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echo: oldcars
to: GERRY CALHOUN
from: MICHAEL JONES
date: 1996-09-05 01:02:00
subject: Oldsmobile Cylinder Heads

 > Hi Micheal,
 > MJ> so I try to ID my heads (small
 > MJ> block olds, 350, stock in a '78 full size RWD) and the 'ID' code on
 > MJ> my head is an 'A'!  Now I am really confused..
 > Are you sure you even have an Olds engine? How about posting
 > the fifth charactor of your VIN and I will check. In '78 Olds
 > used 350's from Buick, Chev and Olds. I have not seen about
 > using a Ponitac though. Of course maybe Pontiac had extra
 > room in thier casting plant and made the castings for the
 > Olds heads. I sure Olds was busy making the 350 diesel for
 > every other division that year so maybe they farmed the gas
 > 350 head casting out.
I am sure I have a olds engine..  i've had to replace the water pump on the 
thing and the mounting is different than the Buick, chebby, or pontiac..  and 
my manifold looks like any other 330-403 olds manifold i've seen on other 
oldsmobiles
--- FMail/386 1.0g
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