Thread: New member/Engine build post question

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"Hot Rod Build Logs" is probably where you should start. But first, find out what you can do.....EXACTLY.....and still be California legal with the Monte.
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Are you aware that LT motors had a unique cooling system that cooled the heads first? You may have to use the entire stock architecture to make it work in a swap, I'm not sure because I have never fiddled with an LT. LS motors used the conventional cooling that we have been used to for the past 100+ years. A 4.8 Chevy with turbo will rock your world, if it is allowed to be swapped into an '83 Monte Carlo by California law. Google "4.8 LS Turbo" to see a ton of turbocharged motors and how they were built.

But again, first find out what the State will allow you to do.

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I agree with Jerry, move out of californication as I did 42 years ago.