I was exploring some options for every day driving particularly in the winter under the traction control section on my 06 cobalt SS. Now if anyone knows the cobalt, you know that MOST of them do not have a button to disable the TCS. When I first started using HPT I manually disabled it via HPT because the TCS system in these car's is retarded. It doesnt limit power the way most car's normally do, it just turns your throttle off. I first experienced this in a cobalt LT in the winter time trying to get out of a snow pile, after 3 attempts to get the car moving, the car disabled the throttle all together and would not respond, and you had to wait 10 seconds for the throttle to reactivate.
Despite my 235 tires on 8 inch wheels, winter driving can sometimes be dangerous pulling out onto busy roads should the car decide to have a one wheel drive freak out. I've been looking at the TCS settings on the ECU and I was wondering if there was a way to dial back the traction control system so that it didnt just turn the cars throttle off when shredding the front right tire trying to pull out from a drive very quickly. I also noticed this "powerhop" feature down at the bottom, both of which have "via spark" as an option, the car has this enabled but powerhop disabled from the factory, and im hesitant to switch powerhop to "enabled". I'm not quite sure how the car would respond, or what this will actually try to do. Could this be the limited amount of traction control im looking for?