[Tigers] Tigers] Panasports

[Steve Laifman]

Mark,

108 mm converts to 4.2519685 inches. 4.5 inches is exactly 114.3 mm. I 
don't exactly know what "bolt spacing" is. I am much more used to "bolt 
circle" as describing the diameter of the circle through the center of 
the bolt holes/studs.

HOWEVER, Panasport describes the bolt circle as 108 mm.! HOWEVER, 
"offset" is really an important value to assure that the relation ship 
between the rear wheel mounting surface differs from the tire width 
center. I have heard that on the 14" wheel, the fronts should be 22 mm 
offset, and the rears 17mm offset - or expect some body rubbing on some 
wheel well surface.

http://www.tigersunited.com/techtips/tech_threads/tt-wheel8.asp

The Panasport wheels on Jerry Vanderpool's beautiful red Tiger are:
16 inch wheel diameter, and they are available in 15 inch.

http://www.tigersunited.com/car_show/vanderpool_j/default.asp

There are a lot of comments on Panasport wheels in the Techtips section, 
but can be directly found in the Search Engine (Magnifying Glass on 
every page at the top header). "Panasport" would be a good search key.

Steve
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Steve Laifman
Editor - TigersUnited.com



CoolVT at aol.com wrote:
> I just received some Panasports from Dale A.  The bolt spacing  is supposed 
> to be 4.5" and these are marked 108mm.  I may not be the best  in metric 
> conversion but I think 4.5" should be around 114.3mm.  They slide  over the wheels 
> studs okay, but are these going to work? The studs won't be  perfectly centered 
> in the holes.  I don't want something that is going to  vibrate or bump...or 
> be unsafe.
> Mark L.