joe_padavano

There’s some confusion in these posts.

For 1962 and 63, Olds offered the F85, F85 Deluxe, Cutlass, and Jetfire in the Y-body line and the Dynamic 88, Super 88, and Starfire in the B-body line.

For 1964, Olds offered the F85, F85 Deluxe, Cutlass, and 442 in the A-body line and the Jetstar 88, Dynamic 88, Super 88, Jetstar I, and Starfire in the…[Read more]

All Jetfires came from the factory with a turbo. Many were replaced with a 4bbl setup when problems arose.

Yes, you can swap the inner shaft in the column.

Yes, the Tempest seat foams should work fine.

No one sells new tanks for Y-body cars. Some folks have adapted the 62 Nova tank by having the filler neck relocated.

Ames Performance sells Tempest bucket seat foam for the Y-body cars.

There were no factory built Jetfire convertibles. There have been a number of phantoms built over the years.

As I said previously, I know from firsthand experience that 215/60-15s fit just fine on wheels with zero offset with the stock wheel mounting surface locations.

So back to my original point. If the spindle and hub are changed, there’s no way to know what offset works without measuring the specific car with the specific disc brake conversion installed.

How do you drill the stock hubs for five lugs? There are only four thickened areas on the backside for the studs.

The spindle has nothing to do with where the wheel mounting surface on the new rotors ends up relative to where it was with the stock drums. That’s entirely a function of the design of the rotor.

I can tell you from personal experience that 215/60-15s on wheels with zero offset fit just fine on stock brakes. I have no idea if or how much that conversion pushes the wheel mounting surfaces outboard.

No one reproduces these. Good used from a desert car or hand-fabricated are your only options.

Not a fan of belly button Chebby motors. The aesthetics are a matter of personal taste. I can appreciate the workmanship.

I used a Helicoil in one of the head bolt holes on the first 215 I built decades ago. Timeserts didn’t exist then. No issues at all.

I wish…

The green wagon is the one I got from Overton, NV. The yellow wagon is the one I got from CA.

“Talk is pulling eng, i assume you all mean dropping the front susp with eng/trans right?”

Not really. There isn’t room to separate the engine from the trans in the car, but pulling engine and trans together isn’t that difficult.

So basically, doing this in the car means you have to pretty much everything necessary to pull the engine, but then you want to be laying under the car with oil dripping in your face to change the pan gasket.

Just pull the motor. It will be just a much work, and you’ll do a much better job of installing the new gasket. Life would really suck if…[Read more]

I’ll second Eric’s estimate. I bought a 62 Jetfire parts car (with turbo long gone) for $900. It also had Flintstone floors.