Corvette wheels

How C5 Corvette Rims Affect Your Vehicle

As a practical matter, all cars must have wheels. However, C5 Corvette wheels are an altogether different matter. A good set of wheels does more than just let your Vette roll down the road. The low-slung profile of a C5 Corvette is a major factor in what makes it an automotive legend, but that is just one aspect of it. Another is the Corvette's ready-to-take-off stance - how it sits when just standing still. For those who don't know, this is something that is influenced to a considerable degree by the car's suspension and course car's wheels.

A car's posture is what gets everybody's attention when it is motionless. It's what makes a vehicle stand out when we're looking at a long row of cars parked side by side. Good posture is when a car's carriage is at just the right height - not too high like a truck nor too low to the ground like a low rider. Perfect posture is when an automobile is fully level to the ground and looking straight ahead, with neither end diving up or down.

To put it another way, a vehicle with good posture looks fast while standing still. It's a psychological thing. A car sitting too high just seems "top-heavy", meaning it won't handle curves all that well. Therefore, to the mind's eye, it's perceived to be "slow". It's something we instantly notice without thinking about it. On the other hand, a car sitting too low to the ground may give you a faint impression that it will bottom out over bumps in the road, making it a total non-performer.

Find High-Performance Corvette Wheels

If the perfect stance is what you are after, the single most effective thing you can do to influence your C5's mean posture is to fit it with the right wheels. We sell several types of C5 Corvette wheels for you to choose from. Base-style C5 wheels, as the name suggests, are a direct replacement for the OEM wheels. If you drive the Z06 sport trim, then C5 Corvette Z06 wheels will complement the body perfectly. Cup-style wheels have a more refined look for those who take pride in their car. You can add C6 ZR1 wheels and C7 Stingray wheels that have C5 fitment, blending the 1997-2004 body style with more modern rims. Corvette Mod C5 custom wheels, such as Bullet Series wheels and Cray wheels, stand out from anything else you can buy.

With so many options, the right course of action might be to first browse some stock photos of your car posed with different wheels and see which style makes the car look like it runs faster to you. When you believe you have it, come on back and peruse our full inventory of graceful and elegant C5 Corvette wheels we have right here.

All of our C5 wheels are made with precision performance in mind. They're cast or forge from aluminum alloys that are strong, lightweight, and well-balanced. Choose from beautiful finishes such as polished aluminum, gloss black, satin silver, and chrome. In some cases, multiple size options are available. Add center cap logos, locking lug nuts, wheel spacers, tire stickers, and other accessories to complete your upgrade project.

If you need assistance, the Corvette Mods experts can help. We can help with restorations, track upgrades, or show modifications because we're obsessed with Corvettes just like you.

Shop wheels for the following C5 Corvette years:

Due to clearance issues with the Z06 Carbon Brake package please call for correct sizing options.

A fresh set of wheels and tires for your Corvette is the single best performance upgrade you can make. Similarly, when it comes to personalizing your Corvette, you can't go wrong with Reproduction Corvette Wheels, Custom Corvette Wheels or Genuine GM Corvette Wheels. We over a variety of Corvette Wheel and Tire Packages that can be mounted and balanced, arriving at your door ready to bolt on. Another option, if you love your current wheel design, is to utilize our Corvette Wheel Exchange option to update your GM Painted or Polished Wheels for fresh set of Chrome Wheels.

You'll find C8 Next Generation, C7, C6, C5, C4, C3, C2 and C1 Corvette Wheels with chrome, black chrome, black, machined, polished,gray and painted finish within our extensive product line. Corvette Wheels & Rims in all of these sizes: 15x6,15x7, 15x8, 17x8, 17x8.5, 17x9.5, 17x11, 18x8.5, 18x9.5, 18x10.5, 19x9.5, 19x10, 19x11, 19x12, 20x11.

Cray Custom Wheels - Built exclusively to fit Corvette

PERSONALIZATION. Cray Wheels designs and manufactures high performance custom wheels exclusively to fit Corvette vehicles. Cray Corvette Custom wheels - large diameters and very wide widths. Our wheels are made specifically to fit Corvettes and only Corvettes. Corvette owner’s are renown for their drive to personalize their vehicles, so that no two ‘Vettes, it seems, could possibly be identical. Indeed, Chevrolet fuels this pursuit with a stupefying number of options and dealer-installed accessories.
Cray Corvette Aftermarket Wheels feeds this desire with several distinctive variants of their beguiling Astoria RF™, Eagle, Falcon Forged, Isurus Forged, Mako RF™, Manta, Scorpion, Spider RF™, and Venom Forged Corvette wheels; artistic statements that enable owners to achieve one-of-a-kind appearance
Cray wheels are designed specifically and exclusively to fit the Corvette and take their inspiration from the Corvette’s unique, sleek and aerodynamic pose. Both monoblock wheel options and deep lip wheel options are manufactured to offer the perfect complement to this iconic, purely American super car.

PERFORMANCE. As one moves up the performance curve, from the base Corvette Coupe and convertible to the 427, Z06 and top-of-the-line ZR1, increased performance can be achieved, in part, through the heroic efforts of Corvette engineers to reduce weight. Cray Corvette Wheels are in sync with this weight reduction manifesto. The result is high-performance wheels that are a perfect match for Corvette’s relentless obsession with shaving weight wherever possible.

PRECISION. Cray offers the world’s widest range of once-piece, staggered Corvette specific wheel applications. Cray Wheels are precision engineered in every detail. Cray engineers take into account the staggered fitment common to most Corvettes. A staggered fitment means that the rear wheels and tires are slightly wider than the front, providing better traction and a more aggressive stance for the Corvette rims . Additionally, Cray engineers factor in the related concepts of wheel offset and backspace. Wheel offset means the wheel centerline is offset away from the axle, providing a wider stance. Backspace measures how far the wheel intrudes into the wheel well towards the axle, and is important to ensure that there is no interference with suspension trailing arms or other mechanical systems.

Cray Wheels for Corvettes are designed to accept the original equipment wheel center logo cap, and accommodate factory tire pressure monitoring systems. All Cray Wheels are hub centric, which ensures that they fit precisely over the center flange of the brake rotor so that the wheel is concentric with the wheel bearings for a truer, better balanced wheel/tire assembly and a smoother ride.