haters,



Hate on.



22x9.5 front, 22x11 rear
265/35 and 295/25 tires, respectively

Going to go with a little bit smaller tire in the front so I can go full lock without rubbing.
(255/30)

 

those are HHHUUUGGGGEEEE

 

Thats what she said.....

 

they look sick tho

 

on the positive side you can now feel every piece or gravel in the road im not a fan of anything bigger then 18s but if i had to have a car with 20s i wouldnt mind them i do like how wide they are congratz on ur purchase

 

not my style but they aren't terrible. how bout some outside pics of the whole car?

 

is there a lot of gravel in FWB?

19's is as far as i would go on my own car but his 20's look good..at least its slammed not raised..

 

i can't go higher than a 17 and i'm iffy on that one... some people make it look good and this is a clear example of that, just not my personal preference

 

Atleast pick a better looking wheel.

 

i'm just happy i wasn't the poor soul who had to wrap those rubber bands around them

 

Work for a custom shop with the right tool for the job and it makes mounting those tires as easy as pie

As for the style of the rim, I'm not a huuuuuge fan of the center.....but they aren't staying all chrome for very long....

 

And these cars ride like **** anyways,i already feel every nook and canny in the road.

And before we start on suspension, its lowered on eibachs with koni red adjustable struts and shocks

 

yeah i know that's true but i've yet to find a shop like that around here, i was thinking about starting one but there isn't much of a market for that kinda thing here, it's hard to get people to understand that alot of the "shadetree" guys around here are screwwing stuff up, but then again there are some that really know what they're doing, it's just not the right area for that kind of thing

 

I feel ya, big wheels oncars isn't the biggest hit down here yet either.....our shop has a website,i dont know how far along it is though. www.sscustomsfwb.com

 

oh it's pretty popular with the deeper pocketed people but usually the go on tire rack or somewhere and buy the package with them already mounted

 

^^ agreed^^ i like how the wheel size and fitment look on the car just not the wheel u chose .. need more pics.. as for the suspension.. get new bushings all around ull thank urself..

 

its not awesome, but its not awful. definitely not my style.. I would go no bigger than a 19 but who am I to judge.. do u buddy

 

i dont wanna admit this but its decent. at least it clean simple and its not a whole mess of flourescent colors with subs everywhere and interior wrapped in gucci or some wierd name brand

 

Front has been rebuilt with moog parts. Rear is gonna take a little more time, im fabbing my own adj panhard bar and LCARBS. subframe connectors are on order.

I just mocked these up to confirm my research on the fitment, wheels (and car) are undergoing some color-corrective surgery after the new year.....im gonna try and grab as many pics as I can, because the big wheel fad isn't going anywhere and I'm sure the info would be useful to others like me.

 

 

With a 22" wheel, that puts the center of the hub 11" off the ground, plus tire sidewall height. YIKES! While it may be slammed on to the wheels, it certainly isn't slammed to the ground. At 11", it is higher than a stock 3rd gen!

Must really make a stock engine'd 3rd gen real slow, toting around that extra weight. Good for cruising, except the bone jarring ride the lack of tires, I guess. The tires are 1.25" taller than a stock tire. How far off is your speedometer?

I'm not hatin' on it, just asking. Not my style, but not my car. So I say people should do to their car, what they want to.

 

I like the rims tuckin, the rear is poking a little but once you get it set up right I think it will look real good. In LA everyone is riding huge wheels I'm talking 28's on caprices and crap their donked to the extreme so once your use to the size the look will grow on you good luck with getting your ride set how you want it.

 

Barfers

barf on

 

The car is too low with the stock wheels on it. I scrape the exhaust on almost anything as it is. Front tires are 26.1" overall diameter stock, in the picture the 265/35 are 28". When I drop to the 255/30 front it will bring the overall diameter back to approx. 26.5" soooo no, it won't sit /that/ much higher in the front.

The rear tires are approx 28.5" tall.....the difference in speedo reading will be negligible.

As far as a stock motor, well....we all know what our mothers taught us about assuming.
Its a 300hp/350ci gm crate motor with the tpi still on top, the transmission has been built,and the rearend has been upgraded to a disc/posi/3.23 setup. It's not blazing fast, but I daaaaang sure won't have am issue spinning a forged 3pc 22" wheel....

 

Eh, not my style but to each his own...



