Alan B
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| posted on 2/1/03 at 10:15 PM |
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'scuse me...can I photograph your engine?
Yep, that's what I said today while filling up.
For those who haven't seen one this is Cadillac's Northstar engine, 4.6 litre all alloy 4 cam 32 valve 275 hp standard...
Very nice transverse mid-engine unit methinks....hmmmm...
 
Northstar engine
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johnston
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| posted on 2/1/03 at 11:27 PM |
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is that trans verse as in fwd???????
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MattWatson
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| posted on 3/1/03 at 05:00 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by johnston
is that trans verse as in fwd???????
Yep, its in the front.
However, I believe alan thinks of putting it mid rear...
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Rorty
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| posted on 3/1/03 at 05:25 AM |
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The Northstar is THE new engine for off-road and custom cars. They were over produced, and as a result, crate motors are available extremely cheaply.
They're a glorious bit of light weight kit, and produce admirable amounts of hp and torque. There are quite a few tuning specialists popping up
already, with some awesome parts, such as CDIs, cam covers, headers, turbos etc.
Here are a few contacts:
Redline Performance Inc. tel. (714) 777-5758.
and
http://www.mechtech-ms.com/indexcatalog.html
 
Rescued attachment Northstar Eng.jpg
Cheers, Rorty.
"Faster than a speeding Pullet".
PLEASE DON'T U2U ME IF YOU WANT A QUICK RESPONSE. TRY EMAILING ME INSTEAD!
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BasOlij
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| posted on 3/1/03 at 05:53 AM |
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Didn't I see one of those in a Delorean a while back:-)
Actually there are a couple of them in the USA if I am not mistaken.
Heard of a guy who owned a (slow) Delorean and was driving around with a friend in some big V8 mussle car. Stopped at a stoplight and a Delorean
stopped next to him. So he sais to his friend, owh their slow, lets make him sorry.. So they do a sprint. Delorean wins offcourse. So guy is
amazed.
Later he finds out it's one of those Deloreans with a nice engine swap. Not sure but I think that was a northstar in there.
But for sure, amazing engines:-)
Greetz,
Bastiaan Olij
1984 Porsche 944 type 2
1981 Delorean DMC-12
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johnston
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| posted on 3/1/03 at 10:48 AM |
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i want one for my fiesta 
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ijohnston99
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| posted on 3/1/03 at 09:00 PM |
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V8 for a Fiesta????
Not a very fair swap.
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sgraber
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 posted on 3/1/03 at 10:08 PM |
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This powerplant is being successfully transplanted into the Fiero as well. Using the stock fiero 5 Speed Getrag unit. This is a transverse mounted
setup. Isn't THAT convenient?!
I have been drooling over the idea of this engine in my middy for... well, since I started thinking about home-built middies!
It's still not cheap, like lo-cost...
Steve G.
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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MrFluffy
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| posted on 8/1/03 at 09:33 AM |
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A northstar went on ebay.com a bit back for $2K, complete with trans and ancillaries, still like steve g says, not locost, definately not locost in
europe when you have to add the cost of import too.
Ill stick to a blown rover v8 for now being poor *sniffle*
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