Plain City resident owns and races Cadillac with nearly 1,000 horsepower

PLAIN CITY--When some people hear the word Cadillac they think of a large, comfortable, and expensive road car. When Mike Mcquiston thinks of his 2009 Cadillac CTS-V he thinks of burnt rubber, luxury, and above all, extreme horsepower.

Mcquiston first purchased his Cadillac, which produces a whopping 986 horsepower, in February of this year, with many modifications already being done.

“I bought the car from a friend, and it already had probably $40,000 in mods done to it,” Mcquiston said.

Mcquiston previously owned a 2011 Cadillac CTS-V he had planned to build, but he couldn’t pass up the opportunity of buying one that already had the money and time put into it.

This Cadillac sports a 377 cubic inch engine with Trick Flow heads that have been heavily modified with aftermarket valve train and porting, as well as a set of Wiseco forged pistons and Callies Compstar H beam connecting rods.

The car still utilizes the factory block and crackshaft as well as the factory supercharger, although the supercharger has been ported by G-force. The engine also has a barrage of Brian Tooley parts throughout. To help air flow, into the engine, the car has also been fitted with a 102mm Nick Williams throttle body, and to help exhasut flow out, is a set of Stainless Works two inch headers connected to a full three inch exhaust all the way back.

The factory after cooler for the supercharger was also swapped out for a four inch thick unit and an ice box in the trunk was also added to keep high inlet temperatures from the supercharger down at the race track. A set of Injector Dynamics 1300cc injectors, backed by an AEM 320 liter per hour fuel pump, and a twin set of 450 liter per hour fuel pumps, supply the massive amount of fuel needed for the engine.

The car also has a nitrous system, supplied by Nitrous Outlet, which gives an additional 75 horsepower on command with a full progressive controller to help aid delivery.

Mcquiston’s Cadillac still uses the factory transmission and differential, which is impressive considering the car from the factory was only rated at 556 horsepower, and it is now producing nearly 1,000 horsepower.

This Cadillac also has the option to run e85 ethanol, or regular gasoline, and the computer and sensors will recalibrate to run on whichever fuel is pumped into the tank.

The car has made 986 wheel horsepower with the old cylinder heads, but Mcquiston has not had the car back on the dyno with the new Trick Flow heads, Wiseco pistons and camshaft changes.

The car has also ran the quarter mile in 9.8 seconds at 145 miles per hour with the previous engine setup.

Even with all of the power this Cadillac has to offer, the car still rides and drives remarkably well.

The car is lowered on a set of Eibach springs but it still has the factory magnetic shocks, which provide comfort for every day driving, and stiffness on demand at the race track.

With all of the time and money that has been put into his Cadillac, Mcquiston’s future with the car is still up in the air.

“I get bored with things really easily,” Mcquiston said. “The car might end up with twin turbos pushing 1500 horsepower or I might sell it and build something else.”