Happy Easter everyone..a few q’s on 69 w30 4 speed cars? I know D heads etc but like the 70 w30 4 speed cars do they have the following?
- special carb
- special distributor
- 328 cam
- open face alternator
- I thought ramrod was only 350 cube engine yet 69 w30 400 says ram rod 400?

Reading on here seems the consensus is the broadcast card doesn’t designate w30 But allegedly box 37 on the card if checked designates w30? Is this true? Seems like these cars are harder to document than the 70 car?

 

Any input from members with-knowledge on 69 w cars?

 

All 1968-69 W30 motors (both MT and AT) came with the 328/328 cam, P/N 402569. Power brakes and A/C were not available with any of them.

All 1969 442s including W30s came with the open face, 10SI internally regulated alternator.

All 1969 W30s (both AT and MT) came with the 7029254 carb, which DID have primary metering rods, despite the low manifold vacuum. The power piston spring was unique to this carb as a result.




All 1969 W30s used distributor number 1111933. Surprisingly, this same distributor was used on all 1969 442s with AT. The non-W MT 442s used 1111932.

 

Thank you Joe…

 

Interesting they must have used a very weak power piston spring on that carb with 328/328 duration..

 

I wonder which W-30 had the least manners of 64-72 / drivetrain.

 

What does that even mean?

 

I've you're asking about which one had the worst idle quality, one would assume the 68-69 cars with the 328/328 cam. The larger displacement in 1970 would be slightly better at accommodating that cam. The G-block with the tiny bore and somewhat shrouded valves likely wasn't happy.

 

What Joe said. Idle quality, cold start initial warmup, off idle and part throttle.

If your car has a clutch that's either all in, or all out; you have to rev it to 1100 to keep running, and the power band is way up there; the car has bad manners (but is probably a hell of a dragster).

 

It's all relative.

 

On the air cleaner lid only. the '68-'69 W31 had Ram Rod 350 on the lids as well, but only the '68 was officialy called a Ram Rod 350 (option code W31).