[DeTomaso] New Wheel Shopping

astephens artstephens at charter.net
Thu Oct 9 15:14:05 EDT 2008


Jack,
     The weight savings has got to be tempting for you?  When I bought 4268, 
It had Gotti three piece wheels?  I never had a problem with them but I was 
also running 50 series rubber on the 15 and 16 inch wheels.  Maybe I 
wouldn't have been so lucky with 40 series tires?


Art




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JDeRyke at aol.com>
To: <artstephens at charter.net>; <johnmaffeo1 at yahoo.com>; 
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] New Wheel Shopping


In a message dated 10/9/08 11:16:13 AM, artstephens at charter.net writes:

> Being stuck in the middle of nowhere with a bad wheel does not sound like
> fun. What is the experience of people out there? How many guys have 
> damaged
> a wheel to the point that it wouldn't hold air?
>
That sort of thing happens to three-piece bolt-together wheels and those
welded ones that use spun aluminum rim-halves. Curbs, speed bumps and 
chuckholes
are your enemies with 'racing' wheels on the street. Most recently, a Hall
'Ultra 2'   12x 17 rear split around the circumference of the bead- in a 
driveway
after a fast 50 mile trip. Hall has no parts & the OEM mfgr is no longer in
business so the owner is now looking for a pair of replacements of another 
type
so he can salvage his good tire$. The bolt-togethers also have additional
bolt-torque problems, and Centerline-type rivited wheels for drag racing are 
known
to come pre-bent in the carton while cracking the centers in corners....
IMHO, stick to one-piece wheels on 3200lb+ corner-carvers. Good luck- J 
Deryke



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