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Man I just don't know.

Oh its just the retards over at cadillacforums.com. And when I say retards I mean REEEtards. My favorite is the kill story where the guy races the Z28... ...all the way up to second gear! And wins. Then there's these two demonstrations of automotive skilldashery: Gem one. Gem two - starts halfway down There's more scrumptileeicious racetastic technogeniusery sprinkled all over that forum but I'm tired and going to go drink.

CADILLAC OWNERS ARE A BUNCH OF FUKKING MORONS! graemlins/doh.gif That is all.

Just the core.

Is this thread still walking? http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/54/039_67892.jpg

Hee hee you said ass.

*looks round* Did I stumble into the Romper Room? *leaves room* http://pbskids.org/barney/images/dinosfriends.jpg Kids

I hate the LS6. ...no wait.... scratch that... omg I've gone to the dark side *zombie voice* LS6 best engine ever

Aw thanks man http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-2/944597/rules.jpg

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Ow my eyes.

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Got a resume you can shoot me?

International. Don't forget our members posting in Iraq. graemlins/thumb.gif And Afghanistan? [ 15. February 2005, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

DOH OWNED

Not taking it the wrong way. Those are all good points. Yeah, I'm conversant in what a skidpad g rating is and how its attained, measured, and what it represents. Also aware this is the peak recorded value. There is not a playback feature on this gauge, and I sure didn't watch the realtime continuous readout it does give as I was driving. Now having admitted that, I noticed that readout value in my new one and only daily driver car (so not exactly disposable) less than 13 days into ownership, at 29 degrees out, in the winter, after 7 decently drivable days, with less than a grand on the odometer. And groceries in the trunk. On a level street corner driving home. Without using the old whiplash tricks in a parking lot to fool an accelerometer (I could post a 1.5 if I felt like thrashing my car by fooling the guage - I've gotten a 1.7+ on a Tazzo suctioned to the rear window of a Camry with some parking brake trickery). So I'm going to cling to my ballswing thanks. Don't worry - when I get 1.20s on both sides though, I'll post that too. graemlins/thumb.gif Actually, I'm still trying to get the facts as to whether this is an accelerometer or a "calculated g" based on yaw sensor (and if yaw sensor - is the yaw sensor a gyroscope or a measure of shock deflection...). I'm not exactly getting quick or clear technical responses from my searches on the actual implementation in the car. For now I'm treating it as a "toy" feature.

Never move to southern Cal. Trust me. Northern Cal, yeah, but southern Cal? *shudder* No

Probably I'm not a huge fan of them because they seem, to me at least, to exasperate the wheel-hop problem for IRS cars. Bind-skip-bind-skip... They do have great turning grip though, I'll give em that. Plus they wear so fast. The runflat version also sets up a vibe at various speeds with is a pain for smooth highway cruising. But I guess the main problem for me is they width they mounted on the V. 8" rims as opposed to the Cobra's 9.5". May go with some Michelin Pilots when these wear out... which should be about June

Here's the highest I've seen so far: http://www.cadillacfaq.com/faq/answers/img/gmax.jpg The owner of this isn't saying what rubber he was on and how long he'd had the car, but it was done during a nice warm July day. So while I've got some headroom left, I'm content that mine came 12 winter days after purchase, 7 of which were junk weather days. With less than a grand on the odometer. Cadillac advertises .9g. So step 1: Beat the Manufacturer = accomplished. Onward and upward. Give me one summer and I'll have 1.20s on both dirs.

Well, I've watched the meter when following people in traffic and it seems your typical landyacht driving grandma/gandpas pull about 0.12 in turns. Most folks seems to pull .2 in turns. When I followed a 330i off the 270-Sawmill exit and he obviously went around it spiritedly I saw around .4-.5 following him. That was at a good clip. My bet is the accelerometer is either a micromechanical device (silica substrate) or a small calibrated weight attached to a potentiometer strip, as opposed to mercury or some other liquid. I'm pretty sure its an analog device, accelerometers are as old as airplanes. If it was calculated based on sampling you have to ask "sampling what?". Remember the computer would need to take its readings from some somewhere, and you can't use the wheels, they don't rotate laterally, and you can't use gps its not fine-grained enough. Austin's right: the left hand turn is usually the higher, mine was a right hand turn only because that's how it happened to work out. I hadn't heard about the Onstar and g meter thing. I'm skeptical since from what I read they monitor the airbag deployment, not the g meter. The vast majority of cars dont have a g meter, and onStar itself does not come with an accelerometer (only a gps), it seems to me thats an urban legend. This is our 2nd onStar car, and the wife's Saab doesn't have an accelerometer. However, its good thing to keep in mind, and I will. Not like I'll be thrashing this car around a parking lot though. As for having a driver to give it a proper work out, its got one: the owner.

VERY nice color

Here ya go Mr Spielberg: www.cadillacunder5.com and welcome.

May see if I can hit it on the stock rubber, though I seriously doubt it. But I was surprised at the Eagle F1 runflats. The Latter. I had a peak of about .74 or .68 on that side for a while, until I got a shot at a clear turn with no traffic/salt/gravel/potholes coming home from the store. The numbers to the right/left are peak values, as are the hash marks in the 1g scale on the bottom. The center number is the realtime numeric g readout and the center hash on the bottom will grow a solid bar left or right along the scale in the direction of lateral gs as you're turning: turn left and the bar will grow to the right, and vice versa, leaving the outside tickmarks at peak. I took the pic in the garage a little bit after I got home. [ 12. February 2005, 11:49 PM: Message edited by: Mowgli ]

Check out the number on the left Jeah baby http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-2/944597/Geewhiz-S.JPG Stock everything. Taking dibs on 1g?

Know whats worse than racism? The nonstop neverending blah blah blah analyze analyze analyze platitude platitude argue argue argue fear fear fear over racism. Talk about social programming gone out of control. Good god make it stop. So tired of it. *time for a nap* Wake me up when we're back to arguing about cars. Or rockets, or titties, or guns, or something.