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Offline WVEagle

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My New Wheels
« on: April 11, 2011, 07:33:31 PM »

  Thank for everyone input on wheels and sizes to help me out. I been wanting to put a new set of wheels on my Eagle . I found them at Summit Racing they are Cragar Chrome Super Spoke Wheels I order 15x7 with 4.5 backspacing and +13.00mm offset.



Here a picture of the stock wheels with I have my 4 studded snow tires on now .



I like the new look  ;D





I painted my drums and calipers red to match the bottom of Eagle and also make the wheels stand out better.

The tire are 215/65/15

I been getting a lot of looks at the new Eagle.





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Offline Whuntmore

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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2011, 07:59:52 PM »
wicked!!

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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2011, 08:25:28 PM »
those look sweet dude.
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2011, 09:15:37 PM »
Make sure you wash them often and keep a coat of wax on them. Unfortunately the chrome likes to pit an rust fairly quickly.
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2011, 09:20:38 PM »
Looking good!

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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2011, 06:19:48 AM »
Looking very good!
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2011, 08:27:34 AM »
Looks very good.
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2011, 10:16:13 AM »
Looks way cool. Good looking complete package.You can be proud I know I would be.
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2011, 08:09:17 PM »
Very nice.  Any clearance issues so far?
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2011, 06:40:36 PM »
             Well they look good I know this other Eagle in town where the guy replaced the originals with these horrible oversized "rims" and you just cringe 'cause it's otherwise a cherry 86 limited.

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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2011, 01:55:18 AM »
That car looks amazing!! Had a pampered lif for sure.
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2011, 10:25:38 AM »
Make sure you wash them often and keep a coat of wax on them. Unfortunately the chrome likes to pit an rust fairly quickly.
        HI    had a set of them  and I did not do what eaglefreek sad to do .and now they are blue ...
                     Rust Tuck over had to paint or look at Rust..Good luck  with yours ........Don
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2011, 02:18:58 PM »
Same tires I bought for my 87 Eagle last fall. :-)
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Re: My New Wheels
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2011, 10:06:05 PM »
Looking very nice

 

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