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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 10:27 AM
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I received my summit wheels last week and I must say they are nice. A little heavy but at $90 a peice I cant complain. Got everything mounted and balanced yesterday and bolted them on. I love the way they look on the car, they do stick out a little more than I wanted but oh well. Wating on getting the rears til summit stocks the MT ET Street radials again so my car wont be down for long.

I also got some used 26x11.5 Et streets from a local guy and slapped them on my 16" firebird wheels. After about a 1.5 hours with the powerball and Mother's Billet polish they ended up looking almost as good as the summit wheels. I ran out of light so I didnt get any pics of the car afterwards. But I got a vid of me putting the car back in the garage so I could pull the interior and clean it up a bit for some shakedown passes tonight. I'll try and get some day pics with the wheels on. In the mean time here you go!

This is what I started with:


After about 45min. of polishing with the powerball:


Comparison with the other wheel:





Disregard the dirty wheel wells as the car has been sitting for 3 years:


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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 02:56 PM
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Sounds and looks good!
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 02:58 PM
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Looking good!
Last picture: Tire pressure kind of low?
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Old Mar 6, 2008 | 02:58 PM
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Yeah they're at 35 as per tire installer. I set them at 40 before I left last night to the track. Check out the vid in my sig, it was a good/bad night but ran a best of 12.26@110mph.
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Old Mar 6, 2008 | 03:01 PM
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sounds evil i like it, i like the front rims, the back look like ta stockers imo. but def nice
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Old Mar 6, 2008 | 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by DarkJuggalo
sounds evil i like it, i like the front rims, the back look like ta stockers imo. but def nice
Maybe because they are
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They are stockers...LOL!!! Thanks, hoping to go a little faster soon.
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Old Mar 6, 2008 | 03:35 PM
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i can look paste the dirty wheel wells but i cannot look paste the black molding, otherwise everything looks good
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Originally Posted by DarkJuggalo
... the back look like ta stockers imo. but def nice
Yeah its amazing how those stock rear wheels look just like stock wheels.

nice setup on the car though.. I have the same!
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hey, any grinding required to get those wheels to work with the front calipers without grinding? I know the rears I had to do some grinding on the calipers to get them to work right. thanks
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