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Old 04-13-2011, 01:12 PM
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I'll be running 15x8 with 275/60/15 and some 15x4's up front. This is a budget setup detailed to look like more than they are but I think they'll look sweet once installed! I will post the hows and whys if anyone is interested ?

They're going on here:

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Ahhhh ... Summit Drag-Thrusts ... they actually look good with the "gold" painted center. Do these fit the LS1 brakes without spacers or grinding? At $114.95 per wheel, this is a budget build worth looking at if they fit.
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Originally Posted by BrianSF-GA
Ahhhh ... Summit Drag-Thrusts ... they actually look good with the "gold" painted center. Do these fit the LS1 brakes without spacers or grinding? At $114.95 per wheel, this is a budget build worth looking at if they fit.
Supposedly the rears need light grinding and the fronts go right on according to another board member on here. He has a NBM T/A with them on it in full polish. They look great on his car so I figured I would give them a whirl. The unexpected downside is they are HEAVY...and I mean HEAVY for a cast wheel.

I'll have them on the car later today hopefully.........
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I am not too interested in grinding my brake calipers, so i think it will be Race Stars for me when the car is ready. I may have to get them one at a time and, at $180 per wheel for 15x10's delivered with lugs, they are hard to beat. That is only $30 per wheel more than the Summits (I have to pay tax on the Summits since I am in GA).
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Supposed to be only light grinding on the rears...I can live with that but Ill let you know how it turns out after the test fit...
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Oh Hellz yes! This is going to look good.

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Should look nice.
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another shot of fronts and rears after paint....
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what do they weight?
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Originally Posted by senicalj4579
what do they weight?
Speaking of wheels "senicalj" ... I have a set of OE chrome 17x9.5/17x11 ZR1's in the garage ready to go on my Pewter SS after the S60 is in. I guess your sig photo is what mine will look like in "street" trim. Are you stock height?

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beautiful car
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Originally Posted by senicalj4579
what do they weight?
I only weighed the front one and got depressed....13lbs...wheel only
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beautiful set of wheels! I bet they will look killer on your car!
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Originally Posted by BrianSF-GA
Speaking of wheels "senicalj" ... I have a set of OE chrome 17x9.5/17x11 ZR1's in the garage ready to go on my Pewter SS after the S60 is in. I guess your sig photo is what mine will look like in "street" trim. Are you stock height?

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Yes sir im on stock height They will look great on your car! These wheels I have are old as dirt man. I have to take them off so I can give them their once a year front to back and inside out polishing
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Originally Posted by skimms98
I only weighed the front one and got depressed....13lbs...wheel only
Well, at least its lighter than zr1s and you can fit the better drag tires on them now to!
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true enough and I would have pics except our wheel balancer took a crap at work so now I have to haul them out to another place to PAY to have them balanced...BOOOOOO

BTW....here's a process photo file of how they came to look this way...





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Looks sick! I am going to do this but with a different wheel.
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Default crappy cell phone pic update...it's late....





more grinding on the rears than I would have liked...not like you have to on Weld Wheels but close. Fronts bolted right on...will have clean pics tomorrow....

Just put in SPOHN solid mounts and headed to the track tomorrow night!
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Nice! People still run nitto's?
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Awesome!

Hows fitment?


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