Anyone running a drag setup with 17's up front and 15's out back????!!!!
04-21-2009, 07:39 AM
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Anyone running a drag setup with 17's up front and 15's out back????!!!! Post up pics of your car with your 17 inchers up front and the 15's out back. I am trying to find out if they will end up looking goofy or not because of the huge rim diameter difference. I was hoping that as long as the rims styles matched they would look somewhat decent but I'm not sure. Reason I am posting this is because I need to use a 17 in rim on the front because of my large Baer brake system, but 15's seem to cler the rear calipers just fine.
04-21-2009, 04:08 PM
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Not that it helps u any but people ask me if im running larger rims in the front all the time. They do look a lil bigger then the back but they're 15's all around.
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04-23-2009, 09:59 AM
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jj Z28 and Camaro396 you are both showing me pics that you are running 15x3.5's up front. Are you running the stock LS1 brakes, and if so, did they fit without grinding on the calipers?
04-23-2009, 01:40 PM
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So the Greg Weld 15x3.5's fit up front with no grinding of the caliper. What backspacing did you end up using for those? Did you end up having to use a spacer of some sort to clear everything? Do you happen to know if the Greg Weld wheels(15x10) will fit the same on the rear? Don't forget, I have a 3rd gen camaro. My rears will end up being a 15x10 with a 5.5 inch backspacing. I am really concerned about the fronts not fitting. The 4th gen and 3rd gen have different offsets. The street tires that I am currently running on the front are 4th gen spec ZR1 replicas and I needed a 2 inch Skulte adapter to make them fit. I get the feeling that if I bolt the 15x3.5's up without the adapter, the wheel will be all up in the calipers business, and if I bolt it up with the adapter, the wheel will end up sticking out way past the fender. I am just trying to make sure that everything will fit before I commit to buying, kinda like the old adage measure twice cut once!
04-23-2009, 04:12 PM
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They only come in 15x3.5 1.75" backspace. They will fit fine on your car. I've run them on my 4th gen, and on my 2nd gen. However, GW went out of business, so unless you can find a set used, you're out of luck. However I am probably selling mine shortly.
04-26-2009, 04:09 PM
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Camaro396: I sure do hope that they would fit. If you remember from some of my previous posts, I have a 3rd gen with Baer brakes up front that supposedly require 17 inch wheels. From the research that I have done, the track system uses what appear to be a Corvette C4 Heavy Duty caliper. I am not sure how they compare is size and overall dimensions to the front calipers on the LS1 cars, but I can tell you that a factory 92 Z28 16 inch rim barely fits. Now I know that the Greg Weld 15's are designed a little differently to give more clearance for calipers but I am just not sure that it will fit. Without the spacers, I would imagine that it would hit the caliper, but if I use the 2 inch wheel adapter(that allows me to use 4th gen offset wheels) it would stick out. I think that this is due to the 3rd gen wheel wells not being as deep as the 4th gens are, but I am not for certain. From a purely mathematical standpoint, the numbers add up to a 15x3.5 rim with a 1.75 in backspacing equating to the wheel sticking out only a measly 1.75 inches from the rotor hat area. But using the 2 inch adapter that will net 3.75 inches. Now I will have to check for reference how much of the factory 16 inch wheel sticks out from the rotor hat area to compare it, and if it is similar then I guess it could be ok. However, that would be with an adapter, and I am not sure that I would want to trust that to hold up while drag racing. Even though it is on the front, and I don't plan on pulling the wheels, if for some reason I do get the front airborn, I don't want the adapters to break when the front comes down. I am just very unsure about all of this...
