gdwriter, from your pics it looks like you have the subwoofer in the rear deck. I have a new beige rear deck cover for that arrangement......if you want it freebies, PM me and I'll mail it out this week. Jim
My 01 SLS has body colored rockers and the 7 spokers - all OEM. Body colored grill, fog lamps, STS tips came in later SLS years.
Good catch you're right. I too had a 2001 SLS in dark green with nearly every STS option including the body colored rockers. I believe 2001 was in fact the first year to get that.
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It's funny that my passenger door is so hard to open....it's been like that as long as I've owned the car and everyone has had troubles with it. Maybe I SHOULD get it in and get that looked at...
You should feel the one in my friend's IROC. The door has sagged about an inch and the bottom of the door is literally digging into the door sill. I actually fell out of the car once because I had to throw all my body weight into the door to get it open. It wasn't far to fall but it still made me look like a dumbass.
Tanner, good thing its an auto. Trust me, manual sucks in a traffic jam.
Clutch, first gear, clutch + gas, gas, clutch, second gear, clutch and gas, gas, brake, stop, dammit, start over.
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The '01's were in fact the first year where you could get the body colored rockers, which also included the 7-spoke wheels. I almost bought a fully loaded '00 SLS and it had the grey rocker panels. On white diamond, black, and crimson they look great. The other colors are tossups, and they don't look too hot with Forrest Green.
Took Sabrina out on my favorite roller coaster road today with a video camera, the same route I shot while driving both Betty and Cruella (if you haven't seen them, they're all on YouTube, and my identity is the same there as it is here).
I won't have a chance to edit that video until later in the week, but I also shot a 0-60 run that didn't require much in the way of editing. I had to go back to my friend who loaned me his camera to get the FireWire cable, so I took Cruella, and did the 0-60 with her for comparison.
The Northstar in the Seville is faster, especially at the top end, but the good old 4.9 in the DeVille holds its own--especially for an 18-year-old car with 257,000 miles on it. Both V8s sound damn good, too.
Interestingly, both cars shift from 1st to 2nd at 45 MPH, and both hold 2nd gear all the way up to ~80 MPH. Without a tach in the DeVille, I have no idea how high it was revving, but it probably went close to redline.
The noise you hear besides the engine revving in the Seville is raindrops on the windshield. I had the camera on a tripod held down between my legs in the Seville; in the DeVille, it's just handheld, so it's shakier.
Will post the other videos here later this week or this next weekend.
Then, I remembered Automobilemagazine had done a road-trip feature in the summer of 2001 featuring a Seville and a DeVille. So I found that:
I've never much cared for Cadillac's alphabet soup names, other than maybe the STS since they've used that name for 20 years and CTS because I love the car. No matter what the emblem on the trunk lid says, I will always consider my car a Seville. So I plan on replacing the SLS emblem with this:
This is the one-piece emblem used on export models. Seems odd that they'd still use the Seville name overseas since numerical and letter names are so much more common on European and Japanese luxury cars.
Finally, one thing I miss in the Seville is the Cadillac script. The DeVille never lets you forget it's a Cadillac. Not only are there are six places where the Cadillac script appears, there are -- count 'em -- 17 wreath and crests on that car. I only count three on the Seville. So I found this small Cadillac script emblem that's also used on export models:
I think it goes on the trunk lid on those cars, but it's small enough that I'll probably put it on the glovebox door. We'll see where it looks best.
Gary, using my iPhone as a real rough stopwatch, I got a 7.7 second 0-60 for the SLS and a 9.6 second for the deVille. That seems awful high for the deVille though...
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Gary were you going WOT or easing off a little because of the rain? Just wondering seeing how it shifted at 5500 RPM.
Eased up a little on the gas. That was actually my second run. The first time, I forgot to hit the Record button (D'oh!) and the traction control kicked in. Nailed it more once I was rolling, but eased up as I was approaching 80 MPH
It had stopped raining when I did the run with Cruella. On that run, I basically buried the pedal into the carpet and held it down. As I said before, her run was certainly respectable, but you can see toward the end of the run how it's accelerating much more slowly.
I knew and have been told by others here that the 4.9 doesn't have much top end. It always felt plenty fast to me when passing on a two-lane highway, but having driven a Northstar, there definitely is a difference.
Gary, using my iPhone as a real rough stopwatch, I got a 7.7 second 0-60 for the SLS and a 9.6 second for the deVille. That seems awful high for the deVille though...
A Deville that hooks up properly should have a 0-60 of just above 8. Maybe the wet road aggravated the 4.9's tenancy to wheel spin?
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Originally Posted by ryannel2003
That engine seems alot more sedate than the STS; for comparison, here is my 0-60 on my '00. I don't remember the SLS's i've driven being that quiet.
Transmission gearing is huge for your 0-60 times. Changing from 2.73:1 to 2.97:1 gave the Deville Touring Sedan almost a full second over the base sedan. I wonder how my Deville will act when I give it 3.06:1?
Gary, using my iPhone as a real rough stopwatch, I got a 7.7 second 0-60 for the SLS and a 9.6 second for the deVille. That seems awful high for the deVille though...
According to the time codes on the video, the Seville did 0-60 in 7 seconds flat; the DeVille did it in just over 9 seconds. And remember, the DeVille has 257,000 miles on it.
