The Official CTS-V Pic Thread
04-20-2016, 07:40 AM
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Bio..... last year when i first joined here and saw your car i thought it was awesome and nicely done.
now..... well now i just wish you'd GDIAF.
the car looks great man.
now..... well now i just wish you'd GDIAF.
the car looks great man.
04-20-2016, 12:32 PM
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Gotta love the look of the V from a 1/4 angle, front or rear. Side on, it has a bit of a weak chin. Bio, I love that first picture in your most recent post. It's going in my folder for "cool V1s" with your name on it.
04-20-2016, 03:55 PM
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Lets see if this will work this time. Tried posting some pics before but my post never showed up.
Anyway, here is my 05 V I picked up not too long ago. Wanted to get a newer, more reliable car than my turbo Civic and this is what I ended up with, lol. Not exactly what I was looking for but I LOVE it!
Also, any idea what to do about these disgusting headlights besides replace them? Previous owner at one point had tint or something on them and it ate into the lens and peeled the top layer off in places.
Kinda hard to see but it put down 509hp/483tq
Anyway, here is my 05 V I picked up not too long ago. Wanted to get a newer, more reliable car than my turbo Civic and this is what I ended up with, lol. Not exactly what I was looking for but I LOVE it!
Also, any idea what to do about these disgusting headlights besides replace them? Previous owner at one point had tint or something on them and it ate into the lens and peeled the top layer off in places.
Kinda hard to see but it put down 509hp/483tq
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04-21-2016, 10:28 AM
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04-21-2016, 02:33 PM
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I have also taken the car to him 7 times and spent over 12 hours driving around with him to try and get the partial throttle tune correct. It is still far from good, I am getting p0300 codes, doesn't catch idle and dies occasionally or almost dies then shoots up to around 2k rpm. Also surges quite often when you try to cruise at neutral throttle below 2k rpm.
Either way I'm not really concerned with pulling more power while still N/A, but I do want the tune to be solid and the car run properly. Car will be going to a different tuner very soon.
04-21-2016, 03:50 PM
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If you're on the northern portion of the east coast, try Slowhawk Performance in Bridgewater MA. Don Kinder corrected many of the wrongs in my dyno tune from Jannetty Racing. Despite making many modifications to the V since the tune at Slowhawk several years ago, my car has remained stable in all driving conditions.
I'm actually getting antsy to go back, even though I haven't done anything that would directly add power. Lots of little things I've changed (including the Geforce 9" with a 3.50 ratio) should have changed my output power and torque and I'd like to establish a new baseline before the 427 LSX goes in.
I'm actually getting antsy to go back, even though I haven't done anything that would directly add power. Lots of little things I've changed (including the Geforce 9" with a 3.50 ratio) should have changed my output power and torque and I'd like to establish a new baseline before the 427 LSX goes in.
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04-21-2016, 03:54 PM
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If you're on the northern portion of the east coast, try Slowhawk Performance in Bridgewater MA. Don Kinder corrected many of the wrongs in my dyno tune from
Janetty Racing. We spent the majority of the session driving my car around with HP Tuners running on the laptop in my lap, with and without A/C, in stop and go traffic and on the highway. Finished up with a couple of dyno pulls and walked out with 422 RWHP on his eddy current dyno--a significant increase over the 381 RWHP I made on Jannetty's dynojet.
Janetty Racing. We spent the majority of the session driving my car around with HP Tuners running on the laptop in my lap, with and without A/C, in stop and go traffic and on the highway. Finished up with a couple of dyno pulls and walked out with 422 RWHP on his eddy current dyno--a significant increase over the 381 RWHP I made on Jannetty's dynojet.
04-28-2016, 06:10 PM
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Not a concern for new wheels. Regarding fatigue cycling, I've been beating the crap out of my Forgestar F14s for almost 4 years with no problems. So have 99.9% of their customers.
05-11-2016, 07:15 AM
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Nintastio, first off great looking car and one hell of a motor!
You will never have stock like drivability with that big of a cam. It will always buck or surge a little creeping along at low rpm. I had a 251/259 .650/.650 112 cam in my goat and I will probably never go that big again because of the drivability. Just keep it around 2k rpm and you will be smooth. Just the life of owning a big cam
EDIT: sounds like that was a third gear pull on the dyno as well. From my experience, you do pulls in 4th
You will never have stock like drivability with that big of a cam. It will always buck or surge a little creeping along at low rpm. I had a 251/259 .650/.650 112 cam in my goat and I will probably never go that big again because of the drivability. Just keep it around 2k rpm and you will be smooth. Just the life of owning a big cam
EDIT: sounds like that was a third gear pull on the dyno as well. From my experience, you do pulls in 4th
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05-17-2016, 09:14 PM
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Looks like part of your tuning issues are coming from the vacuum leak you've got going on. I see you are still running a MAF but you're pulling fresh air for the PCV from the atmosphere and not post MAF. That fresh air needs to come from the intake tube after the MAF. That might help a little. Since your car is an 05 it didn't come with the nipple in the intake tube since the original TB had its own. 06-07 intake tubes (stock and aftermarket) had a nipple in the tube for fresh air. I had to add a fresh air port on my tube after I switched to the LS2 90mm TB on my LS6.
05-18-2016, 06:47 AM
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Looks like part of your tuning issues are coming from the vacuum leak you've got going on. I see you are still running a MAF but you're pulling fresh air for the PCV from the atmosphere and not post MAF. That fresh air needs to come from the intake tube after the MAF. That might help a little. Since your car is an 05 it didn't come with the nipple in the intake tube since the original TB had its own. 06-07 intake tubes (stock and aftermarket) had a nipple in the tube for fresh air. I had to add a fresh air port on my tube after I switched to the LS2 90mm TB on my LS6.
maybe Nintastio & I can work out a trade.... shoot me a PM.
