Thread: need help putting an olds v8 in a g-body malibu

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The motor I want to drop in is a 4.3L Olds V8. There's nothing in the car as we speak. The only reason I don't drop in a chevy 350, or 305, is simply because I don't have the finances laying around. I picked the 4.3L out of a 75 cutlass that I was junking originally because I was told when I bought the car that it was an olds 350, and it wasn't until I had it out and cleaned it up enough to find the block numbers that i came to the grimm realization that I had a cast iron paper weight. don't get me wrong, I know it's a dog ass motor, but it always ran strong and reliably. I've got the BOP 350 tranny out of the car too. I just want to put it in because I've got it. I don't even know what the last motor in the car was, According the VIN's, it was a 229ci motor