Hey everyone,
Another crazy idea. I was thinking about if gm would ever make a quad cam engine like the zr1'a lt5 again, I do know lotus made the engines, and well searching around I found the northstar. The New northstars are quad cam with variable value timing. It is a 4.6 litre engine with 315 factory horsepower. What would you thinking of modifing one and putting it in a camaro?

Thanks for your input.
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also, could you give me some info on the northstar block. What is different from the 350 block?

Thanks

 

been done before !

 

 

That looks nice a 4th gen camaro 93-97. I was looking for pics of the engine too.

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The angle at wich the cylenders are separated is 60 degres, opposed to 90 for a SBC. I'm not shure about the bellhousing bolt pattern, but I think it will accomodate a regular V6 tranny, IE for a 2.8, 3.8, etc...

Nik

 

Haha... that ZR1 motor looks alot like an injected HEMI :hail:

Actually thought it was till i read the post, lol

Anyway.. on to something useful.... I'm pretty sure GM still sells the ZR1 motor as a crate engine, but its REALLY expensive... like $12,000 or something

 

The engine above is a Northstar BTW!

 

The Jan '03 Hot Rod mag has a write-up about Caddy making a RWD version of the Northstar for '04 models on page 15. Pages 80-83 are an article on a 520 HP huffed Northstar in a rod.

Used S10 tranny with cut/welded bolt bosses.

Looks like big bucks, big fabrication headaches; for a high-reving, tweaky, but unique powerplant.

 

A 60 degree V8? Hmmm, learn something every day...

The 2.8 and 3.8 V6's use different bell housing patterns, so which one would fit the Northstar? Neither, I'd guess.

 

not 100% sure but i think its still 90 degrees just like the sbc's. The optimal angle for an engine with 8 cyl. is 90 degrees do to the number of cyl that fire per revolution.

edit: Here it is...

The Northstar V8 is a 90-degree, DOHC, four-valves-per-cylinder engine featuring an aluminum block and cylinder heads, and a valvetrain configuration with roller finger followers

 

i think the regular V8 4l60-e would work as well. Man... love those northstars. be cool to put one in an RX-7 or something.

 

If you do a search on this board, I think you'll find the solution to the tranny issue. I brought this up a while back, because the Northstar is a FWD engine.

 

Yeah but next gen Northstar (coming out in XLR and other Caddies) is setup for RWD...should be much easier to adapt.

 

The price tag for acquiring one of those will also be much higher. It'd make more sense to adapt the FWD version, thats been around for... what almost 10 years now?