Grand Sport C4 help required.

[tpivette]

Trying to locate a pair of Corvette Grand Sport wheel mouldings / fender flares.

Tried all over the net and had no luck with Ecklers, Mid-America, Zip etc etc
Tried Eurovettes and Claremont in the UK already.

Anybody have a set or know where i can get a pair ?

Thanks if you can help.

[the-esses]

[url]www.corvettetraderonline.com/store/product.php?productid=168[/url]

And the GS registry do the Euro extensions !!

[url]www.grandsportregistry.com/store.htm[/url]

[tpivette]

Thank you !
You sir are the dugs bawz.


I have sent them an order/shipping request.

[tpivette]

Got a reply back... "sorry we do not ship internationally at present"

well gee thanks, prolly too busy invading other countries and all that.

anyone got anymore ideas.

[c5ragtop]

Contact Steve at Moving Parts. You can ship them to his New York address and he'll do the rest. Sorted.

[franv8]

Come on then - what are they for? I assume by your forum name it's not a GrandSport? Some project brewing?

Good luck finding the bits.

[tpivette]

I bought a combined 24 inches of rear wheel/tyre width for my C4.
Ebay natch, seemed like a good idea after a few beers, and now i have the famous carlos fandango superwide wheels look. Tasteless and expensive !

The arch lips should
a. get plod off my back by rendering my vehicle legal again.
b. Make it look less redneck.

Now if I could only find Jean Pierre Luniere super skis..............

Edited by tpivette on Tuesday 5th December 13:02

[Gixer]

Something like this C4 at Hockenheim last year - wearing a set of ZR1 rears

[tpivette]

er not quite that bad but it does illustrate the problem at hand.

how do i post a pic then........

[Gixer]

tpivette said:

er not quite that bad but it does illustrate the problem at hand.

how do i post a pic then........

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[tpivette]

The fronts are a fine size, dead flush with the edges....
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but the rears (and excuse the boxes and other wheels lying around) are a bit redneck
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hence the arch extensions. Somebody told me i could have the back faces of the wheels milled down a bit but that seemed a bit dodgy to me.

Edited by tpivette on Tuesday 5th December 22:20

[franv8]

Doesn't look too bad as it goes, nice wheels too. Were they for a C4?

Have you had problems from the Law? I would have thought there are many worse self improved Corsas running round with other significantly more illegal mods to keep them busy?

[tpivette]

No they are just BMW wheels.

If you saw it from directly behind it looks well illegal. I have had a few run ins with plod and they never seem to fully appreciate the aesthetics off the situation. They just dont have the same eye for art that we do.

[franv8]

Have you got any full pics of your car - would like to see what the whole looks like if I could be so nosy!

Did the wheels fit straight to the Chevy bolt pattern?

[tpivette]

i will get some pics when i can get it out next, might be a week or so yet.

the bmw pcd is 120mm the chevy at 4.75inch = 120.65mm. They bolted straight on, no worries. 0.62mm is less than a bawhair. I just had to watch out for the offset.

The hub size for bmw is i think 74mm, whereas chevy is 72.5.

[tpivette]

Here are some shots of my Corvette with the wheels on.

The rears are "just" illegal, if such a thing exists.

Do I need Grand sport flares ?


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obviously still need to get centre caps.....