Any 1 Know where to get steel wheels widened ?

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:31 am

I have a race coming up soon and have 7" wide Volumex wheels
on my 131 so i know i can sqeeze 7" in their now i want a pair
stock wheels but wider and place racing slicks on them .
No real Rules to follow, so i am trying to make this thing hug the
Road Hard !!!

Daniel

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:30 pm

years ago I found a place in El Monte that made custom steel wheels and also did widening. Not sure if they're still around though

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:38 pm

Mark

Any chance of you remembering the name of the place ?

Daniel

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 4:24 pm

geez, I'm having trouble remembering what I had for breakfast!

I'll do some research and see if I can come up with it. Maybe hypnosis?

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:36 pm

If you could find it that be great Mark !

Dan

fasterfiat · Post by **fasterfiat** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:43 pm

Just make a billet aluminum spacer with bolts and bolt on any size wheel you want! I have 17" with low profile tires. There's plenty of room with the stock suspension and I don't have to carry two different size spares, it also helps when you have around 500hp in your spider like I do. Check it out at http://www.italiancarclub.com Look under galleries at Robert Hall's LT-1 spider.

brad131a4 · Post by **brad131a4** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:47 pm

This may help or not. I found these guys on a vw site .The only problem is they are on the east coast. They will widen your rims for $300 if you provide them. Which I guess would be the case as the main market they are going for are running a 4x100 bolt pattern. They have them in that bolt pattern in just about any offset or width you would need. Also http://www.diamondracingwheels.com has some 13x7 with a 4x98 bolt pattern for around $60 a piece. Hope this helps.[/url]

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:34 am

hey that's a great link. They have a 13 x 8 wheel in a 4x98 pattern for $48 each. I doubt if you can beat that deal anywhere!

CrAzY RuSSian · Post by **CrAzY RuSSian** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:47 am

are those wheels race use only, or street also?

So Cal Mark · Post by **So Cal Mark** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:19 pm

no reason they couldn't be used on the street also

Any 1 Know where to get steel wheels widened ?

Any 1 Know where to get steel wheels widened ?

widening wheels?