jensenracing77
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floors were really good even though the bottom looked really bad.
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I had rebuilt another red turbo for it that was only used for a short time. I am going with the red turbo for the restoration though. Some 62 Jetfire had red ones and others were silver. All 63 Jetfire were silver turbos.
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The original interior cleaned up great!
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Bottom side had lots of pitting but nothing rusted through
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The turbo system was still intact thank goodness. Most were converted to 4 bbl and no turbo.
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This is what it looked like after I cleaned it up. Looks better int he pictures than it was but still cleaned up very nice.
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If people here are interested I will post about my restoration of a 1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire. I got the car in 2015, it had sit in a garage in Chicago since 1974, the same year I was born. Has 44,000 miles on it. I got it running and driving and put about 200 miles on the car till I took it apart for the restoration in July of 2019. I will start adding pictures over the next couple days of the process but I will start with the video that Ryan Brutt made when it was drug from the garage it was sitting in all these years.
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A friend ask me to post this video here. I made this video a couple years ago and explains how the fluid injection system works on the Oldsmobile Jetfire. They called it Turbo Rocket Fluid
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Looking for mint or NOS lower back glass trim for a 61-63 Oldsmobile f-85 Cutlass or Jetfire. Willing to pay top dollar for the best parts. If the paint is bad I am ok with that, as long as the chrome is good for a show car. Nothing re-chromed, only great original parts.
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I have lots of Jetfire turbo stuff
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Why not just use the entire Oldsmobile Jetfire engine and turbo setup? I have extra Jetfire engines. The Oldsmobile has more head bolts also so less likely to blow a head gasket.
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When I get my 62 4 speed Jetfire done I would have a hard time turning down $80K for it. My wife would kill me but I would let her original paint car go for that.
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The 0 bidder turned out to be a person that owns one of my former cars. I have taken him off my blocked list. I don't really know him because he bought it from the guy I sold it to but at least I know he is not a fraudulent bidder.
Ends tonight! I am just a little nervous. Never sold anything like this on eBay before.
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I did but never got a reply
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I had a bidder that had 0 transactions and just joined eBay yesterday. I have blocked them from bidding again till I know more about them. If someone from here is that person feel free to contact me. I just would like to know the person is not trying something fraudulent.
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Eric
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I will be doing a concourse restoration on a 62 Oldsmobile Jetfire over the next 2 years. On other cars I have done I was able to acquire NOS tanks or a perfect reproduction but there is nothing out there for this 62. How do I get that original zinc or galvanize look. The closest I can get is to clean it to perfect bare metal and clear it. I still do not like this method at all for the quality I am looking for. The places I have talked to said there is no way they can do the correct galvanize on a tank. Anyone here do a high end restoration on a gas tank? Any advice?
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Eric
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The radiator shop is always the easiest but if one is not around this is what I do... I did not read all the replies so maybe someone has said this already.
What I do is to first fill it with water and drain it out to be sure all the gas is gone. Do this on a hot sunny day and let it dry completely, it helps to have compressed are blowing inside it for a while and turn the take every now and then to let the other side heat up in the sun. it will still smell like gas inside but it will be safe to work with at this point as long as it is dry inside.
Next I put a 5 foot piece of log chain in the tank and suspend it from the ceiling to make it easier to shake around. After enough of that, take the chain out.
Then I put a long flimsy rubber hose on the end of a compressed air hose and slip it all the way down the filler neck with a couple feet extra inside the tank. While holding a shop vac over the sender access hole I will turn the air on to blow out the flimsy hose. That hose will flip around the inside of the take like there is no tomorrow beating the crap out of anything left inside. Then the shop vac is sucking out everything the hose is jarring loose. Just bee sure the filler neck is open enough so that enough air can flow through the tank to the shop vac.
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53 minutes ago, Tom Laferriere said:
This is a neat car.
I am a little biased but I agree. I am an Oldsmobile nut and sold off a Rallye 350, concourse restored 70 W-30, a 71 442 convertible and a 70 Pace Car because the Jetfire model is all we play with now. We enjoy these cars more than any we have ever owned. Our two 62 Jetfire' are keepers for sure. One automatic and one 4 speed in the same color. My wife and I will have a "His Hers" theme with them when we are done restoring the 4 speed car.
Thanks for the reply
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51 minutes ago, Bloo said:
Windex is Ammonia based.
I assumed he was talking about the windshield washer fluid and not actual Windex. The blue windshield washer fluid is water meth.
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33 minutes ago, Matt Harwood said:
When we used water injection on a supercharged ZR1 Corvette we built, it seemed to prefer Windex as its 'rocket fluid.'
Yep, Works also but it is the same thing as water meth but has a higher percentage of water than a 50 50 mix.
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The Turbo Rocket Fluid is nothing more than 50% water and 50% methanol and then some water soluble lubricant to keep the diaphragms soft. It is basically the same thing as the modern aftermarket "Snow" system that the kids are using on their tuner cars and bid diesel trucks. (the funny thing is, the kids think it is something modern)... It is to inject water into the intake air to absorb heat. It absorbs heat as it turns to steam and prevents detonation. With the high compression and 6.5 lbs of boost it needed a way to keep it cool. An added affect is that the steam also raises the compression slightly more for even more power. They were a 215 aluminum engine producing 215 HP and 301 torque in a car that was under 3000 lbs.
Fun little cars for sure. They are a hit at the car shows.
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I agree. I know the system very well now and I can tell you for sure that the majority of the problems the system had was the very safety systems that were put into place to keep from having problems. Kind of ironic I would say... The good news is that when you have a system restored it will last much longer than the original. All the original trouble areas have been addressed and it is a much more reliable system now. Between that and the fact that these cars are not driven on a daily basis these days, the system should give many years of trouble free use.
Thanks for the reply
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11 hours ago, daniel boeve said:
Strange.Here you ask 32.000$ and on ebay its 10.000$ now and no reserve anymore or it has reached the reserve price already ....
Yes, I was listing the car figuring I would get offers. I have all confidence it will get to at least what is needed for the car. I just want it gone so that I can focus on restoring our 62 Jetfire. I set no reserve and no opening bid on it. It will sell to the highest bidder whatever that amount is.
1962 Oldsmobile Jetfire 4 speed restoration
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Off to the body guys house. I can't do bodywork and paint other than small parts.