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Old 02-21-2010, 01:30 AM
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well i have been contemplating this for while i dot know know if i should paint my wheels or not. there chrome for one thing and expensive. i really want black wheels with a chrome lip but i don't want to but new wheels cause i really like the looks of mine


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IMO those wheels are to "gangsterish" for my taste haha....but, I think if you dropped it and got rid of the 4x4 stance and went with the black they would look better.
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Im kinda a fan of the chrome! How much would it cost to get them painted?
Also +1 On the lowering!
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ya i need to lower it bad, but that costs money that i don't have
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Originally Posted by 01SOMZ28
IMO those wheels are to "gangsterish" for my taste haha....but, I think if you dropped it and got rid of the 4x4 stance and went with the black they would look better.
ya there actually not that gangsterish cuase i hate that look. if i lowered my ride it would looks 100x better . i think painting them black would help make them less gangster though
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Originally Posted by BigBadWhitey
Im kinda a fan of the chrome! How much would it cost to get them painted?
Also +1 On the lowering!
50 a wheel
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get them powdercoated, much better quality.. and last alot longer IMO
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Originally Posted by 13lu91rS
get them powdercoated, much better quality.. and last alot longer IMO
ya thats what im doing
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Leave them chrome man. The spoke design looks cheap when painted black, chrome still looks nice.
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leave them chrome IMO. You would spend $200 on painting the wheels black. possibly more to remove, install and balance the tires again. you could use that towards lowering it with some used springs and it would look a lot better. just my $.02

The wheels are BA so they would look good no matter what you did!
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Leave them chrome and lower it
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hard call lol really confusing...both looks nice IMO your wheels look good in chrome
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I like them both ways actually. But due to the expense involved in getting them powdercoated, I'd say leave them the way they are, and put the money towards something else (like maybe lowering).
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i like both. so whatever you go with, will look good i think
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paint them black, chrome looks good, but the black with the lip looks better
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chrome and lower
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That is one clean LT1, I would just lower it.
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for 200 dollors you could have lowering springs id do that first.
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well thanks for your input guys guess i'll keep them chrome lol. and i know i need to lower it bad
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Originally Posted by draggin97s10
for 200 dollors you could have lowering springs id do that first.
where can i get lowering springs for 200 bucks? is that all i really need is springs, i'm not to concerned with handling just a cheap lower



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