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Originally Posted by 6704gto
monza alreay came with a v8 and the vega is goin to be tight i knew a guy who had a small block chevy in it
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I suspect this Poncho Monza will be for the strip but I had a mildly modified steet V8 sbc Monza in my youth, it was pretty wild though, btw the Vega shop manual is the Monza shop manual so the cars are pretty much the same. If I had it to do over again I would be pulling the inner fenders out, probably stating the obvious. Hooker made a 3 or 4 piece header back then that looked like a bunch of snakes, that was a s.o.b. to install that required jacking up the motor. Also had to jack up the motor to change the plugs on the driver's side. Ran short pipes from the collectors to two turbo Corvair muffler with dumps just ahead of the rear axle. You should also be thinking about changing brakes since the factory discs up front are not finned and I just burned up pads and rotors and calipers. Left the car in stock stance with 70's and actually pretty nice OEM aluminum wheels. It was a 75 that I had from 79-81 and it easily handled the new Corvettes, Camaros and Mustangs of the day. That car generated a lot of heat inside too.
I once offered to boost a huge Buick Estate wagon that was dead in the water and the owner, a middle aged executive just laughed, until I popped the hood and he said man you could power a small town with that. We hooked up the jumper cables and Needless to say the big 455 fired right up.