One way or another, people find a way to get their cars to the Tapout Tuning shop in cold and chilly Ohio. In this case, Charley had a good friend drive his CT4-V Blackwing to our shop from Florida so we could install our Blue Belt Performance Package. That’s a good friend, and a lucky one too! Jorge worked his magic getting all of the parts installed so we could strap it to the Dyno and get to work on the tuning.

After we were finished, peak power increased from 416 to 546 whp, providing more power at every single point across the powerband. Multiple 546 whp pulls were done back to back using E30 fuel and a custom calibration map that we created in-house. We also made sure to provide Charley with a 93-octane pump gas map in case his friend wasn’t able to locate an E85 station on the nearly 1,200 mile trip back to Florida.

We’re thrilled with the progress we’ve made on performance parts, tuning, and complete performance packages for the CT4-V Blackwings that were originally thought to be ‘untunable’. Needless to say, we will continue to innovate and push this platform further than ever thought possible!

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Our long-term customer and friend Chris shipped his baby all the way from California for Jorge’s magic touch. We installed our extremely popular Purple Belt Performance Package with Mace Stage 1 valve springs, titanium retainers and camshafts. First tune was fully automatic flex fuel, which ranged from 472 whp on 91-octane pump gas up to 573 whp on E60 or higher. Kill Tune is safe from E60 to E70 and put down a fantastic powerband peaking at 606 whp and 624 wtq. This just goes to show, you can still make great power even with lower octane fuel!

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The ATS-V continues to possess its own unique quirks and intricacies that make it stand out from every other mainstream platform out there. One particular instance of this was with our good friend Alex in Washington who was actually one of our very first customers we tuned more than four years ago. After installing our Purple Belt Package, he had his heads ported to see if he could pick up more power. Oddly enough, his ATS-V was actually down on power compared what we usually see with Purple Belt cars.

Alex decided to ship his ATS-V to us in Ohio so we could not only to confirm his ported heads were the problem, but also to install our complete Brown Belt Package! After swapping on a new set of stock LF4 heads and Jorge completing every detail of the Performance Package installation, we were able to strap his car to the dyno. Our suspicions were confirmed when we saw the power numbers we expected for a 92 octane/E85 Brown Belt car. When we finished up, his ATS-V made 689 whp with a beautiful powerband! The only thing left to do was get Alex’s ATS-V detailed and shipped back out to Washington for him to enjoy!

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Our work continues with our friends at Exodus Performance in Austin, Texas as we dish out another Remote Tune with the assistance of their incredible team. This was a quicker job, with the only mods being colder spark plugs and downpipes. Even so, Ronnie’s M6 ATS-V (#savethemanuals) still put down a killer 495 whp and 499 wtq with a glorious powerband.

Being able to push these ATS-Vs to their potential never gets old and we’ll be happy to work with Ronnie again if he wants to continue to add more mods! After all, as Carroll Shelby said, “there is never enough horsepower… just not enough traction”.

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Is there anything more exciting than upgrading your turbos? We can’t really think of anything, and that seems to be the consensus throughout the ATS-V community as well! Why just jump up 100 whp when you go from pump gas to E85, when you can bump things up 250 whp or more with some genuine Caddy Issues turbos as the twin cherries on top!

Craig shipped us his M6 ATS-V sedan from New Jersey for our Complete Brown Belt Package because he likes a new upgraded set of turbos just as much as we do. After nine pulls on our Dyno the car produced peak power of 683 whp and 659 wtq. This ATS-V made a bit less power than we usually see with the powerhouse Caddy Issues turbos because Craig still runs catted downpipes. Regardless, he had no trouble breaking into the list of top 25 most powerful ATS-Vs ever!

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