{"id":9367,"date":"2011-05-11T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=9367"},"modified":"2011-05-11T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:16:33","slug":"cadillac-suggestion-v-series-dealer-installed-power-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cadillac-suggestion-v-series-dealer-installed-power-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"@Cadillac Suggestion: V-Series Dealer installed Power Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very popular aftermarket tuning option<\/a> for the Supercharged V8 LSA engine in current Cadillac V-Series models is to replace the crank case or supercharger snout pulleys, or both, causing the supercharger to spin a bit faster and increase pressure.\u00a0 This results<\/a> in a gain of roughly up to 89 rwhp (rear wheel horse power, 111 hp at the crank).\u00a0 More results here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cost of the pulley is often under $700, and the change requires a tune, or calibration of the powertrain control module (PCM).\u00a0\u00a0 Wait4Me Performance<\/a> for example has a popular aftermarket tune (calibration) that matches this approach, as well as a kit for the mod.<\/p>\n

However, if the Cadillac Dealer determines that a V-Series car has been modified, they may choose to decline warranty repairs on the powertrain, which can take a lot of the fun out of this as a modification.<\/p>\n

What if Cadillac offered this as a Dealer Installed mod?\u00a0 Here is my plan:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

a) Determine cost of the parts — Sells retail for $650 so likely far under $400\/kit at 50 kits<\/p>\n

b) Develop a calibration to match, or license an existing calibration — worst case $400\/kit at 50 kits although likely much less — or Engineering nonrecurring to develop in house of TBD (used $400\/kit)<\/p>\n

c) Test the calibration and pulley with a car and determine expected impact to warranty.\u00a0 Estimated 20 hrs of engineering x $200 \/hr = $4000\u00a0 nonrecurring cost.\u00a0 Amortize over 50 kits = $80\/kit<\/p>\n

d) Add anticipated additional warranty cost (Guessing it is under $300\/car) to the kit cost.<\/p>\n

e) Add Cadillac profit of $500 to the kit cost; add Dealer profit of $1000 to kit cost at Dealer.<\/p>\n

f) Cost to Dealer: $1,680.\u00a0 Dealer sells for $2,680 plus install charge of 2 hours at $200 for $2,880.\u00a0 V-Series could be in and out of the Dealer for under $3K\u00a0 installed, full powertrain warranty intact.\u00a0 I believe that the Dealers can sell a ton of 100hp upgrades at $3K installed.<\/p>\n

g) Simple alternate:\u00a0 Allow Dealer installation of approved aftermarket kits (example Wait4Me performance kit) for $300 warranty reserve + Cadillac profit $100 plus Dealer install time $200 + plus Dealer Profit of $100 = $700 installed with existing warranty intact,\u00a0 in addition to the cost of the aftermarket kit.<\/p>\n

Result:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reserve taken for any warranty impact.<\/p>\n

Cadillac profits<\/p>\n

Dealers profit<\/p>\n

Cadillac builds up more data to consider this as a factory option on special models<\/p>\n

Herds of 650 hp+ V-Series Cadillacs roaming the land under warranty and tearing up magazine test comparisons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very popular aftermarket tuning option for the Supercharged V8 LSA engine in current Cadillac V-Series models is to replace the crank case or supercharger snout pulleys, or both, causing the supercharger to spin a bit faster and increase pressure.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/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":[17,144,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mods","category-cts-v-cadillac-models","category-site-info-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","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=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9399,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions\/9399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}