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    olds heads on a chevy block???

     



    So I have a set of oldsmobile 350 heads, now I know the olds 350's are pretty different then the chevy's, but I was wondering are the heads any different, can I bolt them up to my chevy block with no issues or will they just not work?, I am fairly new to engine building and any help would be great

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    no........... no.......... no i have olds heads for my bbc but them are not stock and is not any thing othere then the olds name casted in the big cheif head there made to fit the bbc head bolt pattern and i think they did the olds sbc chevy stuff as well but thats race stuff that s built to work off chevy spec s
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    NO completely dlfferent engines.gm made many 350's,buick.chevy,pontiac,olds.they also made 400's.again buick,chevy,pontiac,olds,455's buick,olds pontiac.nothing interchanges except things like alt.dist caps.etc....

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    Don't you guys remember how p o ed everyone was when GM put the chevy motors in Olds??? that is what started the Michigan people to buy Toyodas---

    So-----yes, if you have an Chevy powered olds, the head will fit a chevy block.

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    It was in 1977----Olds couldn't make enough engines so corp put chev 350 in some of them---

    Wait til wizard fills us in om this

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    if its a chevy in a olds yes the heads will fit .he did say olds 350 heads hard to say what he has tell him to hold them up to the screen we can get a better look at them olds heads
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    pat you so crazy
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    Quote Originally Posted by jyardgirl View Post
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    Sorry---but since then they have all been GM Corporate Engines!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
    It was in 1977----Olds couldn't make enough engines so corp put chev 350 in some of them---

    Wait til wizard fills us in om this
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    No I didn't PM anybody----I been drag racing many more years than him,done more high performance things than him,won more races than him,set more records than him,been in more magazines than him, had more models built of my cars than him, drove more mule teams than him,drove more tractors, combines, and corn pickers than him, flown more airplanes than him------can spell better than him -----and except for this post , posted more short posts than him-------

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    Quote Originally Posted by jerry clayton View Post
    No I didn't PM anybody---

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    And I forgot to mention M151, 113,114,M48a and VTRs

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    I think GM Corporate just put anything they could in the BOP's.. only Chevys were gaurenteed to get Chevy engines.. I'v seen trans am's with oldsmobile engines, as well as other pontiacs of that time period.. looked at a 1978 Cutlass cruiser custom a few years ago.. woulda made a sweet sleeper with a 455.. thought it was a 307 or 350 olds. but when I popped the hood, I found a SBC and the valve cover emissions sticker said Oldsmobile corporation .. weird because the '80 Cutlass supreme my dad had years ago, was powered by a 307
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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt167 View Post
    I think GM Corporate just put anything they could in the BOP's.. only Chevys were gaurenteed to get Chevy engines.. I'v seen trans am's with oldsmobile engines, as well as other pontiacs of that time period.. looked at a 1978 Cutlass cruiser custom a few years ago.. woulda made a sweet sleeper with a 455.. thought it was a 307 or 350 olds. but when I popped the hood, I found a SBC and the valve cover emissions sticker said Oldsmobile corporation .. weird because the '80 Cutlass supreme my dad had years ago, was powered by a 307
    yep we had a 80 trans am with a olds in it it ran good we beat alot of stuff with it
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