Nah, its not dead. I've just been lazy getting the Aveo working properly. As it is right now my Aveo won't even idle down under 1k rpm since its always running in open loop mode.
Not to throw a wrench into any plans here...but I already have an underdrive pulley for the 1st generation Aveo, I own the oringal prototype underdrive pulley developed by 360Dynamics LLC from about 5 years ago and occasionally I will offer copies for sale, there just hasnt been enough demand to keep it in regular production but if enough people are interested and have the money actually available I can put out a batch, I'd like to have at least 5 per batch, depending on the price of materials now I'd sell them for about $150 shipped and with the new belt. I did dyno the pulley as well, and with the mods that were on the aveo at the time there was a 4whp gain I believe, I think dyno results/charts are posted on one of these Aveo sites somewhere