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Oct 27, 2010 | 11:13 PM

deuce4935

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Resevoir?

What are you guys using for your coolant resevoirs considering the LS engines are unique when compared to the traditional sbc.

Oct 28, 2010 | 04:08 AM

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In a swap, a reservoir is a reservoir. What ever works with your car and radiator will work with the LS engine.

Oct 28, 2010 | 08:37 AM

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It depends on your radiator. If using a traditional style from the original engine, any puke tank will do, even a bottle with a hose in it

Oct 28, 2010 | 12:13 PM

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My car had an lt1, and I cant figure out how to make the original resevoir tie into the ls cooling system. I looped the wp inlet and outlet together to do away with the heater core, basically its like the lt1 resevoir has too many open orifices.

Oct 28, 2010 | 01:19 PM

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Oct 28, 2010 | 02:34 PM

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i used this in my 65 chevelle ls2 turbo since i have the samething for the power steering fluid.. summit and jegs has a ton of overflow tanks

http://www.jegs.com/i/Billet+Special...77113/10002/-1

Oct 28, 2010 | 08:29 PM

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I used an old volvo 240/740 expansion tank and t'ed it to a heater hose. The top has inlet I used for the steam line.

Had the tank laying around from other swaps... cheap, easy to find and gets the job done.