[Fot] Another Spitfire question

[robert bownes]

After loosing a wheel in West Bend at Lime Rock ( a very fast right hander
with no run off) in my first serious outing and doing a very lovely
pirouette about the left rear brake drum, I replaced all the studs on my
Spit with some modified lug studs from a Chevy. I put out an offer to make
them for other folks at the time and sold off a few sets. I still have the
tooling for making them in fact. Saw it just last weekend when cleaning up
around the lathe.


On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Jim <britbits at netzero.com> wrote:

> Things got quiet.. Thought I'd toss another grapefruit.
>
> On the factory road cars the Spitfire and GT6 were blessed with the 3/8"
> wheelstuds.  Did the race cars also use them?
>
> Was it not an issue with the non-sticky tires in the 60s and 70s?
>
> And.. What are the Spitfire racers using these days?
>
> As a conversation point, I got to watch my (future) autocrosser shed a
> wheel
> at an autocross 2 years before I bought it.  The PO had replaced some of
> the
> wheel studs.. But kept using old factory lugnuts.  The one I picked off of
> course that day was stripped out and rusted inside.  I kept that in mind
> when he offered me the car in 1997.  First thing I did was swap to 7/16"
> studs in the rear.
>
> Just curious about the rest of y'all.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
> Dallas
>
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