'67 W30 power brakes
#1
'67 W30 power brakes
Was the '67 W30 available with power brakes? I thought that it was like the other years where, due to the cam/lack of vacuum, power brakes were not part of the package. I saw two vintage magazine articles today, where '67 W30's had power brake boosters in the pics, one an auto, the other a 4 speed.
#6
And, while were on W brake questions, was the '70 W30 with the automatic trans., ever available with the manual disc brakes? To my knowledge, only the manual trans. cars were equipped this way, with the auto cars getting power disc brakes. The reason that I ask as there was one at the Gilmore Car Museum yesterday, on loan for display inside the museum, owned by Dan Jensen, it was a column shifted auto, but the placard beside the car indicated that it had manual disc brakes, he also had an "experimental vehicle" window sticker (repro) on it, which makes no sense, as why would there be a window sticker for a car that would have been sent to the crusher, or at least sold to someone at Olds engineering, like Dale Smith? I believe that this car has been at Homecoming before, and it is a nice car, my pics of it aren't that good with the poor lighting inside the museum.
#7
I do wonder, however, if the 67s with power brakes were factory-built W-30 cars or Track Pack cars.
#8
Speaking of track packs, two questions:
1. So you could slide that cam into any 67 442, regardless of options? AC, power brakes, etc?
2. What about a convertible 442? The battery relocation is problematic on them, which may be why there are no W-30 67 convertibles.
1. So you could slide that cam into any 67 442, regardless of options? AC, power brakes, etc?
2. What about a convertible 442? The battery relocation is problematic on them, which may be why there are no W-30 67 convertibles.
#9
2. What about a convertible 442? The battery relocation is problematic on them, which may be why there are no W-30 67 convertibles.
#10
I don't know if he still owns it or not, but I will see him this weekend and ask him. I wonder if he scored one of those aluminum 455s or something that was floating around? It could be that, but the car was basic and stock otherwise.
#11
Keep in mind that the 308 deg cam looks bigger to a 350 ci engine than it does to a 455 ci engine. The vacuum for a W-31 with 308 deg cam was probably very similar to that of a W-30 with 328 deg cam.
#12
Finally, for a very short window early in the model year (August and September 1969, you could order option JL7, disc brake delete, with your W30. This would give you drum brakes up front. However, since there's no proof that any W30s were built before October of 1969, it's unlikely that any were built with JL7 before it was cancelled.
#13
"And, while were on W brake questions, was the '70 W30 with the automatic trans., ever available with the manual disc brakes? To my knowledge, only the manual trans. cars were equipped this way, with the auto cars getting power disc brakes."
Manual disc brakes were standard on the 70-72 W-30s. Power disc brakes were available with the automatic transmission and mandated if A/C was ordered. A/C was only available with the automatic transmission(no A/C in 72). All manual trans cars were manual disc.
Don W
You beat me to it Brian.
Manual disc brakes were standard on the 70-72 W-30s. Power disc brakes were available with the automatic transmission and mandated if A/C was ordered. A/C was only available with the automatic transmission(no A/C in 72). All manual trans cars were manual disc.
Don W
You beat me to it Brian.
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#15
I do wonder, however, if the 67s with power brakes were factory-built W-30 cars or Track Pack cars.
Last edited by 1969w3155; September 14th, 2015 at 08:36 PM. Reason: Additional info.
#17
294/296 with 114 lobe sep for Manual Trans
286/287 with 113 lone sep for Auto Trans without A/C
285/287 with 115 lobe sep for Auto Trans with A/C (the same old 400165 cam).
#20
And then in 1971 things get really interesting, with three W-30 cams:
#21
Dan's red W30 had an aluminum 455 in it at Dearborn OCA in 2009, talked to him briefly about it while drooling... when it was at PSMCDR last year I'm pretty sure it had an iron engine back in it... never had a chance to ask him about it. Curious to see what he says if you find out.
#22
When I was talking about cams with my buddy this past weekend, he commented that when went to get a new cam for the '70 442 auto that he owned from about 1978-1982, from the local Olds dealership, they told him that they had four cams for the 442, which one did he want?
#25
I'm sure it had more than the standard 4-4-2 400 TH cam.
It had the familiar W-30 lope.
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