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Old 03-18-2014, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by gsixl
245 60 r15 front 275 60 r15 on rear. The goodyears are 28x9 15 all are on 8 inch wheels with 4 inch backspace.




I love the look of your car, just a plain white muscle car. It looks like a sleeper. I really like it!
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Old 03-20-2014, 07:39 PM
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Looking good, That looks like the same setup I have. Boss 338's?
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Originally Posted by duganj1
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What are your wheel & tire spec's and did you have to alter springs and/or suspension to fit?
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Old 03-22-2014, 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by 77C34SPD
Painted these up today..
I really like the early spoke wheels on a C3. Leaning heavily toward 18" TT M's (anthracite) or Coy's.
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Old 03-23-2014, 11:10 AM
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What are your wheel & tire spec's and did you have to alter springs and/or suspension to fit?
I do have big block front springs even though I have a 383 SBC in it, I was unaware of that when I rebuilt the car. I plan on putting sb springs in some day to lower the front, I'm not planning on any tire rub issues. (Hence the smaller front tire)
Tires - All 4 Nitto NT555 (FYI its a soft tire, I like them and would buy again)
Fronts - 255/45/17
Rears - 255/50/17

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I purchased them through a company I found on eBay, however I didn't want there tire combo, so I called and they were happy to ship just wheels and lug nuts great price to, if I remember right about $550 for all 4. Here's there eBay link, but as a reminder I would be worried about tire rub with their combo.

http://pages.ebay.com/motors/link/?n...d=301127973720
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Old 03-24-2014, 07:54 PM
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Pardon me for jumping in on your thread. I was hoping to see if any of you all had a composite spring added to the rear end that was causing you issues with back spacing. I'm was hoping to get some foose legends 17x8 with 4.5" BS but in measuring out the space from the rotor mount to the spring I only have 4 1/4" of space. Has anyone had this problem and can you recommend any options?
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Old 03-24-2014, 08:46 PM
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Pardon me for jumping in on your thread. I was hoping to see if any of you all had a composite spring added to the rear end that was causing you issues with back spacing. I'm was hoping to get some foose legends 17x8 with 4.5" BS but in measuring out the space from the rotor mount to the spring I only have 4 1/4" of space. Has anyone had this problem and can you recommend any options?
Yes, the TRW spring is way to close to the rims with 10" bolts, get the VBP spring
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Old 03-26-2014, 07:50 PM
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Old 03-26-2014, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 7t9l82





heres my wheels
looks great, what is color of your paint, great color!
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Old 03-27-2014, 12:15 AM
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My new wheels came today! 17x7 mb old school. They seem like nice wheels, for not a lot of money.
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looks great, what is color of your paint, great color!
it is an early 2000's corvette color Magnetic Red. it seems ti lighten and darken a lot in different light . i mixed in a bit extra metallic and pearl but not much.
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Old 04-10-2014, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by MIKE80
The suspension I have is VBP Performance Plus full kit with VBP offset trailing arms, and VBP spreader bar. The wheels are aftermarket ( http://www.oewheelsllc.com/Wheels_3?...Q#.UtaryfY6JZk) C6 Z06 17"x9.5" black powdercoated with red outer banding, tires are Nitto NT555 Extreme Performance 25.55" tall 275/40 ZR17, and wheel adapters (http://www.ezaccessory.com/Billet_Wh...FTJp7AodqHIA-g) are 2.5". All sizes are the same front and rear. The ground to center wheel well lip height for the front is 26.5" and the rear is 27.5".




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Thanks for sharing! That's one clean bow-tie!
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Old 04-20-2014, 10:35 AM
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My new wheels came today! 17x7 mb old school. They seem like nice wheels, for not a lot of money.
Nice and look like Coy 55's? source?
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Old 04-23-2014, 02:54 PM
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Here's the foose rims my vette came with...
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Old 04-23-2014, 03:18 PM
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Tried loading a little 25 sec vid... Wouldn't let me... Just my baby sitting at an idle with a quick walk around... ;-P
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Old 04-23-2014, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by TX-Techman
These are the before and after pictures of our 69. The first picture was the day I got her home and the others are after a treatment of Zanio and upgrading the wheels and tires. The new wheels are from American Racing and the tires are 225/70R15 BFG Radial TA. I can't tell you how much the tires improved the ride and drive of the car, was is unbelievable and I love the look.

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Wow - what a huge upgrade!!! Nice work. Do you mind if I ask the price of those wheels?
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Old 04-24-2014, 10:24 AM
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Here's the foose rims my vette came with...
i never thought i would say this, but i love the louvers
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