so last night i picked up my 1st ctsv, ive been wanting one for the last few years and last night i picked up a 2005 silver cts-v all stock except an intake...
what are the mods that should be done asap for these V1's? i plan on eventually getting full exhaust but i hear the shifter needs to be swapped, anyone know what shifter? thanks in advance

 

Motor mounts, diff bushings, cradle bushings. Ls7 clutch, short shifter and g force axles. That covers most of the basics.

 

Welcome to the fam . . .

 

Well its about time lol

 

Congrats. You will not be disappointed.

PISNUOFF short shifter.

 

Congrats welcome

 

IMHO, if your car isn't going to do burnouts and the clutch and diff are okay, I'd leave them alone. Otherwise, you'll need axles to eliminate wheelhop. A shifter, on the other hand, is just about mandatory. PISNUOFF's shifter is the way to go. Get a CAGS eliminator if you don't already have one.

After that, what you're going to use the car for (DD, track, strip, occasional burnout, etc) will dictate which mods make most sense.

 

Definitely!

 

Shameless plug.

 

Yea that dude makes a quality product.

 

Welcome. Flush all fluids namely clutch and rear diff.

CAGS eliminator, motor mounts, trans mount, rear diff bushing, shifter....ASAP.

Oh, disable the orange DRL. Hate that.

After that (should be ordering to install this weekend), like Randy said, depends on your plans and how you drive the car.

 

Grats and Welcome!

 

Welcome! Just like everyone else said:

Motor mounts, trans mount, rear diff bushing, heck all revshift bushings.

Shifter is a must, I love my Katech shifter but I know Pisnuff shifter is a top notch product! Also while you're at it all the linkage upgrades are cheap and well worth the effort.

CAGS must go, if you have or know someone that has HP Tuners that can turn it off for you or get the adapter.

 

so how does one go about buying a PISNUOFF short shifter??

 

i was just about to ask this question

thanks everyone.... i love it soo far... its just going to be my going out car... my honda crx is my daily driver for work (drive about 100 miles a day to work) my 67 camaro is my show car and the ctsv will be just my going out with friends, kinda a weekend car when the camaro is too much

 

07CTS-V is your man to talk to!

Custom-short-shifter-ordering-process

 

thanks for the link, i think this might be my first mod

 

as far as cags, what would be the best way to do this? ive seen the skip shift eliminators on ebay for like 20 bucks, whats the best way of doing this? thanks

 

That is the best way of doing it without getting it tuned out.

FAQs http://www.cadillacfaq.com/faq/index.html

And lots of info in the archives on the other forum.

 

thanks bro, yeah i tried registering to that forum and it wasent letting me, ima try again later on tonight