I finally have some pictures of the engine I will be selling. Several people have expressed some interest.

Here is what I was told not substantiated but by the original owner. 1968 442 w-30 automatic engine. Engine was pulled and put in the garage in 1970 when the car became a race car. It had less than 20,000 miles. The engine was freshened whatever that means so here is more stuff I don't really know. Has original pistons and cam with new rings and bearings and gaskets. Heads were not resurfaced. I would not put this into my car without full inspection because gaskets are cheap compared to installing and uninstalling the engine. I posted some pictures and you can tell me what you think about the numbers. I already know the long head bolts are in the wrong place but I didn't do it. Let me know what you think. I will probably list it on ebay for a starting bid of $4,000. I already know there are two crazy fools on ebay with heads at $7000 and 5800 but they both still have them and probably will keep them at that price. I have other pictures of more of the numbers if you need to see more.

Thanks Lee

 

Are these the heads that every one want's?

 

If you have a hurst olds or 1968 or 1969 w-30 and you dont have the correct heads you want these. The 1970 w-30 used "F" heads and 1971 "H". I think the H are the hardest to find because there were not many cars sold.

Lee

 

Thanks for the info

 

Aren't 68 and 69 D heads slightly different? Maybe the 69's have one of the exhaust heat crossovers filled?

 

Now you are getting into the details. Since I am a 1970-2 guy I will let the 68-9 guy/gals go into the date codes and other differences.

 

The long head bolts are in the correct place!

 

The engine is listed $4900 buys it. 330551390810

Lee

 

engine is sold..........thanks Lee

 

Nice sale lee. I dont think i was wiling to pay what you could get for them as a package. keep me in mind if you see some at a lower price

 

I hope this guy didn't buy your engine just to part it out! If you got the money you needed for it thats the bottom line... but I would hope the person who bought it put it in a car. I'd have loved to have it for my 1969 W30 but just don't have the finances to purchase something like that right now.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1968-...item35b1907268

 

The person that bought the engine has 30 collectable oldsmobiles and didn't even blink at the price. I am guessing it is going into one of his cars. So he makes me look pretty small time with my three cars. He did say he doesn't have any w-30 convt 4 speeds and I have a couple of cars that would fit nicely into his collection.

Lee

 

Good. When I saw this ebay ad for D heads he talked about having the complete engine, and that he was going to be posting auctions of more parts soon. Since you recently sold yours I thought this might be the same motor. John