The South's random thread

[basyrfang]

are there anybody that's going to SoWo from Tennessee?

[fifty3bags]

DOPE.. there's a set of those on CL right now

Yeah, those are mine

Just unsure whether I want the hassle of stripping this chrome. If someone offers me enough I'll let them go.

[244Brick]

leave the chrome. it's more hassle than its worth. I looked it up before. The chrome will look good on the car because its white

[aeok18109]

annnnnd there goes the savings.....

[fifty3bags]

leave the chrome. it's more hassle than its worth. I looked it up before. The chrome will look good on the car because its white

Well that's the problem...

This is the best and the worst.





If the chrome was in good shape, yeah I'd definitely run it as is. But I would **** having that on my car knowing it's like that. So, I'm hoping that this chromer I'm talking to will be able to strip them for me. And while he's stripping the lips, he might as well strip the faces too.

[milano_red]

I'm just worried about sandblasting the chrome off, from what I've read it can damage the metal underneath. I've been trying to get in contact with a couple chromers and they either say they're too busy, do it myself, or just don't answer. Let me know what you find out, I really want to get these refinished, but don't want to pay out the ass for it.

That's awesome that it's going to someone on here, so the build will live on and you'll still get to see it. I wish I knew where my mustang went after I sold it.

I'm still asking around. And yes, I'm really glad it's going to stay on here. Hopefully he continues a build thread

[244Brick]

Yeah! I hope its not too costly!

[fifty3bags]

GOOD NEWS! Found a place to strip all the chrome and powder all faces for a great pice!









bad news............on the test fit tonight....won't work. Apparently I measured the hub bore wrong or got my numbers mixed up. Won't fit. eff me. I guess they're really for sale now as I really don't want this hassle


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[LethalEthan]

Damn that blows.

I took my mom and one of her friends to the shooting range today, she shot the ceiling with my 9 mm hahaha.

[milano_red]

GOOD NEWS! Found a place to strip all the chrome and powder all faces for a great pice!









bad news............on the test fit tonight....won't work. Apparently I measured the hub bore wrong or got my numbers mixed up. Won't fit. eff me. I guess they're really for sale now as I really don't want this hassle


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Duuuuuuuuude! That sucks they seemed so perfect!

[LethalEthan]

How far off are they?

[fifty3bags]

Damn that blows.

I took my mom and one of her friends to the shooting range today, she shot the ceiling with my 9 mm hahaha.

NICE! I've never been to a range, but want to one day.

Duuuuuuuuude! That sucks they seemed so perfect!

How far off are they?

Well, they were originally made for a c5 vette and their bore is 70.3. Mine should be around 72.5, so they're off by about 2mm. Which wouldn't be hard to lathe out but I don't want to spend even more money gettting that done. I'd need to run at least a 10mm spacer on the front because the back of the wheel is hitting the strut.

The rear looks like it should be good, maybe a 5mm spacer or more. I don't want to run too much camber and can't go very low because of the huge speedbumps at my work. And the 17s would drop it down pretty low to where I'd probably get stuck lol

[LethalEthan]

I was gonna say you could have them machined out. Mightymax guys do it all the time. I think it's normally like 75 a wheel or something like that. I've seen people do it themselves with a router before but I myself wouldn't do it that way.

[fifty3bags]

I was gonna say you could have them machined out. Mightymax guys do it all the time. I think it's normally like 75 a wheel or something like that. I've seen people do it themselves with a router before but I myself wouldn't do it that way.

Yeah, I did a little research on that. I won't be doing it myself. I need at least a 10mm spacer on the front and can probably go up to a 15mm spacer on the rear, possibly front too. I've PM'd adaptec to see if I can get a spacer made to work with these wheels.

May be able to ger a spacer just wide enough to space it out over the hub and do a stud conversion and run it that way, not hubcentric any more. I really want to get these to work lol

[LethalEthan]

Lug centric is just as good as long as you take your time tightening the lugs down and use the right ones.

I agree though they would look badass on your car.