The Oldsmobile 455 V8 made its way to the public a couple of years before the Pontiac 455. Nicknamed the Rocket 455, this engine was the next step in Oldsmobile's big block line of V8s ...

There are people that will tell you that the 455ci Oldsmobile Rocket motor makes a better street engine than a race motor. In truth, a stock 455 does have a couple of drawbacks that are ...

Yeah, you could argue that. But it also led to innovation. It was 1968 when Oldsmobile unveiled the Rocket 455. This engine was the biggest offering of a trio of engines (400, 425, and 455 ...

Introduced in 1968 as part of Oldsmobile's second-generation V8 engine line, the 455 was immediately adopted across a wide range of vehicles, and for good reason. Taking the "Rocket" name from its ...

Nowadays, GM engines are shared across all divisions ... aside from the displacement. The Olds Rocket 455 was a truly unique V-8, especially the W30 variant, that powered some of the rarest ...

Photo: YouTube/Lou Costabile By 1970, the Toronado was rocking the biggest Oldsmobile engine available, the 455 Rocket V8, with its enormous 455-cube displacement (7.5 liters) and equally ...

The resulting idea was to be called the W-43, an experimental engine design based on the existing Olds 455-CID Rocket big-block V8. Of course, it didn't have a multi-carbed design (there was ...

General Motors had sent an edict that no car smaller than full-sized would be produced with anything larger than a 400-cid engine, but Oldsmobile pushed its Rocket V8 up to 455. It did it by ...

Reminiscent of buying an Oldsmobile Cutlass and dropping in a 455 Rocket engine (the third and largest variant of Oldsmobile's big-block V-8 engines), Cleveland, OH-based Nextant Aerospace is ...

With the GM corporate engine displacement limitation on mid ... It is powered by the 455 cubic-inch Rocket V8 with a single four-barrel carb, producing 390 horsepower and an eye-watering 500 ...

In 1970, General Motors lifted the cap on fitting engines over 400 cubic inches of displacement into midsize cars. Oldsmobile promptly took advantage of this and stuffed the 455 cubic-inch Rocket ...

the 442 W-30 received a 455-CID Oldsmobile "Rocket" V8 producing 370 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque, not a slouch by any stretch and one of the most torque-laden engines GM ever produced.