New to me 2014 Caprice

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JoeR
Posts: 150
Joined: Wed May 25, 2022 12:34 am
Location: Central, NC

Re: New to me 2014 Caprice

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I'm not sure what I'm going to do to fix the roof, so until then I removed the rubber plug that was un there and printed a small cap out of ABS Plastic for it. Yamabond will keep it in place until I decide to remove it.
The cap for my washer bottle was also missing. I printed a cap for that too. I may do it in blue later on, but for now it is black.

I also got my fender moldings and door lock rods for the back seats. It's coming around....
I've put 2k miles on it since I got it running. I'm really happy with the highway mileage I'm getting so far, especially for it being a 6.0.
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JoeR
Posts: 150
Joined: Wed May 25, 2022 12:34 am
Location: Central, NC

Re: New to me 2014 Caprice

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I don't like how heavy those steel wheels are. It's crazy to have that much unsprung weight, let alone rotational unsprung weight. I found a set of 18" BMW wheels with 45mm offset, but they need a little work. There's some curb scrub that needs to be cleaned up. The center hubs are also a bit bigger so I printed some hub centers adapters out of ABS plastic. I'm going to keep my stock tires on there, but the tire pressure sensors are 8 years old, so I cloned them to a new set of Alpha brand sensors.
Here's some pics of the hub centers and wheels. Not sure if I'm going to keep the BMW center caps or not. I'm thinking it woud be funny.
Joe
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