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Old 08-26-2003, 05:44 AM
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Car: '86 IROC-Z/'94 Z28
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Anyone have silver widespoke C5 wheels on their 3rdgens?

I picked up a set I was thinking of using on my '94, but now I'm considering them on my '86. I'm thinking of painting it gunmetal grey, with black iroc stripes, t-tops and headlight doors, and maybe blacking out the wheels and borla tips as well(professionally) even though there is nothing wrong with the finish on the wheels at all. These are the painted widespoke C5's with the front/17" rear/18" arrangment. I thought about painting it bright red and leaving the wheels alone. It's been lowered. I need some ideas! thanks!
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FYI those wheels are called Zr-1s try a search for that, alot of people have swapped them onto thirdgens. SLP sells the OEMs through their website. You will need to use billet adapters for the wheels as the offset for fourthgens was different. Andris Skulte sells them on his website, I forget the address but he is a sponsor of this site. HTH.
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hey DANA FYI no those wheels are not called Zr-1s, they are the C5 rims from the '97-99 corvettes, try reading a post before you reply.
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Car: '89 Formula 350 & '86 Z28
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I think these are what he is talking about....
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Car: '86 IROC-Z/'94 Z28
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yeah!

Yup, those are exactly what I'm talking about...I'm not a chrome guy, and was looking for what the painted ones looked like on a thirdgen Camaro, since as I said, I'm thinking of going with a gunmetal grey body and blacking out the rest, including the headlight doors, t-tops, stripes, rearview mirrors maybe, exhaust tips maybe, and wheels maybe. This is why I wanted to know so I can get a better idea of what to do...

Thanks for the image!
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Scott I beg your forgiveness

Scott please forgive my complete and utter ignorance, I bow to your consumate knowledge of all things f-body and y-body related.
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Re: Scott I beg your forgiveness

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Scott please forgive my complete and utter ignorance, I bow to your consumate knowledge of all things f-body and y-body related.
well hey. Say something wrong, especially info that nobody asked for, and you should expect to take it on the chin.
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Car: '89 Formula 350 & '86 Z28
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i think i found some pics of these on cars by searching "c5 wheels pics" a while ago....try it
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Still haven't found it... maybe I'm typing it in the wrong way or something. Only thing I found were the chrome ones, and I dont like those...hard for me to get an idea what silver ones would look like with a picture of chrome wheels, too.
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Does this help? Not my car but found it on these boards!
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My Auto teacher has those wheels on his Vette. . . Its not a C5, Anyway, JohnfromRI had them on his Berlinetta, he has some nice inserts on them. They look REALLY good on it!
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i'd like to see a set in black chrome....i think it would look sharp. the gray is a little plain for me but thats just my opinion.

the flat 5's are known as the c5's. the skinny 5's are commonly reffered to as millenium edition since that's when they were introduced and we all know there is no mistaking the z06's.

they are all nice wheels if you don't mind using adapters. i don't particularly care of the stagered sizes on thirdgens since the body isn't built for it though.

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actually.. I do.. let me find some pics of em.






Theres more in this folder

http://www.omnipotent-goku.com/carpics/
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My fav shot.

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talk to Andris about the wheel adapters. They will run you about $300, but are stable as can be.
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Car: 1987 IROC Z
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one of the wheels has a little road rash on it. I figured sometime next year when I get the car painted, Im going to have the rims powder coated black, or some dark color. Cany anyone photoshop my rims black or grey even ?
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Car: '86 IROC-Z/'94 Z28
Engine: 350 LT1/382 LT1
Transmission: 4L60-E/T-56
Axle/Gears: 3.45/3.42 (soon 4.10)
See, mow that looks good...if it were me, I'd toss on some hood louvers and iroc taillights, but it's doesn't look bad either way. I was going to paint my car black like it was originally; but since black shows alot more imperfections and I seem to keep finding myself in black cars, I wanted to change and go with something different. I would probably go with red and silver stripes, or black and silver stripes. Those pics look good though! If I do go gunmetal, I'll probably powdercoat the wheels and possibly the taillights black.
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black cherry with cherry red accented stripes and chrome black c5 wheels would look unbelievable.
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