Steve Minore's 1970 W-31 Oldsmobile Equipped With Gardner Exhaust Turbo System. This car was meticulously restored by Ken Garner, Allan Steinbock and Garner Restorations. Under the watchful eye and expertise of Stephen Minore.
In 76 I was lucky enough to find one of these for my first car. Worked a lot of jobs and lots of hours to save up for it. Great first car, high school was a lot of fun
My second car in high school a gold 1970 442 W-30 4-speed. It came without air-conditioning 3.91 gears. It was 1978 and my dad rebuilt engine and had a guy in town that bracket race one just like that ran high 11 and he helped me tune mine. On a Wednesday night @ Green Valley in Fort Worth Texas It was awarded King of the street and it ran a best of 12.61 open headers and slicks. Around 13.34 that night to the mufflers and street tires. That time surprise me because on the street it wouldn't hook up. I think itp was a sticky track and I use VHT.
I'm from Lansing and worked at Olds. I owned a '69 W-31 F-85 post car with a factory modified TH350 trans and 3.91 rear. Most fun car I ever had. Could beat or keep up with most any bigger block car on the street. Sure wish I had it back.
I had a 70 W31 back in the mid seventies, burgundy with black padded top, black interior, 4speed. With it's 390 rear gear and that high winding small block, l surprised a lot of Camaros,Novas and Chevelle's. A 13.95 on street tires at the local strip was the best ET. It's one of the many cars l had that l wish l could have back. Like this car, it had a nasty idle.
While that car sounds "badass" ,which is what most people want to hear from a musclecar these days, I would love to hear this car with the stock quiet mufflers the W31 came with from the factory. It's a very cool mellow tone that you can just hear the hotter factory camshaft, but still Oldsmobile quiet.............
@@darrininverarity4297a W31 was never a "cruiser" lol that 350 has select fit internals, intake manifold, distributor, harmonic balancer, Quadrajet carb, had lightweight fiberglass parts making it Oldsmobiles lightest cutlass at the time.
@@darrininverarity4297 People who think they learned how cars work from Forza : Oldsmobile lowrider 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Reality of car culture : grow the heck up kid, Ford made Mustang's In 1964 I bet that just blew your mind 🤣
Exactly, the famously known "Green Sabre." Same car that CJ saw comming out of a garage with Ryder, Smoke, and Tempeny revealing the treason to him thanks to César Vialpando.
Love it man. U deserve it more than anyone I know. U don’t more for Olds recognition than anyone else and you also put yourself last. Glad you finally got something to show for it. Well deserved and perfect car man.
When I was growing up in the 60’s and 70’s,if I heard a car coming down the street I could tell if it was an Oldsmobile just by its exhaust note before even seeing the car..Mom had a 1964 Olds F-85…,the poor man’s Cutass ……
Why no info on the subject at hand here. We’ve all seen a classic W-31 before. What about the exhaust mounted turbo system? I was assuming by the description that they had done a rear mounted turbo kit, which has its advantages and disadvantages. The exhaust is much cooler by the time it gets to the turbos, thereby reducing the positive pressure gains, but on the flip side, the turbo charged air is much cooler by the time it gets to the intake, which means more air density and efficient power gains. All you’ve got to do is use bigger turbos out back, higher boost at that point, which will cool and reduce boost, but still be as high as needed and much cooler, all for “free”, simply by the design and layout. While moving, the air cooling the exhaust system is like an intercooler of sorts, but without the plumbing.
W31 350 was a special built by Oldsmobile. Blueprinted, solid lifters, special harmonic balancer and Aluminum intake manifold and specifics Rochester quadrajet carbarator. No A/C or power brakes option.
@@basilcarroll9729 There were THREE versions of Olds 350. A 4bbl version pumping out 310hp. The W-31 with 325hp and late in 1970 you could order a third version. A "QB" 350 with a 4 Spd tranee was said to be "underrated" at 310 hp....google it ......HR had on online article in regard to it...
My Dad has the window sticker from his 1970 442 W30 with air conditioning and all the options. He sold the car in 1973 but by accident did not give the new owner the sticker, I wonder how much someone would pay for it? His was sattle bronze like this one (I believe)
Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing all conventional fuel stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. Now they want to slow down all the gas station fuel pumps from 20 litre per minute to 2 litre per minute...From 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a new kind of crime here, called emissions and smoke crime.:-((
In the United States, these cars will ALWAYS be able to be used, but it will cost a lot more. Race and airplane fuel are legal, and for many years, original musclecars with 12.5:1 compression had to use those super expensive, higher octane fuels to drive at all, and those people just took it in stride. It will be the same in the near future. We will keep these cars,a d. We will drive them, but more sparingly, and they will be even more special occasions. Besides, the fact of the matter is that we have ALL been shitting in our children’s dinner plates for decades. In fact, feces would be safer than what we have subjected them too. You can go on not believing this fact, but remember, denial and delusion are the worst kinds of drugs.
