[Land-speed] Wheels

[Mike Lackey]

Thanks everyone for the advice.

I had several people recommend Diamond Racing Wheels: 
http://www.diamondracingwheels.com/StockCarSeries.htm
This particular wheel has a wide variety of sizes and bolt patterns and will suit my needs perfectly.  And at $43 ea for new wheels, it's hard to go wrong there.  I wasn't expecting them to be so reasonably priced new.  I might get a little cheaper at the junkyard, but as you said, there is a high likelyhood they will have problems.

Thanks again,
Mike

----- Original Message ----
From: Dale Krumheuer <dmirror3 at yahoo.com>
To: land-speed at autox.team.net
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2007 2:07:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Wheels

Most tire stores can sell new steel wheels for a reasonable price. Having worked in a salvage yard for many years, I saw far too many used wheels "with problems". 
  Dale Krumheuer
  Cleveland Ohio

Dick J <lsr_man at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Mike, 

If my math is correct, the 114.3mm is 4.5". 4 X 4.5 came onbunches of cars, but the ones that might have had 15" wheels are: 60-64 Chevy II & Nova; MGA, MGB & MBC; pre 87 Saabs, TR 1 - 6 Triumphs. All the rest were probably 14" and 13".

You can probably order some reasonably priced after market wheels from Summit since that pattern was common on small chevs, and early mustangs.

DickJ
In East Texas

Mike Lackey wrote:
I'm trying to find 15 x 5 steel wheels with a 4 x 114.3 bolt pattern and about a 0 offset. I'm probably not gonna go faster than 150 (probably more like 125...) so I'm thinking stock steel wheels would work fine as long as I can find a good set. But, how do I figure out what kind of car would have what I'm looking for? Any ideas? Or just try scouring the junkyards?

Mike


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