2015 Cadillac Escalade With C7 Z06 Parts Is Quicker Than a New Escalade-V
This 2015 Cadillac Escalade build with 115k miles on the clock is incredibly quick, thanks to a supercharger and some other upgrades.
GM made waves when it debuted the Cadillac Escalade-V some time ago, and for good reason – who in their right mind wouldn’t want to haul the family around in a big, luxurious SUV with a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 that churns out a cool 682 horsepower and 653 pound-feet of torque? Trouble is, the new Escalade-V costs a lot of money, too – with a starting price of around $160k – placing it neatly outside of the reach of many. However, with the right parts, one can also transform an older Cadillac Escalade into a V-killer.
We know this because that’s what Alex from the YouTube channel Legit Street Cars did recently with his wife’s 2015 Cadillac Escalade. Alex already installed a supercharger on his wife’s family hauler some time ago, which transformed its performance in a major way, but now, it has 115k miles on the clock and it’s ready for some more upgrades. To do that, he’s taking some parts from a C7 Z06’s LT4 powerplant and adding them to the big SUV – a pretty simple but effective task, honestly.
Those parts include things like the Corvette’s high-pressure fuel pump and injectors, which will help support a switch to E85 – an easy and common way to coax more power out of just about anything. While many similar builds tend to ignore things like, well, improving stopping power to coincide with a big power boost, Alex knows better, and also plans on installing a big brake kit to help out in that department.
After quite a lot of work and disassembly/reassembly, it’s finally time to test out whether or not this older Cadillac Escalade is indeed quicker to 60 mph than a new and pricey Escalade-V, and the results, well, they speak for themselves. Alex manages to launch his big SUV quite violently, hitting the 60mph mark in just 4.2 seconds, while the Escalade-V takes 4.6 clicks to reach the same speed.
That’s also a whopping 0.8 seconds quicker than the old Escalade was before these mods, proving that more fuel (and the right kind) can have a big impact on that sort of thing. It also translates to a high 11-second or low 12-second quarter-mile – not bad for a 6,200 pound vehicle, we’d say, especially one that didn’t break the bank to put together.
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