Hey guys, so this is my build thread from over on ls1tech.com .....Hope you guys enjoy it.
Just a background story on the car.....It has been in the family since 1986, my parents were the second owners of the low mileage Monte when they had news of having me. So my Dad sold his third gen firebird for the Monte. Back when I was 14, I was really interested in having the Monte for myself since it was sitting in our garage after it was taken off the road not being a daily anymore. Well being the middle child, my 16 year old brother got the car as his first car. He was suprised when my parents helped pay for a respray on the car of the as close to factory silver as possible. Few months after getting the car, my brother got into some trouble with it and ended up having to give it back to my parents and get a beater since his insurance went sky high. So it sat again for another 9 years or so until my old daily (93 s10 with a lt1/t56) was totalled by someone else. My parents were nice enough to give me the car for the cost of the insurance bill from the person crashing into my truck, into the monte and into the house garage. So I got a steal, lol.
After driving it for a season, I felt like the 305 just wasn't good enough. So I decided to take a perfectly good running motor for a 08 6.2l l92 and a 4l80e.
Hope that gives you guys a good background on the car.....any comments are welcomed!
Thanks,
Justin.
Just a background story on the car.....It has been in the family since 1986, my parents were the second owners of the low mileage Monte when they had news of having me. So my Dad sold his third gen firebird for the Monte. Back when I was 14, I was really interested in having the Monte for myself since it was sitting in our garage after it was taken off the road not being a daily anymore. Well being the middle child, my 16 year old brother got the car as his first car. He was suprised when my parents helped pay for a respray on the car of the as close to factory silver as possible. Few months after getting the car, my brother got into some trouble with it and ended up having to give it back to my parents and get a beater since his insurance went sky high. So it sat again for another 9 years or so until my old daily (93 s10 with a lt1/t56) was totalled by someone else. My parents were nice enough to give me the car for the cost of the insurance bill from the person crashing into my truck, into the monte and into the house garage. So I got a steal, lol.
After driving it for a season, I felt like the 305 just wasn't good enough. So I decided to take a perfectly good running motor for a 08 6.2l l92 and a 4l80e.
Hope that gives you guys a good background on the car.....any comments are welcomed!
Thanks,
Justin.
1985 Monte Carlo SS 6.2l (ls3) / 4l80e swap - LS1TECH - Camaro and Firebird Forum Discussion
Conversions & Swaps - 1985 Monte Carlo SS 6.2l (ls3) / 4l80e swap - Well this swap will be a very slow process but I figure I'd first start this now since some things are being done now, parts have been purchased and just to start it nice and early to give me enough feedback from others to get...
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