As a matter of fact the peg drive used on the Twin Cams was a fast change
feature for race cars - theoretically better than the spline drive wire
wheels because they wouldn't jam in the pits when you were swapping wheels.
It
was a method Dunlop developed for use on the D type Jags, and was also
used on BRMs and Gordon Keebles, but not much else. Now very expensive and
hard to find.
For pictures see _http://www.rhodo.citymax.com/i/non-rhodo/wheel.jpg_
(http://www.rhodo.citymax.com/i/non-rhodo/wheel.jpg)
I have them on both my race car and my street coupe and they work very
well.
Bill
In a message dated 1/19/2010 2:53:16 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
max_heim@sbcglobal.net writes:
Oh, yeah, that's right -- they have some kind of hex or octagon "spline".
Makes you wonder what they were thinking at the time? Sure, the twin cam
was
more powerful, but Jaguars and Ferraris managed to get by with splined
wheels.
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