My New 2015 Chevy SS **Boo-Hissss**

[sunwolf]

Very nice.  Even more rare than SHO, can't say I've ever seen one in the wild.  Probably only popular in the south.  I also don't see many 300/Charger SRT8 sedans in Colorado.

If you want 4 doors + V8 + AWD, you have very limited choices.  Anything, other than a couple expensive SUVs?  Dodge dropped the Charger R/T AWD for 2015.  Infiniti has their Q70 and Mercedes.

Anything on team Germany.

[SHO-Time]

Installed my Elite Engineering catch can today. Very nice high quality piece with easy straight forward install. For the most part all catch cans are the same so if anyone in interested Elite's website is listed below;

www.eliteengineeringusa.com

[Vortech347]

Bad ass car.  I would have a Chev SS in my driveway if it wasn't for the much higher price tag on a gently used one.  Btw, I'll take a RWD car with proper snow tires over an AWD with all seasons any day of the week.

RWD, V8, two things I knew I'd miss from my Marauder, and I do.

[EcoPowerParts]

The takeoff CTS-V/ZL1 superchargers go on that car nicely....

[ZSHO]

Bad ass car.  I would have a Chev SS in my driveway if it wasn't for the much higher price tag on a gently used one.  Btw, I'll take a RWD car with proper snow tires over an AWD with all seasons any day of the week.

RWD, V8, two things I knew I'd miss from my Marauder, and I do.

Im not sure if your tuned or not but a tune from either LME or Torrie could influence your view and aspect somewhat.  Z

[JDW1]

Awesome looking car.  However, why would you need a catch can on a NA car? there isn't enough blow by that the PCV system wouldn't suffice.  Could have saved a little $ IMO.   

[AJP turbo]

Any amount of oil vapors will lower effective octane so if u pushing to the max and running max timing then u want to avoid the vapors...

I run no catch can on my coyote 5.0 that I twin turboed and everyone is surprised...I monitored my knock when tuning with pump gas...that's the beauty of knock sensors...if they hear it they will retard.

Catch cans are kind of insurance that octane won't be lowered due to oil vapors...among helping carbon issues in the intake

[Vortech347]

Im not sure if your tuned or not but a tune from either LME or Torrie could influence your view and aspect somewhat.  Z

It wouldn't.  No tune can bring that beautiful V8 rumble out of the tale pipes, nor turn off the AWD. (now that would kick ass if it was select-able)  As much as yes, a tune is great. Those SS's are doing 12's out of the box with fantastic mph.  Manual trans too is awesome on them.

[AJP turbo]

Im not sure if your tuned or not but a tune from either LME or Torrie could influence your view and aspect somewhat.  Z

It wouldn't.  No tune can bring that beautiful V8 rumble out of the tale pipes, nor turn off the AWD. (now that would kick ass if it was select-able)  As much as yes, a tune is great. Those SS's are doing 12's out of the box with fantastic mph.  Manual trans too is awesome on them.

True that the ecoboost exhaust sounds like poop...but those ss cars will barely crack 12's and I mean barely...I've seen them at the track run mid 13's all day...

Pretty much every tuned sho will walk that thing from a dig and top end...the ss will run pretty much what the 04'-06' GTO and the G 8's did which was mid 13's

[BiGMaC]

Im not sure if your tuned or not but a tune from either LME or Torrie could influence your view and aspect somewhat.  Z

It wouldn't.  No tune can bring that beautiful V8 rumble out of the tale pipes, nor turn off the AWD. (now that would kick ass if it was select-able)  As much as yes, a tune is great. Those SS's are doing 12's out of the box with fantastic mph.  Manual trans too is awesome on them.

True that the ecoboost exhaust sounds like poop...but those ss cars will barely crack 12's and I mean barely...I've seen them at the track run mid 13's all day...

Pretty much every tuned sho will walk that thing from a dig and top end...the ss will run pretty much what the 04'-06' GTO and the G 8's did which was mid 13's

Agree entirely... I do miss the sound of a big block 8 on straight pipes... But times do change, and I've eaten a few of them from a stoplight even though the sound I made was the six.... As far as shifting... Many pros and cons, but with the smaller engines, for most people, the car can shift itself better than I can. Plus as I get older and stoplights proliferate I grew tired of all the shifting and holding down the extra peddle at the lights. Other than overcoming the initial inertia of the wheels/tires spinning is fun, but doesn't move the car faster.

[brian.t.flynn.9]

Good luck with it...

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[14 TUX BL]

... I'll take a RWD car with proper snow tires over an AWD with all seasons any day of the week.

RWD 410 hp SS + snow tires will behave as if it's running on slicks. Too much power for just one set of wheels to handle, chains maybe, but not just snows.

AWD SHO + AS tires spreads the traction work around, better chance to grab.

If the OP puts snows on his SS maybe he can let us know his thoughts on how they compare ...

[14 TUX BL]

Ok, wanted to be totally fair considering my previous post so I and looked for some video tests. Most were "Winter Tires on FWD/RWD vs. Summer Tires on AWD/4WD", not what I was looking for. Then I found these two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2cMlNRX_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpYQR0Zx1qE

They show AS Tires on AWD/4WD will out accelerate Snow Tires with FWD/RWD.
In Cornering and Braking however, Snow Tires with FWD/RWD won.

Questions? lol

[SHOdded]

So you have to have a separate winter setup for FWD/RWD.  I would for my AWD, but just don't have the room.  So I grabbed the best "winter performance" A/S tires in my price range.  I wonder if snow tires on AWD beat snow tires on FWD/RWD.  Hmm, nobody would ever put snow tires on AWD, right, right?

[Livernois Motorsports]

Bad ass car.  I would have a Chev SS in my driveway if it wasn't for the much higher price tag on a gently used one.  Btw, I'll take a RWD car with proper snow tires over an AWD with all seasons any day of the week.

RWD, V8, two things I knew I'd miss from my Marauder, and I do.

Im not sure if your tuned or not but a tune from either LME or Torrie could influence your view and aspect somewhat.  Z

Z has a very valid point.  We offer amazing tunes for the 2014- 2015 SS models and also have a great bundle with the RotoFab cold air intake.  We have multiple combinations of ECM and TCM tunes that allow us to meet a wide variety of different driving styles.  Some of our customers tuned are set up for road racing others are 1/4 mile guys and then the majority of course are street tuned.  The 93 octane aggressive ECM and TCM combination seem to be the most popular currently and pick up almost 30 wheel HP tune only.  With the Rotofab combination package we have reported gains of 40+ whp which is phenomenal for a naturally aspirated v8.