🔧 BUILD CMNT's Cadillac STS-V

[Yaj Yak]

We are GM humpers

i really really really try not to be

 

[EmersonHart13]

embrace the truth

 

[Yaj Yak]

but i haz bmw

 

[DEEZUZ]

no awd. ok then. back to swingin on SHO nuts

 

[EmersonHart13]

You can hump more than 1 car, you can only hump one woman though

 

[DEEZUZ]

hey do you guys remember the thread where i asked you all to keep me OUT of a GTP....

what happened there

 

[DEEZUZ]

You can hump more than 1 car, you can only hump one woman though

didnt we just have a 18 page thread on this/

 

[Yaj Yak]

no awd. ok then. back to swingin on SHO nuts

tha fuck you need awd fo?

sallyass.

hey do you guys remember the thread where i asked you all to keep me OUT of a GTP....

what happened there

no. link?

 

[Spivitz]

Very clean looking V, nice power too. It must be a ball to drive!

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

i'm kinda surprised at how many people didn't know about these

I knew of the sts but just assumed the V was going to be some lame package not a 460hp supercharged northstar. Xlr has this engine too didn’t it?

 

[ragingclue]

Yeah I had also just assumed it was some milquetoast variant.... Almost never seeing any anywhere probably didn't help fix that assumption either.

And with only 2500 or so, that's pretty awesome that you've got one. Must be a riot.

 

[FESTER665]

Very nice. Thanks for making the thread!

 

[Spivitz]

4.4 supercharged V8
Makes me :smile:

 

[Yaj Yak]

i think it's worth noting as well that the xlr-v's had the same engine/trans...

right [MENTION=7801]cmntmxr57[/MENTION]?

there was another one of these on here a while back as well, iirc he was running mid 12s or something.

I knew of the sts but just assumed the V was going to be some lame package not a 460hp supercharged northstar. Xlr has this engine too didn’t it?

werrrrrrrrrrrrd




luckily somehow GM hasn't bastardized the V name plate just yet

 

[CMNTMXR57]

To many multiple quotes here.

- Yes, the XLR-V is the same LC3 as the STS-V, but due to more cramped space, it's exhaust manifolds are more restrictive than the STS and as such, you see the "rated" power to be slightly less than the STS. However, they respond the same to the same mods.

- No AWD. There is simply no room in the trans tunnel with the 6L80E to mount a transfer case and run a front driveshaft. Regular STS 4's have it running the passenger side. There would be room for a front diff though. But just no space to get the power there.

You don't really need AWD though with all the electronic nannies on the car. In Competitive Driving Mode, it allows the proper amount of wheel spin and traction control to maintain forward momentum. In regular mode, too much intrusion, completely off, while you can't roast the shit out of the tires (it will ultimately intervene, and a problem when dyno'ing), it will just simply keep spinning enough to waste time.

- Most of these STS-V's took the depreciation hit 2 years in. Mine stickered new for $81k when new (I ran GMVIS on it at one time). I picked it up used in 2010 with extended warranty a new set of brakes and brand spanking new Michelin Pilot Sports for $27k. It was even such a steal that the wife was like "I'm surprised you're even clearing this with me first and not already in Mississippi!"

Yea John, I don't post much about the toys simply because I like to walk quietly... I know it's not the fastest thing in the world and there is always someone faster, but it's fun to take down "quick" cars with a 4,300 pound luxo liner. And yes Spivitz, the car is an absolute hoot to drive. Oh, and supercharger whine, once you remove that restrictive upper air intake, the noises... OH the noises it makes. I think I've posted videos of it here before.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Here is one of the blower whine inside the car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quf4CqqihOw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AshVmO7F-nM

From outside;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglyLKZ7TFg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfJ51wFC8Q0

 

[Euro]

That's a great looking car. I knew these existed, you just never see them. That, and I always thought the 4.4 was the same gheyness as the 4.6 N*

Sweet car

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Thank you,

Probably due to the smaller displacement for additional strength and the fact that they're hand-built probably makes a hell of a lot of difference.

 

[ragingclue]

I guess I can understand the $81k tag now.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

In the later years of the model, the actual engine builder would add a plaque with their name on the engine. I think it was 2007's through 2009's. Us lowly 2006's didn't get that treatment. So if you got that, more value for the $$$$. I do have my "GM Performance Division" badge though on the radiator support.

So if you see one and you see the names of;
Bruce Elam
Anthony Hoskins
Derril Easlick (sp?)
Norm Baldwin
Bob Trommater
John Morrisey

On the cam covers, that's the engine builder.

From an XLR-V

And yes, I have these names because I have been maintaining an STS-V registry of all VIN#'s. So far I am up to 714 of the 2,503.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Oh and a couple more gratuitous pics

First, at GM HQ... Front row parking at RenCen in downtown Detroit.

Then, they were having a 50 year anniversary for the Camaro, which along with the current CTS, is built at the Lansing/Grand River Assembly plant in Lansing, MI. Back in 2006, mine was built there. So I brought her home, parked in the employee parking like the boss I am ;

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Sick car! I almost bought one of these for a DD 5 or so years ago.

That said I think we need a heads up Lincoln vs Cadillac showdown at the drag strip....

 

[wolfe]

[MENTION=6593]blck10th[/MENTION] , didn’t [MENTION=4895]gnxs[/MENTION] have one of these before he got his ctsv?

 

[wolfe]

Very cool car!

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I wanted to say it was GNXS, thinking he had a Thunder Grey one, but when I questioned him on it once (this would've been back on LS1GTO I think), he claimed no. But I may be cornfusing people.