i would rather have a lowered fleetwood with blown lt1 and some ss wheels with caddy center caps.... but unfortunatley i got a 93 fleetwood didnt come with the lt1 instead I'm stuck with 180hp and 300 lb ft trq ...but it did come with the huge power sun roof....so I'm going the other route....I know in order to put 22's on the fleetwood they got to be 8.5 wide... all the ones i seen so far are 9.5 wide anybody got any suggestions?.....only 22's I've see that were 8.5" wie wire spokes....

I'm sure if you call around you could get 8.5's. I know 20x9.5 fits. Why not go with twentys...

cause 22s are bigger. :histeric: had to. :p hey man if ya got time and if ya havent already check out the general non model discussion and help us vote for the next possible Dub Cadillac.

Well I see it can be done now.....I checked outthe dub city post and I put some pics of Lacs with big wheels on there for sme people can get the idea..Ihad to vote for the 93-96 by the way :bouncy:

we appreciate it. we need more votes to hopefully get this thing through

I am wanting to get 22's on mine also. I edited a photo to see what it would look like. Tell me what you think.

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that shiet'll look tight...ur car looks nice as is.
fleetwoods have such a huge wheel well that 22'z dont look retarded on em, I seen this cherry red fleetwood with 22'z a few weeks ago by the diversey projects (any chicago ppl?), an i was shocked,... it looked amazingly proper. :worship:

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these are 22's on this fleetwood......look damn good to me! ut some people have told me that even though the fleetwood is rwd it has a fwd offset.... and alot also say the only way 22's will fit is if you find som thats 22 x 8.5 or maybe 22 x 9.0..the only ones that are 8.5 wide are spokes ( atleast thats all I could find ) most 22's are 9.5 wide and thats all I been findin .....anyone one else had eany good luck findin some
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You have to get your car lifted a couple inches.

I think 20"s look better because you don't raise the car.

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are you sure it has to be lifted? my friends 94 has 22s and i dont think he lifted it. i know on most cars you have to. i never heard of lifting a Fleetwood for 22s.

The car with 22's looks about an inch higher in front than mine which has 18's. The car with 20's looks about the same height as mine.

Maybe with 22's you can't lower it but with >20's you can? :hmm:

ohh yeah you can lower one with 20s but i think there is stuff you gotta do for it to go comfortably. i think in the august issue of Lowrider there is one. its a 93 got 20s and hydraulics. he 3 wheels it. i doubt he hops it unless he gets fender wells every other day.

You should never set a car UP on rims. If you want to be tucking big ass rims, do it, but don't be set up on em.

You should never set a car UP on rims. If you want to be tucking big ass rims, do it, but don't be set up on em. :thumbsup:

of course you can never go wrong with a set of 14s.

i got 20'z on mine, and they dropped 1.5 inch (impala springs), rides better then b4, but thats prolly also due to new police shocks

b.t.w.... my boy threw sum 22'z on a prk av, didnt need to raise anything, only a spacer on rear springs, so i really doubt ud need to raise the fleetwood, especially how high it rides originally

Man I wish these tires would fit and look good ......20" vouges...20" white walls (http://www.limitsofluxury.com/index2.html)

Riding high is a regional thing. Everybody likes the slammed and tucked look but that's been the style in Cali since the days of Merc Lead Sleds. Down south and in parts of the midwest riding high is a must. They raise the box caddies, caprices, montes, cutts and regals up on stock wheels first. They put the duals on and the beat in the trunk, and then they put the wheels on. 20's or higher. That's hiphop style, and if you're not a hip hop fan, you wouldn't understand. Raising up isn't mainstream like slamming is now. You might not like it but there's a method to it. If everything was slammed, shit would be boring.

I like hiphop and I dont understand lifting a car, the only thing I am going to lift is my front tires off the ground when I hit the switch. As far as lifted cars I have a friend who had a caprice on 24s he had it for like a month people made so much fun of him everytime he drove it he had to get rid of it, and now the guy that bought it wants to get rid of it.

