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Originally Posted by mgarblik

Agree with you about the Northstar cars. They were ahead of their time 20+ years ago, but very hard to work on. And they leak EVERYTHING from EVERYWHERE! Since I own my own shop now, as of a couple years ago, I won't work on the engines. Brake jobs, tires, struts, sure. There is almost zero chance of having a happy customer after working on those engines now. Had a very nice lady with a 1996 Eldorado that had all the typical Northstar issues, but a beautiful, rust free, example. Metallic red, parchment leather interior, about 80K miles. She sold it for $600.00 because it needed 5K in underhood repairs.

A far cry from Cadillacs of old, with 472/500s that would run forever. Even the old 390/429s were tough engines. High nickle casting, beefy blocks, that had a lot of torque, and were low revving. Cadillac really started to go south with the 4100, and downhill from there. Such a shame. CAFE ruined them, because they rushed the 4100 out there, because the old 368 (based on the 425/472/500) was not capable of delivering fuel economy necessary to stay within regulations for 1982 and beyond.