spridgets
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Wire Wheels, Just "Fishin"

To: Brian Thornton <bthor@master.adams.com>
Subject: Re: Wire Wheels, Just "Fishin"
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 09:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: "J. Adrian Barnes" <adrian@icx.net>, Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>, Mark Endicott <endicott@nashville.com>, Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
In-reply-to: <3.0.3.32.19990507073905.00a716e0@pophost.adams.com>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Brian,

aren't the wheels only 5x13?
Is your car RWA?

Ulix


On Fri, 7 May 1999, Brian Thornton wrote:

> Adrian,
> 
> I've had a set of 13x5.5 bolt on Miniators on my MKIV Sprite for four years
> now and I'm very pleased.  I mounted Michelin 175x70's on them and they in
> turn improved the car's handling and ride.  The car is vibration free (at
> any speed).  I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do.
> 
> Brian
> 
> AN9
> AN5
> 
> At 10:14 PM 5/6/99 -0400, J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
> >I got my wheels from Moss and they are the Minators as well.  I got the
> >bolt-on ones (not the knock off version) and they look really good and were
> >reasonably priced.  Mine are 13X5.5s I think.  I ran into a woman at Pep
> >Boys the other day and she had some of the knock off wheels from VB for an
> >MGB and she had had some problems with them.  I think out of 4 she had to
> >send three back for replacements.  Not sure if that's a VB thing or a
> >Minator thing.  When I had tires mounted on my wheels, however, out of 4
> >wheels they only had to put a small weight on one of them.  The others
> >balanced out perfectly (with Michelin tires, of course!).
> >
> >adrian
> >
> >Scott Fisher wrote:
> >
> >> Mark Endicott wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I am thinking about the knock off Minilite reproductions.
> >>
> >> While we're talking about Midgets and alloy rims, anyone using the Moss
> >> Panasport replicas from the current accessories catalog?  Any fitment
> >> problems on round-arches?  I'm going to suffer through the Rostyles for
> >> this year, but before next summer I can see myself splurging on a set of
> >> those with suitably sticky rubber on them.
> >>
> >> --Scott Fisher
> >
> >--
> >
> >----------------------------------
> >J. Adrian Barnes
> >adrian@icx.net
> >
> >http://user.icx.net/~adrian/midget
> >----------------------------------
> >
> >
> 

    Ulix                                       __/__,__      ___/__|__  
..............................................(_o____o_)....<_O_____O_/...
                                              '67 Sprite     '74 X1/9


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>