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i know where theres a rust free 63 f85 post car for your racer...its stripped to a shell...and would make a cool racer...cheap...and is really a nice shell..its in Colorado...i just cant buy anything else..til i get some stuff taken care of around the house...i still havent unpacked and ive been here a year and a half....or i would have it
i will put you together with the owner if ya want...
Hey! I'm a '63 fan. Where's this shell in Colorado? I would very much like to speak with the owner. Please and Thank You.
Picked up my axle shafts today, was successful in redrilling to 5x4.75", still need to redrill the drums, pick up tires and mount them so I can bolt them on then the rear is done and off to the front.
I got them from D&D for $200, seems pricey when your holding them in your hand but idk who else you can get them from and they probably dont make enough to get machining cost down.
So that is the Buick engine?
I was thinking you had the Olds engine.
But Buick engine fits the Buick Opal. Looks good.
Also, do you plan on wheel flares or as is?
It's an olds block with Buick heads and obviously valve covers, I wanted to bump my comp up its about 10.14:1. It doesn't really fit, I cut the oil pan and made it a rear dump and I had to modify the crossmember. And yes absolutely flares, just need to buy them.
Last edited by young olds; March 18th, 2017 at 10:28 PM.
Progress has be very slow, been having to sell other parts to make some spending money. Sold my old appliance wire wheels and made enough to buy front tires and I should have enough left over to buy the brake parts that work with the five lug swap.
I put the old drum brake hubs off my 66 on the front, took minor machine work and new bearing sets. Brakes will be front calipers and rotors off an early 2000's grand am. All said and done it's a five lug swap and brake upgrade, stock disk set up fits inside 13" wheels.
I've been trying to track down history on my engine, the original I started the thread about, the guy I got it from never ran it and got it as payment for work he provided. I got the name and number of the guy he got it from and called him today. He said he bought the car, a land speed car raced at bonneville, but he never ran it either he decided to pull it in favor of another engine. But the cool thing I found out is that he bought the car from Jim lattin who ran the car with my little 215 in the 80's and early 90's. I personally don't know much about land speed racing or Jim lattin but my limited research shows he has quite a big name in land speed racing and bonneville.
I've been trying to track down history on my engine, the original I started the thread about, the guy I got it from never ran it and got it as payment for work he provided. I got the name and number of the guy he got it from and called him today. He said he bought the car, a land speed car raced at bonneville, but he never ran it either he decided to pull it in favor of another engine. But the cool thing I found out is that he bought the car from Jim lattin who ran the car with my little 215 in the 80's and early 90's. I personally don't know much about land speed racing or Jim lattin but my limited research shows he has quite a big name in land speed racing and bonneville.
Love it! Does the guy still have the car the engine came from?
Yes, the guy I spoke with(bill) is in his early 80's now. He told me he bought it from Jim lattin in the 90's. After looking into trying to crank out even more hp from the 215 he figured he could go faster cheaper with a sbc so he promptly swapped it, he said it's currently running what is basically a NASCAR sbc( im assuming sb2) cranking out a bit more than 700hp. Iirc he said the car is called white lightning, he also told me he's pretty sure he still has parts for the 215 he'd just give me but he has to go to his hanger and look for them.
Last edited by young olds; May 3rd, 2017 at 09:11 PM.
i tried to start the engine yesterday with no luck. seems to be ignition related, it acts like the ignition is off while cranking but if i pull a plug and gound it to watch fo a spark it kinda acts like its want to fire but spark seems kind of week. all the ignition parts are new, any ideas?
How does it run? I replaced the module for my 260, the other was toast. No fire, went back to look at it, I didn't plug in the pick up coil, instant fire when hooked up. Stupid little mistake but makes all the difference.
I was getting water in my oil due to a hole in the timing cover behind the water pump. So the engine was pulled, I needed to pull it anyways to finish the engine bay. As of today I have the engine mostly back together and the engine bay is done.
july 2019 i was driving home from stancewars in bellevue and about 3 minutes from home a valve keeper let go and a valve dropped, the piston used the valve like a bouncy ball. after tear down the valve seemed straight but the piston had a perfectly round valve relief so i decide not to test my luck with any of it and built a new engine. i bought a 63 cutlass with a supposed rebuilt 215, I think the guy just disassembled it, washed everything and reassembled it with new gaskets and arp head studs except he left in two factory bolts among other strange things like the first two rods and pistons were installed backwards. After sorting the engine out i installed my new/performance parts from the old engine, fell into a lot of MAW's while the engine was out. rebuilt the suspension with a combo of polyeurethane and few aluminum bushings, cut my inner fenders out, relocated my front shock, myself and a 2x10 fell off a roof and landed on the front of the car resulting in me obtaining fiberglass fenders and hood, i had the stock radiator re-cored to a three row, my buddy welded up a coolant surge tank, i went from electric fan to mechanical clutch( i could not keep the engine cool if i let it exceed 200* even on the freeway so i cant blame just the fan) which required moving the radiator further forward, in addition the the mallory dist. i added a winterburn cd ignition, ditched the factory master in place of a willwood, added a harness bar for 5 point harness. Probably forgetting things but i finally was able to take in on a test drive yesterday, drove a few blocks away and back, seems to run pretty well but not quite like my last engine.
Last edited by young olds; November 9th, 2020 at 07:58 PM.
the pictures from the last post are from last year/ealier this year, as are these
these are from the last month or so. i built a set of OZ racing vega wheels, 15x8 and 15x10. i ditched the universal/s30 flares in favor of steinmentz box flares, btw ordering a hood and two fenders that are shipped in one big box from germany is a hassle on top of expensive.
I want to run it with the engine the way it is for a while(get used to it) then switch to a single plane intake(same carb) then ultimately switch to my 4 dellorto drla carbs on my harcourt downdraft intake, curious to se the difference in driveability and seat-o-the-pants hp changes if any.
February 25th, 2017, 10:34 PM
