What I remember is the big car and Cutlass had a different lock arrangement
on the trunk, one had the lock in the body and one in the lid. I grabbed a
vacuum release cylinder from the big car and managed to fit it to the Cutlass.
There was a round plastic vacuum storage chamber with built in check valve,
small enough to fit on the frame…[Read more]

Very nice following the restoration. Reminds me of so many adventures
driving 1/3 million miles behind those aluminum V8s, more than 4 decades
ago. I would have liked it so much better with a 4 speed stick.

One problem I had was a bad leak at the rear of that 5 bolt rocker cover,
the gasket would slip out of place. inside, and it became…[Read more]

Matthew Hudson
mhudson67 posted an update 3 days ago
@bcroe@juno.com Hey do you still do the switch pitch stator switch conversion

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contact me at bcroe@juno.com
Bruce Roe

The 62-63s are a completely different from 64 on. I broke an upper control arm once, notice how weak they are around the fixed bearing. Welding some material around them might avoid outright breaks.
good luck, Bruce Roe

jensenracing77 post=622 wrote: I have never been happy with the temps this car was running after i got it done. The guy i got it from had just had the radiator worked on and i have the paper work that he paid to have it rodded out. Everything i had going on keeps telling me that i have a radiator issue so i pulled it out and took it to a radiator…

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jensenracing77 post=476 wrote: We ran a full tank of gas through this car with the GPS hooked up. it got 16.7 MPG and was about 50% city driving. it also had some idle time while tuning on it and even a dozen or so times that i stepped on it. i think it will be close to 20 MPG on a tank of strictly highway driving. We are taking it to a car show…

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Send us pictures when you get it worked out. Bruce Roe

Its a pretty difficult conversion I once contemplated. The engine has a
heavy flywheel since the trans has no torque converter at the engine.
Perhaps a Buick crank setup can be used, since it used that 2 speed
with a torque converter. I think I still have that flex plate, its available.
Then there is still the matter of an adapter…[Read more]

With all drums, the car really doesn’t need power brakes. Dual circuit would
be nice. Front discs would make it a lot safer in wet weather; then you need
the brake booster. Bruce Roe

I never had any luck with mechanical car clocks. In the 70s I installed a blue florescent digital clock, trouble free and far more accurate. It dims when the lights are on; looked more at home in that square window than a round clock. Had a little trouble getting a complimentary picture of that self illuminated display here. Looked better in…[Read more]

I also have seen a couple cars with 15″ wheels, and small hub
only covers. What I never saw was 14″ rims. But I managed to
get a set, to mount the first radial tires available. Long before
small cars with 13″ rims were common. Bruce Roe

All the cars had muffler parallel to the axle. However, the Jetfire had dual outputs. Bruce Roe

I found the same exhaust pipe/muffler would work on Jetfire with crossover or 4 barrel with Y pipe. It didn’t last, so I had one made from 304 stainless steel. Now days you can buy a 304 U pipe with very tight mandrel bend, weld it in (stainless MIG wire). I would look at BORLA and find a 304 muffler to fit the situation, stock mufflers didn’t…[Read more]