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[VELOSE]

I guess we're supposed to get an update tomorrow. We'll see.....

[Florian]

Originally Posted by VELOSE

I guess we're supposed to get an update tomorrow. We'll see.....

Ill put that as #5 right after:

1. Check's in the mail
2. I wont jizz in your mouth
3. I love you
4. Dont worry about that rash...


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[calicadi]

Don't shoot the messenger 'K?

Spoke with Stan at GC... we're still 2-3 week out. Problem is at GM. They're supplying this missing part. Otherwise kits are ready.

... and just FYI on spring rates. I asked Stan to find out what stock rates are. What he found shows stock at 400 front and rear. This information may have been posted previously. Thought I'd re-post for those still considering what rate to use as replacement.

[VELOSE]

Not going to shoot you but if I'm knowledgeable, correct you.

Our CTS-V's are 400lb front and 450lb rear.

Florian, go ahead and add #6 decapitate the messenger.

[wildwhl]

Hate to salt the wound, but -

Picked up the V from repairs this afternoon (incomplete but I could wait no more). Battery must have gone dead, g-meter reset to zero on both ends.

Flashed in a new, very, very good StealthV tune, and made a few detours on the way home. Hit my favorite corner that I normally pull 55-60 mph and say about .85 peak (this is nearly residential, mind you). Tonight, kicked the ass end out (new tune or time off from the V, not sure).

I didn't take a picture - but 1.17 ------ 1.02 all on a surface street ride home. That's why I bought the car - and GC, FG2, Hotchkis, widened rears, maggie, Rick and Dreamin make it possible.

Spring rate at the moment - 550 front and 500 rear. Remind me, what happens if I bump up the rear rate?

WW

[thebigjimsho]

Originally Posted by wildwhl

Remind me, what happens if I bump up the rear rate?

WW

Children?

[wildwhl]

Originally Posted by thebigjimsho

Children?

No, CVP had his tubes tied.

[Dreamin]

Originally Posted by VELOSE

Our CTS-V's are 400lb front and 450lb rear.

Where did you get that from V?

[Dreamin]

Spring rate at the moment - 550 front and 500 rear. Remind me, what happens if I bump up the rear rate?

WW, quit running your springs backwards... you should be running 500 front / 550 rear... I thought that's how you had them installed...

Increasing rear spring rate will increase oversteer.
Increasing front spring rate will increase understeer.

[wildwhl]

Dreamin -

My bad - I have them 500/550R - not sure what I was thinking last night. I'm thinking of going up 100#'s though.

WW

[Dreamin]

Originally Posted by wildwhl

I'm thinking of going up 100#'s though.

You're the only guy on the planet w/FG2's and GC's So only you can figure this one out...

How are the shocks handling the 500/550s? *Any* floatiness at all? Sudden dips on the road? long swoopy dips in the road? How's rebound over speed-bumps? Tight, a little bounce?

If the shocks feel tight in all these scanario's they can handling more spring... I consider 50# a 'tuning' change... 100# you'll definitely feel! And I wouldn't up the rear rate only... maggie + oversteer = Up both front and rear rates... i.e. 550F / 600R or 600F / 650R

P.S. PM me...i'm i Sac this weekend...

[wildwhl]

Dreamin -

Shocks feel, to my not so trained senses, like they're handling the 500/550's quite well. No bounce. And always tight.

You know me, gotta keep screwing with everything. RIght now though, I do have a touch of oversteer (called right foot)

WW

[urbanski]

Originally Posted by wildwhl

I didn't take a picture - but 1.17 ------ 1.02 all on a surface street ride home. That's why I bought the car - and GC, FG2, Hotchkis, widened rears, maggie, Rick and Dreamin make it possible.WW

lol

i have the world's most intrusive TC system on a V and hitting .9 scares me and gives me flashbacks of hitting walls

1.17 lol i'll never ever be even close

[wildwhl]

urby -

a little secret - even you can hit above 1.00 on this particular turn

WW

[StealthV]

WW - get that thing on the track at Reno-Fernley next weekend with D and see if the shocks fade with those big springs...