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[GMCnet] Re: Reading Tranny fluid level [message #364917 is a reply to message #364915] |
Wed, 23 June 2021 01:08 |
Ken Henderson
Messages: 8726 Registered: March 2004 Location: Americus, GA
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Jim,
I, too, am having trouble with your math: "...back to 1949. I
was 19 years old at the time.". Seems to me that would make your birth
date in 1930, 7 years before mine. Since I'm 84, that makes you 91 -- and
here I thought you were one of those "Young Whippersnappers" (=Younger
than me, like most folks!)
Ken H.
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:21 AM James Hupy wrote:
> My math was a bit fuzzy there. I have 60 years experience with Olds, not
> 70.
> Jim Hupy
> Salem, Oregon
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 9:13 PM James Hupy wrote:
>
>> But, the 455 was engineered at least ten years previously to when it came
>> as equipment in the Toronado. The first overhead valve V-8 in Oldsmobile,
>> the Rocket 303 cubic inch first appeared in the 1949 model year, the same
>> year that Cadillac changed from huge displacement valve in block design.
>> The overhead valve engines were 331 Cubic inches.
>> I had a 1938 Olds vith a in-line flathead 6 cylinder engine. I
> pulled
>> that 6 out, and bolted in a 303 V-8. Later, I added 3 ea. 2 barrel carbs,
>> and solid lifters with adjustable pushrods which promptly flattened the
>> lobes on the hydraulic lifter camshaft. So, I called Ed Iskendarian and
> he
>> set me up with a good 3/4 race solid lifters cam, new lifters, and
>> adjustable needle bearing rocker arms. That really woke that Oldsmobile
> up.
>> And started a long relationship with Iskendarian.
>> So, my personal relationship with Olds engines goes back to 1949. I
>> was 19 years old at the time. I went through 303's, 354's etc. Clear up
> to
>> present day. I have a 455 and a 403 in my shop right now on engine
> stands.
>> So that is 70 years of Oldsmobiles in my experience bank. They are good
>> engines stock, and can be made into great engines.
>> Personally, I prefer the 403 to the 455 due to the fact that the 403
>> is Oversquare and the 455 is Undersquare. The 403 likes to Rev up, the
> 455
>> is not so happy above 3000 RPM's
>> Jim Hupy
>> Salem, Oregon
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 8:37 PM Matt Colie wrote:
>>
>>> RF_Burns wrote on Tue, 22 June 2021 20:23
>>>>
>>>> Matt:
>>>> The space race to the moon was in the '60's, same time as the TH425
> was
>>> being developed.
>>>
>>> Bruce,
>>>
>>> The last man to walk on the moon did it in December 1972. TZE was in
>>> production.
>>>
>>> Matt
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