klumb15

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anybody got pics??? i found one on cardomain, blue with white stripes 20's all the way around..then a green one with 20's out back and 18's up front...they both look really good...i almost like the 18 20 combo better than 20's all the way around..but its hard to find 2 18's and 2 20's that are matching...anybody got any input on big rims on a thirdgen...pictures would be great too if ya got em...

1992rs/ss

20's but just looks too big for me

klumb15

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yea i guss so...i like those rims tho!!! KMC stealths I think...maybe some pictures of a nice 18" rims combo would help..

THEGENERAL

dont know about the rims but i love those flames...LOL...OOOH AAAAH

megaracerx

anymore pics of the car? especialy close ups of the flames?

nolanr0413

20s have a few problems in my mind, the ride for one , and they also make the brakes look very small . Even if you have 13inch rotors they still look small.

Kandied91z

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get 15" brakes then...



too damn heavy for me.

here you go.

Kandied91z

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here's some guys car i found with 18's, not my taste but it's clean.. reguardless pick a equal size all around, staggered sizes on thirdgens or any other car that the body wasn't built for looks rediculous.

mw66nova

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man kandied! where every did you find that car? the owner must have put a huge amount of money into it...lol!

Kandied91z

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eh some guy in upstate NY has it i hear...

KiLLJ0Y

yeah i heard he looks just like Richard Simmons

tsb09000

Here's one with 20s all around with 245/35/zr20 nitto 555 lowered 1.6" with eibach springs.

tsb09000

Here's one I found on ebay a while back...20 inch spokes with a one inch lift!

tsb09000

And another with 20s all around

tsb09000

18s and 20s

tsb09000

Last one...another with 18s and 20s

klumb15

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OMG i love the 18 20 look....i was just gonna do 18's all around, but if i can find some matching 18's and 20's i think i'll do that...that looks amazing! 20's all around looks terrible....i'm definatly not doing that....thats what i'm gonna do tho, find some 18's and 20's, and if i can't i'll get 18's all the way around...20's in the back gives that car a nice mean rake to it...

klumb15

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does anybody know of a site that sells a 18" 20" package...or will i have to go to a local dealer and order each rim seperate??

CaysE

If you really want a larger rear wheel, I suggest tubbing the rear and just stuffing 24s back there. You'd be the first, I'm sure.

85f-bird

honestly the "jacked up in back" look is real white trashy (hopefully i didnt offend to many people w/ that remark, but that's what the mainstream is gonna think) in the same way that the 100 spokes are nothing but out of the ghetto. 20's can be pulled off w/ the 18 in the front, as long as ride height isn't effected majorly, i'd almost say that 20 all around isn't all too bad, infact, i like the pic posted by TSB (the second one) although i'm not a huge fan of the rims, a tad more offset, and a less square design (maybe) and boom, you're in business.

CrazyHawaiian

Lots of billet wheel compaines have no problem with people ordering mismatched sizes. Just call them and ask about it. Check out my sig for 18's front/rear.

klumb15

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i don't like that jacked up look either...i got sportline springs, and if i get 18/20 i will prolly end up tubing it out a little bit and dropping the *** a bit more so ti looks better and you get the rim tucked up in there...i'll keep my eyes open for them....how much does it cost to have custom billet wheels made? and from where??

Intensity_Z

crazyhawaiian, what color is you car? it looks similar to sunset orange , i want to paint my 84 that but sunset orange is 450 bucks a gallon anywhere around here, most others are about 100-170 a gallon, i like those wheels too

CaysE

crazyhawaiian's car is Sunset Orange Metallic with Boyd Coddington Tuned wheels.

Here's what different sized wheels with the proper suspension geometry could look like. I'm guessing this is 18s and 22s or 23s. Sorry it's not a thirdgen, but I've never seen a thirdgen done like this:

Kandied91z

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and you won't as fender flares on a thirdgen and oversized wheels like that where the fronts are smaller then the back look rediculous.

here's how you look riding down the road with a staggered size....18/20 is even worse.

i guess if you like that look though go for it.

