It was a Chevy 305. 100% sure. It was a Cutlass Supreme Brougham, four door.
That car was actually in a movie once lol. It's in the trailer here at 1:53. They paid us $150 to use it for a day and filled it with fuel
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It was a Chevy 305. 100% sure. It was a Cutlass Supreme Brougham, four door.
That car was actually in a movie once lol. It's in the trailer here at 1:53. They paid us $150 to use it for a day and filled it with fuel
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Interesting, as our 86 Olds Custom Cruiser wagon had the 307.
Could have been a Canadian thing? Not really sure. It was the car I learned to wrench on though so I know for certain.
Edit - Now I see Overkill is in Canuckistan too... So I'm not sure.
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Back then when you bought an Olds, Buick or Pontiac you didn't know what engine GM was going to put in it. Many 305's and 350's ended up in other cars than Chevy's.
Car craft also tried it, here's what their results were with cheap aftermarket heads.
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In Canada 84 Cutlasses (including mine) came with a Chevy 305, b bodies like the delta 88 or custom cruiser came with the 307.
That was ‘77 to ‘79 when GM lost a lawsuit over the non-disclosure.
After that, they had to disclose if the engine didn’t match the marque.
So, by the ‘84 model year - you knew if you were getting a Chevy in an Olds, but honestly I didn’t think Olds was shipping anything with a Chevy engine by ‘84.
If @Jimmy_Russells was in Canada in 1984, that would explain the Chevy engine in an Olds.
Every gas v8 g body (Cutlass, Regal, monte Carlo, grand prix) built and sold in Canada from 81 to 87 (except 442 but they weren't built in Canada, just sold here AFAIK) had a Chevy 305. An 87 Caprice could have a 307 Olds, a station wagon Caprice 87-90 would have an old 307, and every olds or Buick b Body from 81-90 had an olds 307. Complicated and doesn't really make sense but that's what it was.
My 87 305 actually worked pretty good once I put 3.73 gears in. Other than that it had a shift kit, dual exhaust, timing played with and it ran high 15's in the 1/4 at 87mph still with the stock camshaft. That year was a roller cam with 165hp stock. Not fast by today standard but felt fast compared to the 3.8 v6 83 grand prix I had before it.
There were a few articles like that one I remember reading back in my younger days when I still had a 305.
I personally knew one guy with a 305 Cutlass that sprayed a 210 shot of nitrous bringing it from a 16.4 in the quarter to a 13.8. His intention was to blow the motor up before swapping in the 383 stroker but he ran out of nitrous and swapped it anyway. They were tough engines.
Pretty sure 1.94/1.60 fit. Best factory heads used those sizes.
B versus G body.
It was-the "junkyard jewel" series.
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