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Looks great!! Hope it runs good for you! I see you moved your neg cable to the block, that's good I was loosing sleep over that!! Boy those exhaust manifolds sure are pitted! With all the nice detailing you've put into the car, if it were mine I think I'd try to find another pair or at least one for the drivers side since it shows more( maybe someone on this site could hook you up?). A few years ago I did a bunch of resto work on my girlfriends '76 Salon. One of the things I did was put a complete '73 dual exhaust system on it since her converter was already gone. I really lucked out & found an absolutely mint pair of small block manifolds on Epay for cheap! I think they were off a '71 or '72. I blasted them & coated them with POR manifold gray, they came out looking like new castings! I think Olds used the left manifold with the #1 casting for a few years.
Glad to hear you got her running, Alain!! I could listen to a W31's wicked idle all day!! I did get another upper hose from Fusick for my '68, It's just like the one you have. I like the fit much better!
Alain, What's the story on the behind the grill transmission cooler? Is that a factory option that I never knew about? Or is it just aftermarket with a nice set of trans lines routed to it?
the inner wells were wet sanded with 800 1000 1500 2000 2500 and polished
To get as close to oe finish .Also bought a mint inner well from Nick to get as close to original as possible
Alain
alain~
Great work! Beautiful job...
Can you update us with the black paint used on the cowl, engine firewall, and radiator core? It looks like semi on the cowl, flat on the firewall, and semi on the radiator core? Am I correct?
Radials. Nice. I think that is the direction I will go also. I have bias plys on my 69 and while they are “correct” the ride with radials is way better. I have another set of wheels with radials and put them on that 69 last summer and gosh how much better it rode. I put the bias plys back on cause my 69 is a time capsule car but the 70 I’m building I am gonna go with the repop radials also.
More photos tomorrow 
October 5th, 2020, 04:29 AM
Boy those exhaust manifolds sure are pitted! With all the nice detailing you've put into the car, if it were mine I think I'd try to find another pair or at least one for the drivers side since it shows more( maybe someone on this site could hook you up?). A few years ago I did a bunch of resto work on my girlfriends '76 Salon. One of the things I did was put a complete '73 dual exhaust system on it since her converter was already gone. I really lucked out & found an absolutely mint pair of small block manifolds on Epay for cheap! I think they were off a '71 or '72. I blasted them & coated them with POR manifold gray, they came out looking like new castings! I think Olds used the left manifold with the #1 casting for a few years.
