Originally Posted by blackcrossfire07
Well remember that the engine is still Mercedes... so you could probably find parts for it years down the road.
Something to think about... a carborator conversion. I took an old caddy with electronic fuel injection and put a carb on it with an electric fuel pump and it ran great for years! The only reason why I did it was because the computer was toast. I was young and couldn't buy a brand new computer and I couldn't find the proper part in the junk yard.
Well, on a Cadillac, that would be a very easy thing to do, as the engine was most likely a Chevy Small Block, and it would just be a matter of spending a couple hundred bucks on a carb and an intake manifold, along with a different distributer to get the car up and running.'
On the Crossfire, this engine was designed to be built as a fuel injected engine, so there are no intake manifolds that you can mount a carb to, and slap on the car.
You would have to custom build your own intake manifold, and you would still have to then figure out how to get spark to the engine, as the computer controls all of that, and lots, lots more.
Not going to happen.
BC.