Back in August we reached out to all of you to submit the questions you’d like to have answered by the infamous John Heinricy. We got with John to get answers to your questions and posted the entire Q&A as a special treat to you, the GMTunerSource.com fan. Well after that feature was over and John had spent a little more seat time in the Stage 1-equipped Cobalt SS Turbo, we received some more questions from all of you and followed up with John to see what his long-term opinions and observations were of the kit. Mr. Heinricy was kind enough to give us his take, which we have exclusively after the break. 

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to upgrade your Cobalt SS Turbo up to Stage 1 status then this is it! For a limited time only CrateEngineDepot.com is holding a sale on the much ballyhooed Cobalt SS Turbo Stage 1 kit. Tom over at CED is letting these kits goes for only $498 and no pennies! That price also includes shipping to anywhere in the contiguous US of A however if you live somewhere else, don’t fret, Tom will make sure he can get your kit to your doorstep in a jiffy. If the price isn’t enough to get you going, check out these comments by owners whose only complaint about the kit is that they’ll need new tires very soon.

As usual with anything surrounding the Cobalt Turbo Upgrade Kit, our post yesterday got blasted with comments and questions both on and offline. In order to provide an easy way to see those responses, we’ve gone ahead and collected some of them and got with Bill Duncan at GM HPVO to get some answers for you to review in case you had some questions of your own. Check out those responses after the jump.

Last week we got word that famed race car driver and former Assistant Chief Director for Corvette and Director of the GM Performance Division John Heinricy would be driving around in a Cobalt SS Turbo that was fitted with the upcoming LNF Stage 1 kit. Upon hearing that, we reached out to you to send us questions that you would like to see John answer about his thoughts on the LNF Stage 1 kit. We compiled those questions and shot them over to John, who after spending some time getting to know the Stage 1 Cobalt SS better, answered them for the GMTS fans. We're excited to have John on here for you guys so without further ado, here is his take on the Cobalt SS LNF Stage 1 kit and answers to just about all of your questions.

The Cobalt Stage 1 Kit is well along its way to being available at a dealer near you. As such, we hear more details weekly that we can then pass on to you, the Cobalt SS Turbo owner and fan. If you are the lucky owner one of these turbocharged monsters, you’ll be able to run out and buy the new Stage 1 kit from a GMPP dealer and instantly add 20hp and 60lb.-ft of torque to your Cobalt and keep your full factory warranty intact. In addition to the added power, the kit serves as the gateway mod for the Cobalt and will disable the “learn down feature” of the stock PCM. This nifty feature allows your Cobalt to fully utilize any other modifications (intake, header, exhaust, downpipe, etc) that you’ve may have or wish to add in the future – making your dream 350hp Cobalt a very close reality.

Two weeks ago we had GM HPVO Design Systems Engineer Bill Duncan on GTMS to answer some questions that folks had posted across the various LNF Upgrade Update Posts We received some great response from all you guys out there about having a GM Engineer on here giving you some feedback on all your questions and concerns so we are lucky enough to welcome Bill back to the site to answer some more questions from the Cobalt SS Turbo owner community. 

It's all Cobalt all the time here lately at GMTS! Well we just received a small update and in our true form of releasing info as soon as we get it in, here we go. It comes direct from deep inside as we now have confirmation that there is a Cobalt LNF running around town with the infamous stage 1 kit on it. We just got a call from a friend that was driving the car and pulled over on the side of the road and he seemed a little out of breath.

Well the time has come. The LNF Upgrade kit is almost upon us but there are a few more steps until the Cobalt SS Turbo can finally have the ability to completely terrorize the streets. We had a meeting today and they are pushing to get this out the door. We have told them of all the demand and how many people are ready to go, which has helped light a fire under them.

The Cobalt SS is a car that screams to be tinkered, tottered and toyed with. However, when it comes to playing with things like engine control harnesses you have to be careful to make sure you do things correctly or you could seriously mess up your car, mmmk? Now we know that tons of Cobalt SS owners are going to opt for the self-install of the kit and that’s all well and good if you’re up to the task but make sure you at least do the following.

The questions about the Cobalt SS Stage 1 kit keep coming out and we keep working to bring you guys answers to your questions as fast as possible. We’ve compiled some good questions that come straight from your comments across the various Stage 1 posts so if you want your question answered, just leave us a comment and we’ll try and answer it the best we can. Some of these questions are good FYIs too so even if you didn’t have a question and your already rockin’ in your Stage 1 Cobalt SS Turbo they are worth the quick read to keep you up to speed. Full Q&A is listed after the jump.