Many of you have discussed running the engine wide open throttle to aleviate certain issues. While I do believe it works because I have done it on previous Northstar cars I have had. What kind of affect does it have on the rest of the car like the transmission ?

The engine and transmission were designed to work together as the "Northstar System". The engine can't put out anything the transmission wasn't built to handle.

yuh
the Northstar System was the joint unison of the Engine Tranny and Suspension...

That's why it's called transaxle ,right ?

no its cuz it a fwd car and the axles connect into the tranny rather then from a diff

Oh, ok thanks for clearing

Why would anyone be scared of flooring a car? If anything break it was going to break eventually anyway....

Floor the crap out of it. I will take it no problem

I have my car to the boards all the time. I sholdn't though... lol

I have cut back on the WOT's a lot since premium unleaded is now $3.70 per gallon around here.

Why would anyone be scared of flooring a car? If anything break it was going to break eventually anyway....

Floor the crap out of it. I will take it no problem

Try that on a Camaro or Trans Am. When the rear end goes out (like a lot of them do), see if GM says: "No problem."

Any car can be abused, no matter how strong it is.

Am I to understand that many of you don't see six grand every day. I can't live without it. I have never seen nor read anything to make me feel that I was abusing or harming my darling. If it breaks , I'll fix it. The only reason there is a floor board, is to keep you from dragging your right foot on the asphalt. They even added traction control to make the front tires last longer.:thumbsup: I have had to make many repairs; most of which maybe even all were created by the previous owner through poor maintenance and crummy repair work. None were related to hard running. Although it is not easy to work on, that goes away when I nail it and it takes off like bat out of hell.
93 Eldo Touring, 125,000 showroom stock.

Eh, I was in my 1995 Aurora, playing around with my brother's VW GTI in a parking lot, doing some AutoX'ing type stuff, and managed to kill the tranny that way. The 4T80 is strong, but definitely not bulletproof. I wasn't doing anything too stupid ;), just a lot of WOT trying to run him down, and some rolling drags.

I have cut back on the WOT's a lot since premium unleaded is now $3.70 per gallon around here.

I wish gas was that cheap in Alberta.
Regular unleaded is 1.12 $/litre * 4.54 l/gal = 5.08 $/gal. :crybaby:
(And I work in the oil sands where the oil deposits compare with Saudi Arabia and we dig it out of the ground with a shovel.)

I am here to say from experience the tranny is the weak link in WOT. I had a 1995 STS and in one year spent $3,000.00 on having tranny work done, from beating on the car. I now have a 2002 STS and do not do WOT unless I am traveling between 50 to 80 KM.
The new STS have even more hp, up to 400+ and RWD and like the CTS-V the weakest link is now the rear end. I believe it was Motor week which reported going through 3 rear ends on their test car.
Mike

WOT from a standstill puts much more stress on internal tranny parts and driveline. While the tranny can take the abuse usually, I've personally snapped 2 CV joints doing harsh takeoffs. That being said no matter how you drive, the more WOTs you do the more you beat on the clutch plates especially if you aren't already in top gear...

There are "smart" ways to have fun...and stupid ways. Snapping the throttle to the floor from a standstill puts a LOT of stress on a lot of components...especially the CV shafts.

By the way, to clarify an earlier post, there are 5 components to the Northstar system:

1) The 4.6L V8 engine,
2) The 4T80-E transaxle,
3) The Magnasteer steering,
4) The CV-RSS suspension,
and 5) The Antilock Braking System.