So many people have been asking about the car I’m taking to the Gumball 3000 that I figured I’d make a blog post about it.
Behold the Cadillac XLR-V I’m taking:
Some minor drive-train mods were done… including a cold air kit, a computer reprogramming, and an exhaust bypass switch… with those mods I should be pushing north of 500bhp and its much more fun to drive with the changes:
Blinder M25 laser jammers were installed in the front:
And in the rear:
Inside, I have a Valentine One radar detector, a Uniden BCD396XT radio scanner, a Midland 75-822 CB radio, and a Garmin nĂ¼vi 760 navigation unit with FM traffic and Trapster data loaded in it. (You’ll also see the cradles for the Blackberry’s on the dash as well.)
Oh, there’s also a small Linux computer recording the GPS info (lat, long, alt, speed, and heading) and a webcam taking shots every second of the road ahead – but I’ll write more about that later in another post…
Things that didn’t make it were the new sway bars and headers I ordered but ran out of time to install…
Finally it was picked up and transported to Santa Monica for the start…
sweet dude! looks awesome
Yeah, my little brother is salivating over this post.