Best Corvette Stance
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Melting Slicks
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Best Corvette Stance
So what exactly is the best stance for a Corvette? Lower the rear an inch or 1/5inches and leave the front as is or lower it an inch to? And what about Rims and tires? HOw big can you go and not look to horrible and a still have enough sidewall? 18's or 17's? Thanks for pics and Pics of Other Corvettes that have lowering kits and aftermarket rims or anythig that looks good :yesnod:
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Light84vette)
Just MHO but I think 11 in rims on the back with 315's look awesome. Leave the front alone. Lowering it 1 in all the way around looks way cool but Im not sure how much that would impact drivability. I mean stock height for mine is a pain to begin with....lowering it another inch? No way! You didnt mention ride mods but Ill toss that in as a related topic anyway. Mine has the base FE3 suspension and the ride is fantastic and it handles like its on rails. But Im still always tempted to *upgrade* the suspension for performance reasons but really should just replace the Bilsteins at some point and leave the rest the hell alone :blueangel:
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From: Shindand AB
Re: Best Corvette Stance (Light84vette)
I have a greenwood kit on my 87 coupe and just put AFS 17" ZR-1 reps on them. I like the look of the bigger rim with the lower profile of the sidewall. It makes it look a lot more aggressive. But as it was already stated, it's hard enough getting around with the current height so I would not lower it. The greenwood kit makes it look lower.
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Phil-tha-Rush)
This is the best stance, when you are launching the car!
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From: Exit 89 GSP,Lakewood,NJ The Land Of Mojo
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Mr Mojo)
This is always nice too, stock height, but parked on teh grass gives it that lowered look.
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Light84vette)
The best stance to me, and I'm an oldie (remmember the "dagoed" front ends)...anyway the front about 1" lower than the rear.....gives a very aggresive look....
Just my thoughts...
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tony
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Just my thoughts...
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Melting Slicks
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (CanadaVette)
18's would be just to big right? Do they make Grand Sport style rims 11 inchs wide also? Or is that only for ZR-1 style rims? :confused: If any of you guys ouit there have some side view pics,don be afraid to post them :yesnod:
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Light84vette)
The grand sport ofset is what you want and yes they have 11" rears check my personal page for more pics. I have seen them lowered they look real cool I would do it if it were a coupe but not a Convertable. Darn X frame gets in the way on a Vert. My .02
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Topless94)
I have a coupe and, well its 84 their were no convertables offered that year. ANyway so how wide is that stripe anyway? 12 inches? 14? :confused:
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Melting Slicks
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (MongooseLT4)
I think I'll get GS rims first before I lower it, Its pretty hard to get into my car as it is, so I'll see how it looks with them. :yesnod: HOw much do GS rims go for anyway? :confused:
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Light84vette)
18's would be just to big right?
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why do you think they would be too big?? :confused:
Wheel size isnt whats important as far a fitment..its the TIRE diameter.
You must not have noticed the 18" on mine? :confused:
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Re: Best Corvette Stance (Light84vette)
Yeah they do look good, but you were talking about tire OD, will 26inchs be to big? I think my current tires are 25?
if you want to go to a larger wheel and keep the tire OD the same, you will have to go to a different sidewall dimension.
For example.. I went from a 40 to a 35 on the rear and from 45 to 40 on the front. This gave me approx the same OD as stock sizes.
play with this calculator a little to see what you need :D
http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html
