introducing the worlds 1st LS7 CTSV

[Davidstan]

Wow............

[Z06CTSV]

Originally Posted by c5racr1

well Fellas it is in and feels GOOD. The install is finished and i drove it home. I would like to thank-Darren Blanchard, Service Manager for Ross Downing Chevy, and Owner of BPE for his help, My younger brother Nick- former GM technician, and new Police recruit, Jason at KATECH, Paul at Thunderand all of you guys. Now the meat---

Started at 3pm yesterday on the first crank, very smooth Idle, better and smoother, and waay deeper than a stock LS6, more like a LS1, no shake. now the LS^ i had had a cam so it had a nice lope at idle, the LS7 is going to get a cam but not yet, so the idle is like butter. To my suprise the brakes did not have to be blead, so we played with the programing and at about 5pm, we jumped in and went for a ride.

I have the LS7 clutch in, It came with the motor, and the katech spacer kit for the slave cyl. without the stock clutch set up the clunk is GONE, but you have to work a little more to get the car moving or ya get chatter, just like the Z06. put about 5 miles on it and did a nice 4th gear WOT. Freaking awsom, pulls in 4th gear like it the ls6 did iin 2nd gear, has LOTS of torque, espically after 4 grand. best way to describe it is a LS6 with a 150 shot of nitrous, actuall real close to a Stock LS6 with a maggie. This engine revs faster than anything I have ever seen those light weight internals WORK. I took video of it running, but it aint worth anything, sounds like a deep LS2, I think I will take some video of it reving, that is impressive, might do it today.

I have tons of pictures, i need another violenteer to host them to put on this forum. Moderatiors please dont delete the companies that helped, they are great friends of the cadilliac community. I am trying to get my wife to give me a weekend pass to go to The petit le mans at road atlanta, if she does i am going to bring the car and put it on display.

All in all not the hardest swap i have ever done, but it was not easy, a lot of verry small details sidetracked us, but we worked through it.BTY it holds 10 quarts of oil, take that Z06! only down side is that it takes 10 quarts of oil a long time to get to temperature, might have to change the thermostat to a hotter one to help things out! this is still a work in progress and I will be providing plenty of updated. those of you thinking of this type of swap, even to a LS2 e-mail me at C5racr1@ aolcom and I will give ya a laundry list of stuff you need , and more importantly stuss you don't need.

WOW.....

Darren Blanchard does know his stuff.

[90Brougham350]

This is plain rediculous! I thought you V drivers were fast enough already, and then you go and do something incredible like this! Excellent work, this is really raises the bar.

[Redline]

Cadillac & GM, are you paying attention? There is a market for a 500 hp Caddy WITH a manual transmission (sorry STS-V & XLR-V)...

[Sick03L]

I can only dream of doing this conversion one day!

[1QUICKV]

i'm sorry but if anyone has'it got the chance to read a mag like "Hot Rod"... they are coming out with a 500hp 2008 cts-v call "super v" ls7. The charger is also coming out with out a dout, with two motors 5.7 or 6.1 srt. the camaro will have the ls2 6.0 400hp and the ZO6 MAY JUST COME OUT WITH A SUPERCHARGER ON TOP OF THE SLOW ASS 7.0L =) Called the SS ZO6. this is all to happen in the year 2008 which is not far since the 07 are here already... the reason i bring this up is to say that 04 05 06 07 v are going to lose So much money on retail value... just wait... but i will say this v with the ls7 already in. is a very smart thing. your a step ahead.

[04CTSVFLA]

quick those super V's were supposedly all cancelled.

[OldRoadDawg]

Originally Posted by 90Brougham350

This is plain rediculous! I thought you V drivers were fast enough already

Oh yeah, I would have to agree. This is a rediculous, absurd engine swap.
Makes no sense at all.

But, lemme see . . .
- if I cash out ALL my mutual funds,
- sell the back forty acres
- and the wife doesn't notice that I've sold her car
- then . . . just maybe. Hm-m-m??

[1QUICKV]

Originally Posted by 04CTSVFLA

quick those super V's were supposedly all cancelled.

well the "hot rod" mag. said it in this months mag. so i dont know.. will see what happens. but im sure they will now that the viper is 650 hp which is 150hp faster then the zo6 and the m3 is to be faster then the V.... will see... all im saying is that GM needs to step up...

[sawhorns05]

Congrats!

That is freakin awesome


I'm glad to see Darren getting respect. That man knows his stuff, and is one of the nicest people I have ever met.

[Jpjr]

Originally Posted by 1QUICKV

i'm sorry but if anyone has'it got the chance to read a mag like "Hot Rod"... they are coming out with a 500hp 2008 cts-v call "super v" ls7. The charger is also coming out with out a dout, with two motors 5.7 or 6.1 srt. the camaro will have the ls2 6.0 400hp and the ZO6 MAY JUST COME OUT WITH A SUPERCHARGER ON TOP OF THE SLOW ASS 7.0L =) Called the SS ZO6. this is all to happen in the year 2008 which is not far since the 07 are here already... the reason i bring this up is to say that 04 05 06 07 v are going to lose So much money on retail value... just wait... but i will say this v with the ls7 already in. is a very smart thing. your a step ahead.

sure, this all my end up happening. but in my book.. this is the coolest thing anyone has done with a CTS-V, or will do, until the new model comes out. any 500hp super-v is not so super since someone on this forum has already done it.

[Dennisscars]

See it? Let's see some video spanking some bimmers!

[verbs]

Originally Posted by 1QUICKV

the camaro will have the ls2 6.0 400hp and the ZO6 MAY JUST COME OUT WITH A SUPERCHARGER ON TOP OF THE SLOW ASS 7.0L =) Called the SS ZO6.

Wrong on 3 accounts. The LS2 will NEVER appear in the Camaro, the super Vette you refer to still has not yet been officially named anything (still undecided), and it will not have a supercharged 7.0L.

[csp3000]

Originally Posted by verbs

Wrong on 3 accounts. The LS2 will NEVER appear in the Camaro, the super Vette you refer to still has not yet been officially named anything (still undecided), and it will not have a supercharged 7.0L.

Well I read that the Camaro is going to have the LS2 whither it has a full 400 hp or it is detuned I'm not sure. The "Blue Devil or SS Corvette" has been given the green light because of the new Viper with 650 hp "Diamonback" due out soon. The engine for the "super vette" is supposedly going to be a Supercharged LS9

[wifescaddy]

Nice job ,i bet that thing scoots.Im a big fan of LS conversions,i already did a nitrous ls1/6 in my 73 vette and future plans hopefully are a ls motor in our srx when SHES done with it.