Nice monte .my 79 cutlass is lowerd the same as you new monte .what size are your wheels and tires on it in working on my car to go pro-touring and im going to put 17 or 18s on mine but im working on the chassis and drive train right now so the bigger wheels are on the back burner intill next year
i was looking at the 17inch wheels for my cutlass but all the big brake kits are saying some 17inch wheels will not crear the brakes so im going to put 18 inch wheels on my olds on the back im going to use 18x8s with 4.5 inches of back spacing and 18x7 on the front with 4.25 backspacing what...
get the motor brackets from the junk yards .or any chevy powered cars from 75 newer .x-bodys ,or g-bodys when i put a 350 chevy in my cutlass in the 90s you could still get them from chevy.i used ones from a x-body .novas on mine
i figured i would start a thread for 78-80 g-bodys .mine is a 79 Cutlass 2door .ive had mine since 1988 im in the middle of a complete redo .im going the pro-touring route with mine .it will be pro-touring retro .im building another chevy 350 for it it will have about 330-350hp with vortecheads...
i worked for saturn for 12yrs . the s-series cars were good good cars but whenit was replaced with the ions and the l series cars are crap they are rebaged sabs . the l-series had the same problems with there v-6 as they had in the caddilacs. i left saturn almost 5 yrs ago becase i saw the end...
thanks for the pics. im not dead set on the 255s . i was looking at them becase i have 255 -60- 15s on my car right now . im just looking at a tire that will fill the wheelwhell. im looking at the 245s very hard and i may look at the 235-50- 17s like you are running.
reason i was asking if you bu has been lowerd ,my cutlass has 2inch drop spindles on the front and 2inch drop springs in the rear from bell tech .im running 15 inch rallys on it right now but im doing a update on my car to pro-touring ..what is the hight off the grond to the fender on my...
what size wheels do you have on you bu. the c5s list the 17x8 as a 4.5 inch back spacingand the 17x7 list a 4.25 back spacing .and what size tires are you running and haows the clearence on the front and is you bu lowerdany
im looking at putting coy c5 in gunmetal gray .on my 79 cutlass ,what backspacing do i need to put 17x7 on the front and 17x8 on the rear.im looking at using 255-45-17 and 235-45-17
79 cutlass
welcome .it nice to see another 79 cutlass,i have a 79 also ive owened it for almost 21yrs,mine is a on going project ,im always up dateing it im in the middle of updating it ,mine has a chevy 350 in it also .i have full leeght headers a pypes exhaust with a duel hump crossmeber.i...
i just installed belltech 1.5 drop springs in the back of my cutlass . they went in fine but the passanger side is siting about a 1inch low then the driver side is .
yes i do ,i have pics of my car in the picsand rndering section under .my 79olds. the front i have belltech 2inch drop spindles and the rear i have 2 inch drop springs in the rera from online performance.for now i may change the rear springs to belltech .
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