78 cutlass W-31 build

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EGR, I think. They can be removed and plugged, I believe. I have removed the air tubes in the 5A heads, my 81 Delta 88 had no tubes and factory plugs. The A4 intake is very rare up here, actually bought one from down there for the Olds powered 4x4. Almost all the 307's up here had the iron #17 intake and were non CCC QJet till 86 and with a few exceptions, the 88 CSC being one, only in C and D bodies.

 

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EGR, I think. They can be removed and plugged, I believe. I have removed the air tubes in the 5A heads, my 81 Delta 88 had no tubes and factory plugs. The A4 intake is very rare up here, actually bought one from down there for the Olds powered 4x4. Almost all the 307's up here had the iron #17 intake and were non CCC QJet till 86 and with a few exceptions, the 88 CSC being one, only in C and D bodies.

Lol I think I have another one on a running 307 in my shed and I know my cousin has a few on motors in the storage containers at the old yard

 

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I know that bronzView attachment 66046 View attachment 66047my brother has quite a bit of it lol I wish I had a picture of his wagon

It is a nice colour. I also made my own dual snorkel air cleaner similar to that.

 

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It is a nice colour. I also made my own dual snorkel air cleaner similar to that.

I used a Z/28 one on my truck

a 80s 442 h/o on my 87and the same for the 78

 

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I used a Z/28 one on my truckView attachment 66049a 80s 442 h/o on my 87and the same for the 78View attachment 66050

 

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More cleaning and glass beading pullys brackets water neck timing cover oli pan won't fit in the blasting cabinet put some thaught in the project at work today if I only get 1 day a week to work on the car I only have 8 days to get it done. I guess I need to bring more parts home during the week

 

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Progress did some priming and painting

 

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EGR, I think. They can be removed and plugged, I believe. I have removed the air tubes in the 5A heads, my 81 Delta 88 had no tubes and factory plugs. The A4 intake is very rare up here, actually bought one from down there for the Olds powered 4x4. Almost all the 307's up here had the iron #17 intake and were non CCC QJet till 86 and with a few exceptions, the 88 CSC being one, only in C and D bodies.

Wait olds powered 4x4???? Read my thread square body crew I want to put a 455 in it

 

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Wait olds powered 4x4???? Read my thread square body crew I want to put a 455 in it

Was the olds powered 4x4 originally a 5.7 diesel?

 

[olds307 and 403]

I actually had two Olds powered chebby trucks. One was my Dad's old 78 1/2 ton 2wd that had 2 sbc 350's in it before. I can tell you with the 2.76 gears, they sucked. I had a high mileage but good running 5A headed 81 Olds 307. Wow, it was big improvement power wise, believe it or not. Stock except a glass pack. Then a Performer intake, recurved HEI, Olds 350 Holley reman 800 cfm Qjet, 1 5/8" Flowtech full length A body headers, 2.25" dual exhaust with a H pipe. I then added a 76 Olds 350 with the 204/214 cam and 5A 307 heads. I actually used a SP2P intake, totally killed top end but part throttle was like MPFI. I then bought my Inlaw's 94 chebby Z71 with a knocking swirl port sbc 350. I just welded the mounts to the frame on the 78. I ended using Trans Am 403 Clamshell mounts and bars with spacers. I ran the sbc sensors, computer TBI, factory 454 TBI adapter, an A4 intake and a CCC Olds 307 distributor with the same 350 except Sanderson shorty headers. Ran a bit rough in open loop, perfect in closed loop. Once again, more power, similar power the 5.3 LS trucks with same gearing and 4L60 series trans, I used an adapter plate but crappier mileage. I then added a 454 TBI, when it ran right, way more power than the LS trucks. There was issues with sensors and throttle sticking etc, so I went back to the 350 TBI. With a custom tune, mileage would have been close and decent 454 TBI, power would have been way better. People wonder why I am not a huge sbc fan, these are two good examples.