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Old 05-20-2010, 12:11 PM
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Well, I ended up trading a buddy my deep dish C5's a week or two ago, because the 335 DR's were about bald, and I didn't want to pay the $600 to replace them. He really wanted to trade, and these had basically all brand new rubber on them. I don't like the fact that they're only 275 Nankang street tires on the rear, but they do alright. The wheels are hyperblack Ruff Racing 278's. 18x8.5 fronts and 18x9.5 rears.





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Those are damn nice. Great choice.
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Are you running spacers on any of them? Looks like they fit nice and flush with the wheel wells. I really like these. The deep dish c5's look good too, but, good grief I am tired of seeing vette wheels on these cars!!
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No spacers on the fronts. But, I kept my 5/16" spacers on the rear, to make it flush with the wheel well, since my buddy didn't need them for his Camaro, when we did the swap.
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Do you know the offset?
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I'm not 100% sure. But, I was thinking the offsets for these are something like 35mm for the fronts and 45mm for the rears.
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nice wheels i love them...im a little biased lol
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car looks great minus the red trans am badge..

would look much better chrome, with a chrome bird on the front plate cover.
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The red Trans Am badges just look out of place in these pics, because you can't see the calipers. They're painted red too. When you can see both, the red lettering looks a lot better. I thought about just taking them off and having no lettering on the side at all. But, I'm still unsure about it.
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Looks great...clean those tires up and it will be even better.
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Dude those look INTENSE on your car! I dig!
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nice wheels man.
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is the only place to get these wheels off ebay?
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Looks good, i was looking a set of wheels like that a few months ago but wasnt sure if they would fit or not. so i didnt pull the trigger, hopefully ill find some for sale again sometime.
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is that a ******* hole in your floor?
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They look great man, I really like it!
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wow, I just picked up the same set of wheels!!!... But, mine are 19's..... I didn't know that the lips were that huge!!!

You have another shot of the rears?
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^^Yea, Ruffs have some serious lip for the wheel pricing.

Nice, what size hub rings did you use if any? I have a set of chrome 18" 279's I'm waiting to get tires for & need to pick up some hub rings.
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I liked your other wheels better but those look good too
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Originally Posted by Oso SS
is that a ******* hole in your floor?
haha. It's a pit in my boss' shop. Comes in handy quite a bit.


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