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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 10:43 PM
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My tires were actually rubbing pretty goon on the lca's. No way around that. Hopefully tubular lca's will give more clearance??
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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 10:52 PM
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i am thinking that is what must happen. i am really looking into getting my 17x9.5s widened to 10.5 or 11 and just run a spacer. its going to cost $400 or so. better than the $630 for just the new wheels and then i cant imagine what a 335 or a 345 in an 18" cost. so i am really wanting it to look stealthish too.
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 11:18 AM
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THOSE ARE SOME SICK *** RIMS AND TIRES
KEEP DRIVING CHEVY
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by 93formto98T/A
That doesn't make sense. Are you running aftermarket tubular lca's. Cause I'm running stock as of now and I had to cut them up to make the 18x12 fit.
yes,i am running aftermarket lca
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 11:53 AM
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so you simply bought the 18x12's house of wheels advertise for the vettes, banged the inner fenderwell and bolted them up?
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 12:07 PM
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That's alot of tire and wheel!

Might be a cool setup for guys with narrowed rears.
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 12:31 PM
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looks perfect! iam about to send my rear wheels off and have them widing from 10.5 to 12. the 295s are not working anymore.
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by willis 00
looks perfect! iam about to send my rear wheels off and have them widing from 10.5 to 12. the 295s are not working anymore.
alright,make sure you get some pics up
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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 01:34 PM
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They look so mean and beefy!
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Old Mar 10, 2006 | 10:35 PM
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very nice
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Old Mar 11, 2006 | 12:13 AM
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Looks nice, but thats about it... There arent really any performance gains with this setup.
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 02:36 PM
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looks phat!! Just going to suck paying 800 dollars to replace the rears every year and losing about 20 rwhp spinning them.
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 02:51 PM
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Those look real good.
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by 317indy
Looks nice, but thats about it... There arent really any performance gains with this setup.
Congrats on the upgrade.
Well........I am cutting 1.52 60's with these tires on my 18 x 12 HREs on my 97' and they hook as well on the street
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Old Mar 12, 2006 | 08:38 PM
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no way can you even fit a 12inch rim with a +64 offset without smashing the hell out off the inner fender.... something dosent add up here.... The only way you can fit a 12inch rim is with a offset around 40-44ish..... with out a junkload of the bfh mod and fender's rolled....

You now have so much room toward the outside of your fenders, thats not even being used by the tires/rims?!?


I still dont get it....

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T-rex, give us some more info man.....

Your not too far from where i go to school.......
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Old Mar 14, 2006 | 01:36 PM
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to do this right how much really needs to be done. i dont like the idea of taking a hammer to it.
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Old Mar 15, 2006 | 10:07 PM
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that is absolutely sick!
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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by FLAWLS1T/A
no way can you even fit a 12inch rim with a +64 offset without smashing the hell out off the inner fender.... something dosent add up here.... The only way you can fit a 12inch rim is with a offset around 40-44ish..... with out a junkload of the bfh mod and fender's rolled....

You now have so much room toward the outside of your fenders, thats not even being used by the tires/rims?!?


I still dont get it....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../BACKSPACE.gif


T-rex, give us some more info man.....

Your not too far from where i go to school.......
i think i will take a rim off and take it somewhere they can tell me offset.
two cans of under coating and you really cant tell anything
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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 01:28 PM
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yeah any more information would help...

Where did you get the rims?
How did you decide to put 12"s out back instead of 11's?
You must of had somebody do it for you...?
Looks like aftermarket LCA's are a must.....
anything else...?!?

info info info!!!!!!!
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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 01:56 PM
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where are the other pics, still waiting
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