Hello everyone I was thinking about starting a new project. I live in California and with all the tough smog laws I was thinking of building a 1978 Cadillac Seville with a full grand national drive train. I have access to the caddy which is beautiful. And the great thing is it came from the factory diesel so no SMOG. I know the Seville's were built on the G body platform do everything should be plug and play. Was wondering if anyone has done this?
1978 Cadillac Seville
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Think you may need to research this a bit more. I'm fairly certain that is not correct.
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Sevilles were FWD weren't they?
How would CA know it has a GN engine in it, as far as they would know, it still has the diesel in it, unless someone told the BMV or however cared..
How would CA know it has a GN engine in it, as far as they would know, it still has the diesel in it, unless someone told the BMV or however cared..
That generation of Seville is a K-body which is built off of the X-body Nova (and clones) and shares most of its stuff in a general sense with the 2nd Gen F-body as well. The mounts would be available since the Buick Apollo and Skylark both came with Buick 350's and 231 V6's. I think it'd be a great platform to build off of since the non-diesel cars had EFI (TBI I'm pretty sure) and by 78 it came with 4 wheel discs and a nice 8.5in 10 bolt rear end. However it does use the 5x5in bolt pattern and a fair number of specific parts otherwise it would just be an X-special like the 70-72 Monte Carlo/Grand Prix were A-Specials since while different almost all of the bolt on stuff was interchangable with a Chevelle/Tempest.
