I can't decide if I want to get silver zr1's or black. Sorry I borrowed a pic of your car Thomas Aquinas since it was so close to mine. All opinions would greatly be appreciated

 

The silver ones give a cleaner look but the black rims give it an edge and a different type of appearance. i'd go with the black.

 

buy both





....if you buy the silver you may change the appearance by using vinyl

 

the black actually doesnt look to bad, but they looks WAYYY to small then so silver!

 

Silver

 

Silver since you have a blue car.

 

I agree with Zepher go with silver lookes better on your car.

Tony.

 

yeah I was leaning more towards the silver

 

silver

 

Go with the silver.

 

Silver is sexy on a blue car

 

now i gotta decide if I want to do 17x11 or 9.5 in the rear hmmmm

 

Dude are you serious? 17x11 common its obvious, lol. I would go with those on the rear and 17x9.5 in the fronts just my 2cents.

Tony.

 

17x11's will give your car such a mean look and will probably hook/handle better.

 

With the current Iroc stripe pattern on the car, silver looks best. If it was all blue with no Irocz decals, I'd go black in a heart beat.

 

I really want 17x11 believe me lol the problem is I just spent over 4 grand on my paint, and I really don't want to have to roll my lips. The other option is to go in further, but then I have to modify bump stop, and surrounding area. So idk what I wanna do

 

Tires for the 17x11 are also more expensive. 17x11 WILL hook better if you need better traction. Our cars I was told can fit a 315 wide tire I'm not sure if that's correct. What size tire are you planning on for the 17x11 wheel?

 

I'll offer the dissenting opinion here. Saying his car needs silver rims is like saying mine needs gold rims. There is more black on these cars than the accent color. the sripe is black and the hood louvers are black. I vote black.

 

Love the car but that color wheel really doesent fly for my tatste on that paint color. Neither will silver will do just my openion but I seen some really awsome rims that will go with your car they come on corvettes as well but there like a copper color awsome if I come across I'll post some pictures. I know I seen them here on the boards though.

Tony.

 

Tony.

 

seeing as to the fact I do own both sets of wheels in question, i'd go with the black/chrome zr1's in 9.5/11 flavor. you won't regret it.

 

I really like those wheels. Those are the magnesium wheels, right?

 

Awsome freaking wheels though. But yeah they are the magnesium wheels.

Tony.

 

The blue vette has alow front tire. I vote black.

 

Interesting feedback. I have a friend that feels the same way but he's never seen the car in person. EVERYONE that sees it in person (car shows and cruise-ins) loves the rims. I think there must be something to actually seeing the rims. The OP and I live fairly close together and hang out frequently. He was set on silver rims until he saw my car and then wasn't sure. I think either rim will look great on his car, especially if we nibble 1/2 coil from his springs. We're going to swap my wheels onto his car and see what he thinks, we'll post pix...

it also needs to be lowered 8354039 inches....

 

here are the vette mag wheels on a third gen

 

those magnesium vette rims are pretty sweet, and another thing about my car is that my louvers and headlight buckets are gloss black instead of the normal satin so I do think black would look really good, because it would all be the same shade of black. It is a very tough call I really need to slap 1meanz's rims on it, but it's always raining here lol

 

oh, and i vote silver for your car, im NOT a fan of black rims on blue irocs, the whole car looks bruised up, black and blue all over

 

I vote Silver rims and go 9.5/11. You can always see if you can get the rims offset if your worried about clearance. I'm running 10's on mine with no offset and only had to change the springs. $75 for each spring and now the rear end sticks to the road like glue and my tires dont rub. JMO

 

You changed the rear springs to get rims to fit? Care to explain that a little more?

Everyone agrees that the 11s look better on the rear. The problem with clearing the 11" rims is the wheel lips (if the car is lowered) and the bumpstops (axle at full droop). The OP's car is a virgin car with a fresh paint job. I don't think he wants to hammer fenders, roll lips, or chop and relocate bumpstops. With a 9.5 rim in the back he will likely be able to avoid all of that while still having a nice square stance to the car.

 

Tough choice, I like silver, but black as others said gives it a more sinister look. Your choice!

 

I may have read what he meant totally wrong, but I read his post as using 11" tires (wide). I have 15" rims with true 60's on the rear. Because of the tall sidewall and how wide they are (10" wide tire), they would rub slightly on the lip of my fenders. So I put in a slightly heavier spring in the rear to lift the backend up more and to also stop the rubbing because now there is less rebound. Make sense?

 

This is about 17" diameter 11" wide rims. No one here is talking about jacking the back of their car up to fit 15" rims and oldschool G60s or whatever size you have.

 

OK here are the results of our test yesterday. These are my front rims on the car. 17x9.5 56mm offset. 2" spacers front 1.5" spacers rear. "before and after" pix of the car below. Car was just painted, thats why the hood louvers and rocker emblems are still missing.

 

it's such a tough call

 

you just gotta decide which look you want man. The black wheels have the dark sinister look. That would be complimented by a lower stance and larger brakes. The silver wheels I think would be more of a classic look and would still look OK even if you left the stock brakes and ride height.

 

Got any other pictures of those wheels installed on your car?

Thanks. Tony.

 

not any good ones


here's one thats ok

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...86548/2010.jpg

 

yeah i would go with the silver ones...looks good with your color.or you could buy the new zr1 rims like this car i saw on here and cardomain..would look good with your blue...

his name is hossamz28 (cardomain)....this is the first camaro i seen with the new zr1 rims....i think they look good