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[bigbach007]

I read online that it is 2" stock. A guy on a cruze forum was posting about swapping his muffler for a resonator and it was suggested that he go to 2.5" if he was going to do other exhaust mods. I was going to take my exhaust into a shop here and have him bend some 2.5" to match some of the critical bends in my stock exhaust, but I kinda figured that that would pretty much be a waste of money and good exhaust pipe (meaning my stock pipe which is virtually brand new yet) if I'm only using 2 inches worth of it anyway. If that's what the cruze runs then I'm sure its adequate. I should have thought to look at that before. Thanks.

[bigbach007]

So since I'm going with mostly stock exhaust I was building a downpipe to meet up with it just before the flex pipe and I finished making it yesterday. I guess I'm going to run my wastegate exhaust into it though so i'll work on making that happen this week. I'll post some pics of everything once its done. Once that's done i'll plum up my oil lines and I should have a drivable car again.

[petrified.rabbit]

sounds good, when are you getting tuned?

[bdanhauer]

Halteck.com is were you'll find a engine management system that works with your factory ecu, even though some people say no one makes any thing that works with the aveos ecu Halteck does I've emailed them about it and they have ems for the aveo just email Eric(eric@haltech.com) he helped me with all the questions I had.

[ontarian_frog]

The next question would be, what model piggyback are you going to be using from Halteck?

[bigbach007]

That's becoming my problem i think. I was talking to my guy here a little while ago and it almost seems like he's backing out on me. Originally he seemed kinda excited about doing it and now he was pretty much saying that unless I know of software that someone has successfully tuned an aveo with, there is alot of risk involved with him tuning it. To a point, i'm sure he is right, but to a different point, i see much more risk in me trying to tune it by myself over someone with experience.

Option 2...I have also been talking to Vince out at trifecta and he said he'd send me the data logging software, i make a full pulls and send the readings to him, he alters the program and sends me a remap to download. Then i make a full pulls with the remap again and send him the data, he makes changes and we repeat til its running good. I'd still have a tuner, he just has a suuuuuuuuper long cable between his dyno and his computer. He's offering to do this for about $300.

Option 3... I try and do it myself and pray that pieces don't fly. I have an email into a GReddy tech about their e-Manage system. This is more like $650 and again, i don't really know what i'm doing per say. So i'm still throwing around the idea of a piggy back ecu.

I will definitely check out the Haltech stuff and see what they have to offer too. I appreciate the heads-up about it.

Rabbit, i know you told me early on to make sure that my tuner could support my build and it was really looking like he could. Maybe i didn't portray the situation clearly enough to him or something but i'm still going to keep moving forward with this even if he feels like he can't help me.

[bigbach007]

*a few pulls haha

[bdanhauer]

The Helteck Sport or Sprint ECU are the only two that they have that will work with the aveos factory ecu

[bigbach007]

Have you tuned with one of these before?

[bdanhauer]

I emailed GReddy last year and they still have yet to reply to me about anything