Shift events bring the classic HIN atmosphere out under the stars and allow the show to be much larger than any indoor arena can be. This lets attendees participate in more activities and have a chance to check out cool exhibitions like freestyle motocross, drifting and street bike stunt shows.\nThe GM Tuner Tour brought an incredible showing of cars to this show including Kat Von D’s Pontiac Vibe and 50 Cent’s own Pontiac G8. Of course Jason Whitfield’s custom LSJ swapped Chevy Aveo and the new 2008 Cobalt SS Turbo were on site and, with the SS Turbo rolling on the streets now, there was tons of buzz around it the whole night including a few guys that had already picked one of these up! Adding a nice treat for the attendees, Neil Tjin, and his Tjin Edition Tour, had his custom creations on display which include a Chevy Cobalt and Pontiac Solstice. The attention to detail on Tjin’s concepts is amazing and as all the attendees found out, definitely worth the trip! 2008-06-26T14:25:39-05:00 2008-06-26T14:25:39-05:00 Adam Dettloff and Corey Mullane Hot Import Nights ECOtec VIP Owners Meet at Mid-Ohio Sports Course http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/23/ecotec-vip-owners-meet-at-mid-ohio-sports-course Whenever you get a group of ECOtec enthusiasts together at a racetrack you know a great time is in store! This past weekend we hosted a GM VIP ECOtec Owners meet at the Mid Ohio Sports Course in the midst of a KONI Challenge race. We had such a great initial response for registration for this event and some owners came from as far away as Ontario, Canada and Tennessee to take part in the festivities so we didn’t want to disappoint.\nIt was a beautiful Sunday morning at the Mid Ohio Sports Course and once we had the owners parked in our VIP corral we got everyone together to go over all the great things we had in store for them. We started the day with Dwight Woodbridge, GM Racing Program Manager for Grand-Am KONI Challenge, guiding the owners throughout all the GM race teams pit areas and introducing the VIP guests to the drivers, engineers and mechanics at all the various teams. The owners had unbridled one-on-one access to all the staff and were free to ask all the questions they could think of. 2008-06-23T18:36:39-05:00 2008-06-24T14:04:58-05:00 Corey Mullane GM VIP ECOtec Events Mid-Ohio Sports Course VIP ECOtec Owners Meet http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/19/mid-ohio-sports-course-vip-ecotec-owners-meet This weekend is going to be a blast for all of our registered ECOtec owners at the Mid Ohio Sports Course in Lexington, Ohio! There’s going to be plenty of racing and pit tours, along with a catered lunch for all the owners. We want everyone to be able to enjoy everything that GM is putting on this weekend so below is a schedule of the events for Sunday so you can make sure you don’t miss a thing!\nCheck out the Schedule after the jump. 2008-06-19T08:53:53-05:00 2008-06-19T08:53:53-05:00 Corey Mullane GM VIP ECOtec Events Rhys Millen on Podium Again at Formula Drift Englishtown http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/16/rhys-millen-on-podium-again-at-formula-drift-englishtown For the second time in as many races, Rhys Millen won a spot on the Formula Drift podium. After a fierce drift battle with teammate Dai Yoshihara in the Pontiac GTO Drift, Rhys Millen and his Solstice GXP Drift grabbed third place at the Formula Drift event in Englishtown, New Jersey on June 14th. Dai Yoshihara, in repeat performance from the last event, finished fourth. Dai came into the Englishtown event qualified in the number one spot. Gardella Racing’s Ryan Tuerck in the Mobil1/Maxxis Tire Solstice GXP Drift qualified 10th and was defeated in round 1. 2008-06-16T09:39:00-05:00 2008-06-16T09:39:45-05:00 Carmen Smith Drifting Three-Time Pro Front-Wheel-Drive Champ Jason Hunt Bringing the Matco Tools Chevy Cobalt to IHRA’s President’s Cup http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/12/three-time-pro-front-wheel-drive-champ-jason-hunt Budd’s Creek, MD- Jason Hunt and Charlie Schafer Industries are bringing their 200 mph, tube chassis, front-wheel drive, four-cylinder Ecotec powered Chevy Cobalt out to play in Top Sportsman this weekend.\nHunt, who is the reigning NOPI PRO FWD Champion and who currently sits third in points, is trying his hand at competing against rear-wheel-drive, eight-cylinder, door slammers before heading out to Denver, CO next week. Maryland International Raceway is Hunt and team owner, Schafer’s home track and they were really excited when the race could work into their schedule. 2008-06-12T15:07:33-05:00 2008-06-12T15:09:29-05:00 Will Stewart Drag Racing Cobalt dominates KONI Challenge http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/11/cobalt-dominates-koni-challenge Being a racecar driver is one of the most physically and mentally challenging occupations out there. Being an actual racecar is to, but with a little less emphasis on the mental aspect. That’s what makes the team at Georgian Bay Motorsports and the 2008 Cobalt SS Turbo so impressive.\nIf you were to look at the current top standings in the Street Tuner Series, you’d wonder why the other teams even bother showing up. The Chevy Cobalt teams have been dominating this year with the new Turbo Cobalt SS. 2008-06-11T09:25:00-05:00 2008-06-12T14:48:12-05:00 Andy Williamson and Corey Mullane Koni Challenge Free Chevy Cobalt VIP Enthusiast Meet - Ohio http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/05/free-chevy-cobalt-vip-enthusiast-meet-ohio Chevrolet wants to show their support to Cobalt and Ecotec enthusiasts! Chevy Racing is offering a limited number of Cobalt owners (and their guest) special VIP treatment at the Mid Ohio Sports Car Course on Sunday, June 22, 9:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.