However, if someone actually asked me my opinion I would say one of the f*cking fugliest exterior modifications you can do to an F body is install wheels like that. There is NO purpose other than shock value/poor taste. F bodies ride like a rock as it is and your going to put on wheels that will increase that ten fold, your speedo probably doesn't work correctly, and its just that much more drag on the brakes/powertrain. Not to mention the wheels are probably worth three times the car is worth.

But, like I said, to each his own

 

did you read amy of my posts? Or did you just see the pics and reply?

 

double post. But while im here I would like to add that the cars is in all actuality.....worth three times what I paid for the wheels. Dont be so quick to jump to stereotypes.

 

i mean you did post the pics and said haters hate one...you obviously expected stereotypes so dont get butt hurt when someone posts a completely retarded post you know 90% of the people on here are going to HATE it

however, this is by far the best example of a huge rim on an fbody that i have ever seen so i applaud you for that. i wouldnt ever go that big(mostly becuase i cant afford to ha ha) but it doesnt look horrible and its still close to stock height. good job man your def not the norm it appears you have done a lot of work on the car aside from the huge rims but be prepared to be hated on

you know that guy didnt read any of the posts as most on here wont they just see big rims and say they suck. despite being a 22inch rim putting rubber band tires on it will keep it close to the overall size of a stock wheel, thus the SPEEDOMETER wont be effected much

 

i already realized that i meant it as a joke and if you'll actually read my post i didn't diss his car for one second i said that this is one situation where they actually look good

 

That wasn't directed at you lol

 

ah ok my bad read it wrong... long nights working+lots of coffee+lack of sleep= irritable lol

 

Not what I expected to see when I clicked the link... Actually looks pretty good! Nice stance. Would have never thought 22's could look good.

 

Looks good, at least it's not 20 feet in the air.

 

If the back wheels were tucked in and the centers of the wheels weren't so ugly it might be nice to look at

 

thats as far in as I can get the backs without doing major work.

 

Those are really, really, ugly IMO, but to each his own.

Unfortunately the rears don't fit under the quarters which makes it worse; I see them hanging out and I just see a car that has an owner that doesn't know how to size wheels properly. Tires look stretched too...but maybe that "hella flush" garbage is making its way to our cars too.

But congrats, you've now got a car that's defined by the wheels on it, instead of by the car itself.

I really wish big wheels would go away, the only thing I can ever think of is ghetto trash whenever I see them on any car.

 

If you ask me these cars aren't meant for rims that big, it just makes them look crappy.

 

It makes them look like clown cars.

 

Can anyone give a reason why the big wheels and rubber band tires are

going on most everything these days?

I just don't get it!

 

I don't know, but I find it amusing that rapper eminem of all people says big rims are stupid in one of his new songs, lol.

I'd like to say they will go away, but when the new Camaros/Challengers come with gaudy large wheel wells and 20s from the factory, it doesn't look promising.

I love the Challengers, and I went to look one night and had my car parked next to it. The Challenger was a good foot or more taller than my car, and really just looked like a big bloated clown car compared to mine.

18s are the biggest these cars look good with IMO. Anything bigger and all of a sudden it's all about the wheels, and no longer about the car which I think is stupid. But again, to each his own.

 

There are some great wheel designs, but when they go past 18" they loose that just right appearance. IMO

 

It's just ok to me. Not a big fan of 22's on a third gen. But if I seen some side shots of the car I could like it a little more.

 

22" rims are not my thing. Wasn't what I expected though. Theres a car on here with 5th gen camaro wheels on it that looks good (20"). Personally my car has 17" Rims and my other car has 18" Rims. Thats enough for me. Hell I say good job thinking outside the box even though its not everybodys bag of chips. I find it extremely hard to understand why someone would lift a car to fit rims though.

 

Baby donk Camaro.................

 

What are the offsets of the wheels?

 

HEY CAN YOU GET DIFF ANGLES LIKE THE STANCE

 

Havent measured, wheels are off a 7 series bimmer. All i had to add was a 1/4" spacer all the way around.


More pics coming soon.

 

Doesn't look all that bad, not a huge fan of 22's but I hate tiny *** 15's too.

 

where are the full car pics?

 

The wheels are too wide in the back for a lowered car, they rubbed waaaay too much so i took the wheels back off. Here they are on the car though...

The car rides on sportlines with a half coil cut in the front. To run 22's lowered you will need to trim the corner of the battery tray. No biggie though. They cleared to full lock in every other way.

Found out later that they actually make a 235/30-22 tire. That would bring you almost to stock tire height.