I love mine, runs like a champ and averages over
Keep it tuned and stock and you will be very happy with it.
82 cross fire injection
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From: Duncan South Carolina
St. Jude Donor '10
82 cross fire injection
I'm looking to by a 79-82 vette for my wife. She loves the C3 body style. I've seen some good prices on a few 82's but I don't know much about the cross fire injection. Should I have any concerns?
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I'll start by pointing out that I've never owned nor worked on an '82. I'm partial to '80 and '81 models (prefer the 80). From what I've read, the cross fire injection works well as long as it is set up and maintained properly. Hard to modify and very limited in its power output potential, it would still be fine for most drivers.
The problems begin if the system is faulty or needs major work. It is a challenge to do if you're handy. It's a much greater challenge if you need to find someone to fix it for you.
my .02
The problems begin if the system is faulty or needs major work. It is a challenge to do if you're handy. It's a much greater challenge if you need to find someone to fix it for you.
my .02
Drifting
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Well,I'm still waiting for anything to happen so I can't say anything good or bad yet.I've got an 82CE that I bought about 5 months ago.It had 38,000 orginal miles on it.I now have almost 43,000 and no problem yet.It does seem more responsive than some of my other cars that had carbs and I heard some people say they love the CF and some don't.I think the main thing is finding someone that knows how to work on them.Some have even taken off the CF stuff and went to a simple carb system.
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St. Jude Donor '10
Car is for my wife and will probably be driven a few times a week. There will be no major miles on car. I would personally like to get her a 79 or 80. 
Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the feedback.
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I don't think there is anything particularily wrong with the system. It is just fairly limiting as far as performance. Twin_Turbo knows a lot more than I do about it. I've looked it over a bit on my dad's '84.
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It's a rock solid setup when maintained properly, way better than a carb for a daily driver. Better gas milage too. Only limitation is it's not easy to modify for more power. It can be done but it's not easy.
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Burning Brakes
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IMHO, as long as you don't plan to seek lots more power than stock (and it sounds like you don't), the cross-fire is very cool. I love the look under the hood with those two staggered little air cleaners - so cool! Corvette Fever has run build-up articles in the past. I have not checked, but I'll bet forum archives also give good guidance on power upgrades available... Way cool would be an '82 with a retro-fit stick shift tranny...
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From: rochester n y
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[QUOTE=EDDIEJ82]It's a rock solid setup when maintained properly, way better than a carb for a daily driver. Better gas milage too. Only limitation is it's not easy to modify for more power. It can be done but it's not easy.[/QUOTE 
He's right , no problems with the crossfire. Low miles, right price, worth more than the 80,81 . My .02. Good Luck. Save the Wave.>George
He's right , no problems with the crossfire. Low miles, right price, worth more than the 80,81 . My .02. Good Luck. Save the Wave.>George
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Cease Fire...er..I mean Cross Fire is much maligned, but when taken care of is a very good system. There is much knowledge about it now and it is pretty simple. Parts are not hard to find. Do not be afraid of CFI.
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CFI and 700R4 is a good combo for grand touring- which is really what I used the Vette for mostly.
Love the gas mileage too 22-24MPG down the highway. Drove mine from Mpls to Springfield MO (1300 miles round trip) this last Novemeber without a twitch of a problem. Would do it again in a minute.
Brent...
Love the gas mileage too 22-24MPG down the highway. Drove mine from Mpls to Springfield MO (1300 miles round trip) this last Novemeber without a twitch of a problem. Would do it again in a minute.
Brent...
Drifting
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From: somewhere between heaven and hell WI
Originally Posted by markdtn
Cease Fire...er..I mean Cross Fire is much maligned, but when taken care of is a very good system. There is much knowledge about it now and it is pretty simple. Parts are not hard to find. Do not be afraid of CFI.
easy dont start a war now.I still dont under stand the "taken care of" part. I just drive mine and dont "take care" of it. How do you take care of the crossfire?
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How do you take care of the crossfire?
Yesterday 11:05 PM
i use wax, gas and oil . been verry happy with my 82 verry good daily driver, have done cam a intake mods .all info to fix or improve the cross-fire goto the cross-fire forum.
Yesterday 11:05 PM
i use wax, gas and oil . been verry happy with my 82 verry good daily driver, have done cam a intake mods .all info to fix or improve the cross-fire goto the cross-fire forum.
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From: Chattanooga TN
Originally Posted by ffvetteman
I still dont under stand the "taken care of" part. I just drive mine and dont "take care" of it. How do you take care of the crossfire?
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Maybe he means, not been tinkered on by someone who doesn't know how to tinker on it, I've seen so many messed up just because of that. An example, the idle stop screws are behind plugs (if someone didn't remove those already) and the synchro screw has a weld on it (easily broken by carefull wiggling w/ vise grip), some people replace that screw, whereas the synchro screw has a loose collar and allows hand adjustment (once weld is broken loose) and I've seen people weld little tabs on the linkage or TBs to set the idle speed higher, duh! Just a couple of week a guy popped up at my place for some parts and he wanted me to take a look at a set of spare tb' s he had, they had tabs welded on them also for that reason.