Low mileage Celebrity

[[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.

[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]]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.)

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

my baby could use some new shoes too.

[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...

[IsaacHayes]

So the bolt pattern on that Celeb is 5x115?

[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.

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

looks better than stock, or steelies.

[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.

[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

[asylummotorsports]

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

No you weren't!

[White93z34]

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