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Old 02-23-05, 09:39 PM
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Default New Wheels... gimme your .02 **56K Beware**

EDIT: Before the moderators think of moving this, I thought the thread would be more appropriate in this section because these opinions and feedback would come from SC owners directly If you feel it should be moved still.... I guess do as you must.

Alright. I broke down and bought some wheels I "thought" might look decent on the car. It's going to be on my pearl white '93 SC.

I was going to get tires very soon, but now I have an unplanned vacation to Daytona Beach for Spring Break So the tires are going to have to hold off for a while. Anyhow, here are the pictures of the wheels I took today. They are just sitting waiting for the spring time to come around when the salt is all off the roads anyhow...

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SSW/SSR/D-Racing D5R's

18x9 +37 offset for the front
18x10 +37 offset for the Rear

These are just shots of the rear. I was quite disappointed with the amount of dish/lip in the rear. I should have another inch or so There's only about 2.6543543247746436 inches there but I guess they are the Low disk ones. I guess I have the disk sizing all messed up and don't even know what to get for max dish.

Think they'll look right on an SC?

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Old 02-23-05, 09:48 PM
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nice wheels, u need to hurry up and get them on the whip. i'm curious to see them on. i have a pearl white sc also.
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Those are HOT! Now go on... buy some tyres and slap them puppies onto the SC

How much did they set you back?
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Originally Posted by Soarer_25GTT
Those are HOT! Now go on... buy some tyres and slap them puppies onto the SC

How much did they set you back?

Heh, stupid vacations... I can't get tires on them 'til I get back from vacation and save some money up. They set me back a good chunk but I have connections that make things work so I got them for a decent affordable chunk of change.
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I think it will look great! Especially since you got them staggered

Make sure to post pics
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Hey man,

The wheels looks real good. If u got a hook-up for wheels then tell them to hook u up with some tires too!!

Peace,
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I think those look excellent!
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I think the entire lip scene is a little played out -- your rims look great.
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look like volk gt-c
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Originally Posted by siniquezu
look like volk gt-c
I thought so as well, I like these a lot...wonder which are less expensive? the Volks or the SSR's?
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they look okay.

my rating for them is a 7 or 8 out of 10
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Originally Posted by mikeloc24
I thought so as well, I like these a lot...wonder which are less expensive? the Volks or the SSR's?

These are more inexpensive, but I hope they don't become the next GT-C. The GT-C is on everyone and their mom's cars. I like the GT-C's but I thought their spoke was too "fat" so I was looking around and found these which were slimmer. I just hope they look decent.
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