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Hi! I’m a 40 year old car nut with a bunch of car and truck projects. I am currently looking for a 68-72 Cutlass to swap a Olds 455 into. The Olds 455 has been in my garage a long time, I obtained it knowing I would find a Cutlass one day. The Cutlass will be a cruiser, hopefully a convert of I can find a good one!
My 70 Buick Skylark may be interesting to you guys, it runs a Buick 350 with twin turbos and the car is lightened up to 2980 pounds. It’s a street legal drag car.
Hi, sort of. This was the final revision of his kits.
The car was originally bought new by Mark Burton’s mom in California, she gifted it to him when he turned 16, and he hot rodded it till he was about 40. It’s mostly fiberglass, alum core support, very light. A bad divorce led to the cars sale, but I couldn’t buy it as Mark had just built me another turbocharged Buick. I eventually bought the car from Texas and shipped it up to Edmonton, made it street legal, built a new engine for it, had it painted and did the custom fiberglass stage 2 hood scoop. The car had been turbocharged and back halved since about 1995 and Mark updated the custom frame, and turbo setup 3 times over those years. This is the final and best design he had for the turbos. He sold about 20 of the basic kits, all of them made 500-600 Hp with a basic low comp 350.
Mark and I worked together to design single plane sheet metal intakes, and a bunch of other parts. eventually we convinced TA performance to make alum heads and single plane intake. so I got the first set of those sold and my pro head guy is porting them at the moment. The engine should make about 500 HP NA and more on boost of course.
I have a better carb hat, and a bunch of upgrades to go with the new engine that I’m swapping in this summer. 10:1, E-85, pretty wild close to max effort build with billet crank, 355 cubes, all the best parts. Massive porting on alum heads.
Mark went on to turbocharge two Galaxies and added two more skylarks to his collection all turbocharged of course. He even built one for his son, all his cars are EFI these days. He’s in Wenatchee Washington. Great guy.
Last edited by sean Buick 76; March 22nd, 2023 at 01:01 PM.
Thanks for this information, great to see that some people are still building and developing parts for "the other guys" (quote Richard Holdener) like the Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac.
March 20th, 2023, 06:48 PM
You know a car means business with that stance. Good luck finding an Olds.