Kandied91z

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do some more research on custom wheels.

anywhere from 200-1,000 is the normal range per wheel. depends on size of course.

if your on a budget try to find a set of cast wheels. that or go with a less expensive brand like boyd coddington or colorado customs. do a search on billet wheels and you'll find alot of info.

84327power

i know that im prolly going to be laughed off the board again, but hopefully im not alone... i think tall tires with low pro tires dont look good at all... if you want a mean looking rake put taller tires on the back, then put either (or both) stronger springs or air shocks to raise it up. i think it looks good. case in point my car. by the way, for those of you who remember the last time i posted, the sidepipes are on. but have no picture due to car in body shop getting painted. (dark silver with a very heavy matalic flake, ghost perlized flaims).

84327power

oops

THEGENERAL

yup its not even close to being related to the thread and its still hideous...LMAO...J/K

but seriously everyone here is talking about putting 18's,20's and such on thier cars not truck tires and airshocks ....wrong thread...

84327power

its not truck tires, im just stating what i like, as in that i dont like 18's and 20's makes them look like import ricefarkers

THEGENERAL

if you dont like them then why post in this thread about 20's on a thirdgen?

that makes no sense...

mw66nova

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cause he has an opinion that he wants to voice just like you general. now, i must admit, his photo was not needed to let you know his opinion, but he is entitled to let his opinion known. i am not one for having it jacked up in the rear like that, but that's cause i am about functionality. i don't believe that jacking a car up with air shocks and forcing a 32" tire under there is the way to go if you want to get a car to hook good on the track or look good going down the street, but i also don't think that slamming a car and running 20's is the way to go either. i am a fatties/skinnies fan to the core, but i also want the cars suspension to be functional when it comes to wieght transfer.

pic in sig gives about the ride height i like but i am getting some actual fatties/skinnies wheels in a month or so. (Centerline Telstars that is)

cars like Kandied's old car and stuff look amazing, but not something that would work for me.

ljnowell

Man, you gotta be kidding me, that look is hideous. I wouldnt even admit to knowing the owner of that thing. If those arent truck tires, they are the biggest passenger car tires I have ever seen.

85f-bird

my problem with the fatties/skinny's thing is it's not very 3rd gen. The old chevy that was on this page can pull the look off, but think about something, The skinny's aren't really skinny, they're probably 215-235's , the fatties are just that, probably a 315 or something in the close, maybe larger. The rear's tubbed, the wheel on the back is huge, but did ya notice something? you can't see it. Reason it doesn't look really really funny, if the whole wheel was exposed (as they are on thirdgens, unless you do some major slamming, and some majoring tubbing, some major rear frame work, etc, not to metnion the rest of the suspension) then , it just isn't going to happen. No prob w/ the 20's i've seen on here, and not a huge prob w/ the 18-20 thing, but, it has the potential to looking a tad funny.

On why i don't think a jacked up rear-end is thirdgen material, very simple reason. It doesn't go w/ the idea of the car. THESE AREN'T DRAG RACERS!!! yes, people have convertered them , and some of these drag car setups actually look nice, but, for the most part, you don't need to go around w/ ur butt up in the air in order to get traction. eh, maybe that's just my thought on it.

84327power

mw66nova
thank you for that. also those are not 32" there 28" so there not huge, there not even very large passenger tires, there a sport tire. if you had 20" rims with tires that puts you up to around what 24" or more with tire and rim. so in other words there not as big as they might look. and with functionality you would be greatly surprised how much weight is transfered with that set up. if it comes outta the body shop before the snow flys i will get pics or vids of it taking off... there is very little tire slip, it grabs and goes very well. im not trying to make it a drag car, in my opinion that is what a true muscle car should look like. mean and agressive. and yes i know that my car looks funny like that, part of the reason to do that was to make it different from others(1 of a kind) but like i had stated earler i think 20s belong on trucks or larger import ricefarkers, or big *** boats. just my opinion

klumb15

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yea i think i'll stick to the low and sleek look with big rims...i'm not a big fan of a whole bunch of tire and my rearend getting ready for lift off.....I think a 18/20 setup looks sweet, so I think i'll go with it....20's all the way around looks bad, way too much chrome...but 20's in the back tucked up there real nice, and 18's on the front looks real nice, so I think I'll be satisfied...

