POTTER from Cadillac Performance Parts

[CadillacPerformanceParts]

Hi , first time on and like what I see. This is a good thing. I have built my own shop (really built my own shop, literally) and am well satisfied so far. It's not 100% finished yet, but will it ever be? I knew when we sold out downtown and moved to the country, this would most likely be the last one (Lord, I hope). It's 5000 ft., 17 ft walls and 31" peak with metal stud trusses, z perlins and standing seem on a 6x6 pole shed type frame with all insulation and R panels on the walls. X bracing and rebar X bracing hold er fast. It all sits on a 6 inch slab. Being in the country, we only have two leg 200 AMP, but run our machine center and dyno off of an inverter for 3 phase. Works very well. We heat with waste oil (the absolute only way to go, had 4 over the years!) and have a portable 5 ton unit to knock the moisture and heat down. I have framed down one side for office, bath, grinding, assembly room. 2x10 and 3/4" tongue & groove for storage and possibly an apt. above.

 

[bmwpower]

Welcome!

Didn't know there was a market for Cadillac performance stuff.

 

[CadillacPerformanceParts]

Yessir, we did 22 crate engines last year. Our basic 500hp and 600 ft lb crate engine does all that by 5000. Our 700 hp pump gas crate does it by 6500 and our custom race engines turn 8000 or better. Bullet proof block and cranks help. No one made parts for them since the sleds they came in weighed so much, but 95% of our stuff goes in other vehicles like street rods, pull truck/tractors, airboats, mud trucks and drag cars. Check out www.cadillacperformanceparts.com and you'll probably trip! Thanks

 

[bmwpower]

What makes a Cadillac engine a Cadillac? Isn't it just a GM engine? Don't know much about them....can you tell?

 

[CadillacPerformanceParts]

Largest American production car engine ever. 4.300 bore, 4.300 stroke, can easily be bored to .200 over (which is alot!) and offset ground on the stroke for some major cubic inches and lots of parts breaking torque. 75 lbs lighter that a BBC too. That's before it goes on a serious diet. We did a 713hp bracket car engine 10 years ago and so far, it's had 3 owners and 2000 runs and 4 years in a streetcar after that and it's never had the pan or heads off! Still going!

 

[Wardrum]

My neighbor has a 1978 Malibu 2 dr sedan with a mildly built 500 Caddy, 700R4 ******, 4.10 gears and 315/60R15 rear tires. Except for the wide tires, it has a complete sleeper look - dull original brown paint, badly worn interior, dog-dish hubcaps, bent rear bumper, etc. It just sits at a stoplight with a quiet, smooth idle.

He loves to play with the "ricers" and when he decides to put them away, that car will make them wonder what the h*ll just happened. It will also give most other street cars all they can handle.

Total investment, including the price of the car, under $5,000.

 

[Uncle Buck]

My neighbor has a 1978 Malibu 2 dr sedan with a mildly built 500 Caddy, 700R4 ******, 4.10 gears and 315/60R15 rear tires. Except for the wide tires, it has a complete sleeper look - dull original brown paint, badly worn interior, dog-dish hubcaps, bent rear bumper, etc. It just sits at a stoplight with a quiet, smooth idle.

He loves to play with the "ricers" and when he decides to put them away, that car will make them wonder what the h*ll just happened. It will also give most other street cars all they can handle.

Total investment, including the price of the car, under $5,000.

Sweeet!