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A Quick Dive Into the 1.4L Turbo LUV ECOtec

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:52:44 +0000

Original Article Sourced From: SonicInsider.com Let’s get to it. The Sonic has been praised by the media as an all-around performer, but the real performance all stems from one place – right under the hood. For those new to the ECOtec school, get ready for a crash course because we have some engine talk to get to. The ECOtec is an inline four cylinder motor family that has heritage all the way back to the ‘70s but with all of the fuel saving and performance benefits of today. It’s quite…

Sonic Gets Loud with Z-Spec

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:49:07 +0000

The Chevy Sonic has a lot of things going for it. For one, it has quite a loud bark due to its aggressive styling which doesn’t make excuses for being a B-segment vehicle. Its bite is even worse though, as the Sonic packs some serious damage in the form of the 140HP turbocharged LUJ ECOtec. But we’ve known both of those things already. So what gives with the recap? Well as we get closer to the launch of the Sonic, late 2011, more and more Sonic styling and performance goodies…

Conrad’s Camaro Qualifies 1st Place at FD Long Beach – Watch LIVE!

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:16:40 +0000

Yesterday marked the opening day of the 2011 Formula Drift season and GM opened the season up with a bang! Thanks to some fearless driving during qualifying by Conrad Grunewald and his GM Performance Parts-powered Chevy Camaro, GM earned the first qualifying position among the top 32 competitors out on the field. Conrad’s Camaro is powered by a GMPP Crate Engine version of the upcoming supercharged Camaro ZL1 powerplant, so there’s plenty of power to swing the Camaro’s rear end around. We’ll be excited to see just how well those…

Chevy Sonic Faceoff

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:26:53 +0000

The Chevy Sonic is the newly announced member of the Chevy family and one that might be the source of lots of future ECOtec fun. Sonic has the highly anticipated LUJ powerplant that we covered last year, LUJ Delivers on ECOtec Promise, and have seen previously only motivating the Chevy Cruze. Now imagine having the 138hp iron block, turbo 1.4L having to propel only about 2400lbs. That sounds like it could be a serious street terror with a little tuning. The only issue we see, is that there are two…

Happy New Year from GMTS!

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:30:12 +0000

New Years offer a brand new start, a clean slate, for each of us to reach a goal, fulfill our inside potential and take the world by storm. We’re planning on doing the latter during each and every day in 2011 and we welcome you to join us! There’s some exciting fronts coming the GM way and we’ll be here bringing them all to you, before anybody else, with insights provided by the very best and brightest inside of GM. So let’s start off 2011 right and do it to…

Sonic is the name, knucklehead

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 03:43:47 +0000

We all remember and love the speedy, blue hedgehog of our childhood. As iconic as Mario is to Nintendo, our friend Sonic the Hedgehog was the symbol of SEGA. And what a symbol he was. Fast, nimble and full of energy, Sonic was the digital cartoon equivalent of what many of us were after downing a two-liter of Surge. Transfer that youthful energy to GM’s latest small car, and you have the brand new Chevrolet Sonic. The Sonic doesn’t just bring new life into the Chevy small car line from…

Chevy Camaro Finally Drops Its Top

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:14:16 +0000

Kick the tires and light the fires, you can now take a cruise in a real topless Camaro! Sure there have been companies in the past year that have taken a sawzall, some bondo and duct tape to a beautiful factory Camaro coupe to try and sell you a ‘verted Camaro, but this is the real deal baseball and apple pie Camaro which features a seamless top that won’t leak on your duds as you head out for a night on the town. Now we’ve personally seen this specimen in…

D-Day. SEMA 2010: Day 0

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:56:36 +0000

We made it! We’re in the middle of setting up our mobile HQ here at the 2010 SEMA Show right now so that we can bring you the latest images and news straight from the show floor all week long. We know, we know. You’re welcome. Now we call Monday Day 0 because the show doesn’t officially start until Tuesday – which would be Day 1 for those of you following along. But we wouldn’t want you all to miss a beat so we’re starting the coverage from the first…

Sneak Peek at Chevy’s SEMA Surprises

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:37:49 +0000

Well it's that time of the year again - SEMA 2010. As most of you know, SEMA is the largest aftermarket auto show in the country and where the top players in the aftermarket world come out to show off their new parts, accessories and trends. Custom car builders come out by the thousands and show off some of the world’s top automobiles. Media come from all over the globe to cover SEMA and at times dedicate a whole site or magazine to just SEMA coverage. GM has notoriously come…

It’s LSX Shootout Time!

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:41:00 +0000

The go-fast crazies at GM Performance Parts are kicking off the 4th-annual LSX Shootout this weekend at the Gateway International Raceway near St. Louis, MO. There’s going to be plenty of racing and fun going on of course, with several drag racing and car show classes so every car touting an LS motor can jump in on the action. GMPP is even brining out a few toys of their own that make our toys look like well, toys. A LSA-powered ’96 Impala SS, a ’89 Camaro with a LSX454 fitted…

Cruze Hatchback… Anybody?

