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anybody have 17" with a fairly big visible area showing the drum brakes?does it look ok?

hey it looks better than not having 17s

I think it looks okay. if you don't mind rusty disks. I painted my hubs of my disks and my calipers. it looks a lot better. check out mt cardomain site

If it were me, I would put a coat of black paint over them just so they wont stand out too much. That way all of the focus is on the wheel and not the drum.

See for yourself. I would have much preferred disks in the rear, but I can always swap rear brakes later. The disk conversion is more than the wheels and tires. ($720 from edgeracing.com)

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Or if you are really worried about it then you could get those fake bolt on disc brakes that I see occasionally. Unfortunatly I can't locate a website that sells them so we can't all laugh.

I have the stock 17's with the rear drums. It looks ok but I do like the look of disks better. I plan to paint mine either black or silver that will match the rims. That is when my shoulder gets better.

thank you for that pic. i take it you painted your drums black? how? what did you use?good looking wheels though!

the drums come black, or at least my o5 drums are black. i am going to do the rear disk conversion soon.

I was looking into rear disc conversion, does anyone know how much it would cost? I'd assume it would be very expensive, considering you have to run all of the lines and stuff for the calipers.

I do. I must say i'm deffinately not happy with how it looks. Would much rather see disc brakes back there. SSBC (www.ssbrakes.com) has a conversion kit to convert the drums to single piston/sloted rotor disc, but it'll run ya almost 800 bucks...not to mention the fact that you have to get a SSBC front kit to go with it (2 piston caliper/sloted rotor). and THAT will set ya back almost 850 bucks. I thought about painting the drum black...but it's still gonnna be visible.

i painted my drums black with a caliper paint kit they dont look bad through the 17's

Quote, originally posted by jbrown »hey it looks better than not having 17sagreed. Paint your drums... I painted mine black. This spring I'll have to take them off and paint them again. I also painted my calipers though I feel they probably need touched up again as well.