Caddys vs Marauder

[DL04]

I was minding my own business driving to the MM meet today when I noticed a little Caddy CTS speed up behind me and swerve into the open lane next to me at a red light.The caddy stayed back a little so I couldn't get a look at the driver but as soon as the light went green he stomped on it and so did I that little CTS was screaming but the MM never let me get a look at the driver,jumped ahead and stayed there- at 60mph I had him by several car lenghts.At the next light the road was 3 lanes ,CTS on my right and a big Deville pulled up on my left and kept inching forward waiting for the light to change{big brother to the rescue?} at the green both of them had at it and I couldn't resist the CTS had a pretty good jump on me and the Deville sounded good but at @ 65,70 it was all over almost had to lockem up to turn into John Harvards to meet with the other MM's.Hmm can we count Caddys as a kill after all they were the ones ganging up on the Marauder - maybe it was a CTS-V AND A DTS really couldn't tell looking through the rearview!

[merc]

Nice kill, you get bonus points for Caddys. :banana2:

[Cobra25]

Sounds good to me. 2 kill's. If they were Mini Cooper's I'd be laughing ,but Caddy's are Quick so the Kill's count.

[MarauderMark]

HEH!!
I love these kill stories. :up:

[woaface]

Once and once only...


YEEE-HAAAAW!

[Sactown]

I was minding my own business driving to the MM meet today when I noticed a little Caddy CTS speed up behind me and swerve into the open lane next to me at a red light.........maybe it was a CTS-V AND A DTS really couldn't tell looking through the rearview!

Nice kill...but I doubt it was a CTS-V...unless the driver can't shift.

[Haggis]

Nice two kills at the same time. I think you get Bonus point for that. :up:

[gpfarrell]

Nice kill...but I doubt it was a CTS-V...unless the driver can't shift.

What do you think will be better for Trilogy sales... the Hemi Three-Hunerts or the CTS-Vs?

Great Kill!... That DeVille guy is wondering how his Northstar went South on him!

[jspradii]

I was minding my own business driving to the MM meet today when I noticed a little Caddy CTS speed up behind me and swerve into the open lane next to me at a red light.The caddy stayed back a little so I couldn't get a look at the driver but as soon as the light went green he stomped on it and so did I that little CTS was screaming but the MM never let me get a look at the driver,jumped ahead and stayed there- at 60mph I had him by several car lenghts.At the next light the road was 3 lanes ,CTS on my right and a big Deville pulled up on my left and kept inching forward waiting for the light to change{big brother to the rescue?} at the green both of them had at it and I couldn't resist the CTS had a pretty good jump on me and the Deville sounded good but at @ 65,70 it was all over almost had to lockem up to turn into John Harvards to meet with the other MM's.Hmm can we count Caddys as a kill after all they were the ones ganging up on the Marauder - maybe it was a CTS-V AND A DTS really couldn't tell looking through the rearview!
It's not polite to abuse the infirmed.

[REpson]

Indeed count that one as a "KILL". :flamer: :up:


I was minding my own business driving to the MM meet today when I noticed a little Caddy CTS speed up behind me and swerve into the open lane next to me at a red light.The caddy stayed back a little so I couldn't get a look at the driver but as soon as the light went green he stomped on it and so did I that little CTS was screaming but the MM never let me get a look at the driver,jumped ahead and stayed there- at 60mph I had him by several car lenghts.At the next light the road was 3 lanes ,CTS on my right and a big Deville pulled up on my left and kept inching forward waiting for the light to change{big brother to the rescue?} at the green both of them had at it and I couldn't resist the CTS had a pretty good jump on me and the Deville sounded good but at @ 65,70 it was all over almost had to lockem up to turn into John Harvards to meet with the other MM's.Hmm can we count Caddys as a kill after all they were the ones ganging up on the Marauder - maybe it was a CTS-V AND A DTS really couldn't tell looking through the rearview!

[BillyGman]

Nice kill. Some of those Caddy's are fast. When Marty and I were on our way to the track, we encountered a Caddy(definately had one of those 32 Valve Northstar 350 motors in it) that we had a brief battle w/on the highway. It seemd like niether Marty's car nor mine could gain ground on him, and he couldn't gain any on us either.

