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[MariaMalibu]

Welcome to the forum. Those exhaust tips are huge on your Malibu! What engine is in that thing? Be careful, putting German parts on your Chevy could cause an oil leak!

Thank you! Haha I will make sure to have an extra bottle of oil in the car 😉
I actually don't know what engine it has. It was made with the 3,3L V6 but it was swapped to a V8 somewhere along the way.
The owner who passed have had the car since 1999 but his nephew don't know anything about it.

 

[TURNA]

Hello welcome to the site.

Is the exhaust on the Malibu running under the gas tank?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[MariaMalibu]

Hello welcome to the site.

Is the exhaust on the Malibu running under the gas tank?!?!?!?!?!?

Thanks! I don't know, I haven't seen the car IRL yet. Will get it on Friday.

 

[ssn696]

Wheel adapters you need will have 5x120 mm stud paytern on the wheel side and 5x120.7 mm on the car side. Check to be sure before you buy. EBay provides.

 

[MariaMalibu]

Wheel adapters you need will have 5x120 mm stud paytern on the wheel side and 5x120.7 mm on the car side. Check to be sure before you buy. EBay provides.

The adapter will be 5x112 on the wheel side and 5x120,65 on the car side.

 

[mclellan83]

Welcome to the group, nice looking Elky but really interested to see how these wheels will work you are talking about.

 

[MariaMalibu]

Welcome to the group, nice looking Elky but really interested to see how these wheels will work you are talking about.

Thank you!

Welcome to the group, nice looking Elky but really interested to see how these wheels will work you are talking about.

Thank you! I'm also curious about how the wheels will work 🙂 It's not the best design for the car but hopefully better than the wheels that's on it today.

 

[blk7gxn]

Hi, I'm Maria and I'm from Sweden.
I just sold my El Camino 1968 to Finland, I imported it from Florida three years ago and I had a lot of fun with it.
A friend's uncle died and he is selling his cars, one of them a Malibu 1979 that I bought.
I have no experience what so ever from Gbody.
I haven't even got the car yet, will pick it up later this week 🙂

First thing I want to do is buy conversion spacers and put some 20" Audi wheels I already have at home on it. And I am trying to figure out what lowering springs to buy.

Looking forward to interesting discussions here!

Welcome to the site!! BEAUTIFUL malibu! Excited for you to get it!