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| Project Toronado! |
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Click here for engine pictures!!! |
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My 1985 Toronado. I am in process of getting this car ready to hit the road again. It is my fun car, my cruising car. Needs some work, but it is a nice old car. I only paid $225 for it. But, it has about 200K on it, but the body is nice and solid. Its a fun toy... :) |
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Here are a few views of the car... As you can see in the one to the left, the car does have a power moonroof... One of my favorite options on this car. The paint needs to be buffed out, it has gotten kinda dull... I have no plans to repaint the whole car anytime soon, just repaint the quarter panel and trunk deck I am putting on. The rest I will wheel out. It will look ok. I think that if I ever do paint the whole car, I would probably change the color... and that is just too much work and too expensive for me to do now... Besides, I like the blue, I am not in a rush to change it. |
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Here is a pic of the quarter that was hit on the car. This, and the high mileage, are the main reasons I got this car so cheap. I now have a new quarter and trunk deck that I picked up at a local junkyard that are in excellent condition, so I will be cutting off the old quarter panel soon and putting the new one on. This pic also shows the old tires. They were 215/75/15 whitewalls. I now have some Michilen 215/60/15 blackwalls on it, and it looks much much better! |
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Above, new quarter panel, new trunk deck on the car. Getting ready to cut old quarter panel off. Right, the old quarter is roughly cut off. |
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Ok, a few specs on the car. It has the 307 (5.0L) Oldsmobile V-8. It originally was a computer controlled quadrajet carburetor. I am in the finishing stages of converting it over to better flowing heads, non-computer ignition and carburetor. I am trying to improve upon the handling and perfromance of this car somewhat. It definitly needs all the help it can get. But I love the Toronados, and thats why I am keeping this car. |
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List of what I have done to the engine so far:
-'72 350 heads, fresh from the machine shop
-Non-computer HEI distributor
-Accel Hi-po module for distrubutor
-Accel brass terminal cap and rotor
-Accel HEI Supercoil
-Taylor 8mm wires
-Bosch Platinum plugs
-Edlebrock 600CFM 4-barrel carburetor
-Edlebrock aluminum intake manifold
-dual snorkel air cleaner
-K&N filter
-Chrome valvecovers
-larger front swaybar
-dual swaybay setup in rear (custom built by me, I have it together, haven't tested it though)
Things I am planing in the near future:
-revise the rear swaybar setup
-2.5 in exhuast spliting into duals
-replace transmission with 3speed auto
-change differential over to 3.15 gears
and other stuff |
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