I was impressed since we both turned a 13.5 sec ET w/our cars that day at the track. Ofcourse, all of this was BEFORE my car was S/Ced, but that's another story for another thread. The point being, some of those Caddy's are no slouches. (BTW, I thought it was the "STS" Caddy that was supposed to be the fast model).

[DL04]

(BTW, I thought it was the "STS" Caddy that was supposed to be the fast model).[/QUOTE]---------BILLYG-------------------- STS is the nicer Caddy but that new DTS has a 300hp aluminum V8. CTS-V has 400hp,dont think it was one of those I saw but it was fun just the same.

[RCSignals]

....... Caddy(definately had one of those 32 Valve Northstar 350 motors in it)
Unless something has changed, the Northstar is a DOHC 4.6L, with just slightly less output than the 4.6L DOHC engine in the Marauder.

[BillyGman]

Well maybe it has changed since I was keeping track on Caddy's (it's been awhile) cuz back in the mid 90's I thought the Northstar engines were 350's. I'll have to check on that. I assumed that they were since my dad's 94 Caddy was a 350, and I think they came out w/the Northstar in 95. Right? I know that my Dad's 94 really moved though. I drove it several times.

[TripleTransAm]

Northstars have always been 4.6l, although there have been smaller variants (for use in Oldsmobiles, etc.). The CTS-V is an LS6 (346 cu.in), which is pushrod not DOHC. The Northstars were already around by the summer of 1994, so factor that they were available before 1995.

[RCSignals]

Billy, if your Dads Cad was RWD it probably had a LT1 or variant.

Cadillac will be coming out with a Northstar reworked for RWD configuration. If I remember it will be 302 HP. Hopefully they'll also have moved the starter location to a more conventional place.

Magazine articles are funny about the Northstar, they are usually written making it sound like some unlimited HP/TQ monster.

[BillyGman]

RC, and TTA, thanks for the correction on that. my error.

[BillyGman]

Billy, if your Dads Cad was RWD it probably had a LT1 or variant.
RC, his car was a 94 Deville, which was a front wheel drive set-up. While i don't particularly like wrong wheel drive, it did really move. I think you're correct about that though. I believe it did have an LT1 engine since that's what 01 Interceptor said also.

[Silver_04]

Watch out for Bonnevilles now. Pontiac is dumping the Northstar into those things.

[BillyGman]

Hey, what's going on w/your signature? I thought you had a 04 Marauder. Did you trade it in for a 04 Vette?

[Silver_04]

Oh, I still have the '04 Marauder but I got a deal I couldn't pass up on the 'Vette. Picked it up two weeks ago today.

[BillyGman]

Oh, congratulations. So it must move pretty good, uh?

[TripleTransAm]

RC, his car was a 94 Deville, which was a front wheel drive set-up. While i don't particularly like wrong wheel drive, it did really move. I think you're correct about that though. I believe it did have an LT1 engine since that's what 01 Interceptor said also.


If it was a front driver, it never got anything over 4.6l, the best of which were the Northstars. LT1s were never equipped in anything other than RWD full-frame cars, F-bodies, or Y-bodies. And the only RWD Caddy alive in the 90s was the big Fleetwood (I think that's what they were called).

[Krytin]

Yeah, Fleetwood was the last big RWD from Caddy in the 90's.

[djcoak]

If it was a front driver, it never got anything over 4.6l, the best of which were the Northstars. LT1s were never equipped in anything other than RWD full-frame cars, F-bodies, or Y-bodies. And the only RWD Caddy alive in the 90s was the big Fleetwood (I think that's what they were called). Actually the Concept 2004 Impala SS was equiped with a front drive LT-1

[RCSignals]

Actually the Concept 2004 Impala SS was equiped with a front drive LT-1
I thought it was an LS1, and turned out to be impractical. The Platform was too weak

[TripleTransAm]

Yes, they have concept'ed FWD LS1s, but I don't recall any LT1s.
But I don't consider concept cars when discussing what was ever installed in a given platform... if that wasn't the case, I'd have to go around claiming mid 80s 3rd gen Firebirds were factory-equipped with twin-turbo big block 500+ inch Chevy big blocks. (engineering test car... or perhaps it was a twin turbo 350 small block, but they also had a 502 inch big block test car... can scan photos if I find them).

