2009 Cadillac CTS-V, 23 nov '08: 1.0

can someone get a picture of the gearbox central tunnel?

I don't care if its a CTS or a 2009 CTS-V. I have materials that allow me to work on, but I don't have a picture of that, so I don't know how it is.

thx american's guys =)

:lookatleo:

PS: preferibly get a top down view...

DonaemouS wrote:can someone get a picture of the gearbox central tunnel?

i assuming you mean the shifter and console ... you silly detail monkey, lets see if we can come up with something for yea

lol, I'm asking help everywhere...

Hey.. whatever works right?

CTS-V was in Sunday night's Top Gear.

here's one i found trolling ms. google-goodness

The Top Gear episode also provided us with a nice engine sound reference.

DonaemouS wrote:Unfortunately I still searching the engine sound

Within the limits of how Redline does engine sounds, I think you're pretty safe with NoNameBrand's Vette engine with fullRPMSoundPitch at 0.9 and with zeroRPMSoundGain about 1/4 of fullRPMSoundGain.

Here's NoNameBrand's Vette engine sound played at 90%:
488KB .WAV file
And here's James May doing some 11's inside the CTS-V:
1.2MB .WAV file
(both in-car and exhaust sound in that clip)

As you can hear from the above clips - a very similar sound. Isn't the engine also from one of the C6 Vettes? If you think NNB's engine sound is too harsh, I can remove some of the harmonic information around 1kHz for you.

leoantix wrote:here's one i found trolling ms. google-goodness

I have the highres pict of this image, but, as u can see, there is no top-down view of the gearbox central tunnel.

C14ru5 wrote:The Top Gear episode also provided us with a nice engine sound reference.
Within the limits of how Redline does engine sounds, I think you're pretty safe with NoNameBrand's Vette engine with fullRPMSoundPitch at 0.9 and with zeroRPMSoundGain about 1/4 of fullRPMSoundGain.

As you can hear from the above clips - a very similar sound. Isn't the engine also from one of the C6 Vettes? If you think NNB's engine sound is too harsh, I can remove some of the harmonic information around 1kHz for you.

The problem with NNB excellent quality loop, is the turbo sound. The Cadillacs has an amazing turbo sound, way better then the original one included in the game. Is similar to the one we can heard in Mustang Shelby.

The only way, to reproduce the Turbo Sound, is getting directly from inside the car and record within the engine sound. Yes, the NNB engine sound is almost perfect and, with your helps can be fit quite well for the CTS-V too (after his permission).

Any idea for reproduce the turbo?

Go for it, I certainly didn't make it, just some tweaking of it. Feel free to grab the Mustang's turbine sound. That'll be going on the ZR1 next update, too.

The LS9/LSA engines don't have a lot of turbine noise, really.

The problem with Redline and making turbine noises for blowers, is that Redline (rightly) throws on the turbo sound as the revs ramp up, whereas the supercharger is most audible at low speeds and RPMs (at least on factory GM vehicles - you hear it more when it's sticking out of the hood).

NoNameBrand wrote:Feel free to grab the Mustang's turbine sound. That'll be going on the ZR1 next update, too.

Uh? Where I can get that turbine sound?

NoNameBrand wrote:The problem with Redline and making turbine noises for blowers, is that Redline (rightly) throws on the turbo sound as the revs ramp up, whereas the supercharger is most audible at low speeds and RPMs (at least on factory GM vehicles - you hear it more when it's sticking out of the hood).

I extracted a portion of the XLR-V engine sound. In this loop you can heard the amazing turbo "music". Here is way more loud then the CTS-V.

"Uh? Where I can get that turbine sound?"

It's in here, somewhere.

"I extracted a portion of the XLR-V engine sound. In this loop you can heard the amazing turbo "music"."

The XLR-V has a different engine with a different supercharger than the new CTS-V. The former has the LC3 Northstar, which is a DOHC 32 valve V8 with a three lobe supercharger, the latter has the LSA, which is an OHV 16 valve V8 four lobe supercharger. Four lobe superchargers are noticeably quieter than the three lobe ones.

Your video is the only one I've seen that you can hear the supercharger - check out the ZR1 and CTS-V laps of the Nurburgring below: