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Sorry, not yet, but I’ll put you on the list, I’ve been from souix falls to Cincinnati, Minnieapolis to St Louis hunting these down. Even got a block heads crank, caps & rods with 12 point fasteners from El Paso, Texas.

I’m the Only 34 year Old retiree you’re gonna meet. Have 3 jetfires, and everybody wants that red smooth one. If you’re into adventure I know a guy in Omaha if you send him your hot side he’ll coat it in 8 diffrent colors Of your choosing.Got 3 roto-hydo 5’s plus maxhined flywheel and pinned sprag clutches, 2 of the Buick 2 speed dual path twin turbine, and 2 tempest rope shaft transaxles with shafts. Ones a 63 from a 326 car, others from my 61 with the 194. Got the right flex plate and spacer and motor mounts and starter ( the ‘bellhousing’ is rather shallow) and donor panels to make te 63 transaxle work in the 61 by using a Z bar the 61 didn’t have and a slightly wider frame in 63. Red turbo goes on to the 4.6 Rover after rear end is modified, and the skylark’s pillarless coupe donor windows and metal panels make it the only hardtop coupe without a pillar and a turbo setup making 300 ft/lbs all day long with its 1.1 liter size advantage over the Buick 215 & lower compession by 2.6 points. I’ll be supprised if ite turbo will even keep up.

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Thanks Jim, otherwise it’da been black silicone and caulk gun time

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Pretty nice photo. Maybe with this 21st century technology at home depot for paint matching, maybe I can find a real PPG dealer to match up the chip. Then buy a quart and some hardener since it’s supposed to be sprayed on with a gun. If I didn’t know better I’d say my basement got robbed, I have 5 of these setups, 3 complete from air cleaner to downpipe. Even short red oil cap.

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I haven’t visited the napa yet, but the counter guy assured me the metal mesh fit perfectly. It does. Ordering by bulk the green foam 3 feet will result in a surplus. I dont know if it was a yearly issue between reusable and paper element, but owning lots of bikes I know the foam lasts forever and is actually slightly better flow.

Anybody got a source/lead on the gasket for the lid – in the lid?

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So…. Napa can get a41c which is the metal mesh forming the tylenOl shape of the foam.

$10 a piece

The foam has to be ordered in bulk.

I’m back in the chips…

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Anybody with a parts bible?

The aluminum collar tag has the part number.

I could write it now, but I’d rather talk to a jetfire guy because Moroso makes a centrifugal advance spring and weight kit, but I have one spring with less coils, and Moroso says this kit covers the whole BOP slew past 63 to like the V6 & the 300 cu/in….

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The roto 5 & the roto 10 have different damper plates.

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Pm sent.

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Here’s the skinny

The comments about the J block are correct, but it wasn’t always used. In the block sequence numbers where Buick would have explained everything is a smaller upside down alpha-numeric code, most start with HI the jetfire block starts with J.

The valve covers do have the oil return bung on the passenger side. The oil cap is also relocated forward, as standard olds it’s located in the middle and that where the downpipe and exhaust turbine chill, as well on the driver side where the carburetor and rocket fluid metering equipment is. Pretty much gonna find em on a motor or nowhere.
It’s like the flex plate on a 61-62 tempest. Only gonna find it on a motor still in a tempest. If you pulled it for whatever reason you would find out really fast when you somehow ignored how shallow the bellhousing is. These are engine and Car specific parts. Plus to make it worse Pontiac offered a recall to convert you to 4bbl. Also the drivers side exhaust manifold is special, it has a different angle on the choke heat provision, as well as for the crossover pipe to connect both manifolds.

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