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Go for new rear springs. You can get that lift you want, and then some. When I had a set of Moogs put in my 79 H/O I thought IMHO the lift was too high, but I've gotten used to it. I would have preferred dead flat though. And you are 100% right, rear end sagging was the order of the day with those factory springs way back then. I always went with cargo coils to eliminate that.
Go for new rear springs. You can get that lift you want, and then some. When I had a set of Moogs put in my 79 H/O I thought IMHO the lift was too high, but I've gotten used to it. I would have preferred dead flat though. And you are 100% right, rear end sagging was the order of the day with those factory springs way back then. I always went with cargo coils to eliminate that.
I did put new springs all around last year
Oem can’t remember the part #
If you like the way it rides with new springs, then install spacers. That will raise the rear, but have little effect of ride. If you want a little adjustment ability, use air bags.
That picture is sharp enough to convey angle, which, to me, is just right.
Oldsmobile was about refined power and sportiness, especially in the twilight years of muscle. It would be the wrong stance to jack it up any higher.
I'm on some facebook Olds groups that have a lot of black people. They like their rims. When they sell one, they severely limit their audience to other black folk, because they still have the huge gold sliders on it. I would think that putting it back on stock wheels, even if it still has the candy apple paint and the **** interior, and selling the 26"s separately would increase marketability. My point of all this is that, even if it IS your car, thus implying you can do what you want, one starts from stock, moves into tasteful changes, then gets out of tasteful pretty quickly, so, sure, we could put Hijackers on it and crank to the max, and some people would dig it, but most would not. I think the stance Blue has is squarely in the tasteful camp that everyone should like.
Most 78-88 A/G-body cars came with spongy rear springs even when on the F41 scale. I can second the CC627 should do what you want to do. It is a popular spring choice by 78-88 owners to hike up the natural stance in the back and you don't even need air shocks.
Speaking of air shocks, early 1983 H/O production had no air shocks to start, and then, according to a Jan 7, 1983 update bulletin, they were included as standard equipment mid-production. I've heard the stories of them being "optional" at first from 83 owners, and even believed it for a long time, but have never seen any indication for how the air shocks could be added to a dealer order. Thus, I'm saying no to the option since there was no RPO for it that I could find. No mention in the new car announcement bulletin, anyway. So if someone knows something to change my mind...
The 84 H/O and 85-87 442 came standard with rear air shocks, too. Minimum 10 psi for best ride when empty to a max of 90 psi with load. No explanation as to why they were included, and quite often, the dealership didn't make it known air shocks were even on the car. Stance always looked a bit weird even with 10 psi in the shocks. There was a GM air shock "accessories" kit that could be dealer installed for most any GM vehicle, but it wasn't the same, fitting/tubing-wise. Why GM?
The shocks are virtually unobtanium now because they weren't your typical over the counter air shocks available everywhere. Special plastic tubing with double o-ring clip-on fittings that often leaked.
Most 78-88 A/G-body cars came with spongy rear springs even when on the F41 scale. I can second the CC627 should do what you want to do. It is a popular spring choice by 78-88 owners to hike up the natural stance in the back and you don't even need air shocks.
Speaking of air shocks, early 1983 H/O production had no air shocks to start, and then, according to a Jan 7, 1983 update bulletin, they were included as standard equipment mid-production. I've heard the stories of them being "optional" at first from 83 owners, and even believed it for a long time, but have never seen any indication for how the air shocks could be added to a dealer order. Thus, I'm saying no to the option since there was no RPO for it that I could find. No mention in the new car announcement bulletin, anyway. So if someone knows something to change my mind...
The 84 H/O and 85-87 442 came standard with rear air shocks, too. Minimum 10 psi for best ride when empty to a max of 90 psi with load. No explanation as to why they were included, and quite often, the dealership didn't make it known air shocks were even on the car. Stance always looked a bit weird even with 10 psi in the shocks. There was a GM air shock "accessories" kit that could be dealer installed for most any GM vehicle, but it wasn't the same, fitting/tubing-wise. Why GM?
The shocks are virtually unobtanium now because they weren't your typical over the counter air shocks available everywhere. Special plastic tubing with double o-ring clip-on fittings that often leaked.
Thanks
didn’t know they had air shocks back in the early 80 s lol
x2 on the spongy rear springs. Back in the day, and I was there, I saw many, many G-bodies riding down the road "looking upward". I always thought that looked really crappy. And then when I bought my 79 Calais back in 1984, the very first thing I did with it was replace those pencil thin rear coils with what was called Cargo Coils back then. They are essentially the Variable Rate coils today. And one thing great about the variable rate coils, you can stuff whatever you want in the trunk and the rear won't sag.
I hate to even admit this, but back in the 80's when I owned a landscaping business and my work vehicle broke down, I had no other choice but to stuff 2 Bobcat hand mowers into the trunk of my 79 Calais. It had no effect on the level of the car.
x2 on the spongy rear springs. Back in the day, and I was there, I saw many, many G-bodies riding down the road "looking upward". I always thought that looked really crappy. And then when I bought my 79 Calais back in 1984, the very first thing I did with it was replace those pencil thin rear coils with what was called Cargo Coils back then. They are essentially the Variable Rate coils today. And one thing great about the variable rate coils, you can stuff whatever you want in the trunk and the rear won't sag.
I hate to even admit this, but back in the 80's when I owned a landscaping business and my work vehicle broke down, I had no other choice but to stuff 2 Bobcat hand mowers into the trunk of my 79 Calais. It had no effect on the level of the car.
hey. Have to get to work somehow lol
back in the day these were everyday working vehicles
Aye, it still has a few leftover scars from those days. But I will say those variable rate springs did do the job. They lasted for decades before I installed another set.
