best rear wheel drive car for less then 30k?

[nate1017]

2009 Cadillac CTS-V

This topic interested me so browsed around a little and found this used one for 34K. A little over the budget but worth it, only drawback is that its automatic/paddle-shift couldn't find a manual but I've read a few places that the auto/paddle has a quicker 0-60 by .4, 0-100 by a whole second and clocks in the 1/4 at 12.2. You got 4 doors and plenty of trunk space for your grocery getting or whatever. Suspension on these things are beast as well so handles like a dream plus its a Cadillac so your riding smooth. Interior is **** too but that may just be my opinion. Thing has 556 HP, 551 Lb-ft of torque and reads 200 on the dash but tops out at 178 on the automatic (191 in manual) but i doubt you will be going that fast very often so 178 should be plenty

 

[Silverado SS 10+ year member]

2009 Cadillac CTS-VThis topic interested me so browsed around a little and found this used one for 34K. A little over the budget but worth it, only drawback is that its automatic/paddle-shift couldn't find a manual but I've read a few places that the auto/paddle has a quicker 0-60 by .4, 0-100 by a whole second and clocks in the 1/4 at 12.2. You got 4 doors and plenty of trunk space for your grocery getting or whatever. Suspension on these things are beast as well so handles like a dream plus its a Cadillac so your riding smooth. Interior is **** too but that may just be my opinion. Thing has 556 HP, 551 Lb-ft of torque and reads 200 on the dash but tops out at 178 on the automatic (191 in manual) but i doubt you will be going that fast very often so 178 should be plenty

What 150,000 miles?. When those come off lease with 30-40k they sell for 40-50k they hold there resale value very very well

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Begging to become a resto mod. To be honest that color is very blah but I bet its stunning in person. Like the old dodge B52 blue if you know what that looks like. Depending on age

A very very popular 60's color. my uncle bought this car from me before i ever got it off the trailer.

 

[Silverado SS 10+ year member]

I like that color, I'm very familiar with it. Mine's white on white, I kept it original as far as color is concerned //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

Have you painted it? How has the paint held up? Wet sand?

 

[nate1017]

2009 Cadillac CTS-V, Used Cars For Sale - Carsforsale.com

Whoops forgot the link lmao 42k miles as well

 

[NIHL8ION]

CTS-V is a BEAST... I like the wagons too just cuz it's a wagon and it's fast as fvck!

 

[NIHL8ION]

Have you painted it? How has the paint held up? Wet sand?

Yes it's had a frame-off resto since I've owned it... Paint is still doing well after about 8 years, I left all the body / paint finishing touches to my uncle who owns a really nice body shop in my area //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[nate1017]

CTS-V is a BEAST... I like the wagons too just cuz it's a wagon and it's fast as fvck!

Haha no doubt i loved watching that wagon beat the Ferrari on Top-Gear.....stuff like that isn't supposed to happen

 

[NIHL8ION]

Haha no doubt i loved watching that wagon beat the Ferrari on Top-Gear.....stuff like that isn't supposed to happen

IKR, that's what's so d@mn awesome about it, nothing like watching a Caddy wagon stomping all over an expensive Italian Exotic //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[Loudmp5 10+ year member]

06 gto is what i want... or a Cummins lol

 

[Silverado SS 10+ year member]

2009 Cadillac CTS-V, Used Cars For Sale - Carsforsale.comWhoops forgot the link lmao 42k miles as well

You can see in the top right of the page it actually says the averages which is about what I said. I wonder why so low. Salvage title?

 

[zooroadbaja 10+ year member]

I know it's awd, but I think you can get one rwd. I've always wanted to build a Trailblazer SS. Debadge it slap on the base model wheels, and smoke ricers. Factory it came with a LS2 395 horsepower, 400 torque. 1/4 14.2 with not to much money you can easily get 500-600 to the wheels.

 

[Silverado SS 10+ year member]

I know it's awd, but I think you can get one rwd. I've always wanted to build a Trailblazer SS. Debadge it slap on the base model wheels, and smoke ricers. Factory it came with a LS2 395 horsepower, 400 torque. 1/4 14.2 with not to much money you can easily get 500-600 to the wheels.

Being that I own a Silverado SS the big brother of the TB SS it is indeed some money to get them fast in the quarter mile and in general but it depends what you think is fast. Please explain a cheap way to reach 550 to the wheels or even 500. They run 14.5 in real life circumstances but there has been some guys who throw on slicks on a RWD version and ran 13.2 but for the average guy it will be 14.3-14.6 which for a SUV is still pretty fast.

 

[zooroadbaja 10+ year member]

Exhaust, and programmer will get you high 400s. Doing heads and cam, with exhaust and programmer will get you high 500s, and forced induction will get you 600-700 horses.

You can find really clean ones for $20,000 that leaves you $10,000 to do as you'd like.

 

[Silverado SS 10+ year member]

Exhaust, and programmer will get you high 400s. Doing heads and cam, with exhaust and programmer will get you high 500s, and forced induction will get you 600-700 horses.
You can find really clean ones for $20,000 that leaves you $10,000 to do as you'd like.

Exhaust being what? Full headers and 3 inch back pipe yeah it will net you about 430 to the crank, and no true car guy ever uses a programmer you should use a dyno tune and after exhaust and tune your good for about 450-460 at the crank. Heads and cams have way to much variables to say that there X amount of horsepower, but 75-100 is a general thumb of rule. So your up to about 550 on the high end with an aggressive cam swap. So after you spend about 3-5k if you want new stuff you have about 525-550 at the crank. Another rule of thumb RWD drive train loss is about 17% and AWD is 25%. The smart thing to do is use a power adder such as a supercharger, pro charger or turbo because the LS2 is dam efficient and does very well on boost. So 5k for a power adder will net you about 100-125 horses. Either way 600 to the wheels in a TB is not cheap period.