Riding high is a regional thing. Everybody likes the slammed and tucked look but that's been the style in Cali since the days of Merc Lead Sleds. Down south and in parts of the midwest riding high is a must. They raise the box caddies, caprices, montes, cutts and regals up on stock wheels first. They put the duals on and the beat in the trunk, and then they put the wheels on. 20's or higher. That's hiphop style, and if you're not a hip hop fan, you wouldn't understand. Raising up isn't mainstream like slamming is now. You might not like it but there's a method to it. If everything was slammed, shit would be boring.

I agree completely, some people never get tired of seeing 100's of cars everyday that are slammed and tucked or lowered. Lowered was cool about 10 years ago, although lowriders never go out of style i like them better when they sit at stock height when sitting.

it's all preference but the major thing that detered me from lowering my car is cause i hate it when the mufflers scrape on driveways and stuff and the ride does get stiffer regardless of what people say i'd been in cars with lowered springs and its way too hard of a ride for a caddy. For the most part lowered cars just look like they have fatigued springs unless you have the rims to match the car which then sometimes looks good.

Raising Car = Hip Hop...i Never Heard Of That, Hip Hoppers Usually Dont Have Any Money, Too Busy Rehearsing Their Rhymes On The Public Transit (i Think Ppl Get Hip Hop Mixed Up With The Pop Junk Rap U Hear On Radio 24/7). Herre In Chicago, Its All About Jackin Up Ur Car, Because If U Get Rammed By Sum Gangster, U Dont Want To Be Stuck Under Their Car... And The Whole Lowering Thing, It All Depends Wut Kinda Car U Got, An What Would Look Good On It, The Gangsters Usually Jack Up Beaters, Dualies Is A Must, An The Beat In The Trunck Was A Givin I Thought

the ride does get stiffer regardless of what people say i'd been in cars with lowered springs and its way too hard of a ride for a caddy.

FYI: Stock SS springs and Bilstien shocks on a Fleetwood will lower the vehicle without producing a harsh ride.

And not one person who has riden in my car has failed to comment on how comfortable the 'Caddy' ride is. I don't even try anymore to explain how it's not stock and it has SS springs and police shocks.

I just tell them it's a Cadillac! ;)

Everybody likes the slammed and tucked look but that's been the style in Cali since the days of Merc Lead Sleds.

50+ years, and still the preferred method! ;)

Down here in SoFla there are too many raised chevys, olds and cads. I've never liked that style but even people that do consider it played out. I dunno but I think some people are trying to acheive a "Dually with 26" Alcoas" look. I mean they look like steamrollers :vomit: I'm waiting for them to start installing swing down chrome ladders, to help get in or out :cookoo:

i have noticed ride height is mostly a preference which for the most part comes down to age and location.

other reason i forgot to mention i liked my lift of my 22's is nowadays with suv's everywhere the extra height helps level the bumper with suv's that are not raised last thing i would like is rear ending an SUV and having half my hood get scrunched up cause my bumper went under the SUV in front of me or being rear-ended and having the SUV land on my rear seats/passengers lol.

i personally like the feel of my 2000 suburban k1500 nice and high stance with super tight suspension for great cornering but it still handles bumps nicely and soft with air shocks in the rear.

Raising Car = Hip Hop...i Never Heard Of That, Hip Hoppers Usually Dont Have Any Money, Too Busy Rehearsing Their Rhymes On The Public Transit (i Think Ppl Get Hip Hop Mixed Up With The Pop Junk Rap U Hear On Radio 24/7). Herre In Chicago, Its All About Jackin Up Ur Car, Because If U Get Rammed By Sum Gangster, U Dont Want To Be Stuck Under Their Car... And The Whole Lowering Thing, It All Depends Wut Kinda Car U Got, An What Would Look Good On It, The Gangsters Usually Jack Up Beaters, Dualies Is A Must, An The Beat In The Trunck Was A Givin I Thought

i agree ppl try to dumb it down by stereotyping it with something they don't like

I never said if you're into hip hop you roll on 26's, I just said that you aren't gonna find a car enthusiast out there who rolls their car on big chrome who isn't a decidicated rap fan. Trust me, I'm just as into hot rods and lowriders as anybody, I don't personally need or want a car on 26 inch rims, I'm just mentioning them because above all, I'm advocate of diversity and I don't have tunnel vision when it comes to cars and cycles.

