97 Cadillac Sts, Rebuilt Engine With Head Studs on 2040-cars
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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Engine rebuilt with new Main, Rod bearings, Oil Pump, Rings, Primary timing chain, tension-er and guides, Head gaskets, New style Rear main seal which requires press in, Front seal, new power steering pump, New A/C compressor. 2 New front tires.
Things re-used and not replaced. Rod, Pistons, Cam gears, Crank gear, Intermediate gear, Cam timing chains, Known issues with car -- 1) throws code P0340 "camshaft circuit malfunction" Sensor appears to be sending pulses as measured with my meter. Sensor has been replaced , Ignition control module replaced, PCM replaced and wiring checked. 2) Control rods for ride stability control system are missing so "Information system" displays ride control systems messages on display. 3) ABS light on, possibly linked to missing ride stability control rods. 4) Fuel gauge does not work, stuck on Full. 5) A/C compressor will not turn on when using dash controls but will when jumped passed AC relay. Appears that circuit feeding voltage to control circuit of relay is at fault. 6) Climate control system blows air mostly out of Defrost vents only. I suspect this to be a vacuum related issue but don't have the vacuum hose routing diagram to verify and confirm. My opinion on who may want to buy this car -- If you have a good car that needs a Northstar motor then this would probably work out for you. Not sure of all the years and models that this would fit into but would probably be most all Cadillac's from 95-2005 or so that use the 4.6 Northstar V8. Below are a couple of links that you could probably contact and find out for sure. I will attempt to do the same and will provide the update when I find out but I encourage you to check for yourself. For others if you like this Cadillac and feel confident that you could fix the above listed issues or know someone that could then this might work out for you. I have a video of the engine rebuild, send a email if you want a link to the Youtube video. BUYER responsible for pickup or shipping of vehicle. |
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GM intends to offer semi-autonomous vehicles by 2020
Fri, 30 Aug 2013Prepare for a few years of technological saber-rattling, as the world's automakers begin pushing to bring self-driving cars to market. Earlier this week, Nissan announced that it aims to offer autonomous vehicles by 2020, while Google, BMW and several other marks are working on similar efforts.
General Motors is doing things differently, though. Rather than push for a fully autonomous car, it's continuing to refine its semi-autonomous Super Cruise, a product that we tested in April 2012 and that will eventually see use on some Cadillacs before trickling down to the rest of the General Motors family. Super Cruise, which is undergoing testing in the Cadillac SRX, doesn't take complete control out of the driver's hands. Rather, under a very specific set of circumstances on the freeway, it will marry the capabilities of things like lane departure warning and adaptive cruise control to allow the driver to take their hands off the wheel. All of which sounds a lot like the system Mercedes-Benz is launching on the 2014 S-Class.
The system is still in development, according to John Capp, GM's director of electrical controls and active safety technology. Now that that the biggest hurdle, steering control, has been cleared, GM's engineers can focus on things like teaching the system to adapt to differing road conditions and visibility levels. As we reported in 2012, Super Cruise is still befuddled in low-visibility situations or when road markings aren't particularly clear.
Cadillac ATS was almost front-wheel drive
Wed, 03 Apr 2013"We were going to do a front-wheel drive Cadillac compact off of Delta because it was going to be less expensive," Doug Parks, General Motors' vice president of global product programs, told the Automotive News during the Detroit Auto Show in January of this year. That sentence, referring to early ATS discussions more than five years ago - a period when the automaker, and the industry, was struggling - reveals that Cadillac's highly acclaimed rear-wheel drive compact sedan almost never happened.
Parks revealed that that automaker actually built a 2.0-liter test mule, on GM's Delta platform (shared with the Chevrolet Cruze and Buick Verano) and tested it in Europe. While the prototype was "pretty darn good," according to Parks, the team realized that in order to compete against Mercedes-Benz and BMW it would have to invest in a new rear-wheel drive platform.
The resulting all-new Alpha platform would eventually underpin the Cadillac ATS, and many would argue that its balanced rear-wheel drive chassis is its single most important attribute. Thankfully, the Alpha's goodness won't stop with the ATS. The upcoming 2014 Cadillac CTS and the future Camaro will also share its architecture, meaning the Cimarron will remain a distant memory.
Cadillac CTS Vsport laps the N"urburgring in 8:14.10 [w/video]
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This time it's the turn of the new CTS Vsport, the sportier version of Cadillac's new mid-range sedan that aims to bridge the gap until the arrival of the next CTS-V. So how'd it fare? At the end of what we're sure was an exhaustive test session, the new CTS Vsport clocked a time of 8:14.10.
To put that into context, General Motors points out that the time places the new sedan six seconds ahead of the first-gen CTS-V, whose 400-horsepower V8 engine was actually less potent than the Vsport's new 410hp 3.6-liter twin-turbo V6. That's still a good fifteen seconds slower than the outgoing CTS-V that clocked a 7:59 in 2009 with its 556hp supercharged V8, but only a second behind the E60-generation BMW M5 with its high-revving 500hp V10.