Seems to me that a complete changeover to an '09 rear cradle assembly is not only very expensive, but also of little interest to CTS-V owners. The CTS-V production numbers are a fraction of Corvette, which in itself is consider quite small. Then, the numbers of those who seriously modify their CTS-Vs is much smaller yet. I suspect that all of them are active members of this forum. All this means is that it is unlikely any vendor is going to spend a lot of R&D money to produce and market this kind of modification.
What does seem more practical and doable is to adopt some of the changes made to the '09 cradle assembly - specifically the half shaft diameter changes. The differences in the '09 half shaft diameters is very important, I think. To really do the job right without a lot of engineering math, one would create two new half shafts using the same material and shaft diameters as the '09s. A less expensive change might be to just change a single half shaft on a V1, but this is more along the line of "Brute Force Engineering." Such a modification would be more reasonably priced, and much more marketable, provided it works.
At the end of the day, I do not think this mod wouild be a complete and total cure to the V1's wheel hop, but no doubt it will help somewhat.
What does seem more practical and doable is to adopt some of the changes made to the '09 cradle assembly - specifically the half shaft diameter changes. The differences in the '09 half shaft diameters is very important, I think. To really do the job right without a lot of engineering math, one would create two new half shafts using the same material and shaft diameters as the '09s. A less expensive change might be to just change a single half shaft on a V1, but this is more along the line of "Brute Force Engineering." Such a modification would be more reasonably priced, and much more marketable, provided it works.
At the end of the day, I do not think this mod wouild be a complete and total cure to the V1's wheel hop, but no doubt it will help somewhat.
