1991 Cadillac Deville Lowrider "Teppista"
Body:
The body was painted with a PPG Omni Light Sapphire Blue Base Coat, chrome flake, then over the top it was patterned in carter metallic gold with a gold color shifting flake. Soon I will sand and spray another clear with white ice pearl to make the effect even stronger. The front features a gold 1929 Cadillac flying lady hood ornament. This is an original. it was rusted steel when I got it, but I sent it out to get nickel and gold plated. There is also a gold and chrome classic cadillac grille on the front.
Coming Soon: Continental Kit, Chrome rocker molding
Interior
The interior is a custom stitched biscuit tuft and wrinkle pleat with a navy crushed velvet, and light blue velour for the piping. The seats were hand fabricated from bent metal, springs, swivel mounts, and foam. The seats swivel a full 360 degrees and are on a slider with 3 locking positions. There is a chain steering wheel and chandelier with glowing blue lights. There is also a center console with 4 switches with an engraved switch panel, and 2 battery monitors. There is also a single din in dash dvd player with a 4.5" touch screen monitor. Also has a heavy duty A/C compressor running R134A. The windows are also engraved. It also has a custom digital speedometer.
Wheels
14" Standard offset wire wheels with chrome dishes, gold nipples, gold back spokes, blue front spokes, chrome hub, and gold 2 wing knockoff. Riding on 175/70/14s with a 1/2" white wall.
Hydraulics
The hydraulics consist of 2 pumps sharing one whammy tank and are fully engraved. There are 4 accumulators to keep the ride as gentle as possible. It runs 48V in each corner and locks up the front in 3 hits, and 4 hits for the back. The front has 6" competition cylinders mounted to a powerball, sitting on 3 turns of a 3/4 ton spring inside the strut housing. The rear has 10" reverse flow cylinders on 6 turns of a 3/4 ton spring mounted to a powerball with a hollowed out inside for the fitting. The rear will lay on the muffler with front up and back down. That means the bumper is about 2" off the ground. When its back raised front down it sits about level with my waist (I'm 6'2"). It will do a small standing 3 wheel if the gas tank is full.
Coming Soon: Chromed accumulators and hardlines.
Sounds:
The front has 2 kenwood excellon 3 way 4x6s, the doors have kenwood excellon 4" 2 ways, and the rear has 2 kenwood 3 way excellon 6x9s. A 4.5" in dash dvd player powers these. There is one sub in the rear, a Kicker CR10 powered by a 600W RMS Alpine V12 amp. The amp is currently turned down almost as far as it will go to keep it to a slight clean bump. I'm not into the really loud bass, I just like a little rumble when I jam some oldies.
Engine:
The left most picture is a before picture of the engine. This winter I fully removed it, replaced all the gaskets, the timing chain and tensioners, and all of the sensors. The intake manifold, exhaust manifolds, crossover pipe, idler pulley, alternator, and strut tower bar were all cermachrome plated. The throttle body was bead blasted. All of the metal lines were polished. New rolling lifters were added. The block, valve covers, power steering pump, power steering resiviour, and belt tensioner were all painted. A new a/c compressor, condenser, and evaporater were installed along with all new o-rings. The compartment was repainted. I installed all new fluid tanks. The ignition system was upgraded with an msd pickup coil, a summit cap and rotor, accel wires, and bosch platinum +2 plugs. The air intake was replaced with a 10" round air cleaner.
Coming Soon: Accel super coil, new brake fluid resiviour, mustang injectors
