Reed,
I agree with what you have found in the Haynes manual, in that IMHO the
later Spits were equipped with 4.5" wheels. The 5" are likely off a
TR7.
Joe
Reed Mideke wrote:
>
> Malcolm,
> The FAQ is starting to fill out. Nice job.
> One small bit of information. The early spitfire disk rims were 4 inch.
> (I'm not sure about the wires)
>
> Also FAQ, the spitfire list had a long discussion about getting
> spare ignition keys made for your spit. The upshot was
> Isaac Crow created a neat little table of which blanks
> are known to work for specific years of spits. It's at
> http://www.avana.net/~isaac/spitkeys.htm
>
> On your 'rusty' and 'progress pages, a lot of the images seem
> broken. In the source they look like
> <img src="file:///C:/WINDOWS/MEDIA/HTML/weld1.jpg"...
> which probably works for you, but not the rest of us.
>
> Now I have a question for the lists about rims.
> When I was at the junkyard last weekend, I picked up what
> appear to be 5 inch steel spitfire rims. The numbering where
> my current rims say 4.5x13x...
> says 5Jx13x..., and the rims are definatly wider. Other than
> that they look exactly like spit rims. They are most likely off a
> 79 or 80 spit. Were 5 inch rims stock on the last years ?
> I think my Haynes only mentions 4 and 4.5 inch rims.
>
> Have a great weekend everybody!
> --
> Reed Mideke rmideke@interbase.com
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