Can you still order a...
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Can you still order a...
COPO car through a dealership, or was that option only for GM Dealers? And for that matter, is that (COPO) still available to them as well?
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Not true. Police vehicles have a special package. They order and Impala with police package. The COPO program allowed for dealerships to order power train packages that weren't normally available in that vehicle. Like a Vette engine in a Camaro from the factory for example. I'm almost 100% positive that GM doesn't do that anymore.
#5
Sounds like an impossibility with todays certification of each powertrain for emissions, etc.
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I was thinking the other night, that a COPO HHR SS with a real power-plant in it would be ideal, and more suited to the SS Badge.
#7
Please define "real" powerplant. The SS engine is cranking out 260 HP as it is. I beleive that compares quite favorably with the V8 engines found in some emmissions choked Corvettes from the back in the day.
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My deffinition of 'real' power-plant is (and always has been) a V-8 with at least 300 HP (or more). I'm sure there would be alot of modification to cram a V-8 into an HHR SS (it has been done before mind you).
It is even possible to supercharge an already supercharged engine?
Something to think about.
It is even possible to supercharge an already supercharged engine?
Something to think about.
#10
kinda like Jackson Racing put a 5.0 into a Ford Focus some time back...a rear wheel drive ford focus zx3 putting out like 300hp.....IT can be done but dunno if could/would be done from the dealership.