I don't know the ChumpCar rules but Lemon's would have given us a tough time
buying new wheels under the "safety" exemption. I bought a set of old aluminum
race wheels from Sam Halkias for the Lemon's TR6 and they work great. They are
15X7 and we have 205-50-15 Falken Azenis on them. Can you run 7" rims? The
Koenig Rewinds are cheap but have too much back space. If you do
longer/stronger studs and use a spacer they would be perfect. I bought 2 sets
a couple of years ago at $108.00 a rim from Discount Tire.
Our TR6 has lousy brakes too. It may be the booster and the fact that it is
all stock. I'm thinking of switching it to what I have in my racecar TR4A. I
have dual 5/8" Wilwood Girling style master cylinders with a balance bar on a
TR4 style bracket modified for the dual cylinders. The 5/8 cylinders can be
purchase for $50 each from Speedway motors, and you can copy the Racetorations
design using a TR4A pedal assembly.
Bob Kramer
Southern Construction Inventory Manager
RDO Equipment Company
16415 N. IH 35 Pflugerville, TX 78660
512-687-7422 Office
512-657-8526 Cell
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn
out. ~John Wooden
-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Jamie Palmer
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 10:51 AM
To: Friends of Triumph
Subject: [Fot] Racing wheels and brakes for TR6
For those of you that have been following our saga with our TR6 ChumpCar,
please know that we finished 20th out of 84 cars at the VIR 24 hrs. and were
quite pleased. Nevertheless, I have two questions for this erstwhile group:
1. We (as several of you have previously commented could happen) broke the
center out of one of the stock steel TR6 wheels we have been using. It was
an...interesting...experience (I was driving). So...I've looked at
inexpensive alternatives (remember, this is ChumpCar) and it looks like
Diamond Racing wheels may be the way to go. Anyone purchased 15's from them
for a TR before? Offset/width recommendations? Remember, when it comes to
tires, we're limited to 190 treadwear or greater street tires, so our choices
are quite limited (we've been running 205/50-15's and the gearing works out
about right, given our tiny power level). Interested in all thoughts!
2.
Also had some brake issues. Does anyone recommend going to the Toyota caliper
conversion for a race application? Just curious, I have the conversion on my
street TR6 and am very happy with it. Wildwoods or similar are out of our
price range (and would probably violate the 2 times stock pricing ChumpCar
rules as well).
Thanks for your help!
Jamie Palmer
Squadron Leader
RiffRAF
Racing
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