Low mileage Celebrity

[[ChaosweaveR]]

I was sifting through this thread, I love oddball cars. I'd totally rock a Celebrity wagon like yours. Too bad you live so fuggin far away from me, my GA has the same bolt pattern, and the Lumina wheels were the right tire size for my stock Chrometech wheels. lol I would have totally took them off your hands. But I'd love to have one of these to drop an LA1 in, even if I had to use the weaksause 4T45E trans.

[LeftVentricle]

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.

Performance upgrades are coming withing the next few weeks, and are as follows:

• Ported gen 2 intake from WOT-Tech
• Ported gen 2 heads, milled down a bit and 0.040" larger intake valve
• Head gasket for an iron head 3.1, which is 0.020" thinner. That and the milled head should bump compression from stock 8.8 to the 9.4 range
• 1.6:1 rocker arms
• Custom WOT-Tech chip or other computer tuning

I estimate it should be making close to stock LG8 power after this.

As for suspension, Eibach made lowering springs way back in the day when these cars were new, but they're quite rare these days. Addco made a rear sway bar, which the car doesn't have stock, and I think Summit stills carries it. skalor at a-body.net made a strut tower brace, and I could probably either have him make me one or send me the CAD files.

]I'd love to have one of these to drop an LA1 in, even if I had to use the weaksause 4T45E trans.

Nah, you don't have to use the 4T45. The bellhousing pattern is the same as the transmission that comes stock with this car, the 440T4 aka 4T60, and you can run it on the Celebrity's stock computer, albeit with some fiddling. Some Centurys and Cieras had the LG3 3.8, which makes more torque than an LA1, and used this transmission without too many issues. Or a 4T65E-HD can be swapped in. At least two guys at a-body have done that, and can tell you how to make the axles.

[[ChaosweaveR]]

Sweet. I really gotta look for transmission options when I start building up my motor. I've heard of the 4T65E-HD being swapped in an N-body. I think an N-body owner with an Alero on here has done it.