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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Experimental Engines from Oldsmobile

Posted August 30, 2010 1:38 PM by dstrohl

"In the late 1960s and early 1970s Oldsmobile was in the high-performance business, with a continuing stream of F-85 based 4-4-2s and W-cars. During this era these exotic motors were brought from the drawing board to reality via a talented engineering group supported by John Beltz, who would find his way to the top management chair at Oldsmobile."

Back in August of 1983, Dennis Casteele gave us a glimpse of three high-performance Oldsmobile V-8s – a Hemi-headed design, a SOHC design and a DOHC design – designed to do battle with some of the nastiest and most exotic engines the competition offered in the heady days of the muscle car era.

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08/31/2010 8:48 AM

I have a white/black W-30. They are appearantly underated as no Turbo 400 tranny could stand the torque load. I had one built with one piece clutch holders and clutch packs from B&M, that seems to do it. The car was otherwsie stock except for a little work on the oil galley to stop the pumping of oil away from the main bearings at high RPM. With good tires it did 11.88sec 1/4 mile at Moroso with the belt on the airconditioner. There is a place near me that sells fuel without ethanol that is acceptable. I have bought fuel at the an airport too. It will stay with a turbo porsche to 85mph then the porsche steadily pulls away. Up to 60 his @$# is mine.

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08/31/2010 11:56 AM

I guess these were not your father's Oldsmobile.

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