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This video comes to us from the Cleetus McFarland YouTube channel and it features the well-known internet celebrity driving the built CTS-V, owned by a friend named Cooper. After returning from a 2,000-mile road trip, Cleetus visits with his dog, Holly, and speaks with Cooper about his recently finished Cadillac and the owner wants to take the car for a quick spin.He likely came to regret this quick spin in his supercharged Cadillac.First Drive with the LSXThe interesting part of this video begins with Cooper and Cleetus head out onto the road in the supercharged Cadillac CTS-V, featuring a built LSX topped with a positive-displacement blower. They figure that the engine is making around 700 horsepower and that power is sent to the bald street tires by means of a built manual transmission and a set of 4.10 gears.As you might expect, the first few minutes of the first drive in this built Cadillac are spent warming the car up, but once everything is up to proper operating temperature, Cooper opens it up. He makes a couple hard pulls, easily spinning the tires through first and second gear, with third gear providing just enough grip for the two to experience the G-forces of hard acceleration.This first portion ends with the two stopping at a parts store, at which point the owner asks Cleetus if he wants to drive, and of course he does.Host Behind the WheelAround the 6:45 mark of this video, Cleetus McFarland himself climbs into the driver"s seat of this built Cadillac CTS-V and he heads out onto the street. The owner points out that the car is warmed up, so the host of the popular YouTube show can go ahead and hammer down.He eases out onto the street, gradually moving from first gear to second, at which point he climbs into the throttle. The tires spin and the engine roars, then something goes wrong.A horrific knocking noise comes from the uncovered engine bay, leading Cleetus to quickly get the car to the side of the road with the engine off. The two push the car onto a side street, at which point they examine the damage fearing the worst.Surveying the DamageOnce the car was out of the way of traffic, Cleetus and Cooper look over the engine bay, finding that one of the coil packs had come loose, so the owner climbed into the car to fire it up. When he did, Cleetus quickly gave him the sign to shut the car off. He excitedly points out that the engine isn"t blown the harmonic balancer had come apart.It turns out that the owner had opted to use the factory balancer rather than installing a new one on his freshly-supercharged LSX and it failed rendering the car powerless.As a result, Cleetus got an Uber back to the shop, where he explained what happened to Holly and picked up a truck and trailer before going to get Cooper and his broken CTS-V.Join the LS1tech forums today!Tags: Cadillac, CTS-V, LSX, Supercharged, Video
Date written: May 21, 2018
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ID: 11916
This video comes to us from the Cleetus McFarland YouTube channel and it features the well-known internet celebrity driving the built CTS-V, owned by a friend named Cooper. After returning from a 2,000-mile road trip, Cleetus visits with his dog, Holly, and speaks with Cooper about his recently finished Cadillac and the owner wants to take the car for a quick spin.He likely came to regret this quick spin in his supercharged Cadillac.First Drive with the LSXThe interesting part of this video begins with Cooper and Cleetus head out onto the road in the supercharged Cadillac CTS-V, featuring a built LSX topped with a positive-displacement blower. They figure that the engine is making around 700 horsepower and that power is sent to the bald street tires by means of a built manual transmission and a set of 4.10 gears.As you might expect, the first few minutes of the first drive in this built Cadillac are spent warming the car up, but once everything is up to proper operating temperature, Cooper opens it up. He makes a couple hard pulls, easily spinning the tires through first and second gear, with third gear providing just enough grip for the two to experience the G-forces of hard acceleration.This first portion ends with the two stopping at a parts store, at which point the owner asks Cleetus if he wants to drive, and of course he does.Host Behind the WheelAround the 6:45 mark of this video, Cleetus McFarland himself climbs into the driver"s seat of this built Cadillac CTS-V and he heads out onto the street. The owner points out that the car is warmed up, so the host of the popular YouTube show can go ahead and hammer down.He eases out onto the street, gradually moving from first gear to second, at which point he climbs into the throttle. The tires spin and the engine roars, then something goes wrong.A horrific knocking noise comes from the uncovered engine bay, leading Cleetus to quickly get the car to the side of the road with the engine off. The two push the car onto a side street, at which point they examine the damage fearing the worst.Surveying the DamageOnce the car was out of the way of traffic, Cleetus and Cooper look over the engine bay, finding that one of the coil packs had come loose, so the owner climbed into the car to fire it up. When he did, Cleetus quickly gave him the sign to shut the car off. He excitedly points out that the engine isn"t blown the harmonic balancer had come apart.It turns out that the owner had opted to use the factory balancer rather than installing a new one on his freshly-supercharged LSX and it failed rendering the car powerless.As a result, Cleetus got an Uber back to the shop, where he explained what happened to Holly and picked up a truck and trailer before going to get Cooper and his broken CTS-V.Join the LS1tech forums today!Tags: Cadillac, CTS-V, LSX, Supercharged, Video
Date written: May 21, 2018
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 11916
