Gary,
While I have neither and publicly chastise you for conspicuous consumption and
not sharing your apparently large cache of disposable income with others, I
must praise your choice of wheel style. Some believe wires look silly on LBCs
(you know who you are). Anyway, I've heard many complain of Dunlop and praise
Dayton. The Dunlop's do not appear to be the same quality they were a few
years ago and the chrome has been reported to separate at 3-5 years post
installation (If I recall they are now made in India although I could be wrong
about that). Of course, you will not have that problem with the Dayton's as
they are stainless. I have seen the stainless and think they look great and
I'm saving my pennies to get a set for the C.
BTW, I use to have 4 Dunlop chrome wheels for the B. Two of them are still
usable but the other two have about a 20 busted spokes each. While the chrome
has not separated, the spokes are the most brittle I've seen on any wire wheel
(these must be older Dunlops).
Decisions, decisions ....
Dr. Doug
A bunch of wired 69 MGs sitting in my garage
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Gary Burrell
Sent: Monday, September 15, 1997 3:23 PM
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Wire Wheels, tires etc.
Well, I had a flat on my B on the weekend. Which caused me to look
at my tires and notice a lot of sidewall cracking. So I need new tires.
This in turn causes me to consider moving up one of the items on my
major acquisition list. Namely new wire wheels. When I restored my
car I had my current (originally chrome) wires sand blasted and
painted, and while they look all right they just will never compare
to chrome.
Anyway Browsing the British Wire Wheels catalog I see I have
several choices to consider.
Dayton vrs Dunlop
Dunlop are all chrome, whereas Dayton has stainless steel spokes,
which are supposed to be stronger. If I go for dayton is it worth it
to get the show polish on the stainless spokes. (How much duller
is this than chrome)
60 vrs 72 spoke.
Do I go for the larger rims. Then I can use 185/70R14 as opposed
to the much harder to find 165R14. I think there has been some
mention of the larger tires causing problems. Any input?
Thanks in advance
Gary
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Gary Burrell
Design Engineer
Pentek Inc. One Park Way, Upper Saddle River NJ 07458
Phone: (201)818-5900 Fax: (201)818-5941 Email:garyb@pentek.com
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