The new wheels are on!
03-23-2007, 08:21 PM
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Le Mans Master
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The new wheels are on!
After a month to the day of waiting the new wheels showed up today. I started putting them on minutes after the UPS guy left.
In case you missed my original post, here what I went with:
CCW SP500's
Gunmetal painted centers
Front
18x10
BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW 2
275/35ZR18
Rear
19x11
BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW 2
295/35ZR19
The wheels look amazing and John at CCW was great to deal with.
Not the best day for picture taking in Chicago. I'll have to wait until the rain clears up before taking them out for a spin.
Thanks to Rick Anthony for installing my new rotors and pads on Sunday
Old wheels safely (hopefully) stored for future track use:
In case you missed my original post, here what I went with:
CCW SP500's
Gunmetal painted centers
Front
18x10
BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW 2
275/35ZR18
Rear
19x11
BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW 2
295/35ZR19
The wheels look amazing and John at CCW was great to deal with.
Not the best day for picture taking in Chicago. I'll have to wait until the rain clears up before taking them out for a spin.
Thanks to Rick Anthony for installing my new rotors and pads on Sunday
Old wheels safely (hopefully) stored for future track use:
03-23-2007, 08:35 PM
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Frank looks great mod fever strikes PerfectlyFrank again
03-24-2007, 12:35 AM
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Burning Brakes
Those are some of the best looking rims I have seen! How much was the setup? My Z could use a fresh set of shoes like those!!!!!
Why didnt you go with a 305 rear? I think the 295 looks a little skinny IMO.
Oh, and I'm with keith...drop that bad boy a bit!
Why didnt you go with a 305 rear? I think the 295 looks a little skinny IMO.
Oh, and I'm with keith...drop that bad boy a bit!
Last edited by Fuzzy Walnuts; 03-24-2007 at 12:37 AM.
03-24-2007, 08:04 AM
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Le Mans Master
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I'm going to lower it soon.
03-24-2007, 08:40 AM
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Frank it looks great you need to lower it for sure .
03-24-2007, 10:25 AM
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Very nice, Are you coming on May 5 to see how they hook up, Good luck and hope it stops raining soon.
03-24-2007, 02:07 PM
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Burning Brakes
Did you get the centers painted elsewhere or do they offer you a choice of colors? I checked their website and it says nothing that I could find about colored centers.
03-24-2007, 02:15 PM
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Le Mans Master
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CCW had them painted. There used to be a thing on their site about custom painted centers. They were having problems with the paint shop they were using and had to find a new shop to get mine and a couple other orders painted, which did a great job. They are building their own in-house paint booth and aren't taking any more orders for painted centers until it is ready. I believe mine were the last order they took. At the time I placed my order, they were offering silver, black and gunmetal.
03-25-2007, 12:34 AM
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FRANK,
I LOVE it dude they look great and make your car really look BAD AZZ and they are very, very cool great job BUD! JOHN at CCW is a cool laid back dude and is good to work with, as i bought a CCW drag pack with et streets and skinnies from him for my old 427 C5R C5 Roadster MONSTER back in 2002 (when I was into drag racing, b/f i started breaking drivetrain parts that cost me thousand to fix) and made me realize that BIG HORSEPOWER C5s don't have the drivetrain to handle huge power at the drag strip and then I discovered that road racing exists and may be even funner!
As the others said it takes about 15 minutes to have your baby lowered on its stock bolts and that will make it look even that much cooler. Must **** VETTE folks will tell you that after you lower it you should probably go for a basic wheel alignment, but i really don't know for sure if that is necessary or not (and defer to the experts on that one)!
I LOVE it dude they look great and make your car really look BAD AZZ and they are very, very cool great job BUD! JOHN at CCW is a cool laid back dude and is good to work with, as i bought a CCW drag pack with et streets and skinnies from him for my old 427 C5R C5 Roadster MONSTER back in 2002 (when I was into drag racing, b/f i started breaking drivetrain parts that cost me thousand to fix) and made me realize that BIG HORSEPOWER C5s don't have the drivetrain to handle huge power at the drag strip and then I discovered that road racing exists and may be even funner!
As the others said it takes about 15 minutes to have your baby lowered on its stock bolts and that will make it look even that much cooler. Must **** VETTE folks will tell you that after you lower it you should probably go for a basic wheel alignment, but i really don't know for sure if that is necessary or not (and defer to the experts on that one)!
Last edited by Mopar Jimmy; 03-25-2007 at 08:08 PM.
03-26-2007, 10:07 PM
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Race Director
Frank, Awesome!!! Those are beautiful wheels, welcome to club CCW
. Now just lower it and the look is complete! I would just lower it on stock bolts, let it settle and see how you like it.
Congrats man
. Now just lower it and the look is complete! I would just lower it on stock bolts, let it settle and see how you like it. Congrats man