83 HURST OLDS

Cool car with a lot of potential. Hard to find these anymore. Rough but look at the rare stuff!
https://albany.craigslist.org/pts/d/lake-george-1983-hurst-olds/7425437780.html

 

Very cool. I had an 84 with t tops.

 

You know there is a ton of rust in the rear end of that poor old car.

 

Probably is. I dunno; those three shifters sprouting out where they should only be one is a bit distracting, suppose you grab the wrong one?

 

Those years were known as sticker horse power. Slap a W30 sticker on it and have more power. Lol!

 

Yes the 307 was pretty weak e en on the vin9 cars. You can chip the ecm and it gives much better response but it's still not "sporty".

 

"Badge engineering" era

Still very cool cars, especially with ttops imo

Ps I love the CCC system

 

It’s almost like the Olds engineers were apologizing and expecting the buyer to do an engine swap; they gave you the best rear end (8.5 with 3.73s), the best 200-4R and a very good suspension, full instrumentation plus all the appearance goodies.
Patrick

 

Exactly. Especially with that electronic distributor and carb. Rip them off and put in a distributor with an advance and a real carb and at least you could tune it.

 

I did that to my 86 Cutlass Salon and I went from 18.68 et to a 16.4 and gas mileage went from 15 mpg to 16 with the catalytic converter still in place. Let me tell you, that's a white knuckle ride with all that performance!

 

In my new book there is a chapter dedicated to the E4ME quadrajet, tuning with the CCC system, and CCC delete.

It's a good system, but not without its limitations.

 

I would think that an economical solution to just drive and enjoy a G-body like this (non-turbo Buick) would be to swap in a healthy (economical) reman'd or crate 350 ... and then maybe address the trans and rear gear upgrade.

 

Well, that would have been the logical thing to do, but...

 

Cool! The 200r is a pretty good trans. I think a mild 455 Buick would serve it well. This car can be had cheaper than the asking price and may wind up being parted which I think is a shame. I’m in line for parts if so. The only problem is that the rare parts aren’t cheap and he knows it.

 

i was working at a buick/olds dealer in 83' and remember when the first one showed up, seems like yesterday and now these are old cars

 

We used to call the 3 Sticks : His , Hers and the Other Guys .

 

I bought the Skyhawk about a month after my Cutlass looked like this: That's my next project. No turning back at that time.

 

That H/O would be cool to have. of course axe the pos chevy 307 and drop in maybe a 350-455 Olds in it. The car has to live up to the H/O

Tim

 

It's an Oldsmobile 307, not a Chevy.