[Fot] A wheel deal - brand new Revolutions - Spitfire or GT6

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I've even gotten shouldered lug nuts that are threaded all the way through, and just have the end plugged up.
FWIW...
Glen

 

 

 

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From: Rocky Entriken via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
To: Tim Pettenati <tpettenati at yahoo.com>; Scott Janzen <sjanzen at me.com>; 'Friends of Triumph' Triumph <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 4:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Fot] A wheel deal - brand new Revolutions - Spitfire or GT6


  
   
    
Take your wheel nuts to a machine shop, tell them to drill them out all the way through and thread the hole to the size you need.   
    
    
         
     That’s what I did when I got new rear axles for my Spitfire (GP race car), a complete assembly all the way out to the hubs, and they came with larger and longer studs. I have the Revolutions too, which originally came with those “tuner” nuts. I had the lugnuts drilled out (all the way through) to the larger size I needed. The drilled-out nuts worked fine.    
     
          
     
     Actually, I only did that with the rears. The fronts stull use the stock Spitfire studs and unmodified Revolution lugnuts.    
     
          
     
     --Rocky Entriken    
     
     
     
          
     
      
      From:       Tim Pettenati via Fot      
      
      Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 2:19 PM     
      
      To:       Scott Janzen ;       'Friends of Triumph' Triumph      
      
      Subject: Re: [Fot] A wheel deal - brand new Revolutions - Spitfire or GT6     
    
     
     
            
      
      Try this guy for wheels.  Have heard good things but no personal experience.     
      
      http://www.acmespeedshop.com/wheels.html     
      
      
      
      
      
     
      
       
        
         
         On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 11:43 AM, Scott Janzen via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
        
        
        
         
          
           
So, I ordered a set of Revolutions for my race GT6 from England - reasonable price, all in with shipping $720.            
             
             
             
However, the wheels that were supposed to be fitted with steel seats at the bolt holes and take standard wheel nuts, instead have no steel inserts and will only take narrow/tuner nuts.  The narrow nuts require short studs (so you can fit a hex wrench inside the nut, which does not work at all with the long wheel studs on my race car.  I also wanted the steel seats as the wheels get removed and refitted a lot, maybe not essential and certainly not on a street car, but it's what I thought I was getting.            
             
             
             
Long story short, the seller is offering them to me at half price or I can ship them back, so I am passing on the 1/2 price offer as I don't want to keep them.  I can ship or bring to the Kastner Cup.  $360 for the four plus shipping            
             
             
             
Wheels are brand new in original packing, 13"x6", 4-1/4" backspace, 3.75" bolt circle, complete with wheel nuts.  Photo attached, or if it doesn't come through, send me an email.  Note, the stock photo does not show the wheels bored for the specific bolt hole circle - once bored as mine are, the seat is recessed in a 0.85" bore that accepts the narrow lug nuts.            
           
            
            
            
                       
          
         
         
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