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Originally Posted by oceanhut Good advice, everyone. Thanks.
I guess I am getting ahead of myself. I was joking with my roomate who is a loyal stick driver by saying that you could have told me it came with a short shift kit and I wouldnt have known anyway! HA.
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Regarding aftermarket modifications - frankly, the best thing you can do is keep the car absolutely stock for the first six months. Every car has good and bad, but every quibble I've seen about the CTS-V has been trivial.
Bear in mind there's rarely ever a free lunch - you want a shorter shift? Okay, shift
effort is going to increase, probably the noise and vibration level too. This is certainly true of the BMW short-shifters, some more than others. The aftermarket exists to sell stuff. Be as skeptical there as anywhere else. There's always a tradeoff, whether it's cost, NVH, effort, etc.
The Tremec T56 transmission is basically the same as that used in the fourth-gen Camarobirds and Australian Holdens, nothing like the BMW's Getrag boxes. It's been cleaned up a bit for CTS-V use, the main NVH improvement though is not in the box but ahead of it - a dual-mass flywheel. I'm hoping it gets an hydraulically-actuated clutch, too.
The most important modification you can make is to the nut behind the wheel. Find a local club that runs open-track/track school events. Preferably with a decent instructional program. BMWCCA is generally very good and many chapters are quite happy to have non-BMWs sign up, there's a variety of other clubs (NASA, TracQuest, some Corvette clubs) as well. Get out on the track, work up to speed,
listen to your instructor. A few weekends of track time will be worth more than all the aftermarket parts you could ever buy.
