Buick Turquoise Engine Paint?

[Bar50]

Man the turquoise or Torque N Teal looks great. I had to go with red because, well, my first hot rod was a '70 GS and they had red motors.

So cool that you can get new HEI's for Buick, Olds, and Pontiac now, it used to be a pain.

Did you guy use the turbo V6 cam bearings? Melling booster/wear plate on the pump? T/A used to offer an adjustable oil pressure regulator too. There is some sort of truck axle seal that you can use in place of the rope seal. I know that using the older 350 oil filter adapter allows use of a bigger oil filter that offers more volume and flow, plus you pressure ends up a little better...like 10-15 psi better.

 

[MrSony]

Great! Thanks for the advice. I actually was able to repair my timing cover quite nicely, which will be included in the update in my build thread as soon as I get some pictures. I plan on rebuilding my distributor, its in nice shape, and it will hook right up to my wiring harness I made. Plus it's a vacuum advance, which makes hooking it up easy 🙂

Cool beans man. Be sure and get the oil pump rebuilt kit with the booster plate and adjustable oil pressure regulator. The instructions are clear and concise. With the distributor try and have all of the timing in by 3-3300rpm. Buicks love it there. Set the timing at the balancer at 12* BTDC, or a little less if you have high compression. Play around with it. Looking forward to those updates.

Here's a little taste of what's in store for you:

I love how after I get on it, and let off rather quickly, there is no stumble, no drop off. Gotta love a well tuned Quadrajet. And that wasn't a straight, pedal to the metal jab either. I just went to half throttle. Fun starts at 20 seconds in.

 

[joesregalproject]

Cool beans man. Be sure and get the oil pump rebuilt kit with the booster plate and adjustable oil pressure regulator. The instructions are clear and concise. With the distributor try and have all of the timing in by 3-3300rpm. Buicks love it there. Set the timing at the balancer at 12* BTDC, or a little less if you have high compression. Play around with it. Looking forward to those updates.

Here's a little taste of what's in store for you:

I love how after I get on it, and let off rather quickly, there is no stumble, no drop off. Gotta love a well tuned Quadrajet. And that wasn't a straight, pedal to the metal jab either. I just went to half throttle. Fun starts at 20 seconds in.

That sounds fantastic! Remind me again, what cam do you have in yours? Also what mufflers?

 

[MrSony]

Man the turquoise or Torque N Teal looks great. I had to go with red because, well, my first hot rod was a '70 GS and they had red motors.

So cool that you can get new HEI's for Buick, Olds, and Pontiac now, it used to be a pain.

Did you guy use the turbo V6 cam bearings? Melling booster/wear plate on the pump? T/A used to offer an adjustable oil pressure regulator too. There is some sort of truck axle seal that you can use in place of the rope seal. I know that using the older 350 oil filter adapter allows use of a bigger oil filter that offers more volume and flow, plus you pressure ends up a little better...like 10-15 psi better.

I used standard 350 cam bearings, could have I used the grooved Teflon bearings? Yes. I forgot about them to be honest. I have the booster/wear plate, and the adjustable regulator, they still have it. I don't have the adapter, I don't have any problems with the small-ish diameter BOSCH 3423 oil filters I've been using. No particles have ever been in my oil, nor the filter, even after break in. My psi cold is about 55 at idle, then simmers down to about 20-23 when hot. At 75mph its about 50 at 2500rpm, stabilizes at 60psi at 5k.

 

[MrSony]

That sounds fantastic! Remind me again, what cam do you have in yours? Also what mufflers?

Comp 268H cam, .469/.469 lift. 1500-5500 operating range, 110 lobe separation.

As for exhaust? Here ya go:

It is just the two TA Performance 2.5 inch downpipes from stock manifolds into two 8 inch cherry bombs. The cherry bombs have since left the building, and now it is just the downpipes, which is what was in the video. The car is LOUD and shakes the ground and whatever building you tend to be in when it drives by. The cherry bombs had no real effect on the tone or the loudness, it just cleaned up the sound a little. I plan on getting two more 8 inch and making up some pipe to have them dump out the side before the rear tire under the quarter window nascar style, but I've heard TA performance makes a really nice 2.5 inch dual setup for 350$.

Here's a video of it just idling for 20 seconds.