Crossfire injection
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From: MAYWOOD MO
Crossfire injection
I have a frend who is considering the purchase of a low mile 1982 vette. Are there any reliability issues with the injected cars vs. the 4 barrel cars. Are there any other problems relating to late c3s that I should make my friend aware of? I already told him to look for frame rust, leaking power steering and brakes.
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From: Flanders NJ
The '82 Crossfire is fine as long as it's tuned and in good shape, just like any car with a carb. It gets good gas milage, starts right up, only comes with auto w/ overdrive, it's the best C3 for cruising. Everyone I know that has one likes it. 
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From: Celeste Texas
Once I got my throttle bodies balanced I liked it a whole lot better. The basic tuneup is a must. Replace ALL the vacuum lines not just the ones that look bad and vacuum routing diagrams are your friend. One line in the wrong spot caused me a lot of problems. Not really much different than any other car though. It starts better than my carbed car did and if I would keep my foot off of the floor it would probably get good gas mileage too.
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From: Flanders N.J.
Originally Posted by mooneyd
The '82 Crossfire is fine as long as it's tuned and in good shape, just like any car with a carb. It gets good gas milage, starts right up, only comes with auto w/ overdrive, it's the best C3 for cruising. Everyone I know that has one likes it.
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The only weakness I've heard of with cross fire is that the ecm isn't as water proof as the newer ecms. Turbo City in Anaheim, Ca. put together a kit to run cross fire systems on either the 773 tpi ecm or the 7727 water proof, under hood style ecm. I heard that they diidn't get enough interest to continue it. If anyone has problems with a cross fire ecm, it might be an option. The cross fire parts are pretty much discontinued, and I don't know if the ecm is available still.
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Originally Posted by Russ Bellinis
The only weakness I've heard of with cross fire is that the ecm isn't as water proof as the newer ecms. Turbo City in Anaheim, Ca. put together a kit to run cross fire systems on either the 773 tpi ecm or the 7727 water proof, under hood style ecm. I heard that they diidn't get enough interest to continue it. If anyone has problems with a cross fire ecm, it might be an option. The cross fire parts are pretty much discontinued, and I don't know if the ecm is available still.
no wonder there's no interest, theyw ere just selling a 1227747 TBI ECM with a crummy prom and no harness adapter so you have to cut the original wiring, where others are selling harness adapters (convert from pin to edge card connector) and a 7747 ecm can be bought new for less than they charge for theirs. It's a very common and hacked ECM, the complete code is available free on the net so they are selling stuff that's free on the internet. There's also the late f body ECM w/ the lean cruise, however none of them are weatherpack ECMs...no need since it sits inside the car anyway.
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From: Mason MI 82-93-04CE
Originally Posted by mooneyd
The '82 Crossfire is fine as long as it's tuned and in good shape, just like any car with a carb. It gets good gas milage, starts right up, only comes with auto w/ overdrive, it's the best C3 for cruising. Everyone I know that has one likes it.
Love ours. Runs strong. Starts instantly. Great mileage. Great cruiser and nicely quick.
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From: Mason MI 82-93-04CE
Originally Posted by nelson71
...... leaking power steering and brakes.
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From: Flanders NJ
Originally Posted by Russ Bellinis
The only weakness I've heard of with cross fire is that the ecm isn't as water proof as the newer ecms. Turbo City in Anaheim, Ca. put together a kit to run cross fire systems on either the 773 tpi ecm or the 7727 water proof, under hood style ecm. I heard that they diidn't get enough interest to continue it. If anyone has problems with a cross fire ecm, it might be an option. The cross fire parts are pretty much discontinued, and I don't know if the ecm is available still.
