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To: "Team.Net" <autox@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Wheels
From: William Loring <bloring@tirerack.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:41:56 -0500
The Tire Rack also has stock-legal 16x6.5 SSR wheels for MINI. Same wheel as
the Miata, really.

Regards,

William Loring
The Tire Rack


> From: Paul and Meredith Brown <racers@rt66.com>
> Subject: Re: Wheels
> 
> 
> If you are looking for 16X6.5's, I don't know of anything in the
> aftermarket.  Everything I've found starts at 16X7.  That's certainly true
> for Volks.  There are probably ways to do it with a modular wheel, but
> Bogart can't do that offset in such a narrow wheel.  They'd need a
> negative-width outer rim half, which they don't seem to have available
> (they've been on order from Huck and Chuck for several years now).
> 
> Miatas, Minis, and WRXs are all in the same boat on these.  I think Mark
> Chiles got Panasport to make him some wheels, but I'm not sure it actually
> saved him any weight over the stockers.  If you want to order 100 sets, I
> can hook you up with the Volk people - they'll make anything if you buy in
> that quantity.
> 
> 
> 
> Paul and Meredith Brown






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