No, not at all, if you are a good mechanic you can figure out almost any system, thats how I started before they sent me to school to learn the systems, I was an average backyard mechanic I am saying in regard to one of the posts in this thread, about how the N* was run in his street rod and didnt seem to perform as well as in the Caddy it came out of. There are a lot of factors that come into play, as you well know, gear ratio, fuel injection VS carburated, weight ratios, aerodynamics, those types of things. If you take away all the electronics, the N* system is just an engine, but if you arent familiar with it, it can get kind of scary working on it. Thanks for the info, but I know the horror stories, and every vehicle in the world has them, I am also an active member of the Cadillac forum that you got some of those stories from. One of the statements you listed is from 90-93? I already stated in the last thread that the N* was ridden with problems when it was first introduced, just like a lot of revolutionary designs. The 2000 to present N* is a whole new generation of N*, I think that they have worked a lot of the bugs out of them. Cadillac still produces vehicles with the N* so thats gotta show something is going right with them, people arent going to spend 50-60 grand to buy a car with a problem ridden engine.

I'm just sayin, Jack