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The Elephant In The Room: unloading the load from a B-body.

fullmetaljacket said:
Sometimes just filling the fuel tank will add a 100 lbs or more, but then again, dead weight out over by the rear bumper is best for traction.
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My buddy has an IROC Camaro (i know, I know, a Chevy) He adds 550 lbs of barbell weights in the rear hatch well area and runs no prep events. It works well. He goes 144 mph in the 1/8 on 28x10.5's.
 
6PKRTSE said:
My buddy has an IROC Camaro (i know, I know, a Chevy) He adds 550 lbs of barbell weights in the rear hatch well area and runs no prep events. It works well. He goes 144 mph in the 1/8 on 28x10.5's.
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Weight is a funny thing. It either hampers your car's ability to accelerate with a mild to hot drivetrain or it helps it plant better with a really sizzling combo for more acceleration. The trick is not just to remove it all together, but to manage it by moving it around to different parts of the car.
 
Refreshening the rear wheel hub covers that HYDE the rivets on the Centerline wheels with a fresh top coat of gloss black. Going to the Prom in November. Gotta get the Tuxedo ready.

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Aluminum hub covers painted in gloss black to match the rest of the gloss black Centerline wheel. Just some old Rust-Oleum spray cans hanging around the shelves. Y'all will soon get a look at these up close and center.

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fullmetaljacket said:
Refreshening the rear wheel hub covers that HYDE the rivets on the Centerline wheels with a fresh top coat of gloss black. Going to the Prom in November. Gotta get the Tuxedo ready.

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You may have said (and I apologize if I missed it) but where did you get these? Or did you make them?
 
Olwhite63 said:
You may have said (and I apologize if I missed it) but where did you get these? Or did you make them?
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I had them made by a friend who spun them for me. They HYDE the rivets very well by slipping over them snug and seeming to be part of the rest of the wheel as one piece. I will post flicks of them soon.
 
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Here are the rear skins on a pair of 15" X 8" Centerline Auto-Drags. Painted gloss black, you can almost get away with them looking like steel rims,........ but only at night at best.

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Here's the aluminum hub cover placed over the wheels center section which hides the rivets on the inner brim thus making an argument that at the very most, masquerades as a steel rim or at very least, can pass as a custom widened steel wheel.
Best case scenario would have been to go the route that DVW did with his son's Savoy by CNC molding or 3D printing a cover that mimics the steel center of a steel rim, but since these were done many years ago with low technology at the realm, a regularly spun disc had to be it. Optically, most people just gloss over such gloss black wheels and push it off as non relevant. Stealth is wealth in a street brawl.

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