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This is not an engine swap since the car is completely custom but I figured anything running dual supercharged V8s and has two 1959 Cadillac bodies, should deserve some mention on this site. Read more about the wild vehicle in Autoblog’s article<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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This is not an engine swap since the car is completely custom but I figured anything running dual supercharged V8s and has two 1959 Cadillac bodies, should deserve some mention on this site. Read more about the wild vehicle in Autoblog’s article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cadillac"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":141994,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=141994","url_meta":{"origin":2444,"position":0},"title":"Pontiac Fiero with a Cadillac Northstar V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"December 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1984 Pontiac Fiero SE is powered by a 4.6 L Cadillac Northstar V8. 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