THEGENERAL

1. id be completely surprised....

2. i bet it does i can imagine its hard to turn the rotating mass of those with the engine you have anyway ....

3. well thats an opinion i guess... but everyone has one..

4. thank goodness i was hoping you did, its definatly different

85f-bird

guess that's the other part my problem with the look, comes from the idea that these aren't muscle cars. 1st gens really weren't muscle cars either, pony cars none-the-less but definately not muscle cars. Those were Chevelles, GTO's, Chargers, Road-Runners and the sort. Mustangs , camaros and firebirds weren't muscle cars as they were too small. Challengers and Cudas could go on the pony car scale, hwoever they were actually a tad too late for it, and came out somewhere in between setups, as the camaro/firebird had turned into a muscle car by the 2nd generation. By the 3rd gens, with the cars getting smaller, and the concentration not being so much on (go straight) as it was on (go around) the muscle car shift changed to a Sport Coupe shift, and the cars lost that "muscle car" heriatage to an extent.

Same's true for the 4th gens, and the slogan "The Muscle car Lives" for the T/A really isn't true, as those too also aren't muscle cars, but, they're just about the closest thing thats left.

By the way, don't they run on 17's and 18's? Definately not jacked up, at all.

84327power

i happen to remember back when i started a thread called "lifted vs. lowered" when i was called everything from a hillbilly to a red)(neck. told i should make sure my seat layed back so i could sleep with my sister, trailer trash amongst others. and if i remember correctly there general you were right there with the rest of them. so go to hell

tsb09000

Wow, this thread has gone south quick. I thought it was about putting big wheels on a camaro. I really don't want to unsubscribe to this one due to all the trash talk because I too would like to see more 20s on camaros before I make up my mind. I have 18x9 all around on mine and have wondered if 20s would be too big, because I am currently on the bandwagon of big wheels (to an extent and mainly on trucks and suvs). Anyway, post em if ya got em...pics that is

KiLLJ0Y

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i make a motion to suspend/ban 84327power, he is rude, insulting and that is violating board rules by name calling.

THEGENERAL

oh yeah i think that 20's look awsome all the way around from what ive seen so farin this thread but i dont know about the 20's on rear and 18's on front ...to me i think the rims should be the same size all the way around ...

85f-bird

as stated earlier in this post, there's really nothing wrong w/ mixing and matching rim sizes, however, i don't know how "needed" it is on these cars, but hey, if ya wanna go for it, i know the new vettes have larger wheels in the back (think all the c5's did) and im sure the c6 is no exception. Also, they're wider in the back then they are in the front, however, they did it w/ a modern twist. The rims are a lower profile tire (helps grip the road, gives you stronger sidewalls ,etc) And the hweels being bigger in the back is barely noticed since the car sits so low, and the entire tire/wheel combo fits "inside" of the wheelwell....if it fits, get it as big as you can, if your tires sling mud up all over ur fenders, you might want to reconsider the fact that it just might be too big.

ljnowell

I agree. He seems to perpetuate every stereotype that comes with these cars. Name calling is against the rules and so are blatant attacks. He should be banned, end of story.

shawn18jgr

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Lauging my *** off that is hillarious as hell. I'm in tears crying! OMG thats funny as hell.

i should make sure my seat layed back so i could sleep with my sister

custom88camaro

This thread will stay open if we go back to 18's and 20's.

I like the 18/20 combo more than the 20/20. I also like the 18/18 look better than the 20/20. I like the 20/20 look more than my 16/16, but I think a 16/16 combo works better for straight line traction. I actually have no exp there, but I have been told that was the case. I think I will end up with 17/17 Torque Thrust 2's

85f-bird

custom 88, and i don't think anyone will complain w/ some TQ's on ur ride....they look good on just about, ummmm, everything.

Kandied91z

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my 18's hook better then my 16's with dr's.

GTA4ME

CLOSED, just because some people can't grow up. You know who you are, further offenses will not be tolerated.