Converting our cars to a more common bolt pattern, another ebay auction...
10-03-2002, 06:24 PM
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Converting our cars to a more common bolt pattern, another ebay auction...
<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1864399203" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1864399203</a>
It is an interesting idea, and really it would be a way to save money on wheels, and open us up to many more styles. I figure it is just as save as the other hubcentric spacers, but who knows...
The more I think about it the less likely I think these things are to work, they are essentially a 35 mm spacer, so you need a wheel with a 60mm or there abouts to get them to fit early cars, and 85mm or so to fit late cars, do those wheels exsist.
It is an interesting idea, and really it would be a way to save money on wheels, and open us up to many more styles. I figure it is just as save as the other hubcentric spacers, but who knows...
The more I think about it the less likely I think these things are to work, they are essentially a 35 mm spacer, so you need a wheel with a 60mm or there abouts to get them to fit early cars, and 85mm or so to fit late cars, do those wheels exsist.
10-03-2002, 06:45 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by Tabor Kelly:
<strong>Now I can have the wheels I have been dreaming about!
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AAAAAHHHHHHGGGG......say it is'nt so........
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<strong>Now I can have the wheels I have been dreaming about!
</strong><hr></blockquote>AAAAAHHHHHHGGGG......say it is'nt so........
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10-03-2002, 07:13 PM
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J C Whitney used to sell these for $16 a pair. I just checked the catalog and they are no longer listed. A CNC machine can make one in about five minutes and a bolt pattern program is very simple to write. It would take less than a minute to change the bolt pattern in the program. Maybe it's the Porsche lug nuts that make them so valuable or maybe it's because only rich people own Porsches. <img src="graemlins/cussing.gif" border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" />
10-03-2002, 07:17 PM
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Save money??? I guess, so now I can run those hella sweet, inexpensive AR wheels on my car??? NOT. It would be nice if these were 5 x 120 so I could put one of the WMB style wheels on my car, they do make some rather fetching versions....
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10-03-2002, 08:21 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by Tabor Kelly:
<strong>Now I can have the wheels I have been dreaming about!
</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, Over my dead body
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<strong>Now I can have the wheels I have been dreaming about!
</strong><hr></blockquote>Yeah, Over my dead body
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