Corvette C4 wheels

[TonyO]

Have any of you folks ran C4 Vette wheels on your gbodys? I understand they have + offset and will require spacers on a stock car. Will the 17x8.5 front be a problem? I figure the 17x9.5 in the rear won’t cause any issues.
I’m not a huge fan of spacers, but on a street driven stock vehicle I am not so worried. Using good forged ones of course.

Thanks for any help/advice.

 

[Supercharged111]

Have any of you folks ran C4 Vette wheels on your gbodys? I understand they have + offset and will require spacers on a stock car. Will the 17x8.5 front be a problem? I figure the 17x9.5 in the rear won’t cause any issues.
I’m not a huge fan of spacers, but on a street driven stock vehicle I am not so worried. Using good forged ones of course.

Thanks for any help/advice.

I use ARP studs and slip on spacers as big as 3/4" on my road race Camaro. Never had an issue and we do it like this all over the country. No need to fear good parts.

 

[TonyO]

I have 2.5” ones on the front of my s10 with C5 wheels. They weren’t cheap, but I will admit I get nervous pushing it in the turns. I believe these will be the staggered pattern type.

 

[TonyO]

Brining this back up. I found a 17x 8.5-9.5 set with 245/40 and 275/40s on them. The price is very right. Does anyone have any success stories using this tire size?

 

[jakes87SS]

Brining this back up. I found a 17x 8.5-9.5 set with 245/40 and 275/40s on them. The price is very right. Does anyone have any success stories using this tire size?

im running those sizes on my n90 replica wheels from year one

 

[565bbchevy]

I would be looking at the date codes on those tires before even considering these.

 

[TonyO]

The price on the wheels and tires is close to what the wheels are worth alone. It would be nice to have the tires just to test fit before I had to buy new ones. I think a 245 is the minimum width on a 8.5” wheel though.

I’m looking at a few wheel sets locally and honestly I’d rather run a zero offset 15” wheel so I don’t need any spacers. Even some 16” zq8 s10 wheels would be cool. Tire sizes aren’t the greatest for them though.

 

[TonyO]

im running those sizes on my n90 replica wheels from year one

Stock ride height? Any complaints? They seem a bit small on the diameter, but that’s probably required for the width.

 

[565bbchevy]

On my Regal I am running 17" x 8.5" rims all around but went with 275/50 and 235/50 because I wanted a taller tire to fill up the wheel wells better.

 

[TonyO]

On my Regal I am running 17" x 8.5" rims all around but went with 275/50 and 235/50 because I wanted a taller tire to fill up the wheel wells better.

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That looks perfect. I hate seeing a small tire with a big gap between it and the wheel well. I really don’t want to run a spacer, but there are not tons of OE wheels that bolt right up to these cars that are aluminum. I really don’t care for anything aftermarket.

I’ve probably read through every wheel and tire thread on this site and I see you commenting on it more than anymore. You’ve had some really cool wheel and tire combos. I really like the Ronals you had, I missed a set recently. Myself I think a 16” wheel is the perfect tire/wheel ratio, but the tire selection has dwindled down to just a few. I’ve had a zq8 s10 for almost 20 years now and I am stuck with 2 sizes that work really well on it.

3rd Gen wheels are cool and they can be picked up pretty easy, but the rears require a spacer.