GreenBlood

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Can anyone here mount and balance 28s on my 15x8 prostars and then modify my fenders/rear bumper to fit them?

What places would you recommend?

GreenBlood

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bump...

birdmaro

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any tire shop should be able to mount em.

whats wrong with the fenders? is your car lowered i forget?

GreenBlood

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no, but i had 27.2s on there and they barely cleared. i have a feeling its going to need to be trimmed. is it necessary to balance them?

99FBODY

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I had room with my 28s you might want to try and fit them before trimming your fenders.

GreenBlood

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i'll try it. what about when they expand slightly at higher speeds? Do drag wheels need to be balanced? i've heard differing views on this

99FBODY

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The radials dont expand like the et streets or the et drags. The wheels should be balanced otherwise your going to feel vibrations at high speeds. The tires might expand a little but from my experience I didnt have a problem with it.

ahhwataday

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I had to cut off my bump stops and beet the entire inner fender. With the infinate angles, the tire rubed every where. I have 28x11.6 tho. How wide are your tires?

GreenBlood

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thay are 275/60, so mounted on a 15x8, they measure about 11 inches wide

99FBODY

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Cut the bump stops off and maybe take a big *** hammer to the inner wheel well. Im not completely sure about how much needs to be beaten in since i was running 325 and not 275. You should have no problem get these tires to fit in there. Prolly going to be a lot of test fitting.

GreenBlood

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where would you recommend getting these installed so I can do test fitting before my car gets hacked up?

99FBODY

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any place should be able to mount them, I always took mine to a shop I use to work at in high school and mounted them myself.

GreenBlood

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mount and balance is probably gonna be expensive as hell...lol...it was almost 100 to do my rear 295/45s on my old 17s...

robsquikz28

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bring it to the mexicans they can do it for cheap and then get some adjustable lower control arms to center the rearend in the wheel well. Which you can buy from me

birdmaro

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yeah. you can get the tires mounted for 6 bucks a wheel at the place i go to.


never balanced them...never saw much vibration. but i never go above 100 on the street.

GreenBlood

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my care never sees above 100..plus my fronts are radials and only speed rated to 118. Can you text me if you still have my number on where you go? I looked at the drag racing thread, it said to balance them so that the tire stays balanced when it deforms off the line and at higher speeds.

And Rob, I already have a set of BMR LCA's in my car. I'm gonna need a PHB to center my rear though

408trans_am

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you wont need to cut any metal to fit them, but i would roll your fenders, nothing is worse is when you launch and your fender lip cuts your new tires. I have a fender rolling tool and heat gun ill let you borrow for cheap, its super easy to do and really is necessary if your running 28" or taller.

GreenBlood

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does the finished product look any different than stock? IS there a writeup on how to do it? I want it done right and don't want to do costly damage if I **** up.

408trans_am

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yea you cant tell its done, it rolls the lip under the fender back against the inside of the fender, its super easy and takes about an hour per side if you take breaks. yea theres a video that shows how its done here...

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/f...101_104849.htm

ahhwataday

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Put an ad on craigslist, NEED HELP. I put mine on by hand. If you have big *** pry bars you should be able to do it too. You can get a balancer from northern tool for less than 100. But you probably wont need to balance them.

i had run mine see where they rub, BFH mod. Had to do this several times. I can tell you from the get go, try and beet the little piece of steel that is near the LCA. The rear tires have so many possible angles you will most likly have to test them to see where they will rub. Your tires can go straght up, up and left, up and right, up and all over hahah.