I made a better mold setup for this. The second set turned out fairly well. They do seal up but don’t look the best. After installed you can’t tell.

If you are looking at the end of your stock Roto cable don’t. It’s not standard. The speedo has a stock fitting and the 700 should have a stock fitting like the speedo. It should be a regular old gm cable unless you have some one-off trans speedo housing on the 700. Maybe I’m wrong here but I don’t think so.

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60″ length. All I have been able to find one of the ends don’t work.

What’s the problem?

Should be a standard gm cable.. Summit has a few different lengths. You can put a wide radius loop in it if you need to. Not sure where the connection is on the 700 but I used a 55” universal for my 200.

Here is the link to the registration form.

http://www.reolds.org/images/2019%20RegForm.pdf

I have my collector cars insured with them so they send me a hard copy mag. Usually has some good articles. Don’t know if it’s available on line. Check their website Hagerty.com.

BTW, if you don’t have hagerty insurance, and perhaps other collector car insurance as well, you should check it out, much cheaper and better coverage.

Do you have a link? I can’t find it

I have the hot rod issue that discusses the aluminum v8

Old subject but wanted to add to it. I emailed my contact at the GM Heritage Center and ask him if they had a document for the date of the Spyder and if there was enough documents to back this up. Here is his reply.

“It looks like the Olds Turbo-Rocket V8 was announced on January 7, 1962 and shown publicly for the first time on April 20, 1962 at…[Read more]

Yes, I looked at the wrong line when I posted this. It is the 116209 that was consolidated to the 1958 model year and is for the 4 speed. Thanks. I did not see that one on eBay. I will likely just get it.

The 1963 parts book shows the 1962-63 Jetfire, manual transmission vacuum advance to be a 1116209. The 1116205 is for the auto trans. The manual has a 90 degree tube for a rubber hose and the auto has a threaded tube fitting.
There is an NOS aftermarket one on eBay that looks to be correct to me unless the V284 is what is in the…[Read more]

Another video of it running. I got it to full operating temperature and ran 2 gallons of gas through it. The thermostat must be a 160 or 165, the temp was 163 when the water started coming out the top hose. I still do not know what I will do with this engine but since it runs I may put a used non working turbo setup on it and sell it if someone…[Read more]

Pulled the top off the carburetor to fix a sticky float valve and then fired it up again. The engine runs really good. I will pull it out and hook the water hose to it and run it longer soon.