battenheaded67cutlass
02-07-2018, 08:05 PM
LOCATED near Denver, Co
PICS IN POST #2 below!
These are Weld Forged wheels, with Billet centers, originally made for a C5 Corvette. The front wheels are two piece, and the rear wheels are three piece. There are some very light use marks on the wheel rim edges from small rocks getting wedged between the wheel and tire, and I haven't polished the front wheels to remove the little bit of haze from a water streak from hauling them back in the truck from the tire shop while it was raining. There are no gouges or deep scratches and I would say that the wheels are 95% condition overall for nice used wheels. Includes good working TPMS SENSORS!
2 Front wheels:
The 18 inch Front wheels are 9.5 wide at the bead groove and have 7.5 inches of backspacing (190.5mm) deep with a 5 x 4.75 bolt pattern. They weigh 24.5 lbs each.
2 Rear Wheels:
The 20 inch rear wheels are 11 inches wide at the bead groove and they have 8.5 inches of backspacing (216mm) deep with a 5 x 4.75 bolt pattern. They weigh 29 lbs each.
We are now asking $750 + shipping for the set of 4, but we are negotiable and will not be offended by offers.
Fastenal will ship these wheels on a pallet almost anywhere to their store network in the USA for approximately $150 total, or I can ship via Fed Ex/ UPS.
My Dad and I purchased these wheels in hopes that we could make them fit using some spacers with our setup, but unfortunately, when we had the rearend housing ends welded on, the guy had to narrow the rearend by an inch on each side to get to straight tubing.
This project is a 15 year-long build for my Dad mostly, and partly for me as well, helping him and spending time with him. He is a disabled Vietnam Veteran suffering from early-onset dementia, likely from the head traumas he has suffered as well and being exposed to agent orange for long periods. We work on cars together to keep his brain working with all of the challenges that arise (or that I create with modifications). He is 70 now, and the doctor thought he would have been in the late stages of dementia and alzheimer's by now, but he is sort of a miracle case, as he has had this disease since he was 46 years old. The Doctors fully attribute his much slower regression to his increased brain activity because of his car hobbies and thoughts towards projects. I am about to turn 40 myself, and Dad is still excited about life and the projects we are always tacking on his car.
Dad has been saving for years to try and make this project happen, and not being able to use these nice wheels has been a really disheartening reality for my Dad, as he knows that other/ new forged wheels are very expensive.
With the money from the sale of these wheels, we plan to buy some plain (somewhat affordable) forged wheels that will fit his car with the large 6 piston/4 piston CTSV Brembo brakes that are my fault for forcing him into buying (we got such a good deal that we couldn't pass it up!)......
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Some info about the build on Dad's 1967 Cutlass:
The car will be lowered on BMR 2 inch drop springs, probably run some Hotchkis Fox street tuned shocks, and it has a 12 bolt that I found a bunch of good deals on new -out-of-the-box parts (motive 3.73 gears and Eaton Truetrac dif) with some good aftermarket axles with no more C clips. We have a nicely built TH400 with a 2800 stall TCI converter that came out of my old street car that we are going to use for this car. We are going to install Polygraphite control arm bushings and Proforged .5 tall upper and .5 tall lower ball joints with offset upper control arm mounting bars.
We have a nicely built Oldsmobile 455 street engine with ported cast iron Batten cylinder heads and a mild hydraulic roller cam. We acquired a Motec M8 ECU at a great price and will be installing it onto the 455 with a Professional Products dual plane EFI intake. We hope for 450-500hp at 6,000 ft. elevation near Denver where we now live.
PICS IN POST #2 below!
These are Weld Forged wheels, with Billet centers, originally made for a C5 Corvette. The front wheels are two piece, and the rear wheels are three piece. There are some very light use marks on the wheel rim edges from small rocks getting wedged between the wheel and tire, and I haven't polished the front wheels to remove the little bit of haze from a water streak from hauling them back in the truck from the tire shop while it was raining. There are no gouges or deep scratches and I would say that the wheels are 95% condition overall for nice used wheels. Includes good working TPMS SENSORS!
2 Front wheels:
The 18 inch Front wheels are 9.5 wide at the bead groove and have 7.5 inches of backspacing (190.5mm) deep with a 5 x 4.75 bolt pattern. They weigh 24.5 lbs each.
2 Rear Wheels:
The 20 inch rear wheels are 11 inches wide at the bead groove and they have 8.5 inches of backspacing (216mm) deep with a 5 x 4.75 bolt pattern. They weigh 29 lbs each.
We are now asking $750 + shipping for the set of 4, but we are negotiable and will not be offended by offers.
Fastenal will ship these wheels on a pallet almost anywhere to their store network in the USA for approximately $150 total, or I can ship via Fed Ex/ UPS.
My Dad and I purchased these wheels in hopes that we could make them fit using some spacers with our setup, but unfortunately, when we had the rearend housing ends welded on, the guy had to narrow the rearend by an inch on each side to get to straight tubing.
This project is a 15 year-long build for my Dad mostly, and partly for me as well, helping him and spending time with him. He is a disabled Vietnam Veteran suffering from early-onset dementia, likely from the head traumas he has suffered as well and being exposed to agent orange for long periods. We work on cars together to keep his brain working with all of the challenges that arise (or that I create with modifications). He is 70 now, and the doctor thought he would have been in the late stages of dementia and alzheimer's by now, but he is sort of a miracle case, as he has had this disease since he was 46 years old. The Doctors fully attribute his much slower regression to his increased brain activity because of his car hobbies and thoughts towards projects. I am about to turn 40 myself, and Dad is still excited about life and the projects we are always tacking on his car.
Dad has been saving for years to try and make this project happen, and not being able to use these nice wheels has been a really disheartening reality for my Dad, as he knows that other/ new forged wheels are very expensive.
With the money from the sale of these wheels, we plan to buy some plain (somewhat affordable) forged wheels that will fit his car with the large 6 piston/4 piston CTSV Brembo brakes that are my fault for forcing him into buying (we got such a good deal that we couldn't pass it up!)......
__________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ ________
Some info about the build on Dad's 1967 Cutlass:
The car will be lowered on BMR 2 inch drop springs, probably run some Hotchkis Fox street tuned shocks, and it has a 12 bolt that I found a bunch of good deals on new -out-of-the-box parts (motive 3.73 gears and Eaton Truetrac dif) with some good aftermarket axles with no more C clips. We have a nicely built TH400 with a 2800 stall TCI converter that came out of my old street car that we are going to use for this car. We are going to install Polygraphite control arm bushings and Proforged .5 tall upper and .5 tall lower ball joints with offset upper control arm mounting bars.
We have a nicely built Oldsmobile 455 street engine with ported cast iron Batten cylinder heads and a mild hydraulic roller cam. We acquired a Motec M8 ECU at a great price and will be installing it onto the 455 with a Professional Products dual plane EFI intake. We hope for 450-500hp at 6,000 ft. elevation near Denver where we now live.