douchebmw27 wrote:We might, but lack of fabrication skill will be our biggest problem with any motor swap. We are going pure stock motor and tranny. If it made it 205,000 miles, it can make it through one Lemons race....Right?
I learned the hard way... ANY Caddy, especially one with a Northstar engine, is blessed by divine intervention to go more than 125,000 miles on it without blowing a head gasket or cracking some major internal engine component. The ex's car puked a head at 126k, after NEVER overheating. I called around and found a full dozen Northstars with blown engines in a couple of nearby junkyards (and no good engines). My buddy at one yard told me to dump a can of Barrs in it and limp it to the dealer for a trade in.... Car looked like brand new, engine was toast!
Go ahead and also buy a stock of cam position sensors, they will go out every 60K and the engine will randomly die. Just to make it interesting, it will sometimes do this without throwing any codes....
Other than that, congrats on the purchase!
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