Reconfigurable Performance Display Available for 2009

We all know that the ECOtec family of engines kick some serious tail, but how do you prove to your friends that you actually do own the best sport compact car on the market without constantly letting them see your tail lights? The Reconfigurable Performance Display of course! For 2009, GM has developed a special Reconfigurable Performance Display so you can brag to your friends with lesser vehicles about just how many G you were pulling in the last corner. read more...

Four podiums out of five events for Team RMR

Team RMR has now stood on the Formula Drift podium with team mates Dai Yosihara and Rhys Millen at four of the past five events, making team RMR the most winning team in Formula Drift history.

Hot off the win at the world famous Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Rhys Millen headed to Evergreen Speedway round five of the Formula Drift championship with only one goal in mind - win. With team mate Dai Yoshihara sitting in third place and Millen tied for sixth with fellow Pontiac Solstice GXP driver Ryan Turk, GM Racing and Pontiac were making a statement that Pontiac equals performance!

For the first time in five years of the Formula Drift series the teams would be faced with the toughest conditions as rain and standing water would prove to test the teams and top drivers like never before. Qualifying would prove to be the first challenge of the weekend as Millen produced no points for round one and team mate Dai Yoshihara lead the way with the top score of round one. "Vaughen Gitten" hit the wall right in front of me before my first run, this lead me to think the track was slippery so I took it easy. A little to easy and the car "pushed" to understeer producing a zero run" - said Millen. read more...

Chevy Corvette ZR-1 Slays Nurburgring

GMTunerSource.com focuses on the youth automotive genre, which usually means focusing on the Sport Compact / Tuner market. Don’t let that fool you completely! We are car nuts and when our bigger brother does something this cool, there is no reason not to talk about it!

There’s a new kid on the block, and he’s ready to take over the whole neighborhood. The ZR-1 is the ultimate moniker in the Corvette family and since it was first conceived by Lotus in 1986, it has been at the forefront of automotive technology and performance. GM pulled the plug on the ZR-1 in 1995 and left us wondering about when the next ultra-high performance Corvette would roll off the line. read more...

GM Tuner Tour is Back in Orlando

The GM Tuner Tour and HIN make stops at the hottest cities across the country but had not been in Orlando together since 2005. This year, we made sure we were at the Orlando Convention Center during Hot Import Nights, so we could take part in one of the most popular HIN events of the year. read more...

Whitfield Racing – 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. read more...

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.

Bryan 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. read more...

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.

They 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! read more...

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.

The 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! read more...

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.

It 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. read more...

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!

Check out the Schedule after the jump. read more...

Rhys Millen made it to the podium for the second time in as many races last weekend at Englishtown, NJ.

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. read more...

Jason Hunt

Three-Time Pro Front-Wheel-Drive Champ Jason Hunt Bringing the Matco Tools Chevy Cobalt to IHRA’s President’s Cup

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.

Hunt, 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. read more...

Jaime Holtom and Eric Curran raise the winners' trophy at KONI Challenge, Lime Rock.

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.

If 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. read more...

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.

Come 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. read more...

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. read more...

Super Street Features Whitfield Racing’s 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.

The 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. read more...

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." read more...

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.

The 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.

Comp 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. read more...

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.

Their 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. read more...

Limited Number of High-Performance LSJ Cams Available From GM Racing

Attention, LSJ-owners!

If you are working on upgrading your Cobalt SS Supercharged or ION Redline for off-highway performance, you’ve probably already read Chapter 6 of the ECOtec 2.0L LSJ Power Book (if not, you can download it from gmtunersource.com by clicking on ‘Racer Tech’ then ‘ECOtec LSJ Build Book’). Many of you have already emailed, asking about the high-performance cams that are referenced in that chapter. Well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that GM Racing has these cams available, right now, for sale. The bad news is that we don’t have very many.

Here’s how you get them. First, send an email through the tech questions link on the Racer Tech pages of gmtunersource.com. That way, if we’re already sold out, I can bounce you back and let you know. Note, I will NOT hold any parts just because you send an email. Parts will go to the first checks that arrive. read more...