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Monza Harry wrote:I'll add my welcome to the party, Late! Your Monza 5 lug rear is a bit puzzling as the Monza never came with a 5 lug but can be easily adapted with S10/S15 rear axles. Many Vega swappers seem to prefer the S10 rear and add the four links to them rather than a whole Monza 3 link swap. Can you clarify a little, Monza has a torque arm mount on the pinion section of the centre section, and the S10 will have welded upper control arms, the G-Body will have upper mounts "not unlike" the Vega, but on a 7.5" ring gear rear as to the Vega's 6.5. If your car still has the Vega front lowers it will likely be easier to get an "off-the-shelf" spring if you switch out to the Monza [and friends '76 and newer] lowers or add 1.0" to the spring pocket (deeper) of your Vega ones. The Monza front end in '75 was almost/exactly the same as the Vega at that point so not much should be needed if everything is in decent shape for the interim with your V8 swap out side of the correct springs, and that may take some trial and error. I hope this gets you off and running on the right foot. Harry
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