did you have to grind your calipers? cus i have an ls1 and i might get some telstars, but, i dont want to grind, i heard you have to grind MORE than you do if you put prostars. i was thikning i might downgrade to lt1 rear calipers and rotors if i dont have to grind, or grind alot if i do that with the telstars? any help is appreciated! pics is much appreicated!

 

There's a local guy with a '95 Z28 on 15x8 (rear) Telstars, and he said he didn't have to grind anything.

 

is his car lowered?

since the ones im looking at are only 5"bs, i wonder if its gonna rub my fender when i launch at the track? im cutting 1.7 60s now..wonder if it will rub cutting the tire? anyone have a dropped car running this setup?

 

According to the articles in GMHP magazine regarding the '94 Grapes of Wrath Project car, the Telstars were a bolt-on w/o caliper grinding, front or rear. I purchased the exact set up for my '94 w/ oem calipers and have to use a spacer to prevent grinding the calipers on the front, backs fit fine! So, it must just depend on the car. I am disappointed that I have to use a front spacer because now I have to change wheel studs to meet NHRA/IHRA safety specs. My car is lowered via Eibach springs, but there is no fender rub in the back and I am running the same size wheel as you described. hope this helps!

 

PLEASE post on the correct forum. "wheels" questions do not belong on LT1/LT4 Engine Tech. Moving to "Wheels and Tires".....

 

You shouldn't have any problems rubbing. I'm cutting 1.5s on stock suspension with 28" tires without any rub.

 

I just finished reading over that same article.. I thought that was pretty interesting becasue i don't want to grind any of my calipers to get wheels to fit! Now my question is if it fits LT1 brakes will it fit LS1's? i have swapped my entire brake system from my 97 to a 00.

 

No grinding at all with LT1 brakes.

My buddy and board member, CANTONRACER's, webpage with all the information you'll need:

http://www.geocities.com/jmaxnakron/..._TELSTARS.html

 

they fit on my LT1 but there really close only about a 1/2 inche between the wheel and caliper. on the LS1 brakes I dont think thell fit with out grinding

 

I didn't have to do any grinding when I put Telstars on my 94.....until I put new pads/rotors on the front. I'm guessing that most who haven't had to grind might run into this problem later on.


Pics are in the sig

 

I have 15x8 Telstars on the way - with an LS1 rear i'm going to have a bunch of grinding to get these to fit.

 

Let me know how much grinding you have to do.

 

Running 15x4/15x8 Telstars. No grinding whatsoever. I have heard too that it takes a lot of grinding to make them fit on an LS1.