Oldsmobile's rarest engine, the J-2 Golden Rocket V8, was produced in only 2,500 units and featured in the 1957 model year. The Golden Rocket V8 was designed for both racing and daily driving ...

These are five of the best engines ever put in an Oldsmobile. Read more: Every Major Luxury Car Brand Ranked Worst To Best ...

One of the earliest turbo systems was the Jetfire Turbo Rocket add-on that Oldsmobile introduced as ... The system boosted the F-85 Jetfire V8’s output to 215 horsepower and 300 lb-ft of torque.

In a hopeless effort to catch up with the Pontiac GTO, Oldsmobile’s muscle car offered a high-power engine in 1966 only, with ...

See All 28 Photos We had to ask, why an Olds? Early on, the Olds brand was a leader in engine technology with one of the first mass-produced overhead-valve V-8 engines, and the brand had a ...

In so doing, Pontiac could get around the internal GM edict restricting midsize passenger car engines ... Oldsmobile Hurst/Olds was shipped to Demmer Engineering who crammed the Olds 455 Rocket V8 ...

The 454 cubic-inch big-block V8 was one of General ... how many 1964 Oldsmobile F-85s came with one of the 8,773 copies of the 454-cube (7.4-liter) engine? Well, precisely zero, for two reasons ...

While Oldsmobile became overshadowed ... the 455 V8. The 455 V8 was a second-generation design, succeeding the original Rocket engine. Due to variant designs, its output was between 310 to 400 ...

Olds had founded the company that carried ... The car was soon nicknamed the Rocket 88 after the Rocket V8 engine that powered it; it also enjoyed a solid reputation in the world of motorsport ...

Some argue it was the 1949 Oldsmobile 88 with its Rocket V8, the first high-compression ... relatively few electronic nannies and a large engine. Produced between 2004 and 2006 Based on the ...