RE: [doc] Re: wheels

["Chris Parnham" <chrisparnham1@xxxx>]

John / James.

I have been thinking about wheels lately. Ever since I found some real good
photo's of the prototype cars, I have had a desire to re-create one.

It would mean modifying and re-doing all the interior and ending up in brown
trim and of course the wheels.

They are quite different to the stock wheels, but I recon I could modify
stock ones by cutting out every second rib and welding a back plate on every
other new "hole". All alloy welding of course.

Unless any one can point me to a set of others wheels that may fit.

The main problem is the difference in size between front and back.

Where it may be possible to find 1 pair that would look OK, Two pairs
that match?

Any ideas boys

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: jamesrguk [mailto:James_rg@xxxx]
Sent: 11 December 2003 11:15
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [doc] Re: wheels


John,

I see what you mean, sorry I misunderstood, I should imagine that
this would be incredible expensive to have done.

I have a friend who is a pattern maker of an aluminum casting
company and the effort that has to go into making a pattern, whether
by hand or by CNC, is quite impressive.

Unless you are talking of making hundreds in quantity then I think
you would be talking serious money per wheel. It's the pattern that
costs the money to produce, and then the casting is fairly
inexpensive.

I can see the attraction of having OEM look wheels that actually
fill the wheel arches; the originals were too small IMHO.

The other option is to lower the car to get the wheels tucked up
into the arches, my front wheels are OK but the gap above the rear
wheels is terrible.

Anyone know if lowering springs are available for the rear??


James RG


--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John Dore" <dmcjohn@xxxx> wrote:
> Hey James,
> I get the feeling you are misunderstanding me slightly. I'm not
> talking about getting a set of wheels to fit the car and to match,
I
> want wheels custom built, that will look exactly like the
originals,
> but be bigger...
> So, I'm not looking at buying any wheels that actually exist yet!
>
> Thanks,
> John




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