engine choices
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engine choices
Hi all, My son is writing a paper for a school assignment and he is writing about his 1968 olds cutlass s. He was wanting to know what engine choices were available that year along with horsepower ratings or any other info. As the paper progresses we will be looking for additional info on transmissions, head and tail light and other options. Thanks for your help.
#2
Hi all, My son is writing a paper for a school assignment and he is writing about his 1968 olds cutlass s. He was wanting to know what engine choices were available that year along with horsepower ratings or any other info. As the paper progresses we will be looking for additional info on transmissions, head and tail light and other options. Thanks for your help.
If HE is writing this paper, why isn't HE doing the research, asking the questions, looking for additional info on transmissions, and all the rest? Why isn't HE online here right now instead of you? If he's old enough to own a car, he's old enough to use a computer and to research and write his own paper!
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Such as spelling the word "academia" correctly?
Sorry, but that was hanging right out over the plate. Put an "m" in front of your spelling, and you have a nut.
You're damn right I take an interest in matters of academics. We ALL should. Parents shouldn't be doing their kids' homework!
Sorry, but that was hanging right out over the plate. Put an "m" in front of your spelling, and you have a nut.
You're damn right I take an interest in matters of academics. We ALL should. Parents shouldn't be doing their kids' homework!
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#8
Well it looks like this subject got more than I/we were looking for. My son IS doing his own paper with some guidance from his dad, as he has a little learning disability! All he wanted to know was what engine options came with his car. I did not know the answer, so I said i would help him find the info. As a parent I think it is important that we help, not do our kids school work. All i was trying to do here is help him find information. Can anyone help us? Or is everyone hung up on who is doing the paper? This is a comparison/contrast paper and he already found and wrote the info on our 69 chevelle on his own.
#9
Or perhaps Joe P will chime in and set the record straight.
Good luck on the project!! Hope HE gets an A!
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#13
Cole, to get the best rundown of available engines and other options, you should look at the SPECS guides, which are located here, in the "Dealer Literature" category.
Sorry if some of us have been a bit standoffish, but most of us are "old guys" who did our best to make out own kids do things for themselves, so that they could learn as much as possible, and are used to making our kids "work for it."
- Eric
Sorry if some of us have been a bit standoffish, but most of us are "old guys" who did our best to make out own kids do things for themselves, so that they could learn as much as possible, and are used to making our kids "work for it."
- Eric
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Hi all, My son is writing a paper for a school assignment and he is writing about his 1968 olds cutlass s. He was wanting to know what engine choices were available that year along with horsepower ratings or any other info. As the paper progresses we will be looking for additional info on transmissions, head and tail light and other options. Thanks for your help.
This link has copies of the 1968 Salesman's Specs book, but again does not have the W-31 in it.
#15
Thank you for the extra information. I will check these sites also. And my parents do make me work for it. I paid for the car with my lawn mowing money and i am paying for most everything to rebuild the car. I have already rebuilt the motor, paid to have tranny rebuilt, Rebuilt the front end, disc brakes and now I am working on the inside. I need more lawns to mow.
Cole
Cole
#16
Jeez guys, go easy on the kid and his Dad. Here it is on wikipedia which is all he needs (see right side of page).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Cutlass#1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Cutlass#1968
#17
Just a side note my dad and I are rebuilding this car in our garage and driveway ourselves. Only having other people do work that we can't. I have learned a lot working on this car. I am the only one in my class that knows anything about cars.
Cole
Cole
#18
Grumble... Kids today... Grumble...
- Eric
#19
Forgive us as we are used to seeing coddled kids whose parents feel they must do everything and allow the kids to sit on their butts playing video games. Not saying that's you. I appreciate a good father and son project and I highly respect you for taking the initiative to fix up as well as foot the cost of your project.
Now, please some pictures posted of your project for us to see.
Now, please some pictures posted of your project for us to see.
#20
Jeez guys, go easy on the kid and his Dad. Here it is on wikipedia which is all he needs (see right side of page).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Cutlass#1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Cutlass#1968
#21
Oh no you did NOT just refer to the Ram Rod engine as "W-31" for 1968!
[*goosenecks at you*]
:-)
"Wikipedia does not have *all* of what was asked for. And for any discerning researcher should know (we are talking about getting an education here), Wiiki (a secondary source of information) should never be used when the primary (in this case "factory") information is available. To anyone that does not understand that, I'd be happy to explain it."