[djcoak]

Ooops you're right it was an LS1 I stand corrected. That would have been on heck of a car!!!

[djcoak]

By the way I see you are into TA's. I found a 1979 10th anniversary stripped in a used car lot a few years back. After I ran the VIN I saw it was rare with a 400 4 speed I believe it was. When I asked about it they had used the engine in a tractor and blew it up and had no title for the car. They ended up parting it out and scrapping the rest. Crying shame.

[TripleTransAm]

By the way I see you are into TA's.


Yes, you could say that... ;)


(will finally be firing up the first one in 15-20 minutes... been a heck of a busy 2004 so far, haven't got any of them back on the road yet. In a dozen minutes or so, it'll be 1987 all over again, if you get my drift :up: )

[Haggis]

Yes, they have concept'ed FWD LS1s, but I don't recall any LT1s.
But I don't consider concept cars when discussing what was ever installed in a given platform... if that wasn't the case, I'd have to go around claiming mid 80s 3rd gen Firebirds were factory-equipped with twin-turbo big block 500+ inch Chevy big blocks. (engineering test car... or perhaps it was a twin turbo 350 small block, but they also had a 502 inch big block test car... can scan photos if I find them).


Please do Steve, I for one would love to see the pictures.

[RCSignals]

Yes, they have concept'ed FWD LS1s, but I don't recall any LT1s.
But I don't consider concept cars when discussing what was ever installed in a given platform... if that wasn't the case, I'd have to go around claiming mid 80s 3rd gen Firebirds were factory-equipped with twin-turbo big block 500+ inch Chevy big blocks. (engineering test car... or perhaps it was a twin turbo 350 small block, but they also had a 502 inch big block test car... can scan photos if I find them).
I agree, concepts may be nice but are as good as talking about the latest warp coils and plasma injectors

[djcoak]

Who's installing those in cars???? I want one!!!! How cool would it be to say say "Yeah its warp drive"

[TripleTransAm]

I agree, concepts may be nice but are as good as talking about the latest warp coils and plasma injectors


Warp coils? Sounds like you're talking about my bass amp after the last practice...

[ADE 1000]

Nice kills. Although I doubt you raced a CTS-V, the regular CTS with the 3.6L V-6 is pretty quick. Latest Road & Track clocked a 0-60 time of 6.6s.

[DL04]

Nice kills. Although I doubt you raced a CTS-V, the regular CTS with the 3.6L V-6 is pretty quick. Latest Road & Track clocked a 0-60 time of 6.6s.

I know,I know- I was just kiddin about the CTS-V they have to be real quick with 400hp! I'd have to get one of the S/C MM to take one of those on!

[Dan]

I can hardly believe that someone would just outright challenge you like that. That stuff has yet to happen to me.

I want a KILL. :bigcry:

:)

Best,

Dan

[Silver_04]

Speaking of the CTS-V, has anyone seen the brochure for the it? Cadillac is offering cross drlled rotors, carbon fiber strut tower braces, Corsa exhaust and some beautiful wheels as dealer installed options. Seeing stuff like this makes me imagine just for a moment I'm Biff from Back to the Future knocking on the heads of the people at Mercury yelling "McFly, McFly!" The MM is badge engineered so why can't Mercury get some parts from the Mustang bin and badge engineer them as aftermarket parts for the MM? Aaarrrggghhhh.

[junehhan]

Speaking of the CTS-V, has anyone seen the brochure for the it? Cadillac is offering cross drlled rotors, carbon fiber strut tower braces, Corsa exhaust and some beautiful wheels as dealer installed options. Seeing stuff like this makes me imagine just for a moment I'm Biff from Back to the Future knocking on the heads of the people at Mercury yelling "McFly, McFly!" The MM is badge engineered so why can't Mercury get some parts from the Mustang bin and badge engineer them as aftermarket parts for the MM? Aaarrrggghhhh.


Probably to avoid potential liability issues. I would also like to see Mercury offer aftermarket stuff for the Marauder, like FRMS offers for the Mustang. Oh well, at least we have our choice of great tuners that we can choose from. I just wish there were more exhaust options............