{"id":83,"date":"2008-09-07T06:08:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T13:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-09-08T06:23:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T13:23:43","slug":"shifting-to-4-cylinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/shifting-to-4-cylinders\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting to 4 cylinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many auto manufacturers are shifting toward smaller and more economical engines.\u00a0 Luckily GM Powertrain has an excellent inline-4 turbo engine called the Ecotec.\u00a0 This engine is used in the kappa cars &#8212; the Saturn Sky Redline, the Pontiac Solstice GXP, and the Opel GT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">It makes 260hp and 260 lb-ft of torque, so almost the same HP output as the FWD Northstar V8.\u00a0 The torque curve on this engine is basically flat from 2500-5200 rpm, so it is a stump puller.<\/div>\n<p>Should this engine be used in Cadillacs?\u00a0 YES.\u00a0\u00a0 Put this in the base CTS NOW as a replacement for the non-DI 3.6L or as an optional engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many auto manufacturers are shifting toward smaller and more economical engines.\u00a0 Luckily GM Powertrain has an excellent inline-4 turbo engine called the Ecotec.\u00a0 This engine is used in the kappa cars &#8212; the Saturn Sky Redline, the Pontiac Solstice GXP, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/shifting-to-4-cylinders\/\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}