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Old 03-29-2011, 12:10 PM
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everything looks great, you have become a solid addition to the cts-v world.
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Looks good. The look of the stock wheels fits these cars so well. Now with an added flare!
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Thanks for the kind words guys.
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Looks great. Rim selection in general for these car is very limited
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So... for my personal brevity...

To install 295's on factory widened 18x10 wheels with a car at stock height:

Widen wheels to 10"
Install 295's on Wheels
Install BMR/MAP Arms
Install Wheel/Tire
Enjoy added traction

It's been that simple for 5 years and yet we're all still saving our pennies for CCW's?

NOT COOL!
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Originally Posted by greddy91
So... for my personal brevity...

To install 295's on factory widened 18x10 wheels with a car at stock height:

Widen wheels to 10"
Install 295's on Wheels
Install BMR/MAP Arms
Install Wheel/Tire
Enjoy added traction

It's been that simple for 5 years and yet we're all still saving our pennies for CCW's?

NOT COOL!
Not BMR ams, they do nothing for extra clearance. But as for the rest, pretty much, I'd say you'd even be safe with lowering 1-1.5".
Old 03-29-2011, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by tommycompton
Not BMR ams, they do nothing for extra clearance. But as for the rest, pretty much, I'd say you'd even be safe with lowering 1-1.5".
So..

You have these:

http://www.bmrsuspension.com/index.c...&productid=428

And they were useless?
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Wheels look awesome!! So you basically have about $1000 into widening the rims, 5mm spacers and the map trailing arms? Not including tires of course.
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Originally Posted by tommycompton
Btw The amount my tire that rubs on the outside fender I can't hear it and I can barely see the mark on the side wall, and I did hit some big bumps, one large enough to bottom out my exhaust. Mind you this is without fat chicks in the back seat.
So like I said I will be rolling them further
or triming them.
So your gonna roll them so you can put fat chicks in the back?! I'd skip the rolling and the putting of the fat chicks in the back.
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Originally Posted by greddy91
So..

You have these:

http://www.bmrsuspension.com/index.c...&productid=428

And they were useless?
I don't have BMR trailing arms. I have MAP trailing arms, the only place I know of that you can get them is Ebay.
You maynbe confused because I did install BMR toe rods.

Originally Posted by JD03Cobra
Wheels look awesome!! So you basically have about $1000 into widening the rims, 5mm spacers and the map trailing arms? Not including tires of course.
Rough calculations
500.00 for widenening+ 300 for shipping back and forth
100.00 for spacers
300? for trailing arms
So I'd figure roughly 1200
Then I got them powder coated for 280
so it brings me around 1500+ with menial shipping costs ect.
You don't need PC after widening they don't damage the face at all.

I spent 500 for my rear tires,
So my set up cost a cool 2g's
I also put on BMR toe rods to help with toe deflection and help with cambering/castering figured with tight tolerances any help would be needed to prevent rubbing while driving agressively.
I also threw some powergrid adjustable endlinks onto my Eibach swaybar to help tighten things up. With me being lowered 2" I had to modify the PG endlinks abit to make them shorter.


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So your gonna roll them so you can put fat chicks in the back?! I'd skip the rolling and the putting of the fat chicks in the back.
I put fat chicks in the back for testing purposes only.
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Originally Posted by tommycompton
I don't have BMR trailing arms. I have MAP trailing arms, the only place I know of that you can get them is Ebay.
You maynbe confused because I did install BMR toe rods.
Pretty sure MAP sold their design to BMR - so BMR=MAP but $60 cheaper.

Someone can step in here if I'm wrong...
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Originally Posted by greddy91
Pretty sure MAP sold their design to BMR - so BMR=MAP but $60 cheaper.

Someone can step in here if I'm wrong...
The BMR arms came out years before MAP had thought about making them.
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Originally Posted by greddy91
Pretty sure MAP sold their design to BMR - so BMR=MAP but $60 cheaper.

Someone can step in here if I'm wrong...
Wrong.




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Right Tommy,,btw:i heard that work is being done to make up newly fabricated rear trl. arm bushings....could [ what looks like metal bushings on the BMR's ] be used to replace the crushed red poly bushings on MAP's trl. arms
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so whats your total offset with the spacers? I cant seem to find what the offset of the stock rims are, et42?
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Originally Posted by GREG O.
Right Tommy,,btw:i heard that work is being done to make up newly fabricated rear trl. arm bushings....could [ what looks like metal bushings on the BMR's ] be used to replace the crushed red poly bushings on MAP's trl. arms
Yeah I sent that guy a sticker I had for measurements, Max at creative steel also said he is on top of it. I'm still using my MAP and are still doing their job aside from being crushed.
Originally Posted by catch2otwo
so whats your total offset with the spacers? I cant seem to find what the offset of the stock rims are, et42?
Stock +5mm, Yeah I can't remember what the stock offset is. It's posted around here somewhere I'm sure.



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