{"id":1071,"date":"2009-03-26T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2009-03-26T13:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:12:02","slug":"suspension-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/suspension-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 2005 CTS 3.6L has the base, or FE1 soft-ride suspension.  Since I plan to drive it another year or two, I have decided to explore suspension options to add to the fun.<\/p>\n<p>The factory suspensions are:<br \/>\nFE1 Softride<br \/>\nFE2 Luxury or non-height adjusting Sport<br \/>\nFE3 Sport<br \/>\nFE4 CTS-V<br \/>\nFE4 with FG2 CTS-V with &#8216;track&#8217; shocks<\/p>\n<p>Also available are Eibach and Hotchkis aftermarket sway bars and springs.<\/p>\n<p>The CTS tends to measure 0.83g on a 200ft skidpad, and I am hoping to get to 0.87g instead.<\/p>\n<p>A key part of this mod will be testing before and after each step mod to determine what effect.<br \/>\nSo first I need to define a handy flat 200 ft diameter circular spot, then the method to be used to ensure consistent measurements.  <\/p>\n<p>I have my RaceTechnology AP-22 meter which measures Gs.  I am studying the new meters and track data packs to see what will make the best test setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2005 CTS 3.6L has the base, or FE1 soft-ride suspension. Since I plan to drive it another year or two, I have decided to explore suspension options to add to the fun. The factory suspensions are: FE1 Softride FE2 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/suspension-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17,147],"tags":[11,172,171],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadillac-models","category-mods","category-cts-cadillac-models","tag-cts","tag-peformance-mods","tag-skidpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}