{"id":1123,"date":"2009-03-31T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2009-03-31T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T01:19:18","slug":"cts-upgrade-to-cts-v-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cts-upgrade-to-cts-v-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"CTS upgrade to CTS-V suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, after <a href=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=1090\" target=\"_blank\">some initial confusion<\/a>, a set of 2005 Cadillac CTS-V front and rear sway bars and bushings should soon be on the way to await installation on my 2005 CTS.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1091\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bodiyiwbgkkgrhgoh-diejlllveujbjuiuekcg_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1091\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1091\" title=\"Cadillac CTS-V Front and Rear Swaybars\" src=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bodiyiwbgkkgrhgoh-diejlllveujbjuiuekcg_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Cadillac CTS-V Front and Rear Swaybars\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bodiyiwbgkkgrhgoh-diejlllveujbjuiuekcg_1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bodiyiwbgkkgrhgoh-diejlllveujbjuiuekcg_1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cadillac CTS-V Front and Rear Swaybars<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To review, my CTS has the 3.6L engine, but the base FE1 suspension.\u00a0 The CTS comes with 3 suspension variants, FE1, FE2 Lux, or FE3 Sport.\u00a0 The CTS-V comes with the FE4 V-series suspension.\u00a0 The difference between the various suspensions are variations and combinations of springs, shocks, and sway bars.\u00a0 The sway bars perhaps have the greatest influence on handling.\u00a0 So for my first step I am going to swap to the CTS-V sway bars and then test.<\/p>\n<p>So, I need to be working now on developing a good way to test the base FE1 suspension.\u00a0 I am thinking a video test to show how the car looks from outside while cornering, to show lean angle, and a G-meter test to show absolute G&#8217;s attainable with each setup.\u00a0 Stay tuned, or reply with advice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, after some initial confusion, a set of 2005 Cadillac CTS-V front and rear sway bars and bushings should soon be on the way to await installation on my 2005 CTS. To review, my CTS has the 3.6L engine, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cts-upgrade-to-cts-v-suspension\/\">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":[17,147],"tags":[11,171,174],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mods","category-cts-cadillac-models","tag-cts","tag-skidpad","tag-sway-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","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=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}