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Old Oct 31, 2016 | 11:57 AM
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Bad ***! In that last pic the wheels don't look that good with the car IMO
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Old Nov 1, 2016 | 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by DopeFedZ
Yeah tips are probably going to get changed out for Corsa's.

Holy shet, I thought it was runnin' a Cummins diesel, ...,or something like the farm-truck boys do around here, ...,
They all have to see who can come up with the largest diameter & longest exhaust out of their black-choke pick-up trucks.


Oh hell, you probably took them off your big Dodge to put them on there!
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Old Nov 1, 2016 | 12:15 PM
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What size are those tips?
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Old Nov 1, 2016 | 10:32 PM
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Ive seen multiple firebirds with single 4" tips and the bumper area around the tips looks too empty which is why I tried the 5" tips.

I already run corsa tips on my white car so I wanted it to be a little different.
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Old Nov 2, 2016 | 07:20 AM
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I did some 3.5 and they look puny honestly. I should have done bigger ovals or quads, but had the 3.5 on-hand
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Old Nov 8, 2016 | 08:57 AM
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Took the wheels apart. Moving the rear lips to the front for another 1/2" of lip and the purchased new rear lips for another 1" of lip. Rears will now be 17x12.

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Old Nov 9, 2016 | 08:15 PM
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this is one hell of a "daily"
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Old Nov 17, 2016 | 06:50 AM
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Waiting on the rear lips to come back from powder coat. While waiting I swapped out the crappy stock steering wheel for a Momo wheel and also finished up installing Hella Micro De fogs.

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Wheels reassembled. Added another inch to the rears the are 17x12.

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