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Bet you've never seen these wheels on a 99+ GT

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Mustang5L5

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They are only temporary, but they look ok.


I took my OEM Bullitts to a friends shop you mount up some new tires. In doing so, we discovered one of the OEM wheels was bent and wobbled on the machine. It balanced out ok, but since it was also badly curbed, i decided to kill two birds with one stone and replace that wheel. I'll do it after the holidays.

In the meantime, since the sucky Kumho 712's on my Fox were nearing their 6-year expiration date and have 75% tread left, i decided to mount them up for the winter to wear them down and use them up before replacing them with something more suited for AutoXing my Fox.

Someone told me my car looks like a V6 now since the wheels are similar to the 16" Machined V6 wheels. SHould make things fun late at night

No lowering jokes here. The weird angle of the driveway is exaggerating that rear wheel gap. My car is a DD i drive over some pretty rough New England roads....prob how i bent my wheel anyway.

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OEM bullitts with new Bridgestone Potenza S-03's. I cleaned the backsides, polished up the lips and had them balanced with stick-on weights on the outside. Just gotta replace one bent wheel
 

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Haha nice! I really like those wheels, they look sick on my buddies 97 Kewbra
 

Mustang5L5

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They are kinda growing on me. Here's more of a staged shot






Too bad there weren't any silver Cobras. I think they match well to SIlver
 

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DocG

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They look like they came off a Ford Escort, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
 

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I've always liked the look of those wheels...too bad they don't make 'em in 17" or 18" versions...
 

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mransr said:
too bad they don't make 'em in 17" or 18" versions...
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Those are 17x8's
 

CobraRed_96_GT

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hawtness
 

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DocG2828 said:
They look like they came off a Ford Escort, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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How do 96-97 Cobra wheels look like they came off a Ford Escort?
 

Mustang5L5

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HoustonGT said:
How do 96-97 Cobra wheels look like they came off a Ford Escort?
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I was kinda wondering the same thing



If anything, they look like a 17" version of the V6 wheels. I beleive the center caps are the same part as well

 

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Wow something different. Another thing i have only seen once is somebody had a '99-'04 black GT and put the '97-'98 17" aluminum wheels on.
 

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Mustang5L5 said:
I was kinda wondering the same thing

If anything, they look like a 17" version of the V6 wheels. I beleive the center caps are the same part as well
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wow i was just gonna say... is your car a V6?? .....................

i like those wheels, but not to be too offending, they kinda make the car look like a V6 especially with the running pony side emblems. still nice rims tho
 

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Just for reference....this is what it normally looks like with bullitts...and then the Cobra wheels


 

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Mustang5L5 said:
Those are 17x8's
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...I guess to clear the brakes they'd have to be huh ...they just look so small...
 

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S-03s
 
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i like those wheels, but on the 99+ they look a LOT like the V6 rims.

i wanna see the 94 3 dual spoke rims (liek the 93 cobra R's, jstu ont in black)
 

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Oh yeah? Bet you've never seen THESE wheels on a new edge I was bored, so sue me.

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^^^ Great, now ive got to go put my Cherokee wheels on my Stang... lol.




The Cobra wheels look good on there.
 

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Tally_4.6 said:
Wow something different. Another thing i have only seen once is somebody had a '99-'04 black GT and put the '97-'98 17" aluminum wheels on.
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this?

 
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For some reason, those Cobra rims look smaller on the new edge body.
 

DocG

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Guess I've never been a fan of original equipment rims until the 03/04 Cobra and the Bullits.....even if there were on a Cobra.... They just don't seem to bring out the cars full potential.
 
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