Hey, I know I might get laughed at, but what do you think about the Cobalt as a good car to race?

I've been checking them out and they are really tearing it up in local street races as well as in official ones. (The SS with stage 3 kit is absolutely slammin!) It looks like there's a pretty decent tuner community forming for the car, plus there's sites I've seen like this one http://www.chevycobaltlabs.com where you can trick out a Cobalt, add performance, race, etc.

Anyway, thoughts? I would like to get a yellow SS and do some upgrading. Do you think money would be better spent elsewhere?

It's not a bad car for the price at all.

Definately put better tires on it, the pirelli's absolutely suck. Any kind of spirited driving melts em off in 20k miles or less.

The upgrade kits aren't badly priced either. The SS is actually a nice car. Seen some cat converters fail  prematurely, but the only other kicker is that you gotta run Mobil1 in it (says it right on the oil cap)

Harry - thanks for the insight.

Do you have any other suggestions for increasing performance?

The Labs site shows some options like an extrude honed exhaust manifold, specialized cat-back systems, etc.

What are your thoughts?