Pontiac G8 2008-2009 - New 20" wheels w/305's Toyos

255/35r20 and 305/30r20

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I did the Firehawk color scheme but with my wheel colors gun metal black. It almost looks ghosted out.
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It looks great but if you compress the suspension all of the way those rears are going to destroy the rear fenders for sure.

And how do you plan on compressing the suspension all the way? The car sits at stock high and I do not plan on lowering it. I really haven't look under the suspension but it should have bushings or stops on the supension just like the F-bodies. This will also be resloved when I put an air suspension kit.

As they sit the wheels tuck in. It being IRS when the wheels tuck in it cambers in so fenders should not be an issue. Fenders have almost no lip I cut it off with a metabo blade and grind down the edge with a tiger disk. No issues as of yet...

Not meaning anything bad but several people on the g8 forum have ran wide setups and had issues down the road with either rubbing and or catching the fender.

Wheels wont camber in that much, hopefully trimming the fenders will help. I know either that or bending the lip was required on my gto for the same reason when i was running a 9.5" wide rear wheel setup.

I know for a fact my wheels tuck in and do not rub on the fender wheels. As to how far they would travel and actually rub further up the fender i do not know. And i don't hope to fine our eighter.lol

Looks great man!

Thanks

drive it up on one side onto a curb, youll know then if it will rub lol

looks like it has balls. Nice look.

looks good.

Did the curb thing allready no rub and that was with my 190lbs brother sitting on the lip of the trunk and my speaker box in the trunk as well.

Very nice. Looks great!!

Looks good!

Time for a Procharger and Tune!! LOL

Single T76 or S480 is going into this bad boy. I've always wanted a turbo car so I'm going to spend my penny's on that. Should be ready by new years, that will be my New Years resolution.lol

Haha I bet my fat ass could get it to rub :lol:, j/k. I need to think of a awesome resolution like yours, all I can think of is to not spend my penny's, but we'll see. Times are tough :nod:.

Looks Sick man! Like it all blacked out!

looks great. jsut need to delete that chrome strip around the window to keep that black look going.

It's easy to take the parts off or at least the one's around the doors are, but the problem would be the paint sticking to the chrome. Even if you sand it down and make it rough for the new paint to sick any little rock would chip the paint and it would just start to peal from there. I might consider powder coating them if I find a paint close to the car's paint. The other thing that would be a pain would be the door handles. To do them right you would have to remove them which means taking everything off the door from the inside. All that = lots of work...lol I want to enjoy the car's setup the way it is and once I play it out for a while I might consider changing it to the all black scheme. Right now everyone thinks its an M5...

that looks bad ass

The door handles can be taken off/put on without removing the interior door panels. There's a good write-up even so look around, I can't find it for a link right now.

The window trim is a bit of a bummer, because like you said painting it isn't going to last. You can buy factory black ones, but unfortunately they're only on Holdens so you're looking at around $400 to buy and have them shipped stateside.

Thanks for the info Kyuss I'll keep that in mind...

very nice

looks good

Definitely looks mean as hell! Nice choice on wheels!

Thanks!

very nice! The only other thing I would do it black out the other parts mentioned (window trim/handles) and debadge it. It's one of the best looking G8's I've seen. Nice work.

Oh yea and ditch the chrome barbed wire license plate frame, I would use a plain flat black one like I have on all my cars.

looks badass! when is the air susp. going on?

I would like to read reviews on it or hear what other G8 memebers think about it before I make the investment. I'll have to do my homework and read up on it before I fork over 1.7k.

badass wheels, i do have to say that 19s on the rear with a different width tire would look better just IMO. they stick out a bit to far for me. love the blacked out look(as you can tell i would based on the pic under my username) enjoy the car, sounds like its gonan be mean once you bolt that turbo setup on

How's traction with the new tires out back?

It's easy to take the parts off or at least the one's around the doors are, but the problem would be the paint sticking to the chrome. Even if you sand it down and make it rough for the new paint to sick any little rock would chip the paint and it would just start to peal from there. I might consider powder coating them if I find a paint close to the car's paint. The other thing that would be a pain would be the door handles. To do them right you would have to remove them which means taking everything off the door from the inside. All that = lots of work...lol I want to enjoy the car's setup the way it is and once I play it out for a while I might consider changing it to the all black scheme. Right now everyone thinks its an M5...

he holden cars come with black not chrome. just buy the new piece is what i meant

Traction is great went to the track last night and ran a 12.9 and I was cutting 1.9 60ft times at 31 psi. Nedless to say I didn't know that by going below the 31psi it would throw my warning light which in turn made me hit the rev limiter and would not shift smooth through the last passes. I know I could have gotten a lower time, but I'm happy being in the 12's.lol

Nice set up! I don't know how you pulled it off with those meats. I needed to have my fenders cut with my 285's.

I saw the car last night at the track and it looks great! Nice job, nice look.

Traction is great went to the track last night and ran a 12.9 and I was cutting 1.9 60ft times at 31 psi. Nedless to say I didn't know that by going below the 31psi it would throw my warning light which in turn made me hit the rev limiter and would not shift smooth through the last passes. I know I could have gotten a lower time, but I'm happy being in the 12's.lol

very nice!

i was able to cut a few 1.99's and 1.98 on stock 19's with 34 psi

Great times! Any further plans or are you happy for now?

Nice! I would love to see it lowered. Great job. The T1R is a fantastic tire.

-Nathan

I do want to lower the car but I want something that can be adjusted there for the air ride. For now I'm happy with the car I'll be getting some Mickey's put on my stock 18's and be ready for the cool weather other than that I'm very happy with the car. Oh just painted the calipers.

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You better have air ride, your not going to drop it without rolling the fenders. Mine touches on the passenger side with one rider and mines been lowered with 275-35-20's. It looks good.

The door handles can be taken off/put on without removing the interior door panels. There's a good write-up even so look around, I can't find it for a link right now.

The window trim is a bit of a bummer, because like you said painting it isn't going to last. You can buy factory black ones, but unfortunately they're only on Holdens so you're looking at around $400 to buy and have them shipped stateside.

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looks good jose, but you should of ran it last night at the track lol

nice, if you can cut a 1.9 with that setup you wont get any negative talk from me. its a very nice look.

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Car looks sick! I like it alot!