Engine??
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Engine??
I bought a 82 delta 88 and i was wondering what engine i have. The guy i bought it from said it was a 307 but i was reading up and people said 307 were all painted black. My engine is blue. It is a smallblock v8. Does anyone have an idea, my car only has 37k original miles.
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digging in the recesses of my brain..
Hey,
If I remember correctly, Olds used to paint their motors blue before the move to 'corporate engines'. I can't recall, for certain, if the corporate engines started out being black, or if they moved to black later.
There was a point where GM decided that having a bunch of different colors was 'too confusing/intimidating' to the consumer, so they started painting everything black, putting every wire in looms, and basically eliminating any color in the engine compartment.
If you can find the block numbers, you should be able to find out exactly what engine it is, though there's always the possibility it's been rebuilt and changed significantly.
Hope the dredging of my brain helped.
Later,
GeoD
If I remember correctly, Olds used to paint their motors blue before the move to 'corporate engines'. I can't recall, for certain, if the corporate engines started out being black, or if they moved to black later.
There was a point where GM decided that having a bunch of different colors was 'too confusing/intimidating' to the consumer, so they started painting everything black, putting every wire in looms, and basically eliminating any color in the engine compartment.
If you can find the block numbers, you should be able to find out exactly what engine it is, though there's always the possibility it's been rebuilt and changed significantly.
Hope the dredging of my brain helped.
Later,
GeoD
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