My experience with wires is much like Daniel's but at lower speeds :-)
I ran wires with a steel wheel banjo (makes for a short axle) for over 20
years in my other Bugeye and never had a problem. This car is undergoing a
major rebuild at the moment and will be switched back to steel wheels or I
will use the minilite type knockoffs. Nothing wrong with wires, I just like
the looks of the others better.
My top speed was nowhere near Daniel's as this was with a stock 948 most of
the time and a stock 1275 part of the time.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From "Jeff Boatright" <jboatri at emory.edu>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: more Re: Wheel question
> My experience in the last 3 years is not that good; possibly the
> roads are better in England. My car came equipped with wire wheels.
> Both times I had it at the track, spokes broke and all loosened.
> Additionally, hitting even a moderately-sized pothole can throw them
> out of tune. All of this is no big deal if you have new wire wheels
> or you have old ones that were properly maintained with spokes that
> are not rusted solid in their nipples. As an exercise, I decided to
> replace the broken spokes and tighten the loose ones on my spare
> tire. Replacing the two broken ones was easy. However, out of the
> remaining 18 (!) that were loose, only two of them could be broken
> loose in their nipples. The rest had to be cut out. At that point, I
> decided that I really didn't want to spend $80+ each to R&R old
> wheels. I'm converting to steel wheels probably early in 2001.
>
> YMMV,
>
> Jeff
>
> At 3:34 PM -0500 12/7/00, Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
> >The maintenance my wheels get is a wash once every year or so. It is
best to
> >grease the splines on the hub but since the grease doesn't wear off this
is
> >once in a blue moon job. I tighten the knock off when I fit the wheel
and
> >the next time it sees the hammer is when I come to take the wheel off.
> >
> >There is no big deal about wire spoked wheels apart from the fact they
are
> >really great looking.
> >
> >
> >Daniel1312
> >
> >In a message dated 06/12/00 20:07:39 Pacific Standard Time,
> >Toby@intri-plex.com writes:
> >
> ><< Wire wheels require maintenance and tightening with a hammer
> > in order to keep the wheel in place >>
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
> Assistant Professor, Emory Eye Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
> Senior Editor, Molecular Vision, http://www.molvis.org/molvis
> mailto:jboatri@emory.edu
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