Ocj, your fleet doesn't fit into my description above. Your car looks nice and proper. You got the same wheels as one of our ex employees who had them on a bubble caprice. I even considered buying those off that dude...
I'm trashing idiots who raise their cars to the levels only known to yee-haaw 4x4s. I mean those cars look fawking RIDICULOUS! The only advantage I see in that is being able to work on those cars without owning a jack, literally!

Hey, I'm wasting my time typng this, I'll try to take and post some pics of this circus!

Evilrussian your point was taken clearly and was not aimed at you i understand what you mean by oversized i have personally seen cars that look ridiculous like a 2 door thunderbird with 26's I mean damn what the hell is that about when the rims take half the distance of the entire car or when there is a gap between the fender and top of the wheel.

I personally might one day put 24's on my car but I GUARANTEE I will make my car look proper by reshaping the fenders completely and any other mods to make the wheels fit stock and lower the car to keep the height its at now any higher would not be in good taste. I think that 24's would still look proper because of the length of this car being as though this car is longer than my suburban lol. although 23's would be my first choice me thinking this would still be a few years away.

i have seen a couple cars with reshaped fenders and 24's that look awesome its just when you do it half-assed and raise the car and put some big rims on it then it looks CHEAP.

no one has offended me at all cause we are all just voicing our opinions and no one has personally said any such car sucks but everyone has voiced their personal preference and that's why I'm here

Thanks for your opinions.. this thread is done....

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I agree, if you have to raise your car for wheels to fit they are to big, ocj your car looks tight, wheels fit just right. Check out this pic its not very good, but its bagged with 26s almost looks like a toy but looks good.

what do you wanna bet he aint got fender wells?

what do you wanna bet he aint got fender wells?
LOL

and lowcos thanx for the pic that car looks awesome, my dream car right there :worship: best convertible i've seen in a long while

man i was looking at that pic for a minute and it really does look like a toy with fake stuff behind it for some reason everything doesn't look scale like it should be....hmmmm

looked at it once more and i bet its fake like a model car lol because the floor looks super fake just look at it ive never seen cement that clean and so evenly colored i vote fake

hmmm... it looks like someone has set a toy on the ground and took the pic. the background looks like it is supposed to be close but it is probably far off. the rocks in the ashphalt are kinda big so it has got to be fake. i dont think you can fit 26's under a car like that. at the low low show in Charlotte there was a 76 Impala with 24's and it was raised up. the owner said he had to use truck suspension under it to fit the wheels. he was sittin up there too.

i wonder if there is no one with enough dedication to their car to actually reshape the fenders to accept the bigger wheels instead of just jacking the car up high.

total cost should be about 1000.00 or less with cutting the fenders a lil etc. making new wheel wells etc. not very hard compared to hydraulics and stuff.

i have seen a few cars that look like they've had it done but its never been mentioned

If you go to car domain and look at buick centry there is some more pictures of it lifted up on air go check it out

If you go to car domain and look at buick centry there is some more pictures of it lifted up on air go check it out

i'd have to vote 60% real 40% fake

it just doesn't look completely real but it might be those cars look so perfect it's hard to believe lol

probably the camera or something its hard to believe they could fake the lighting/sun to look as real as that pic

i guess now that i look at those other pics, it does look more real.

13s or 14s :yup: leave the 20's and up for trucks and suvs :thumbsup: just my 2 pennies

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maybe it is because I live down here in south florida but I really like the "OLD" chevy steam rollers, if not for another caddy a "Donk" will be my next car 73' preferably.....the other B body is horrible to drive....way too high..