I was VERY surprised at the outcome of this one. Last Friday, I was going South on I-87, cruising at around 70, in fifth. I look in my rear view and see a CTS coming up on my tail, probably at around 85. There were no cars ahead of me for a while, and a car maybe 10 car lengths in the middle lane, and a car five car lengths ahead of me on the right lane. When I see him start to merge over to the center lane, obviously curious to pass me, I put fifth to the floor and slowly creep my way up to around 80. Door's closed there, no passing me on the left side, and the right was occupied by then, too.

Once we broke out of that and there was open high way, I see him move over to the center lane again, and once he's almost at about my rear bumper, I downshift to 4 (back at 70-75 now) then quickly downshift to third. Before I got to third though (without stomping it in fourth, just got into fourth to go to third...why I don't know...anyways..) he gets in front of me. He had some momentum, I guess. I quickly whip over to the right lane in third, at around 80, redline, and he's still one or two cars ahead. At around 6000 rpm in fourth I started to reel him in, I'd guess at about 100-105 MPH. He was definitely pushing his car, because I took mine to 125 and had 2-3 cars on him by that time before I started to slow down.

Put my window down to give him a thumbs up, but he was too busy talking on his phone. I had one passenger, he had none. And it was a v-8 model, it had dual mufflers. And it was definitely NOT a CTS-V. A CTS-V would've spanked the **** out of me.

I checked the 1/4 mi times for those things and they're not too quick... Either way, I was surprised my NA FC took a win against it. Mods in sig.

James

 

Nice kill.

 

low 15 - mid 15 second CTS got pwnt by a n/a fc. awesome james!

 

Great kill with the 007! Are you gonna be around anytime soon??? Let me know if you are...

 

Thanks guys.

Many, I'll be back on the 24. Do you need anything specific for the turbo swap? If you do let me know, and I'll see if I can borrow the tools if I don't have them. I'm guessing it should be straight forward though...

James

 

Thanx! We should be ok. I'll keep the date in mind...hopefully all will be done by then.

between now and then, stop picking on those poor V8s!

 

Picking on V8's? I duno yo, I'm gonna need a lot more mods than current before I can "pick on" em! She's coming together though!! The other day at the yard I found a LSD and a TB. Hoping to throw the LSD in the rear and practice some porting on the TB. Every little bit helps!!

James

 

The only CTS that is a V8 is the CTS-V with a 405hp LS6 motor/6speed. I highly doubt it was one of these.... maybe if he raced him in 6th....

It was certainly the lowly POS, portly, and overpriced base CTS. It is a $30K Cavalier with a different body.

 

Yeah, I just checked Cadillac's site. 3.6l V-6, 255 hp and 252 ft/lb tq.

 

Nice Kill James..

 

I've raced a CTS-V on the LIE a few months back, he's still trying to find me, hehe.

 

Engines
dohc V6 dohc V6 ohv V8
Size, liters/cu. in 2.8/170 3.6/217 5.7/346
Horsepower @ rpm 210 @ 6500 255 @ 6200 400 @ 6000
Torque (lb-ft) @ rpm 195 @ 3200 252 @ 3200 395 @ 4800
Availability Standard1 Standard2 Standard3
EPA city / highway mpg
6-speed manual 17/27 17/27 15/23
5-speed automatic 18/27 18/27 --
Notes: 1. 2.8. 2. 3.6. 3. CTS-V.

or the same thing?

Engines
dohc I4
Size, liters/cu. in 2.2/134
Horsepower @ rpm 140 @ 5600
Torque (lb-ft) @ rpm 150 @ 4000
Availability Standard
EPA city / highway mpg
5-speed manual 26/36
4-speed automatic 24/3


wouldnt go as far as saying cavalier, anywhoo.. nice killl

 

yea i would say you raced the 2.8 or 3.6, most likely the 2.8L

 

only car lux brand that shares platform with chevy is saab and chevy malibu

Cadillac is the only brand using the sigma platform.

 

i think he's confused with 80s cadillac that was a reskinned version of cavailer.