New Wheels
Race Director
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 19,952
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From: Bonneville Salt Flats
Good for YOU! I tell people that such wheels should be considered part of the price-of-admission for wide-bodied C7s. The GM OEMs are cheap, cast junk... pure and simple. True quality forgings can afford to be lighter because of what happens to the structure of the metal in the process. Can good forged wheels still fail; of course, but not nearly as easily as the originals. All the best. 
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Racer
Joined: Jun 2017
Posts: 292
Likes: 205
From: Kent WA
I guess I must be. It's all relative. When I was 32, I was renting a room in a house and this new guy in his 20's was moving in. I offered to help with a piece of bigger furniture and he said, "Nah, I've got it. One of the advantages of being young". Didn't realize I had become old so soon. Yeah, can't stand black wheels. Don't get me wrong, I like the look of black wheels as part of an overall color scheme for a car. Someone else had posted photos of his blue C7 with both silver and black wheels. I liked both. I wouldn't mind a red C7 with black racing stripes and black wheels. That's a sick combo. However, if you're going to go black, then the style of the wheel really doesn't matter because that black paint totally hides the beauty of the wheel design itself. If you like wheels and want to show them off, black should be the last thing you go for, IMO.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 7,441
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From: Ventura County, CA
St. Jude Donor '05 thru '24
Great choice, I ran 19/20s BC wheels on my Z06, all thru the pothole riddled streets of the LA area, including taking a 101 highway pothole at speed - My BC wheels took the licking and not one hint of damage.
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