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Reminds me of Colbert's word "wikiality" - where, since the wiki is editable by the masses, if the editors assert that the population of African elephants has tripled in the last 6 months, it must be true.
So.... what does that make the error-riddle FAQ files thing that predates the wiki Olds info? "Better than nothing" [maybe] comes to mind...
[*goosenecks at you*]
:-)
"Wikipedia does not have *all* of what was asked for. And for any discerning researcher should know (we are talking about getting an education here), Wiiki (a secondary source of information) should never be used when the primary (in this case "factory") information is available. To anyone that does not understand that, I'd be happy to explain it."
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Reminds me of Colbert's word "wikiality" - where, since the wiki is editable by the masses, if the editors assert that the population of African elephants has tripled in the last 6 months, it must be true.
So.... what does that make the error-riddle FAQ files thing that predates the wiki Olds info? "Better than nothing" [maybe] comes to mind...
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There actually was a 62 F-85 with a Toro drivetrain for sale in JWO a while ago.
#27
Id like to see pics too.
#28
It may be an Olds straight 6, but in the unlikely Chevy scenario that would have been a major waste of time and effort.
Last edited by oldcutlass; July 9th, 2013 at 09:05 PM.
#31
Actually, 1966-1971, then again for 1973-76, until GM bought back the rights to the Buick V6 that they had sold to Jeep/AMC. Interestingly, there was no six cylinder option for the 1972 model year. That would make a great trivia question.
Oh, wait...
Oh, wait...
#36
Yup. When they walked away from the V-6 and the smaller F-85 platform, they started using the Chev motor.
Pontiac developed its own OHV I-6, and Buick, as far as I know, walked away from the V-6 and the small "Special" platform at the same time, and just didn't offer a 6 (except maybe in the Apollo?) until the late '70s.
Cadillac had no 6, but GMC had its own V-6 in the '60s.
- Eric
Pontiac developed its own OHV I-6, and Buick, as far as I know, walked away from the V-6 and the small "Special" platform at the same time, and just didn't offer a 6 (except maybe in the Apollo?) until the late '70s.
Cadillac had no 6, but GMC had its own V-6 in the '60s.
- Eric
#37
The I6 was the only six in the GM passenger car engine lineup in the 1970s until the Buford V6 came back in 1975. The Pontiac OHC six was based on the Chebby design (though the block was a different casting). It even used the same displacement - growing from 230 to 250 when the Chevy did.
The Buick V6 tooling was sold to AMC/Jeep in 1967, bought back in 1974, and reintroduced in the 1975 model year cars.
The GMC V6 was a 60 deg design available in displacements of 305, 351, 401, and 478 cu in. Only the 305 was used in light trucks; the larger versions went into medium duty and heavy duty trucks. The same architecture was used to build a 637 cu in V8 (still with 60 deg bank angle, so balance shafts were needed) and the famous 702 cu in V12. There was also an ill-fated diesel conversion of these gas motors called the ToroFlow. Sound familiar? Sadly, this predated the Olds diesel, and apparently GM didn't learn a thing from that earlier disaster.
The Buick V6 tooling was sold to AMC/Jeep in 1967, bought back in 1974, and reintroduced in the 1975 model year cars.
The GMC V6 was a 60 deg design available in displacements of 305, 351, 401, and 478 cu in. Only the 305 was used in light trucks; the larger versions went into medium duty and heavy duty trucks. The same architecture was used to build a 637 cu in V8 (still with 60 deg bank angle, so balance shafts were needed) and the famous 702 cu in V12. There was also an ill-fated diesel conversion of these gas motors called the ToroFlow. Sound familiar? Sadly, this predated the Olds diesel, and apparently GM didn't learn a thing from that earlier disaster.
#39
I have a 71 or 72 bottom of the line F85 Driver's Ed? car.
Manual Trans 3-spd on the tree
wondered why it had a 350 Olds and not the Action Line [Chivy] I6...
Base engine that year was the 250-2bbl Olds V8.
Straight-6 cars I believe had the battery on the RH side, thus rusting the OTHER side of the radiator support- a good donor for the V8 cars that need the LH side replaced.
Manual Trans 3-spd on the tree
wondered why it had a 350 Olds and not the Action Line [Chivy] I6...
Base engine that year was the 250-2bbl Olds V8.
Straight-6 cars I believe had the battery on the RH side, thus rusting the OTHER side of the radiator support- a good donor for the V8 cars that need the LH side replaced.