Spartan,

After I just posted in the wheels and tires section I remembered You recently upgraded wheels and tires. I want to get these from OEWheels:

Corvette Wheels

Were yours the same offset? If so was the only thing you had to do was adjust the panhard bar? I plan on getting an adjustable anyway and lower the car a bit in the future. I want to avoid having to roll the fenders or any kind of BFH work. I also want 295 for the rears.

Thanks in advance.

 

they should be exactly the same as my wheels. I didn't do any rolling or BFH, but clearance was really, really close. Making sure your rear end is centered (here's where the adjustable panhard comes into play) is the biggest thing. I have heater hose mod on stock springs in back, and I haven't had any rubbing issues yet. I know somebody else who's running 295's on replica Corvette 18x9.5 wheels from OEwheels, and he said with no fender rolling he's fine as long as nobody sits in the back seat.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

if you didn't open up that hub area in the wheels or shave down the hub area of the axles, you're going to end up with a wheel like in Chaotic's thread. A lot of late model wheels have a slightly smaller hub opening than what's on the LT1 rear axle hub and along with the rust on your axle hubs, as you already found, they will go on but don't like to come off. The sooner you try to get that remedied the better. It doesn't take much with a dremmel, you might just try getting the rust off the axle hub and give the wheel opening a couple quick passes around it. That's all I've had to do in the past on a few different sets of wheels..

I'd also highly recommend getting those fenders rolled with the 295's. I had 285's on 10's that would rub in turns and take little slices at the very top of the sidewalls before I rolled mine, and that was at stock height. I got an eastwood fender roller and after rolling I've got 295's on there now and lowered on strano's and it's good to go. They do rub slightly every now and again on the inside front bottom of the rear wheel wells where most people take the BFH. I'm only running 10's and they're tucked in a little bit so I'm going to add a 3/16-1/4" spacer sometime and that should fix it up for me.

Just my couple pennies based on my own experience. The car looks great on those wheels!

 

latest alteration: changing the front bowtie from red to silver. I bought the silver decal assuming it would just overlay the badge, but red would still be showing around the edges. So I had to resort to sanding all the red off:



Applied the decal:



The result:

 

i like it

 

Great thread, love the rims too!

 

So I went to the dyno day this weekend, and simply put, things didn't really go as well as I would have hoped:

Probably about 30 hp shy of what I was hoping for. Either I have more issues than I realized, or the issues I'm currently having have a bigger impact that I realized, or a combination of the two. The guy at Jake's told me that dip in the first run is part of the car's factory calibration to put it into "cat-protect" mode if it's running hot enough. On the 2nd pull, it started missing and got all screwed up and the car was not having it, so he shut it down early. Here's a video of the first run:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C0jpZepCEU

 

Here's a higher-quality video:

 

man you peaked fast, something is not handling the high rpms for some reason. how old is the opti, coil, ignition mod. that kinda stuff.