Low mileage Celebrity

[LeftVentricle]

Yo. Been here for a while already, but I didn't have anything worthwhile to post about my car. That is, until now.

Youtube video

The board I reference in the vid is not, in fact, this one. I posted it originally on a-body.net.

[ForcedFirebird]

Nice! I likey my old cars. My '90 Firebird has 89k on the clock, and the '86 BMW has 82k.

[LeftVentricle]

Hey guys, what the hell happened to my wheels?


That's a stupid place for them.

Wait a minute...





They're from a second-gen Lumina, and I put some Kumho Ecsta AST 225-50/16s on them. No rubbing, even at full lock both ways. miata.net's tire size calculator says there's a 0.3% difference in speedometer reading, so no worries there.

[White93z34]

Well I never knew those lumina wheels could look good on anything, but I was wrong.

[asylummotorsports]

Well I never knew those lumina wheels could look good on anything, but I was wrong.

No you weren't!

[LeftVentricle]

No you weren't!

u trollin

EDIT:
The definition of trolling that I use is when somebody posts a reply which is of opinion X, and somebody deliberately adopts the opinion of -X and says it in an inflammatory fashion like this:

THREAD: Hey guys, I love Batman, the new Batman movie is coming out!

TROLLING REPLY: Batman sucks

Now if the thread was worded differently, then it wouldn't be trolling:

THREAD: The new Batman movie is coming out

NON-TROLLING REPLY: Batman sucks

[bszopi]

Eric is being kind of negative toward you in this thread... Maybe he's having a bad week and feels like taking it out on a station wagon owner.

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

looks better than stock, or steelies.

[LeftVentricle]

Eric is being kind of negative toward you in this thread... Maybe he's having a bad week and feels like taking it out on a station wagon owner.

Nothing I haven't experienced already. Just going out in this car I get that kind of treatment. It's a twenty-plus-year-old Chevy wagon, it must be going slow, even when I'm doing ten over. Everyone's always gotta get in front of the station wagon, regardless of how fast I'm going.

"Having a bad week" is not a valid excuse in my book.

looks better than stock, or steelies.

Came with rally-style steels, I swapped them off for the 14" basket weaves you see in the back of the car. Those came from a Cutlass Ciera GT/International.

[IsaacHayes]

So the bolt pattern on that Celeb is 5x115?

[LeftVentricle]

So the bolt pattern on that Celeb is 5x115?

You are correct sir. To my knowledge, that means just about any W-body wheel will work. Those Grand Prix wheels I tried to sell a while back look like they might not have the right offset though. Cast into them on the back is 16 X 8 X 25, which I take to mean it has a 25 offset, and A-bodies need at least 35. These Lumina wheels are a 38.

Whoa, I almost went off on a tangent about lug spacing differences on A-bodies...

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

my baby could use some new shoes too.

[LeftVentricle]

Out with the new, in with the old.






Way back when I had the blue 6000, it had the Cutlass Ciera basketweaves I've posted about, as seen here:


I swapped them for the Celeb's stock rallys, then sold the 6000. I snagged this set of rallys from a base model '87 Celebrity sedan (JA2) in the yard the other day, good stock size 185-75-14 tires, center caps and beauty rings included, for a hundred bucks. The ride quality with those thin tires on the Lumina 16s was beginning to irritate me. MUCH smoother now.

Also, the mods are on the back burner until tax season, in a month or so. I contacted an A-body.net member about the broken dogbone bracket, and he should be sending me a non-broken one soon. (See this thread on A-body.net for details.)

[IsaacHayes]

I have the same AST 225-50-16 on my blue car. With Eibachs, KYB's, poly, big sway bars... You'd hate my car!! My drivers side seat is so worn out, I sit really low. I had to put seat covers cause all the metal wires broke and I was sitting on the metal bar/frame. The seat covers hold me up off it enough.. haha I sit in the orange car with Z26 seats and my head almost rubs the headliner!!! LOL What a difference!

I guess I'm just used to it.

[underdawg]

Well, you don't see many of these in this kind of shape anymore. What are, or are there any performance upgrades for this thing in the future? You may not be into doing such things, but I have wondered what would fit these cars suspension wise. Wagons do look good with some mild appearence mods and I do love lowered cars.