- 1. A dumb wheel bolt circle question (score: 1)
- Author: "Erik V. Berg" <erikb@elrond.sp.TRW.COM>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 18:48:17 -0700
- Do those Italian brand wheels (BWA?) that were used on your Elan race car fit because they were actually *available* in our familiar 4 on 3-3/4 pattern? Or, is the 4 on 98mm pattern found on many Fi
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- 2. Re: A dumb wheel bolt circle question (score: 1)
- Author: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 00:25:34 -0500
- fit Yes. They were pretty common on Lotus cars. In fact, the yellow Special on the cover of the Brooklands Gold Portfolio book on Europa is wearing a set of BWA SportsStar wheels. I am quite happy wi
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- 3. Re: A dumb wheel bolt circle question (score: 1)
- Author: rebean@CCGATE.HAC.COM
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 98 05:58:24 PST
- Hi Erik, Those wheels actually had "Spitfire" cast into them. The only disadvantage was that the offset was fixed at whatever was considered optimum for a Spitfire.... fortunately, not too far from E
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- 4. Re: A dumb wheel bolt circle question (score: 1)
- Author: pethier <pethier@isd.net>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:14:52 -0500
- Hmm. The BWA Sportstars (four-spoke) I have on my Europa are 13x6 and have neither "Spitfire" nor "Lotus" cast anywhere on them. The offset is just enough to miss the rear trailing arm. I can run 185
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- 5. Re[2]: A dumb wheel bolt circle question (score: 1)
- Author: rebean@CCGATE.HAC.COM
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 98 10:40:43 PST
- Mine were 13 x 6 too so maybe, with "Spitfire" cast into mine, there was indeed a difference in offset. I do have the measured offset of those wheels home in a file but I'm going out of town now so I
- /html/chapman-era/1998-06/msg00022.html (7,431 bytes)
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