Golf with Cadillac Northstar V8

[lfb666]

Golf with Cadillac Northstar V8

Northstar 32 valve, all aluminum V8,300+ hp. The first transverse V8 Golf in the world! FK coilovers, Brembo 11" brakes,CWS built 3" stainless exhaust. It drives like a dream, handles, stops, and oh-my-god, is it FAST! The sound is indescribeable. We are willing to repeat this ground-breaking swap for those who dare.....will fit mk2,3, and 4!!***UPDATE!! It's now painted a custom pearl silver colour, and has a set of BBS RS, 16x7 front and 16X9 rear 3 piece wheels, 16v body kit, Carbon Fiber FX hood, factory fogs, Mattig rear spoiler, etc...

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[Coventrysucks]

Originally Posted by lfb666

It drives like a dream, handles, stops, and oh-my-god, is it FAST! The sound is indescribeable.

Is it still front wheel drive?

I am not too sure about having an entire V8 ahead of the front axle;
understeer here we come!!!

I also assume they didn't keep the original VW gearbox.

I can describe the sound for them:
It sounds like a Northstar V8.

[Sweeney921]

it says on the website that it's a 6-speed (definitely not VW standard)

[Egg Nog]

Originally Posted by Coventrysucks

Is it still front wheel drive?

Yes, of course This Northstar was FWD in the Caddies that it came from, too. You can see that it's transversely mounted from the pictures

[cp01ae]

If it is FWD, I dont see why they would go with such wide wheels in the rear

[Egg Nog]

It is FWD! There's no "ifs" about it...

[350hp_civic]

hehehe funny car

[Coventrysucks]

Originally Posted by Egg Nog

Yes, of course This Northstar was FWD in the Caddies that it came from, too. You can see that it's transversely mounted from the pictures

Oh dear. I only asked because I didn't think they would be that stupid.

I quite liked this at first, but the more I hear the worse it gets.

It has 300 Bhp through the front wheels, which will give really bad torque steer.

The engine is mounted ahead of the front axel, which lends itself to really bad understeer.

Those tyres don't look to good either, why 7" at the front and 9" at the back?
Some effort to get it to go round corners?

Ha! the only Northstar car that was sold over here was the utterly crap Cadillac STS. I think they sold one.

[Mustang]

Originally Posted by Egg Nog

It is FWD! There's no "ifs" about it...

you never know they might have spent alot and got it a 4WD sytem, there is someone in our rally championship and they have got a ford focus, they have put a subaru engine in it, subaru running gear, subaru 4WD system, its basically a subaru with a focus shell, if ou know what i mean