LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova
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Those are 305/35/18 Nitto 555R's, 100 treadwear. My current 275/40/18 are going on the front. I'm going to have a local place that specializes in alloy rim widening & repair widen the wheels to 9.5" front and 11" rear. 11" rear will be good for these sticky 305's, or 315's in a more normal 200+ treadwear if I ever choose to have a higher wear rating..
Can't wait to see the result. If I had an extra subframe (hint hint Tom), I'd go the 'notched front subframe' route and run 275s.
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Thanks Tony.. looking forward to having more tire on the ground. I like the look of these rims, so widening them just made sense. When I first started searching for decent-looking rims (5 or 6 years ago), it was difficult to find this spoke design but I finally found these and am still happy with them. If I were to not widen and just get new wheels, yes there are a lot more companies that make this euro-style rim for musclecars now, but they're all nearing or exceeding 1000 a corner.. I'm not about to spend that.
A local place called Green's Automotive did it, friend recommended them with good stories, I'll say the end product turned out well. Nice, tight weld beads, minimal balance weights, they even cleaned all the brake dust off! Ended up being $200 per corner, which sounds expensive but even if that's at a [cheap] $60/hr rate, that's 3 hours of work labor per rim.. seems acceptable enough.
Mark.. that's my phone camera, so I'm ok with it sucking. Hell I use my camera to open beer bottles when I'm in a pinch so to say I don't care about it would be an understatement haha.
A local place called Green's Automotive did it, friend recommended them with good stories, I'll say the end product turned out well. Nice, tight weld beads, minimal balance weights, they even cleaned all the brake dust off! Ended up being $200 per corner, which sounds expensive but even if that's at a [cheap] $60/hr rate, that's 3 hours of work labor per rim.. seems acceptable enough.
Mark.. that's my phone camera, so I'm ok with it sucking. Hell I use my camera to open beer bottles when I'm in a pinch so to say I don't care about it would be an understatement haha.
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Not a bad price at all considering the labor or the replacement costs.
Speaking of brake dust, I went with ceramic pads. I am hoping they will throw off a minimal amount of dust. Theses new wheels look like pain in the *** to clean!
I was looking around on racingjunk.com and found a fabbed subframe for the first gen Camaro using late model Mustang front strut setup. After reading the negatives on the short/long arm front suspension we have, it just makes me wonder why more people do not fab a similar setup.
Speaking of brake dust, I went with ceramic pads. I am hoping they will throw off a minimal amount of dust. Theses new wheels look like pain in the *** to clean!
I was looking around on racingjunk.com and found a fabbed subframe for the first gen Camaro using late model Mustang front strut setup. After reading the negatives on the short/long arm front suspension we have, it just makes me wonder why more people do not fab a similar setup.
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I wish I could tell you Ceramics were dustless... Joe can attest to my filthy front wheels... I run Carbotech XP16's They work great, but are crazy dirty...and I run them for time attack on a road course.
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I am under the impression that any track-oriented pad is going to dust, even so called "ceramic" pads. I was thinking Hawk HPS pads for mine.
Some decent pad tech in these articles:
http://www.superchevy.com/technical/...s/viewall.html
http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/c...y/viewall.html
Some decent pad tech in these articles:
http://www.superchevy.com/technical/...s/viewall.html
http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/c...y/viewall.html
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Not much new to report here, garage concrete floor and tools have been cold and that puts a damper on the excitement of going out there. But I did get a new addition to the garage.. cleaning out the shop at work one of the guys gave me his old stereo setup..
Went from this..
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To this..
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Amazing how it only takes a little change/inspiration to get back at making stuff..
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Have left hibernation and back to having the fabrication bug.. recently when I've been trying to fall asleep all I can think about are rowing thru the gears and hearing the turbo spool, so I think next weekend I'll buckle down and get thru the mini-tub.
Went from this..
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To this..
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Amazing how it only takes a little change/inspiration to get back at making stuff..
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Have left hibernation and back to having the fabrication bug.. recently when I've been trying to fall asleep all I can think about are rowing thru the gears and hearing the turbo spool, so I think next weekend I'll buckle down and get thru the mini-tub.
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