ROCKIN 88 full photos!!!
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still gott o clean up some over spray and clean up the bumpers, and the skull on the skull and cross bones fell off today.. cheap metal sucks to weld!!!got to get some 2'' white walls on it and some chrome rings on the rims
chrome the sh*t out of those bumpers and door trim. looks good. going to do anything to the engine?
takew your chrome and go home!!! lol... the chrome thats there is still to much but i need something to keep it looking proper...
motor is a stock 425 big block 360 hp rated back in the day when hp numbers were under rated... might put headers on it, and possible a 4 barrel intake and carb, but might just put a new 2bbl on it to keep it simple.... i have the know how to convert it.. im just lazy lol
motor is a stock 425 big block 360 hp rated back in the day when hp numbers were under rated... might put headers on it, and possible a 4 barrel intake and carb, but might just put a new 2bbl on it to keep it simple.... i have the know how to convert it.. im just lazy lol
well if it is a 2barrel carb then i can hardly believe its 360hp if anything its less then 360hp 2 barrel carbs are super junk when it comes to hp nmbers its just the plain facts you might get 360 if you put a 4 barrel on it.
i dont even know why the factory even came out with a 2 barrel they get worse gas mileage then a 4 barrel anyways (due to the size of the primaries) and they are terrable for performance...
get a good 4 barrel holley on there and that should really wake that beast up.
oh yeah sweet car by the way i wish i had one too verry cool and your taking it the same direction that i would.
i dont even know why the factory even came out with a 2 barrel they get worse gas mileage then a 4 barrel anyways (due to the size of the primaries) and they are terrable for performance...
get a good 4 barrel holley on there and that should really wake that beast up.
oh yeah sweet car by the way i wish i had one too verry cool and your taking it the same direction that i would.
throw itback in paint...draw out some flames and spray the front with semigloss... then mask the flame outline and respray the flat. the semigloss flame outlines would look sweet or some thin white flame outlines
if i had a bad ass old style car, suicide the back doors, drop 3" duals all the way back, put some jegs headers on it, holley 4 barrel,intake,i mean you can take this thing many directions, but i would do phragles paint that would be sick!!
well as far as paint... its stayin black primer.. cuz thats the look we want, our options right now are blue flames with ether a white pin strip outlining the flames, or silver tips on the flames, OR scallops are allways a good option for the 'traditional hot rod' look that we are going with, OR no flames no scallops, and do some old school pin striping on the hood and trunk lid, and some accents here and there,
for sure.. were gettin 'Rockin 88' air brushed on the trunk lid on ether side of the oldsmobile emblem
for now its stayin in cruiser mode, right now the exhaust is y piped to glass packs, and out the back, it will get changed to true duals keeping the same pipe size it is now, and ether running no mufflers or some original flowmasters, and will have long 4-5 inch chrome tips with spark plugs in them
ether way its a 'radical custom' and i still need to get the floor shifter in with a unnessisarly long shifter, and some other touches, things will constantly get added to it over time...
and yes the 360hp number was with a 2bbl carb.... so a 4 bbl should shoot it closer to 400hp... look it up.. 1965 oldsmobile super rocket 425 big block, 'ultra high compression' its a factory optioned motor, 10.25:1 compression instead of 9:1 .. i did my research on this car and the motor/trans before buying it, also the first year for the turbo hydromatic trans mission, with the optional switch pitch converter, 1500 stall speed unless punched wide open than it stalls to 2800 rpms.. pretty trick for 1960s tech, there is directions online on how to bypass the actuator for the switch pitch to make it full time 2800 stall, with out any harm to the trans or converter
for sure.. were gettin 'Rockin 88' air brushed on the trunk lid on ether side of the oldsmobile emblem
for now its stayin in cruiser mode, right now the exhaust is y piped to glass packs, and out the back, it will get changed to true duals keeping the same pipe size it is now, and ether running no mufflers or some original flowmasters, and will have long 4-5 inch chrome tips with spark plugs in them
ether way its a 'radical custom' and i still need to get the floor shifter in with a unnessisarly long shifter, and some other touches, things will constantly get added to it over time...
and yes the 360hp number was with a 2bbl carb.... so a 4 bbl should shoot it closer to 400hp... look it up.. 1965 oldsmobile super rocket 425 big block, 'ultra high compression' its a factory optioned motor, 10.25:1 compression instead of 9:1 .. i did my research on this car and the motor/trans before buying it, also the first year for the turbo hydromatic trans mission, with the optional switch pitch converter, 1500 stall speed unless punched wide open than it stalls to 2800 rpms.. pretty trick for 1960s tech, there is directions online on how to bypass the actuator for the switch pitch to make it full time 2800 stall, with out any harm to the trans or converter
I would be suspect that is what it still has..odds are at least the heads were redone at one time or todays unleaded would eat the valve seats. also at 10.5 :1 that thing would ping like mad unless you were running premium. throw in a cam (the specs will be different on a 2 vs 4 bbl cam) match port an intake with a 4 bbl and a set of headers and it will scream.
yes they can... hell it still has the original bug wash glass bottle under the hood...
No offense 4cfed, but that would be ten times kooler if it were a lincoln. NONE THE LESS... ITS BADASS! Do some tinting, some red and white pinstripes, drop it a few inches, four barrel it, 9 inch it. What kind of paint did you use? Legit primer?
Get some real paint or that primer is gonna look f*cked in a few months.
They sell this Hot Rod Black thats just a single stage flat black that looks like primer but it actually protects from the UV rays. Last time I was at the Auto Paint store it was only like 60 bucks.
They sell this Hot Rod Black thats just a single stage flat black that looks like primer but it actually protects from the UV rays. Last time I was at the Auto Paint store it was only like 60 bucks.
