Not a NewCaprice but B-Body fans will like this

[yargnits]

Check this rebuild out...

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[CrashTestDummy]

The wheels: They are keeping with the stock aesthetic, but are CNCed wheels that we did to keep the stock, sort of police interceptor look, but turn it into a lighter-weight, higher-performance, wider track wheel design!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where the heck do I find those, and if they're CNCed, how much to replace the center with a 120 mm bolt pattern?!?

NOT the ones noted in the vid above, but these are close:

http://www.azproperformance.com/US-Mag- ... -U442.html

NOT cheap, but it looks like you might be able to get different diameters/widths/offsets/bolt patterns/finishes. Not sure where the center caps would come from. They don't seem to be listed there.

[Raunchtastic]

I saw this and thought it was awesome. I hope this late-model restomod trend keeps catching steam.

[elc32955]

Very nice job! You know, it's hard to imagine the B-body cars are now 26 years old as of October 1 (starting with the original 1991 design of course). The American Police Hall of Fame and museum in Titusville, FL has an original 1991 GM fleet demo B-body, still in all original factory colors/LEO demo car markings and light bar. Don't know what it's worth but I technically still have first dibs on it if the museum ever goes to sell it. Of course that means it comes with the old L05 as well... lol... Boy that model year sure could have used a back-up camera if there ever was a car that needed it!

Eric

[yargnits]

Very nice job! You know, it's hard to imagine the B-body cars are now 26 years old as of October 1 (starting with the original 1991 design of course). The American Police Hall of Fame and museum in Titusville, FL has an original 1991 GM fleet demo B-body, still in all original factory colors/LEO demo car markings and light bar. Don't know what it's worth but I technically still have first dibs on it if the museum ever goes to sell it. Of course that means it comes with the old L05 as well... lol... Boy that model year sure could have used a back-up camera if there ever was a car that needed it!

Eric

My first police car was a '91 former Indiana State Police car. The best part of the car was the spotlight still in the a-pillar. I loved the was it kept the left lane clear for me, but the best thing it did for me was get me into the Indy 500 for free. I went for the infield parking that year and when I went to pay a trooper waved me through saying "we don't have to pay". I followed that car up with a '95 detective Caprice with the LT1 (pictured). I had the pleasure of replacing the opti-spark on that one, like most of us did.

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[elc32955]

I had to do three, count 'em - 3 opti's on my car over the five years I owned it. One was courtesy of a water pump that went south and dribbled water out of the weep-hole, the other two were two separate flooding incidents from tossed-up water that was in puddles or flooded roads. One good spray-down of water and those optical distributors were done. Such a poor design.

[CrashTestDummy]

Our 95 9C1 I did the opti because it was running poorly (turned out to be a bad FPR). Replaced it with a NOS Delco unit. The car ran okay for a while, then started to run REALLY bad. I swapped back in the OLD Opti, and it was back to running okay. I also did the plug wires when I replaced the opti the first time. I'd LOVE to find the engineer who thought up the opti and wire configuration on those cars, and buy him/them a kick in the nards!! Replace spark plug procedure that starts with step 1: remove engine, is just nuts.

My wife beat that car like a cop, and it returned very reliable service until we sold it late last year with nearly 200K miles on the clock. And yes, even without the spot, it cleared the left lane, and probably got her out of some difficult situations with cops. The buyer was a Cop in St. Louis who was looking for a relatively-unmolested 94-96 9C1 to replace his box 9C1. He's currently enjoying it, modding as he goes.

We still have two B-body cars, luckily, no Opti's yet.

[CrashTestDummy]

Well, I emailed ICON to see; 1. if they'd actually answer my query, and 2. to see what it might take to get these wheels produced for the 2011/2016 Caprice.




They actually answered back!

They sent me a wheel fitment form to fill out and send back. It actually looks like a standard wheel manufacturer's wheel fitment form, but I don't care. Here it is:



Now I gotta get out to the garage to get some dimensions. Does anyone have some of these? Luckily, I do have a couple of unmounted factory wheels. Just need time to get out to the shop and measure.

[kevink]

Well, I emailed ICON to see; 1. if they'd actually answer my query, and 2. to see what it might take to get these wheels produced for the 2011/2016 Caprice.




They actually answered back!

They sent me a wheel fitment form to fill out and send back. It actually looks like a standard wheel manufacturer's wheel fitment form, but I don't care. Here it is:

Now I gotta get out to the garage to get some dimensions. Does anyone have some of these? Luckily, I do have a couple of unmounted factory wheels. Just need time to get out to the shop and measure.

You might as well ask them if they can make clones of our wheels, not just ones that fit our cars and look like the ones on the car in the video.

[CrashTestDummy]

That wheel is about as close as one can get to our steel wheels, only not in steel. Since they've already done the research, those costs were hopefully, mostly, absorbed by their last customer. I'm hoping these won't have much of the 'development' premium added to them, although I really do fear they'll be $700+ per corner.

I'm just guessing here, but it's based on all their other List prices they have on the other items on their site. Still, I'm willing to try to see what they want for the wheels they have, I don't want to rock the boat much.