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Member ID: BigJohn83

Location: Ham lake, MN

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Vehicle Info

1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

Bought: Nov, 2008

Bragging Rights

  • 1/4 Mile0 sec @ -1 mph
  • 0-600sec
  • Top Speed150mph
  • HP300
  • Weight3100lbs

Major Upgrades

  • turbo
  • nitrous
  • bore increase
  • port and polish
  • supercharger
  • extrude honed
  • stroke increase
  • engine swap

Modifications

Performance Parts

Interior

  • Custom Gauges 
  • Custom Shift Knob 
  • Custom Seats 

Exterior Styling

  • SYLVANIA Lighting 
  • BFGoodrich Tires 
  • Cragar Wheels 

Car Audio & Video

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BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon


CUTLASS NOT GUTLESS

 

Page 1 = original pics

Page 2 = parts

Page 3 = progress

 

I picked this car up on sat november 15 2008 for $200. It may not look pretty but It's almost rust free! It was a father son project. The dad is a body man at a friends work and started on it already. His son started getting bad grades and didn't want to do any of the work on the car so his dad sold it to me to get it out of his garage. 

The first six pictures are of the car before I bought it.

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

It has a 1988 350 chevy engine out of a truck and is still very strong. The transmission is a chevy turbo 400. I am keeping the engine from the other car and rebuilding it next winter. The car has NEW headers. The guy said that he only started it three times since they installed the headers and never drove it down the road with them on.  

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

I love the gauges and center console (floor shifter SWEET). I'm going to take the bucket seats out of my other cutlass before I scrap it. I want to take the bench out of the rear and put the stock bucket seats back there.

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

 

How can anyone be this dumb!!!  The pipe on the end of the glass pack was 4 1/2 inches inside the collector on  the header!!! Can you imagine the back pressure!!!

This is the exhaust that was on the car when I bought it!!!

That five inches were inside the header collector!!!


BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

stock rally rims."Now I have 8 of the rally rims"

all four of the rally rims on this car are 14"X8" not 7" wide

 BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

I took some more pics today. This is the steering wheel and sunroof.

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

Sweet chrome door sills.

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

I love the passenger side mirror adjustment.           

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

New flex fan,spacer,headers and electric fuel pump. They were on the car when I got it and have never seen the road.

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

I found these papers in the glove box!!!

All the original documents!!!

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass SalonBigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

BigJohn83's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon

Page 1 = original pics

Page 2 = parts

Page 3 = progress

 

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downtown007  

Posted by: downtown007

03/07/2009 10:18PM

Hey good luck working on your car! it will be all worth it in the end.

vashay1986  

Posted by: vashay1986

03/03/2009 09:35PM

nice car

speaktruth  

Posted by: speaktruth

01/17/2009 04:17PM

looks like a project when we gonna see some updates?

busted83cutty  

Posted by: busted83cutty

01/16/2009 02:35PM

not bad for a start. whatchu gonna do with the paint?

Kaubin0015  

Posted by: Kaubin0015

11/18/2008 03:26AM

It isn't running yet unfortunatley. I'm waiting until christmas vacation, because I don't have alot of time with college. I'll try and post some new Pics.

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Member ID: BigJohn83

Location: Ham lake, MN