Since joining here a couple of days ago I've been hangin' in the tech forum and CutlassEFI has been walking me through my ignorance of Olds engines coupled with an extremely poor memory of where my project has been so far and what I need to do to get it back on track.

I bought this '67 442 about 25 years ago and put it in my warehouse. About 7 or 8 years ago I got it out and stripped it to bare metal and sent it to the paint shop. The car seemed to have been lightly popped in the front end...... NO frame damage, but had a pair of burgundy fenders with a lot of lower rust bolted to it and painted the original yellow color to match. The rest of the car was original paint and absolutely perfect virgin sheet metal except for an extreme butchering around the shifter hole and a boo boo in the floor under the driver's heel. The roof, doors, quarters, rockers, trunk floor, etc, etc were near perfect without even any door dings. It had some Hurst shifter made for another application that required the floor cut and was all back in the seat in 2nd and 4th gear. The paint shop kept it about a year with countless primes and blocks and it turned out very nice as all of his stuff does. Meanwhile I got started on building the 455 that was in it when I bought it. Nobody seems to know where the original engine went, although the original transmission is there and the rear date codes to be correct for the car. I wasn't obsessed with making it dead original because of the engine, so decided to play hot rod with it a little. The engine is .030 over with a big hydraulic roller, Edlebrock heads, Dick Miller headers and 2 4's on an Offenhauser intake (for looks at the obvious cost of loss of performance). It's got 7.74 X 14 redlines, bought for another project, but'll probably get F70's now since I discovered here that the 7.75's didn't come on the '67's. Anyway, I thought I'd give the tech forum a break from my rambling and post a couple of pictures over here. Maybe after 25 years of solitary confinement it may roll again this year.

 

Looks extremely nice, love the Vettes also.

 

I have a thing for 67's! Looks great and I would kill for a shop/warehouse like your 67 is sitting in. Post some more picts when you can.

 

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Nice. Either way, with the loss of power with the intake and carbs, it will blow the 14" f/70/14's from the pavement instantly! Your going to need for grip.

 

I thought I'd already posted an engine pic, but don't see it. I'm glad I got the cast Olds valve covers before they got hard to find. I bought these from Summit several years ago when I got the Edlebrock heads, but somebody told me the other day that they don't have any more. I think they're really cool looking, even if heavy. I hope nobody dogs me on the Ford air cleaner. I've always thought they were cool looking too and am going to cut a slot out of the fins on top for a 442 fender emblem and mount it there.

 

Oldsmanic, I've got a thing for '67's also (but like the 65's just as well). I particularly like the post cars like yours, and red/red would be my first choice in just about anything. From your pic it looks like yours might have red interior. My college room mate had a red/red 66, but I always liked the front and rear lights on the '67 a little better, ESPECIALLY the rears. I hope to find enough energy to set the engine in within the next couple of weeks if I can remember to call Dick Miller and get the cam button kit and then the distributor gear from a member here. I bought a missing lower fender brace from an ad here over the weekend, so that's one less part missing, and I think I'm still in need of one piece of trim from around either the front or rear windshield, and don't have any felts for the side glasses front or rear. The good news is the interior has had a new PUI package installed on it and in storage for several years, so it's all ready to go when I get the carpet installed. Lotsa' stuff coming together fairly quick now, which is unusual for my projects.

 

Solid Lifters, my car has the Champagne interior bench seat. Here is the link to my build thread https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...-trac-pac.html

The graphics are just photo shopped.

 

Cool. I didn't get past the first page, but am going back and look all the way through when I get done internet playing tonight. I've been thinking about buying a ram air setup like the one in your picture, but instead of the air cleaner also, enclosing the oval Fordie thing I've got on my engine and fab'n a pair of hose inlets on both sides. I've seen an old Ford Thunderbolt replica with an oval air cleaner done that way instead of the correct Thunderbolt box on the carbs. The guy that repops those ram air inlets for over/under the parking lamps has 'em on E Bay fairly frequently. I think they're listed now, but a lot of $$$'s for plastic.

 

I like the oil fill tube, where did you get it?

 

I hate to tell you. It came from FCR Performance in Omaha, back in better times before he fleeced me for several hundred bucks in undelivered payed for parts.

It is a cool piece though. It's aluminum in case it doesn't show well in the grainy I Phone picture. Somebody supposedly makes a nice billet timing tab to bolt on the front of the engine to go with it, but I haven't been able to find it.

 

It did look like an FCR piece but I don't think he's around anymore.

 

And from my experience and those of others I've read on the internet, that's a good thing......... and it's a shame. He seemed very knowledgeable and was helpful, but the business ethic just wasn't there.

 

Just asking because I'm looking for something nice on my 66 with Tri-Carb. It seems so tight up there.