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2008 CTS first LS build

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jayl62199
Good morning everyone. Before I begin I would like to say that YES, 100% I am a "noob" as my son would call me. I recently purchased a 2008 black on black cts(3rd one owned) and have decided to do a ls swap for the first time. I'm a service related disdisabled marine corps veteran who was diagnosed with a stage 4 lung cancer back in June of 2021 with metastasis to the brain so needless to say I decided to retire. Lol. Different forum. I am here because I love the cars. I am living off my disability and can't afford a v so I decided to build my own. I have been in the automotive industry since growing uand around custom cars my whole career. My dream is to make a cts v an affordable reality. And do so before i am unable too This is not a pity party by any means i just wanted I to give everyone a heads up on everything for the days that I struggle with this disease memory loss, confusion ect. I have never done anything like this so looking forward to making this dream a reality. There is so much information out there but I got tired of everyone saying " just buy a V, quit wasting your money. You should do this or That . Well I cannot afford it. I will try and do as many pictures as I can and answer as many questions along the way. I am looking forward to meeting everyone. Please let me know if anyone needs anything specific along the way.
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Omac
Looking forward to seeing your project from start to finish.
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Soapm
Congrats and good luck... Semper Fi and thank you for your service. Let us know what we can do to help.
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Long
Moved from the DTS forum.
Plenty of knowledge here in the Performance Mods subforum and a few successful V8 swaps, too.

Good luck with the project!
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Big_kid
jayl62199 said:
and have decided to do a ls swap for the first time.

My dream is to make a cts v an affordable reality.
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Just need to clear this up first. Are you doing an LS swap or building a CTS-V from a CTS.
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