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03 Jag STR wheels installed!

gt95coupe
February 16th, 2008, 06:43 PM
Ill take some better pics tommarrow I almost took them too late dark as you can tell. I didnt take much from the rear b/c it was dark.I know that I have an "altitude problem" but It seem that I always have 3 to 4 people in my car and the LS' dont have a lot of ground clearance as it is.I also painted the calipers black.

bklene50
February 16th, 2008, 06:53 PM
Looks good.

02V8Sport
February 16th, 2008, 06:58 PM
nice!!!, what size rear tire did you end up going with?

xarruda89x
February 16th, 2008, 06:59 PM
looks nice, i want those jag wheels HyelifeLs has, those wheels are the only wheels i'm looking forward to get.

gt95coupe
February 16th, 2008, 07:02 PM
nice!!!, what size rear tire did you end up going with?
The tires came with the wheels and the rear ones are 275/35/18. Didnt you go with the 285/30/18?

gt95coupe
February 16th, 2008, 07:04 PM
looks nice, i want those jag wheels HyelifeLs has, those wheels are the only wheels i'm looking forward to get.
+1
hyelifels has the "Vulcan" wheel. which are few and far between to find on ebay etc.etc. So I went with the ones I was able to find

02V8Sport
February 16th, 2008, 07:06 PM
The tires came with the wheels and the rear ones are 275/35/18. Didnt you go with the 285/30/18?

I am running a 285/35/18 in the rear.

King03LS8
February 16th, 2008, 07:08 PM
Those are nice man! Great choice!

Tricky-Dick
February 16th, 2008, 08:54 PM
How much did you pay for the set?

HyeLifeLS
February 16th, 2008, 10:09 PM
Looks very nice man, I love it. Great find. But even if you carry around people all the time, you can do the same with the drop. These wheels don't rub at all even with max load.

gt95coupe
February 16th, 2008, 10:52 PM
Looks very nice man, I love it. Great find. But even if you carry around people all the time, you can do the same with the drop. These wheels don't rub at all even with max load.

I want to thank you for answering all my questions. Im sure you got tired of seeing my P.M.s popping up everytime you logged on.LOL

midi_junkie
February 16th, 2008, 11:51 PM
wow.. very nice.

HyeLifeLS
February 17th, 2008, 04:06 AM
I want to thank you for answering all my questions. Im sure you got tired of seeing my P.M.s popping up everytime you logged on.LOL

No problem man, glad you got those.

ToddG
February 17th, 2008, 06:55 AM
They look great! To me, they appear somewhat similar to the 00-02 Silverstar wheels, but with a bit more elegance.

NYC LS8
February 17th, 2008, 08:23 AM
I can dig it!

KD00LS
February 17th, 2008, 10:03 PM
Looks good, use tire shine in the wheel wells.

gt95coupe
February 18th, 2008, 12:44 AM
Here are some of the rear and one of the front

KD00LS
February 18th, 2008, 02:08 AM
Take some far away shots, I'm anxious to see them.

gt95coupe
February 18th, 2008, 05:50 PM
Heres more from a little futher away as requested.

01LSVT
February 18th, 2008, 06:03 PM
Wow, that looks great! Those wheels should have came on the LS from the factory! :gr_hail:

Mark

BTW: What percentage are your windows tinted at? I'm looking at tinting in the near future, and this is a perfect example of what I'm looking for!

KD00LS
February 18th, 2008, 06:23 PM
Very nice, thinking about lowering springs?

gt95coupe
February 18th, 2008, 06:41 PM
Wow, that looks great! Those wheels should have came on the LS from the factory! :gr_hail:

Mark

BTW: What percentage are your windows tinted at? I'm looking at tinting in the near future, and this is a perfect example of what I'm looking for!

It was 20% but its been on since 04 so it may be a little lighter

gt95coupe
February 18th, 2008, 06:43 PM
Very nice, thinking about lowering springs?

I would consider lowering but it seem that I allways seem to have 3-4 people in my car traveling somwhere so I really cant without losing some driveability over speed bumps etc,etc

glanga
February 18th, 2008, 07:02 PM
Pilot Sports....oh boy :burnout:

Gus_Mahn
February 18th, 2008, 07:14 PM
Wow, those look nice. Did you get them from a salvage yard? Any rubbing issues? Is the speedo off? How did you do the center caps with a Lincoln emblem?

HyeLifeLS
February 18th, 2008, 07:56 PM
Wow, those look nice. Did you get them from a salvage yard? Any rubbing issues? Is the speedo off? How did you do the center caps with a Lincoln emblem?

These wheels fit PERFECT, no rubbing, nothing. Everything is like OEM lincoln wheels.

HyeLifeLS
February 18th, 2008, 07:56 PM
Looks sick man, nice choice on wheels, more like one of the best choices on wheels.

gt95coupe
February 18th, 2008, 08:33 PM
Wow, those look nice. Did you get them from a salvage yard? Any rubbing issues? Is the speedo off? How did you do the center caps with a Lincoln emblem?

I could not find them from any local salvage yards. There are NO rubbing b/c the S type R is on the same platform as the LS the and the speedo is as it was. The emblems are from the 02 Lincoln LS sport 17in wheels. I paid $50 for a set of 4 from Lincoln but I have a contact that gives me a pretty big discount.

02V8Sport
February 18th, 2008, 09:18 PM
gt95coupe, I dont know why you didnt post those last pics up here first. Your car looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

xarruda89x
February 18th, 2008, 09:22 PM
dude, that car is CLEAN! great work !

gt95coupe
February 18th, 2008, 10:00 PM
Thank you guys for all the complements! Can some one resize the last three pics? I want to put them into my gallery but it says they are to large. PLEASE pm me and Ill email them to you. thanks Danny

02V8Sport
February 23rd, 2008, 09:41 PM
The tires came with the wheels and the rear ones are 275/35/18. Didnt you go with the 285/30/18?

I have a pair of 275/40/18 Michelin Pilot Sport A/S tires with 75% tread left for $170 shipped if youre interested. They would fill out that back wheel well a bit more.

gt95coupe
February 24th, 2008, 01:27 AM
I have a pair of 275/40/18 Michelin Pilot Sport A/S tires with 75% tread left for $170 shipped if youre interested. They would fill out that back wheel well a bit more.

How much do you think it will slow my speedo. down they are 8/10ths of an inch larger in diameter

HyeLifeLS
February 24th, 2008, 04:36 AM
not much, but sure they would look really nice.

02V8Sport
February 24th, 2008, 07:00 AM
How much do you think it will slow my speedo. down they are 8/10ths of an inch larger in diameter

Not enough for you to notice.
So far I have run these sizes on my 18's
265/35 rear
275/40 rear
285/35 rear
255/40 front only

And these sizes on my 19's
255/40 rear
245/40 all around
245/35 front only

And these on my factory 17's
235/50 all around
245/45 all around
255/45 all around

With any of these combinations, You will not get much of a speedo difference unless you are cruising along at the 100mph+ mark. And even then its probably a 3-5mph difference.

Akkord29
March 2nd, 2008, 04:30 PM
gt95coupe when you want to sell them let me know :D

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