Rim Widening
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From: Colorado Springs, CO
St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11
Originally Posted by baf2000_1
This would effectively change the offsert of the wheel and affect handling, as would wider tires. The weight would go up only slightly. Interesting thought.
Burning Brakes
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From: Dallas TX
Originally Posted by shurite44
Burning Brakes
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Originally Posted by SpinMonster
This is exactly the reason so much mis-info gets passed around; people repeating the non-sense they heard somewhere.
Yes you can widen ANY wheel and the strength is as good as the original wheel.
Yes you can widen ANY wheel and the strength is as good as the original wheel.
Melting Slicks
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From: Northern CA
Originally Posted by Tavarez
Would it add a considerable amount of weight as opposed to a wheel that was made wider during normal production? I'll eventually find someone in Miami or NY that can do a great job, or possibly send it off to a place like Weldcraft.
There is a potential problem someone else mentioned. The way the stock wheel are made, the spokes are right out at the spectator side of the wheel. That makes it dificult to impossible to widen the wheel any direction except toward the car. You probably not have enough clearance in your wheel wells and would have to space the wheels out for clearance. Hopefully I'm wrong, but take a carefull look at how much space you have.
Regarding weldability of the wheels. Take a good look at a stock C6 wheel with the tire off. In the hoop area that's normally covered by the tire, you can see that there is a very clean joint about 3/4 inch inboard from the outer edge of the flat part of the hoop.
The stock wheels are welded. Doh!
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11
You can just cut the inner well, separate the two peices by 1 1/4 inches, epoxy that down, and reglass the gap for 20 bucks and then buy a pair of the outter well cover inserts, cut them half and cut the originlal oversized by 2 1/4 inch and rivet them together for a 1 1/4 inch increase in wheel well space and save yourself 600 bucks off the lingenfelter kit.
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From: Dallas Texas
Originally Posted by SpinMonster
You can just cut the inner well, separate the two peices by 1 1/4 inches, epoxy that down, and reglass the gap for 20 bucks and then buy a pair of the outter well cover inserts, cut them half and cut the originlal oversized by 2 1/4 inch and rivet them together for a 1 1/4 inch increase in wheel well space and save yourself 600 bucks off the lingenfelter kit.
Melting Slicks
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From: Pearland Tx
Include me in on this . I would like to keep my stock looking set up but with some real meat on the rear
MTI has 12" rims on the Devil Ray vettes they build.
I wonder what offsets they used to be able to fit that in the wheel wells?
I think GM should have gave us Z51 owners 11'' inch rims on the rear included in the Z51 option.
Base 10''
Z51 11''
Z06 12''
MTI has 12" rims on the Devil Ray vettes they build.
I wonder what offsets they used to be able to fit that in the wheel wells?
I think GM should have gave us Z51 owners 11'' inch rims on the rear included in the Z51 option.
Base 10''
Z51 11''
Z06 12''
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11
Originally Posted by shurite44
Spin did you get my return email. What do you think should I give this a shot with the weldcraft plan?
Le Mans Master
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From: Shiloh Ohio
Originally Posted by SpinMonster
I returned it. Measure under there first.
Spin do you mind posting how this needs to be measured so we can get a volunteer?
Le Mans Master
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If you are asking me the answer is no. I am not doing anything drastic to the engine so basically stock HP. I will take my chances. I drag raced two C5's for a few years with no problems with the stock tranny.
I like DR's for consistency, I bracket drag race. Any spin and you lose. I always just launch from idle also for consistency. But like you said you can break it. Pay to play is ok with me.
I like DR's for consistency, I bracket drag race. Any spin and you lose. I always just launch from idle also for consistency. But like you said you can break it. Pay to play is ok with me.