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Old 10-28-04, 07:30 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Re: Rotors, calipers and wheels

Howard,
What you are saying is what I'm after. The problem lies in the fitment(see Kalun's post above). You don't want to use a race wheel on the street(or do we?). The wheel manufacturers are the problem. They know that we(read race car replicas) want good stopping power and halfway decent looking wheels.Its just darn hard to put the two together. If it means I have to have less offset, then that is what I will have to consider. Its either that or go to the larger wheel.
Kalun,
The inside of those wheels must be different than those you and I can get, or the calipers are not available to the public, or their cost is beyond us. I wouldn't mind using the Weld wheels that many of the dirt and short asphalt guys use, but their catalog states "not for use on the street" or "not DOT aproved". I find it interesting you have a wheel that is subject to forces that no DOT wheel would survive, yet its not allowed on the street. I don't think anyone out there(law enforcement) would know if it was legal or not. Maybe the cost for aproval is too high???
Bill
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