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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 04:18 PM
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Car: 83Z28 HO
Engine: Magnacharged Dart Little M 408
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FINALLY - Got new shoes!

After much internal debate, I finally made a choice on tires and wheels! Just got em today. I think the Gunmetal wheels go pretty well with the Pepper Metallic Gray...what do you think?
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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 04:39 PM
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Re: FINALLY - Got new shoes!

What size tires, wheels etc. are in this post:
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/whee...40r-17-vs.html
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Old Jun 29, 2011 | 04:51 PM
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Re: FINALLY - Got new shoes!

Your Camaro looks beautiful with those wheels/tires on there..... If I ever decide to ditch the Welds, I'm going with a similiar setup as well.....Those gunmetal rims look sweet on cars that are silver or black................
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Old Jun 30, 2011 | 04:41 AM
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Re: FINALLY - Got new shoes!

Wheels look great. I definately like the deep dish.

Lowering the front 1 1/2", and maybe the rear a bit as well would pretty much fix the stance without sacrificing ground clearance too much.
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Old Jul 1, 2011 | 12:55 AM
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Re: FINALLY - Got new shoes!

love them. is your motor out of the car right now? That's what it looks like to me. if it's in there you definitely need to lower the car.
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Old Jul 1, 2011 | 09:12 AM
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Re: FINALLY - Got new shoes!

Thanks for the compliments. As far as the stance goes, it really doesn't sit up in front at all. I think it's the angle I took the pic at makes it look that way.

I thought I would get at least a few responses before someone would mention dropping it to the ground. Lowering the car really wasn't in my plans. I know someone else that had his IROC lowered and his entire front facia dragged on the concrete bad while going up/down driveways...it was ugly to watch and scraped up the underside pretty badly.

I'm not totally against lowering it (a little maybe), but I was never really interested in max performance around road courses or twisties. But with the roads etc. around my parts I'm not certain about that.

I can say there's a huge difference in traction between the all season BFG radials and these tires!! Traction is much better.

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