What did you do to your Blackwing today?

[Jameson's Viggen]

He's selling the winter wheels and tires too though.

@Jameson's Viggen blink twice if they're doing a special farewell edition with a V8.

Buy my stuff!

I've been out of the Cadillac studio for over 6 months, a bit out of the loop. I'm working on something really special. Hopefully you'll see it summer of next year.

 

[5VBW Nick]

Ha
Hold your breath

Normally someone would say "don't hold your breath"

 

[Jameson's Viggen]

Normally someone would say "don't hold your breath"

This was intentional

 

[5VBW Nick]

This was intentional

So there IS an update coming

 

[obeykube]

cars and coffee last sunday



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@bl4ck_wng you got more pics of this wheel set up? I'm buying soon

 

[bl4ck_wng]

@bl4ck_wng you got more pics of this wheel set up? I'm buying soon

https://www.cadillacvnet.com/forums/direct-messages/apex-wheels.2687/#convMessage-11917

Post in thread 'Apex Wheels for CT4-V Blackwing'

Apr 9, 2024

Can you post photos of your car with those weeks?. I found a post you placed on the "What did you do to your BW" thread but the pictures are very low res.

Yikes you are right— idk what happened there. See (hopefully better) pics below

• bl4ck_wng

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Hope this helps, I absolutely love mine. Just be sure to ceramic coat them to help with the brake dust!

 

[AC2024]

Finally got around to washing her.

Very nice! What are are the specs on the VS5-RS? I am likely to do the exact same set-up color, etc.

 

[AC2024]

@bl4ck_wng you got more pics of this wheel set up? I'm buying soon

https://www.cadillacvnet.com/forums/direct-messages/apex-wheels.2687/#convMessage-11917

Post in thread 'Apex Wheels for CT4-V Blackwing'

Apr 9, 2024

Can you post photos of your car with those weeks?. I found a post you placed on the "What did you do to your BW" thread but the pictures are very low res.

Yikes you are right— idk what happened there. See (hopefully better) pics below

• bl4ck_wng

• 

Hope this helps, I absolutely love mine. Just be sure to ceramic coat them to help with the brake dust!

Same question -

https://www.cadillacvnet.com/forums/direct-messages/apex-wheels.2687/#convMessage-11917

Post in thread 'Apex Wheels for CT4-V Blackwing'

Apr 9, 2024

Can you post photos of your car with those weeks?. I found a post you placed on the "What did you do to your BW" thread but the pictures are very low res.

Yikes you are right— idk what happened there. See (hopefully better) pics below

• bl4ck_wng

• 

Hope this helps, I absolutely love mine. Just be sure to ceramic coat them to help with the brake dust!

Beautiful. What are the offsets and widths you're running?

 

[bl4ck_wng]

Same question -

Beautiful. What are the offsets and widths you're running?

18 inch diameter

Front 9.5” width ET22 offset
Rear 10” width ET42 offset

Stretches the OEM tire just a bit and hooks up great

 

[AC2024]

18 inch diameter

Front 9.5” width ET22 offset
Rear 10” width ET42 offset

Stretches the OEM tire just a bit and hooks up great

Thank you!

 

[TXCobra]

I haven't seen those wing puddle lamps before. Link?

Sorry bud, just now saw this, here ya go:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3HD4GMK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

 

[sonny200]

Went to Cars & Coffee in Morrisville, NC this morning. Easily +1,000 vehicles there but I didn't see one other 5BW.

 

[The_Ghost]

Yesterday on my 4BW I hard wired my radar detector and dual channel (front and rear) dash cam. The camera records when the car is off so I needed a switched power source and a constant battery power source.

There was no one source of information to find the power sources I needed in the inside fuse box of the car so I was able to piece together information and used the following fuse locations.

F31 slot for the switched power
F23 slot for the battery connection

New to me on this car was the three prong fuse, also known as a micro 3. I ordered some from Amazon and it made the job easy. There were no fuses already in the F 31 or F 23 slots.

For the five BW, I don’t think the fuse locations are exactly the same but someone could probably use this information to locate a suitable empty slot

Question....is this the fuse box on the driver's side of the dash? I've been looking for one. I found F25 which is for USB, and it was empty...but becuase of the 2 relays on either side, an "add a fuse" won't fit. Do you have a link to the fuse you bought? And which fuse box?

 

[bl4ck_wng]

I installed the crest performance dynamics race exhaust late last night.

Still need to fix a gap in one of the vbands and re clamp the driver side to fix a small leak.

I confidently say this, the sound from CPD's instagram is nowhere close to how this sounds in real life.... This thing is rowdy. No CEL so far.

Will post some sound clips once I finalize the install and get it off the lift. I may need some help with this one

 

[RDATLTE]

Got a tire patched.

 

[sonny200]

Baby got a new pair of shoes! (Front & rear.) Replaced the OEM with Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4.

 

[5VBW Nick]

Baby got a new pair of shoes! (Front & rear.)

325?! I wanna see pics mounted. I always think the stock Michelins look stretched. What model are they?

 

[sonny200]

325?! I wanna see pics mounted. I always think the stock Michelins look stretched. What model are they?

Apologies but I already parked the cars for the night when I saw this thread. Bad angles but I think they look good. On the advice of another thread, I used 6mm spacers to keep them (rears) from rubbing.

 

[KatyTxCT5V]

@sonny200 Are those run flats as I see the ZP letters on the sidewall? If so, how do they ride?

 

[sonny200]

@sonny200 Are those run flats as I see the ZP letters on the sidewall? If so, how do they ride?

So, slightly mismatched bc the rears are RF but the fronts are not. Michelin doesn't sell a RF in 275/35/19. The ride is excellent and, not surprisingly, softer than the OEM Pilot 4S. There's also less tire noise. They won't perform nearly as well but I'm more interested in the improved wet weather performance. We get a fair amount of rain where I am in NC so need the better wet performance.