Here's a website (at bottom of thread)for those guys that build Northstars for sandcars and hotrods, and they have that 700r4 swap kit, and even a kit to convert to carburation rather than fuel injection, its real pricey but if I had the money, I would give it a whirl. As for the Northstar starter problems, I am a tech for Cadillac, and also own 2 eldorado's with Northstars, and to be honest I havent heard of many if any starter problems with them, but theres a first time for everything I guess, some engines (as we all know) have there problems. Early Northstars were ridden with problems due to them being a completly new design, but today's northstars are incredibly dependible, given that they stay in there own enviroinment (I.E. under the hood of a new Caddy), and are serviced by qualified techs. The only complaint I have about them is they are noisy (almost sound loose) and if you have a bad valve, your not gonna do the heads yourself, or if you throw a rod or spin a bearing, GM offers very limited replacement engine components for the Northstar, we don't rebuild them and GM has no re-man program for them, we just send the engine back to GM and order a new one completly, I know what your thinking, thats BS, and I agree, its a waist of resources.

Thats my story, Jack
www.chrfab.com ----thats the hotrod N* link to the left.