Sometime in the early 70's I pulled in to one of the local filling stations to air up my tire. The air hose was around to the side of the building beside the man door to the garage bays. A few feet away from the door was a pile of junk parts, brake drums, bent wheels, dis***embled transmissions broken exhaust manifolds, you know the kind of **** that used to gather by the back door of a garage. Anyway, that day, right on top of the pile was a turbo charger. I had recently read a story in Rod and Custom about turbocharging a T bucket, so I went straight over to it and was looking it over when one of the mechanics came out carrying a couple more brake drums to throw on the pile. I asked him what was going to happen to this turbo and he said, "All this **** is just trash." So I asked him if I could take it. He said, "Kid, anything you carry away just makes less for me to haul to the dump." So I grabbed it up and got out of there before he changed his mind. When I got it home I discovered the turbine rotor was locked up. I didn't have time right then to mess with it, so I just tucked it away under the bench in my dad's garage. A couple years later I was working out of town when my dad decided to pour a concrete floor in his garage and cleaned everything out of there. My old junk turbo landed under a tree out back and stayed there until last month. I was digging around under that tree looking for a 17 inch V-8 wheel and saw this thing almost completely buried in spruce needles after 40 years or so. I have no idea what it came off of, but I'm guessing maybe Corvair because that's the only thing I ever heard of from GM of that vintage with a turbo. I'm only guessing at the GM too, because of the Rochester carb and the tag on it. Anybody know what it came from?
That would be a good idea. I know a guy that reads alot of car magazines but never got his hands dirty, you know the type, don't know **** but don't know he don't know ****. He got ****ered into buying one of those at a swap meet. He dragged that thing in the garage one day bragging how he stole it from some dumb*** at the sawp meet for only $350.00. He told me how rare it was and figured it was worth about 2K, wanted to know what I thought it was worth, I told him to weigh it and call the junk yard to see what s**** was going for by the pound. At least McGee got it for what it is worth !
@kid442 .... phone call .... inquiry, line 2 !! http://jalopyjournal.com/forum/thre...oration-turbo-charged-fluid-injection.924403/
Yes Olds Jet Fire. Not Corvair. Usually the reason they got stuck was carbon build up in the turbine housing would get damp and swell up. Sticking the turbine wheel from turning. Easy fix. i was using Corvair turbos on my Bonneville GMC at the time. Got a few rel cheap because somebody thought they were seized. It's a cool turbo for a 2 liter engine or you might sell it to somebody restoring a 62-63 Olds F-85.
Thanks guys. No use throwing it back under the tree, someone might be able to use some trinkets off of it. Maybe Kid442 or someone else with one of those cars should send me a PM. I'll be ramblin' around the little states for a couple months this winter in the motorhome I'm building from a retired Hostess step van. Shipping to and from Alaska is ridiculous, but I can take it along and ship from somewhere stateside. If someone wants to pay shipping, it's theirs.
Member (Kid442) looking for parts and restoring one http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/wanted-1963-olds-cutl***-jetfire-215-v8-parts.991001/ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...d-fluid-injection.924403/page-3#post-11581358 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...s-jetfire-rare-complete-turbo-system.1033827/ For sale
It is Olds F-85, but not 1965. The Olds Jetfire was produced in 1962 and 1963. The number on the carb tag (if still present) would tell you which year. Some pretty rare controls on still on your setup. Jon.
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