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:05:14 +0000

All of us over here in the colonies have historically never treated the ole hatchback concept with any fervor. This disdain for the “junk in the trunk” versions of our favorite sports cars has been declining lately as more and more hatchbacks, shooting brakes, fastbacks and slant backed-whathaveyous have been making their way across the pond in recent years. Some have succeeded, some have failed, some have just meh’d. What the latest Cruze is bringing to the table however, seems to be a prime example of a hatchback done right.…

Config Your Cruze

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:56:44 +0000

We know, we know. You want to pick up a Cruze the first day they hit the streets but you’re not exactly sure what options you want yet. Luckily, the Chevy team feels your pain and has supplied a handy dandy Cruze configurator so you can let your imagination run wild. Feel free to customize as many Cruzes (Cruzi? Cruzeses?) as you can and let us know what your favorite package would be in the comments section. For the uninitiated, the whole Cruze deal starts at $16,275 for the LS…

Corvette Racing: Episode 8

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:22:21 +0000

The whole team at Corvette Racing is always hard at work trying to figure out how to win the next race and how to stay ahead of their competitors. In the latest episode of the Corvette Racing series, you’ll learn exactly what “cascade engineering” is and how the team uses it to make sure that the next production Corvette is closely modeled out of the team’s experience and uses race-derived production parts. It’s a great way to spend 5:27 seconds of your day so check it out after the jump.

LS9 Supercharged Package Released

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:48:00 +0000

The team at GM Performance Parts has a few screws loose if you ask us – but that’s just the way we like them. Without their noggins being properly bolted together, they come up with performance packages like the new LS9 Supercharger Package which just screams insanity. If you’ve been searching for some type of power adder to bolt up to your LS3-powered Chevy since you drove it off the lot, the search is over. This bad boy of a kit will make your factory monster LS3 V8 seem docile…

Volt Teaser Keeps Things Quiet

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:50:41 +0000

The Chevrolet Volt’s whole MO from Day 1 has been doing less with more. That’s not just with fuel either as the Volt delivers in many areas its owners and envious onlookers will soon come to see for themselves. First up on the agenda is noise pollution. Pollution doesn’t just come from the expulsion of CO2 from exhausts pipes across the nation though, it also comes from those fart cannons that all of us Tuners religiously bolt to the rear of our cars the second we bring a new set…

C7 Makes a Replacement for Displacement

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:22:31 +0000

Roll into the parking lot of your local burger joint on a Friday and you’re bound to hear the old “there’s no replacement for displacement” line spewed out of someone’s mouth that more than likely is wearing a faded t-shirt with a big number 3 on it. Racing legend-fanbois aside, what once was an adage you could take to the bank, now will only come back denied. On the horizon is a new way to look at performance engines and the Corvette C7 Bank is open for business. The team…

Cruze CS is Reppin’ the BTCC

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:12:51 +0000

As everyone knows, blue is the fastest color. Actually, according to GM Europe, Moroccan Blue is the exact subset of blue which is the fastest. With that fact in mind, the GM folks across the pond have decided to make a new “CS” package available that speaks as a tribute to the Cruze’s BTCC competition entry. We think it’s a home run, the people that made this package don’t know what that means, but we digress. The package seems to make the Cruze pop and isn’t just a fancy frock.…

RECAP: 4th Annual CED Sport Compact Meet

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:56:26 +0000

The results are in! And it turns out that the 4th Annual CrateEngineDepot.com Sport Compact Meet was a resounding success! As we all know, it’s the people that make up a community, and luckily we have tons of great people that make up the GM small car family – and apparently some that have a little bit too much free time and access to tons of blue painter’s tape! Hit the jump and check out the mischief and fun that went down at CED this past weekend. The party started…

Go for Granite?

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:03:24 +0000

The Granite has been talked about for some time as a light urban utility vehicle that could deliver big value in a small package. Granite renderings have also had quite the appeal too so when the cover was flung off the concept at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show it was no surprise that flashbulbs filled the stage rather quickly. Now with the Delta II platform getting ready to kick off in the Volt, Cruze and Orlando, GMC wants their own ticket to the Delta II party. That’s where the Granite…

Kinect for Xbox 360 Shows Forza Integration – Volt Feature

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:34:09 +0000

As any warm-blooded creature knows, Forza Motorsport brings some of the most realistic, awe-inspiring and ultimately fun driving action available to any set-top video game box. Introduce the new Kinect for Xbox 360, formerly known as “Project Natal”, into the racing equation and you have an experience that could borderline on the unreal. Thanks to the seemingly magical team behind the Xbox, that’s exactly what is going to happen come next year. Controller-less racing action that makes you as much of a part of the car as the faux Corvette…