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Old 02-03-2026, 02:59 PM
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Tires finally came in after 11 months!

Stepped it up to a G60 to help fill out the wheel openings and give it a slightly wider footprint. Should look awesome. Already have the correct lugs and nos center caps, just have to get the tires mounted and balanced.

I'm gonna try and avoid having any balance weights on the front of the wheels, but sometimes it's unavoidable with steel wheels.






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Old 02-03-2026, 07:10 PM
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Tires finally came in after 11 months!

Stepped it up to a G60 to help fill out the wheel openings and give it a slightly wider footprint. Should look awesome. Already have the correct lugs and nos center caps, just have to get the tires mounted and balanced.

I'm gonna try and avoid having any balance weights on the front of the wheels, but sometimes it's unavoidable with steel wheels.





Any quality tire shop can balance any wheel including a steel wheel with hidden weights, they have to have a balancer that offers hidden weight modes and the majority of professional balancers made in the last 5-10 years offer a hidden weight mode. Essentially they will balance the wheel and apply sticky weights to the inside of the wheel hidden from view, the balancer will tell them exactly where to place the sticky weights. In the old days with older equipment it was referred to as static balancing which was inferior vs dynamic but got the job done.

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Old 02-03-2026, 08:39 PM
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Tires finally came in after 11 months!
Cool. I'll be curious to see how they look. I went with the FR60s on mine.

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Simply Gorgeous.
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