\nCome cheer on the production-based Cobalt SS teams during the Koni Challenge race, plus get behind the scenes with the Chevy staff, teams and drivers. Don’t own a Cobalt? No problem – any Ecotec- powered GM vehicle is eligible. 2008-06-05T08:00:00-05:00 2008-06-12T14:47:24-05:00 Andy Williamson GM VIP ECOtec Events Tuner Tour Goes Big In Columbus! http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/06/03/tuner-tour-goes-big-in-columbus The GM Tuner Tour is no stranger to all sorts of venues across the country. However, Columbus, OH is uncharted territory for Hot Import Nights, so we thought we’d show the fans in Columbus what HIN and the GM Tuner Tour was all about. The GM Tuner rig was set up at center stage so it stole the show and grabbed everyone’s attention in the hall. The GM Tuner Tour also brought out something special for the Columbus show in the form of a Kat Von D “tattooed” Pontiac Vibe. The custom Vibe is decked out with airbrushed artwork that is inspired from Kat Von D’s actual artwork. There was also a custom backdrop and kiosk setup by Kat Von D’s car that allowed attendee’s a chance to enter a custom inked 2009 Pontiac Vibe. 2008-06-03T13:58:17-05:00 2008-06-03T13:58:17-05:00 Andy Williamson, Corey Mullane and Adam Dettloff Hot Import Nights Super Street Features Whitfield Racing’s LSJ Aveo http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/05/29/super-street-features-whitfield-racing2019s-lsj-aveo An LSJ in an Aveo? Yeah, you read right. Jason Whitfield builds some of the cleanest go fast machines you’ll ever see and was in the mood to build the ultimate sleeper. He loves the 2.0L LSJ ECOtec engine and as he looked around the GM stable he saw the Aveo and his mind was set. Being one of the smallest cars on the road no one would ever expect an Aveo to blow their doors off but that is exactly what this car will do. Whitfield goes over his whole build and how he built up his monster Aveo in the June 2008 Issue of Super Street that is on newsstands now. Many of you are familiar with Jason Whitfield from his Candy Red Whitfield Racing Cobalt Drag Car. That same engineering and technology was brought over to this Aveo project.\nThe car is on the GM Tuner Tour right now, which travels the nation to some of the top shows across the country. If you make it out to one of the shows, be sure to drop by and check the Aveo out in person. You will be IMPRESSED! The new issue of Super Street is out on newsstands now, so check it out. The article is great! Keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming issues of SS as this buildup will be in the next few issues. Stay tuned here for more info. Check it out and start dreaming about what you would do with your own 250hp Aveo. 2008-05-29T08:33:03-05:00 2008-05-29T08:33:03-05:00 Andy Williamson and Corey Mullane Product News Grand-Am Cobalt Conquers at Lime Rock http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/05/28/grand-am-cobalt-conquers-at-lime-rock Congratulations to the Georgian Bay Motorsports team for their success this weekend competing in the Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series at Lime Rock Park. Eric Curran and Jaime Holtom placed first for the second time this season in their No. 01 Georgian Bay Motorsports 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt SS Turbo. "The car was absolutely awesome," Holtom said. "The Georgian Bay Motorsports Cobalt is a rocket ship. When you've got a well-balanced car at Lime Rock, you can do good things. It was a perfect weekend for our Georgian Bay Motorsports Chevrolet Cobalt SS." 2008-05-28T15:42:31-05:00 2008-05-28T15:42:31-05:00 Andy Williamson and Corey Mullane Koni Challenge Bruno Massel wins Division 5 Comp Eliminator http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/05/27/bruno-massel-wins-division-5-comp-eliminator Over the holiday weekend, while we were all relaxing and playing, Bruno Massel was working hard at the NHRA Division 5 event in Brainerd, MN.\nThe father and son team that is Bruno Massel Racing achieved a milestone: the first ever NHRA Comp Eliminator win for the ECOtec engine, and, I believe, the first Comp Eliminator win for any 4-cylinder engine.\nComp Eliminator is a tough class, requiring elapsed times that are both quick and consistent. Competitors cut good lights and excel at race strategy. Bruno Massel piloted his rear-wheel-drive WyoTech Chevy Cobalt to the number-one qualifying spot with a run of 7.372s and delivered the win with a run of 7.458s. 2008-05-27T15:33:23-05:00 2008-05-27T15:33:23-05:00 Carmen Smith Drag Racing 2008 Cobalt SS Turbocharged Impresses Modified Magazine http://tunersource.gmblogs.com/blog/archive/2008/05/23/2008-cobalt-ss-turbocharged-impresses-modified-magazine The 2008 Chevy Cobalt SS is turning heads everywhere it goes, so it’s no surprise that Modified Magazine wanted to see what everyone was talking about. Modified flew out to Buttonwillow raceway to give the 08 Cobalt SS a run for its money and let’s just say they left broke. Modified is one of the best aftermarket mag’s for parts and accessories out there and they know performance like the back of their hand, which is why it is so impressive for them to be blown away by the new Cobalt SS.\nTheir review of the new turbocharged Cobalt is in the June issue which is out on newsstands now, so pick it up and see what impressed them the most! For more information on Modified Magazine go to www.modified.com. 2008-05-23T10:38:16-05:00 2008-05-23T10:39:15-05:00 Andy Williamson and Corey Mullane Product News