Changed my wheels... much better now...

NHolds · 2013-09-07 23:20:44

Much better! One of my favorite wheels!:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs:

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09-07-2013, 10:51 PM

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Much better! One of my favorite wheels!

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09-07-2013, 11:08 PM

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BTW, what kind of fender badges did you install?

Fender badges just say Corvette...made them look like Z06 badges. I don't think I have any closeups of those...

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09-07-2013, 11:25 PM

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St. Jude Donor '13

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Looks great, Good example of black vs chrome wheels.

Black wheels are too ricer for my taste. Chrome is timeless.

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09-08-2013, 12:19 AM

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St. Jude Donor '13, '15

Much nicer with the chrome. Just brought back some class to a beautiful C5.

Any pictures from the rear looking down the side of the car to show just how much they stick out? What is the offset?

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09-08-2013, 12:29 AM

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C6 of Year Finalist (appearance mods) 2019

Nice improvement!

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09-08-2013, 02:37 AM

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Originally Posted by NHolds

When I bought my C5 it had these wheels on it... nice, but not my style...

Now, it has these.... C6 Z06 Replicas... 18x9.5 up front, 19x12 rear.... much better.....

very nice! those look fantastic, i have always like those wheels. really makes your car come alive.

i bet they would go great with torch red as well.

congrats on the find.

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09-08-2013, 10:01 AM

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WAY better !!!! But wait, you've lost that "mean" look -

Your ride looks totally different and IMHO 100% better. Good choice my Corvette brother.

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09-08-2013, 10:56 AM

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Wayyyyyyy better! Has to be the right color car/combination for black wheels to look good. You made a great choice

The larger sizes look better too. What size tire are you running on the 12" wide rears?

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09-08-2013, 11:15 AM

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Much nicer with the chrome. Just brought back some class to a beautiful C5.

Any pictures from the rear looking down the side of the car to show just how much they stick out? What is the offset?

That was my next ? , wheels look great, always fun to watch CL for treasures.

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09-08-2013, 11:53 AM

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Thats a HUGE improvement !
I'm hoping this Black wheel fad dies off soon, and people go back to putting nice wheels on their car.

Toque

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09-08-2013, 12:00 PM

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I agree! Much better and good choice!

Thanks,Matt

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09-08-2013, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by imgn tht

Much nicer with the chrome. Just brought back some class to a beautiful C5.

Any pictures from the rear looking down the side of the car to show just how much they stick out? What is the offset?

It all depends on your angle of course, but here is how much they hang out looking straight down. These are C6 Z06 stock offsets, not the C5 offset. I don't think you can fit a 12" rear tire on there with C5 offsets. It comes within a 1/4" of hitting the plastic inner liner on the rear.

Front left, from drivers door

Drivers Rear obviously...

Drivers rear quarter shot....

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09-08-2013, 02:46 PM

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Drivers Rear obviously...

Drivers rear quarter shot....

Put some C6Z style splash guards on and no one will even know.

Wheels look killer by the way, good choice!

Love the Cobra too!!!

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09-08-2013, 03:01 PM

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Black wheels are too ricer for my taste. Chrome is timeless.

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Black wheels are too modern and trending for my taste. Chrome is timeless and takes me back the 60's.

Dang ricers!

Now that's better! Timeless! No ricer goes chrome...

Had to....

Didn't mean to hijack...

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09-08-2013, 03:37 PM

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Here's my Ricer as you called it ....

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Black wheels are too ricer for my taste. Chrome is timeless.

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09-08-2013, 03:41 PM

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I've got the ZR-1 wheels in chrome on my black vert, and they look great (IMNSHO). The black looks like crap though.

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09-08-2013, 03:46 PM

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Yup, the chrome looks better to me, in this case.

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09-08-2013, 03:50 PM

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Great choice looks very good on a super clean Corvette.

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09-08-2013, 04:20 PM

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I love Black wheels too... just didn't like that damn red stripe on the ZR1's. If the chrome wasn't so nice on these, I would have plasti-dipped them Black without hesitation.

On a side note... do the C6 Z06 splash guards fit the C5? I was looking at the Lewis 5 Motorsports ones...

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